The Washington times., 1931-10-07
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oor,or+s with rosnect apuroaching veneration, am
not pleased with the discovery that small doses OF SODIUM
amytel will turn coseipped men and women ln1o oqua-
cous bores who will be pleased to give you ther uIos'
confidence and the lowdown their private a1as "'
out the slightest encouragement from yoursel. AS
substitute for the third degree, it have its uses
but what science ought to search and tlnd Is tne anu
dote opposite counteractingagent whlch VIII cnoNe
off the flood of unwanted personal n1ormauoh ITO"
which all of us suffer. AS never got more than pass
ing mark in chemistry, cant Suggest tne Propel s
ents myself.
The Better Sodium
If science has been looking and finding the wrong
thing in this case it is because the scientist lives TOO
long in his laboratory. During the war, science was
enlisted for national defense and number OF excellent
disinfectants and curatves were discovered "Chou'
prejudice to them award the gold medal to the German
professor of physiology, Embden who according to D. B.
S. Hadane discovered that "a dose of about seven grams
of acid sodium phosphate increases mans capacity 1or
prolonged muscular work by about 20 cent and proba
bly aids in prolonged mental work It has no after
effects like those of alcohol and cannot take serious
overdose as it merely acts purgatve Clhey gave
certain Strossentruppen too muchD Thousands OF peo
ple in Germany take it habituay 1t is possible that 1t
may become as normal beverage coffee or tea The
quotation is from Mr.. Hadanes "Daedaus, or Science
and the Future the author adds that the price less
than cent a dose.
Chemicals in Politics
do not want to say that this is the sort of thing
science should be doing and that finding another
nebula is waste of time In fact think that science
ought to be allowed to go whatever chooses
and that political parties ought to take its findings
1 would like to be candidate for President on the
acid sodium phosphate ticket with the motto,
tired business men.
Our political parties do not separate on such ques-
tions of purely personal happiness One OF the most
attractive of Bernard Shaws playful conceits was in
"Back to Methusaleh,' when his imaginary Asquiths
and Lloyd Georges fought political campaigns the
lengthening of human life and think good election
could be fought between the parties which wanted to
make dosing with acid sodium phosphate compulsory,
those who wanted to make it optional, and those who
afraid it would wreck the economic system and
wanted to prohibit the manufacture and sale entirely
(the Twenty-ninth Amendment).
A Mexican Drug
The late William Bolitho was fascinated by Mexi-
can drug which isn't drug, a drink which isn't
drink but has all the properties of alcohol except
the vicious It is not habit-forming; it leads to
no immoraties it does not destroy the home. It can
be cheapy made. And it gives the rarest of expert
ences in the modern world: Ecstasy. friend of mne
experimental with hasheesh and told me that its
happiest result was that he SAW sounds; they were
running in letters of fire before his eyes, like of
those advertising signs forming words which had pro-
found significance to himself. He did not hear them
at ALL they appeared, moved in proper array, formed
sentences crss-crossed, and all the time it like
hearing perfume seeing music. After all, that is
no crime. And the Mexican dstiate has apparently
this effect grander scale all of life is made clear
the happy drnker floats beyond the confusions and
cares of the day.
AS recall it, determined propaganda against the use
of this drug is operating Mexico and the drug has
already reached Paris the French worried about it.
too. The difficulty of the propagandsts is that the old
moral objections do not ho the attack has to be made
under smokescreen because the real motive is this
That it is wrong for human beings to be happy unless
they are made happy by of which the propaganda
lists approve. They haven't proved that this happ
makes unable or unwilling to work after the
eaton has passed They have only ancient of
sin to help them. -"
The New Politics
Suppose you could combine these two discoveries the
and the DID, the work of the laboratory and the
discovery of the peasant If work could become pleas
ureand be 20 per cent effectve-and leisure could
become real uplifting of the spirit might approach
earthly Paradise. At present we catch glmpses
good doctor and friendly Mexican may help u.s. in