Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-11-04

suf1cient to make it last fifteen tril-
lion years longer. and 1t absorbs fresh
material as 1t rolls through space.
1t is hard for US to understand what
a million means. much less a billion
or a trillion. Fifteen trillion years
means fifteen thousand times one bill
lion years.
The human race. only twelve thou.
sand years away from the stone age,
already flies, dives under the sea, has
conquered slavery, cannibalism, and
the problems of production. It should
do remarkable things. with fifteen tril-
lions of years to go.
No man has ever lived with magma
ton enough to suggest one-millionth
part Of the wonders that the human
intellect will accomplish in the next
fifteen million years, TO say nothing of
fifteen trillions of years.
You that read will surely be Inter
ested in the wonderful biological lab.
orstory. in which DR.. George W. Grille
and his associates carry on expert
ments that. at some future date, might
save your life and will surely save
and prolong the lives of millions yet
unborn
No dry technical discourse could
make the average reader take an in
terest in biology. which is the science
OF life. But you will read on when
told that you are to hear about a per-
feet brain cell, living, breathing, eat
ing, entirely separated from the brain
and the skull in which it once lived.
And there are other wonders, the
female rabbits that give information
about human babies. unborn, the white
rats that add to knowledge of the mys.
terious endocrine glands, the cancer
tissue that emits ultra violet rays,
created mysteriously as the cancer
cells divide the light strong in proper
ton to the rapidity of the division,
with endless other proofs of mans
marvellous intellectual power.
@N~AN a. AOOiit NACiC IIC oOllldIy
brain cell lives by itself, under a
microscope, a deep young voice in
forms you that presently she will let
you see new synthetic brain cell in
process OF formation. Miss Maria
Telkes, youthful and beautiful Hunga-
rian highbrow. owns the voice and
bosses the lonesome separate brain
cells.
She is doctor of philosophy, with
high forehead. appallingly full OF
live brain cells, and her rapid descrip-
ton Of the analysis and synthesis OF
brain tissue" which she considers
suited to the intelligence of child
OF twelve, makes you wish you could
add that living separate brain cell to
your own equipment.
The brain substance, specks almost
too small to see, lives in a protein solu-
tion in which it exists, very much as
you do. 1t eats. drinks. breathes,
feeds on the protein in a solution also
made OF brain substance. It is. in real.
ity. cannibal brain cell. But Miss
Telkes thinks little of your attempt to
impress her with that suggestion. She
is a scientist, everything else bores
her.
That live brain CELL like Yourself,
dies II poison is added to its diet. dies
II deprived of oxygen. 1t absorbs more
oxygen, lives more theoretically II
stimulated with little alcohol.
Too much alcohol depresses IL, low.
ers its vitality. Additional alcohol
kills it.
Those that absorb bootleg alcohol
might remember that in connection
with their own brain cells.
Science is long, newspaper columns
are short.
The cosmic rays, made visible. the
ultra violet rays. made audible. the
strangely prophetic rabbit, the alliga.
tors brain, and the lions heart. all in
that amazing laboratory, must wait
until another day.
q 1882 Ktgs E.sy.,.. e..y