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specialist about this blemish since II
is so near the eye.
VI. P. NJ. Q.-What can be done
for exhaustion.
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c~ogyrisat. laso. Oy Newspaper Feature service. Inc
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He that j. much fattered
soon learns 70 flatter himself.
johnson.
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In learning anything, as little
as possible should be proposed
10 the mind az first.
WATTS
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Speech OF a mans SELF ought
20 be seldom and tcel chosen.
Bacon.
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Literature, the most seduc-
tive, the most deceiving, the
most dangerous Of professions.
Morley.
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ELENE jealous? I never
knew her 10 be before. but
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Nae "Organ'' Caught

The publisher of a weekly paper has been
convicted of attempted blackmail. The
charge was that he haa tried to force pat
ronage for his publication by threatening to
expose secrets, most shameful, OF certain
citizens who may or may not have been IN
discreet.
The important factor in the affair is not
the conviction of one publisher, but that this
particular paper was the official organ OF the
Republican organization in this county, Sc
lected at a meeting of the committee after
the paper had been used to attack those who
exposed Jackson and Duvall and the rest OF
the old machine.
From taking money from those who
wished to attack the reputation of those who
stood against -misgovernment to taking
money for suppressing stories of a private
nature is a natural step.
1t is well to remember that the paper
could not have existed for twelve years with
out the support of very influential men who
found it useful on occasion.
Those who voted the Republican ticket
may now wish to inquire just why this par
ticular paper, now convicted of blackmail,
was chosen as their "organ."
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Power

FACCIOLI designed what he
II called an impulse generator"
which produced a bolt of lightning
twenty-six times as powerful as the
one which Steinmetz had first OBJ
tanned.
The impulse generator furnished
a lightning stroke of 10000 amperes
at 100000 volts, a total of 26,000,-
0O0-horse power. It's duration was
one twenty-fourth of a millionth Of
a second.
The voltage obtained in Stein
metz's first lightning was at the rate
Of 10000, 900, 1000 volts a second. Fac
cioli's generator operated at the rate
of 48, OOO, OOO, OoO, 900 volts a second.
Faccioli dreamed of putting these
immense voltages to work. The old
alchemists had sought to change
one metal into another, iron or lead
into gold.
Faccioli thought that the day
might come when these lightning
like discharges could be used to tear
atoms apart and change one sort
into another.
Were they so very wrong, these
alchemists?" he once inquired, a few
years ago. "They thought that the
sun in the heavens held the energy
that was needed to transmute the
dull drab of lead into the sparkling
brilliance of gold.
Energy = intense, = concentrated
energy-truly is needed. Energy, but
concentrated energy, is needed to
change the structure of the mat
ter"
Perhaps some day Faccioli's arti-
fetal lightning will point the way.
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BLACkSTONES
July TO-.
I'm july 10, 1928, Sir William
~ Blackstone, great English jur-
list and Law writer, was born in
London, the son of a silk dealer
Though he had been called to
the bar and appointed to a minor
judicial Office at an early age, it
was not until he was 80 that he
attracted wide attention. 1t was
his course OF lectures on English
law at Oxford which brought him
into prominence.
When, : few years later, a Mr..
Viner endowed a chair of English
law at the university, Blackstone
was appointed first Vinerian pro-
fessor. His lectures here won him
such fame that he was made Kings
counsel and later a member OF
parliament
Despite his success at the bar,
B.ac.stoneIs fame rests largely
upon his writings, particularly his
Commentaries" This work. until
.ecent times, was considered a legal
authority and an indispensable
part CT the education of every
lawyer
The Commentaries still form a
part of the regular work of instruc-
ticn in many American law schools.
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Y IKE many another famous au-
IL thor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
had private judgments about his
work which did not coincide with
the popular verdict. He never
shared the public enthusiasm for
Sherlock Holmes.
"The Hounds of the Basker-
villes'' he rated somewhat above the
rest of his detective fiction, but
THE White Company was his own
deliberate and one best bet for
posterity. i,
Of course, it is problematical
whether anything of Doyle will live.
I am referring to the kingdoms this
side of paradise. Personally, l
would like to stake a small wager
on his literary survival. But 1
would choose to have my money go
on Holmes.
The master detective still is the
best-known fictional character de-
vised within time.
This may seem a broad statement
and I can not prove it, but look
over the field and see if you can
think of any other figure from a
book who has so widely captured
public imagination. Sherlock
Holmes stories still sell prodigiously.
Indeed, if it is feasible for any
publisher to gather together all the
Holmes stories, good and bad, short
and long, into a single volume he
will have upon his list a certain
best seller for this season and many
years to come.
1T may be that the appetite for
detective stories will dwindle with
the passing of the years. OF late
we have had too great a flood OF
mystery yarns for any reasonable
mans digestion. And most OF the
narrators have paid Sir Arthur the
tribute of imitation.
1 can think of no living author
who remotely approaches Doyle at
his best in the detective yarn. Nor
have I much patience with those
who set up Poe as a superior In
stories Of this type.
1 would not deny to Poe the great
er literary eminence. but in the
straight detective story he was not
in a class with Sir Arthur.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By REogS

This impressed me. He made no
good case at all in describing the in
cidents which had brought him to
his faith.
There could ever have been some
experience so personal that he could
not bring himself to talk of it. Or,
and this, I think more likely, subtle
forces of one sort or another won
him over almost without his knowl-
edge.
Others as fervent in the faith
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have
died and sent no messages back to
the living. At least, none worthy of
belief.
Codes and secret pass have been
established at times to make the
authenticity of the communication
certain. No such arrangement will
be necessary in the case of Conan
Doyle.
He need even not return himsel
in spirit to carry conviction TO me
The death of Conan Doyle con-
veys a double sorrow. He has gone,
and until I hear to the contrary,
Sherlock Holmes went with him.
Copyright. 1880. BY The Times
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

Health magazine.
a T the recent meeting Of fifteen
"A sections of the American Medi-
cal Association, many additional
facts of Importance in the preven-
ton and treatment of disease were
brought forth.
Rare cases which have come to
the attention of physicians were de-
scribed so their fellow practitioners
might be aware of the possibilities
ct these conditions.
It was pointed out that there are
Sc 7eral unusual conditions, such as
pc. nicious anemia, pellagra and
Spr lie, which are associated with
seriN nus conditions in the spinal
cord causing paralysis, and that in
these same conditions there + dis
orders of the stomach which inter-
fere with its secretion of hydochloric
acid.
Jaundice, when it occurs, may be
due to a variety Of causes including
actual blocking of the bile ducts, by
changes in the secretion of the bile
and in the gallbladder itself.
Jaundice is associated with several
infectious diseases and the differ
entail diagnosis of these conditions
represents one of the most difficult
problems confronting the physician.
The medical profession is espe-
cially interested in the care Of the
woman who is to have a child. 1t
has been shown that heart disease
is a serious complication under such
conditions and that married women
with heart disease die before their
time because of the natural evolu-
ton of this disease rather than pri-
mariIy because of collaborating.
Infections of the kidneys some
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Ether Proves Death

VOU can hold a mirror close to.
Il the mouth without a particle
Of steam appearing on it, we are
told, or a feather which refuses to
tremble, and still not be. sure that
life is extinct.
So, too, you can hold the hand
before a bright light and see no
red glow between the fingers, with
out being certain.
But Dr.. Dervieux of the medical
legal institution and chief coroner
of France says that science has dis
covered more dependable means Of
determining death.
A dead body will expeI ether, he
declares, while q live one will absorb
it, and the injection of a small
quantity will prove the difference.
In the same way, f1o~uresciene in
jected in small doses will cause the
body to take on a greenish tint if
still alive.
Another reliable test, according to
DR.. Dervieux, is to write invisible
letters with lead acetate and hold it
to the nose. If the letters appear,
the body is dead since they are
brought out by the sulfhydric gas
which emanates from the corpse.
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Seeking Truth

ID ESEAIcCH men may show UP
N one medium after another with
out destroying spiritualism. For al
ways there may be one true phe-
nomenon lurking just around the
corner.
I've been to seances and I have
never seen anything at any such
demonstration which did not seem
to me fraud, and very clumsy fraud
at that. But L would go again at
any time. Even out of a great mo
rass of trickery and deceit, truth
might rise.
To be frank about it, I should
like very much to believe in spir-
ituaIism, but, Of course, that can
not come without evidence satisfac-
tory to myself. Nobody could listen
to Sir Arthur speak upon the fact
of survival after death without feel
ing that this man at least had re-
ceived evidence wholly convincing
as far as he was concerned.
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Rare Cases Described to Physicians

pain in the back, which is revealed
to be the result of two types of
causes: Cd mechanical; 90 toxic.
1t is necessary to make a careful
study of each case by the Isl of the
X-ray and by ether methods so that
the treatment may apply to the me-
chanical factor or the infectious
factor.
If the person has spots in his
body from which infection is car
ried to the spine, these must be
removed. For mechanical weak
nesses, braces and supports may be
provided which relieve the strain
and which accomplish much for the
human being.
One of the most interesting dis
~coveries announced was a new
method for making visible the
kidneys, thus aiding the diagnosis
of kidney diseases. This work was
begun by DR.. M. Swick in the clinic
of Professor LichWitz in Ham
burg, Germany and was continued
at Professor Won Lichtenburg'S clinic
in Berlin.
, 1t is extremely interesting to note
that DR.. Swick, Professor Lichwitz
and Professor Won Lichtenburg were
present to- discuss this new advance
in scientific medicine.
A drug, which is a derivative Of
iodine and pyridine, may be in
jected into the veins and after a
brief period X-ray pictures may be
made of the kidneys which will re-
veal them as well outlined as when
instruments are used to get the ma
terial into the kidney by injection
through the bladder and the ureters.
The method is extremely valuable
and while it will not displace the
former method completely, it gives
opportunity to the general physician
to carry on much of this work which
able for him.
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Voltage

A I about the same time, Stein
"A metz made public the first re-
suits of his excursions into the field
of artifcia, lightning. There were
similaritieS and differences in the
two achievements.
Mere high voltage" said Stein
metz, is not lightning. The charac-
teristic of lightning is high volt
voltage backed by very large pow
er, lasting for a short time only, and
so giving explosive effects.
I'm the experiments with a mil
lion volts at PittSf1eld, the current
was a fraction of an ampere. In
our lightning generator, however,
we get a discharge of 10000 volts,
that is, over 1000, o00-horse power,
lasting for a hundred thousandth
OF a second.
This gives us the explosive, tear
ing, and shattering effects of real
lightning
Steinmetz generated his lightning
by means of an electrical condenser,
a device somewhat similar to the
condenserS to be found in radio
sets. His condenser, however, in
stead of consisting Of metal plates
separated by air, used plates Sepa-
rated by thick sheets of glass.
A condenser is a device for storing
up electricity. Steinmetz fed cleo
tricity into his huge condenser un-
til the breakdown point was reached.
At that point, all the electricity in
the condenser would be discharged
across an air-gap between two cleo
trodes, giving Steinmetz his artificial
bolt of lightning.
Steinmetz had been carrying on
his work at the Schenectady lab
oratories of the General Electric
Company. When he died in 1923,
Faccioli took up his experiments at
PittSfieId.
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Questions and
AnSWerS

What was the value of paper
money issued by the United States
bureau of engraving and printing
in 1929?
$4,572,234,3 800.
Are seedIeSs oranges natural and
how are they propagated?
They are natural as seed oranges
and are propagated by budding.
Is Elizabeth spelled with IS" or
a 81?
Usually it is spelled with q" but
occasionally with IS" in English
speaking countries. The French,
German and Dutch forms are
spelled with IS"
Who wrote the book Scottish
Chiefs?"
James Porter wrOtit in 1910.
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thoughts to the solution of mysteries
necessarily must have tackled
sooner or later the major problem.
I always have felt that Holmes
would have remained to scott at
many a seance which served to
amaze Sir Arthur. Yet, I was deeply
impressed by the authors dignity
and absolute sincerity in the matter
of the possibility of communication
with the dead. y
This is something which every
man should approach with an open
mind. In a sense the spiritualists
have the stronger side Of the argu-
ment because it is conceivable that
sooner or later, if not even now,
they may prove their case.
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A CONNECTICUT judge decides
IA that swapping liquor for tips
on the stock market is illegal; Police
Commissioner Mulrooney Of New
York says the airplane is a great
aid to criminals; Secretary Melons
son Paul would rather be a publisher
than a banker; Theodore Dresser
suggests that since Wall Street Is
running the country, it ought to be
moved to Washington: and the
French chamber Of deputies dis
cusSes ways and means to prevent
burial alive.
Each Of these items furnishes
excellent subject matter for an
editorial, but the last is easily the.
most interesting, as Edgar Allan Poe
proved.
Who has not shuddered at the
idea Of waking up in a coffin, and
who has not heard whispered tales
of how some exhumed corpse showed
signs of a violent struggle, or how
some poor devil was rescued just in
time?
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

! times occur, due to the extra stress
put on them by child-bearing.
Women with tuberculosis repre-
sent a special problem. In more
than one-fourth of the cases in
which a woman with tuberculosis
attempts to have a child, the child
is lost.
Specialists in diseases of the nose,
throat and ears we're concerned par
ticularly with infections in the ear
and with the necessity for getting
the pus out of the ear as soon as
possible. The danger of abscess OF
the brain in such cases is great.
They also considered particularly
the diagnosis of diseases affecting
the larynx, the earliest symptom
of which is usually hoarseness.
Hoarseness must not be regarded
as a mild complaint, but as a con-
dition demanding the most careful
study by all technical methods
known to modern medicine.
The medical profession also is
concerned particularly with aiding
government authorities in the con-
troll of drug addiction. Special
studies have been carried on in
various parts of the country which
indicate that the addict takes the
drug because +" gives him q feeling
of well being and unquestionably
+ha ,,oantaI basis for addiction is of
the greatest Importance.
Today drug addiction is not con-
fined to the derivatives Of opium,
but includes hypnotics, alcohol and
opium, which seem to permit the
person concerned to forget his
troubles. It was the opinion of the
investigators that addiction is not a
physical disease, but more largely a
mental disturbance.
Special attention was given in an
other section to the handling OF
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newspapers and men and women who pray for their
release. They are only paw11s in a game in which not
mere nations, but whole systems Of governments, are
at stake.
Millions Of Americans whose views are unalterably
opposed to those of Warren K. Billings and Thomas
j. Mooney nevertheless resent the obvious fact that
eoononis preiudices rather than evidence we're re-
sponsible for their conviction.
inequality before the law, unbridled class hatred
and decisions in which the quality 81 mercy is
strained are the food upon which Communism and
anarchy feed.
The fight for the unconditional pardon Of Mooney
and Billings must go on.
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France Is Morbid

A MORBID streak runs through
IA all races, but it rises to pre-
eminence in France.
In no other country is Poe so.
generally admired or respected. In
no other country does the weird and
fantastic play such a part, not only
in folk lore and literature, but in
politics.
Every so often the question of
how to prevent burial alive crops up
in the French parliament. with
coronerS, doctors, undertakers and
norgue keepers trotting out the
same old stuff.
"One in 500 buried alive" it is
asserted, just as though 1t had not
been asserted dozens of times be-
fore, and the cleverest physicians
still can be fooled by trance.
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Touch on Victim

INSOFAR as it treasures the sur
l. vivors, such a method may be
statesmanlike and scientific, but it
is pretty tough on the victim.
Admitting that the prevention of
burial alive is highly desirable, the
really important thing would seem
to be rescue of the alleged corpse.
Fortunately, we Americans do not
have to argue this point, since en-
balming and cremation have be-
come popular.
Incidentally, that may help 70
explain why we prefer Hollywood
to Poe.
It's not a bad idea to take time
out now and then and learn what
other people are talking about,
what problems worry them and
what remedies they propose.
More often than not, it leaves
one with the impression that Amer
lea is fairly sane.
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SCIENCE
Wizard of Artificial Light
ming Retires; Decision Is
BIoU to Science.
DAVID DIETZ

A ENCOURAGEMENT comes from
N the General Electric Company
Of the retirement of Giuseppe Fac
cioli, famous electrical engineer who
carried on the work of Steinmetz
in the field of artificial lighting and
produced more powerful electrical
discharges than the world previously
had known.
Faccioli's retirement is regarded
as a hard blow to the progress Of
electrical engineering.
IF Ill health had not inter-
vened, there is no limit to what Fac
ciolt might have DONE" says Cum
mings G. Chesney, vice-president OF
the General Electric Company, and
one Of Faccioli's former associates.
There is much in common be-
tween the stories of Steinmetz and
Faccioli.
Both came to this country as
young men in search Of careers,
Steinmetz from Germany in 1889,
Faccioli from Italy In 1902. Both
had made brilliant records in
their student days.
Steinmetz, because Of his excep-
tionaI mathematical attainmentS,
rose to fame more rapidly, but Fac
cioli's progress, though slower, was
no less sure.
BY 1914, Faccioli had been made
electrical engineer of the Pittsfleld
plant of the General Electric Com
pany. In 1921 he attracted world
wide attention, when he and Ills as
sociates developed means of trans
hitting electric current at a pres
sure of 100000 volts, an unheard
Of pressure in those days.
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Doctors Are Obstinate
TINE French deputies. thirty-f1vc

THE French deputies, thirty-1vc
l. doctors among them, refuse to
be convinced.
Many of the doctors persist in the
idea that it is impossible to be sure
whether a person is dead for at least
two days.
A law providing for the vertical
ton of death by scientific means
does not satisfy them and the cham
Der may be asked to make the So
called coup de grace" obligatory,
by which the attending doctor would
inject a deadly poison into the body
before authorizing burial.
In other words, be sure they're
dead, even if you have to kill 'em.