The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29
LABORATORY
AND SHOP
BY DAVID RAM sEY

capitalize on his genius. Recently
he wrote to Joseph Stain, thanking
the Bolshevik Party for transform
ing him from a lone experimenter.
Unrecognized and ridiculed. into a
leader and organizer Of experiments
Of great magnitude" The Soviet
government which has helpe d
Michurin realize the dream Of
(his) life has awarded him the
Orders Of the Red Banner and Of
Lsnin in recognition Of his great
contributions toward the building
Of socialism.
THE NEWEST POISON GAS
METHOD
The German correspondent of the
Partisan paper. lie Jour, reports
that chemists at the Aster Riederer
factory in Bavaria have perfected
a method which makes poison gas
deadly for at least eight days. A
special absorbent clay is impreg-
mated with gases, and hen dried
and ground into powder.
In the form Of this fine powder, it
was sprayed from the exhausts Of
airplsneS with results, the CORES
pondent declares, that were highly
satisfactory to the German general
staff
Terrain sprayed by the poisonous
powder, & is claimed forms an i'm
passable barrier to enemy troops.
This will prevent the occupation Of
certain strategic centers by enemy
forces. It will also increase the
difficulties Of evacuating a city and
will kill civilian refugees who STUN
bic into the poisoned areas.
While the effectiveness Of
this particular method may be ex-
aggerated, corrosive gases already
exist which can 50 blanket the
ground to a height Of eight or ten
feet that passage by troops or civ
ilians is impossible
NOTE TO GARGLERs
Gargling, either as a morning ex-
ercise or as a method of treating a
sore throat. is frowned on by Ors.
William Snow and J. Z. Stern. They
reported to the American Medical
Association that "gsrgling Is in
effective and should be replaced by
The gravity irrigation method. 3"
They conducted tests in which
people gargled thin liquid suspen-
sion Of bsrium, while X-ray pictures
Of the head and throat were taken.
The subjects gargled furiously or
gently according to ms. ructions.
They also tried fitting their heads
backward almost to the floor to let
the liquid trickle down their Threats.
But the nasty X-ray pictures show
ed that, notwiths anding the Prov
ess Of some Of the gsrgleTs, vhe
liquid did not reach the throat.
The tongue. the physicians Jay,
. is pressed so firmly against the PAL
ate in all gargl!ng operations. hat
it prevents the liquid from getting
20 any throat whether long, aledi-
UNI of short. Only gravity 5rr!ga-
tons, with the head and neck bent,
were able to get the liquid to the
affected throat areas.
BONE CYCLES CAUSED ~
/ GLANDS
/ Doctor Hector Mortimer, 4 physi-
ologist at Gill University, has found
that two hormones, fluids pro-
duced by glands within the body.
regulate the fluctuations Of bone
growth. The growth hermoae of
the pituitary gland which is located
in the head makes bones grow larg-
er by increasing their blood supply
and expanding their ructural
| scaffolding.
A preliminary stage Of this pro-
cess seems to involve another func-
ton of the pituitary gland which
stimulates the four parathyroid
glands in the neck. These tighten
/ the structure of the bone so tina it
can be replaced by a larger or "cX-
I panded" framework. This is fol-
lowed by a period Of diminished &C.
tivity on the part Of the parathy-
roids. which permits the depositing
of calcium or lime salts that makes
the bones hard This consolidates
the so-called expansion.
If the growth-promoting hermone
runs amuck, then the result is the
giant that one sees in a side show
or circus. They suffer from the
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