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DEATHS

ALIEN, JOHN Son wednesday, March
23. 1898, at Providence Hospital, JOHN
s. ALLEN. of GAL Sixth St, N. E. -.
Saturday. March 49, at :So. p. m. Reia-
tives and friends are invited. Interment
in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
BOTELER, GEORGE McKENDREE-on
Thursday: March "a. 1898, at his late
d ssoRas AEs
Boteler and father Of George ): Boseier,
line line A. Queen and brother Of MRS. Mag
sic l. Beckwith and Frank A. Boteler.
Funeral services from the W; W. Cham,
GS Ts sTeuFSsR fqser Ma On sstur
day. March 20, at 2 p. m, Relatives and
friends are invited. Interment In Rock
Creek Cemetery. d.
DANIELS, MINNIE EssIE-suddenly, on
Tuesday. March %, 1888. at her resi-;
ESsIE DANIELS. the. beloved wife of
Arthur A. Daniels and mother of Albert
H. Daniels. Remains resting at the W. W:
Chambers Co. Southeast funeral home. SIT
Eleventh Street Southeast. a. =
| Funeral services will be held on Friday.
lW. W. Chambers Co. Southeast funeral
home, 617 Eleventh Street Southeast
Interment, Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
IGRAEF, hAhhAEr UNDEnnALL, - On
IUNDERHILL CRAFT, wife of Charles
Henry Graft and mother of Tracy Under
hill Graft, and grandmother OF Tracy u
Funeral services and interment. private
Services by the W. W. Chambers Co;
suburban funeral home. o1s Cleveland
Avenue. Riverdale. Md.
KIRBY, WILLIAM A,-on Tuesday. Marcn
| %. 1898. at his residence 1884 Twenty.
| ai0hfh Street NdrthWAat WIIIlAM A.
KIRBY. beloved husband of Estelle s.
| Kirby and father of william W.. Marion
Lee. and Albert g, Kirby.
Saturday riaye March r. se. 1855. at .. m.
Relatives and friends invited.
Interment Glenwood Cemetery.
IODONNELL, HUGH-suddenly. on Thurs
Day NsFch e. "a W. l9is aeH n ei 5ssasaSf
beloved husband of Ellen o'Donnell (neee
Leahy) and father of Ellen c. Jones and
Catherine o'Donnen.
neral home, s619 14th St. N. W, on
Saturday, March 20, at $3.50 a. m. Requiem
mass at st. Matthew's Church at 9 a. m.
Relatives and friends invited to attend.
Interment, Mount Olivet Cemetery.
PETIT, MARGARET-On Thursday night
March "a, 1888. at her residence, 40
Street Northwest. Washington, D. C., MAR
GARET PETIT, in the seventy-seventh
year of her age, the beloved mother of
Mrs. Sara Dodd She is also survived; by
two grandchildren. Remains resting at
the Cunningham funeral home, 500 Cam
reron Street, Alexandria; Va
Funeral services will be held on Satur-
day, March 20, 1898, at 8 p. M, from
the Cunningham funeral home. 500 Cam
eron Street, Alexandra, Va.
interment in Methodist Protestant Gene
terry, Alexandria, Va.
SHIELDS, LOULTE BYRNES-on Friday,
March 25. 1898. at her residence. Isl
Y Street Northeast, LoUL!E BYRNES
SHIELDS, beloved wife OF John A. Shields
and mother of Edward B. and John A.
Shields jr.
Notice of funeral later.
w OD 8, LIEUT.. MELVIN ". (U. Q.
Navy(-on Wednesday, March 23, 1888.
LIEUT.. MELVIN W WOODS. ~
Funeral services will be held at St. Pat
rick's Episcopal Chapel. Reservoir and
Foxhall Roads N. W., on Friday, March
| 26th, at Q p. m. r..
Interment. Arlington National Cemetery.
Services by W. W. Chambers Co. .. =.
funeral home.
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Wage
Hearing Today

Another of q series Of hearings
on pay standards for women in the
laundry industry viii be con-
Quoted by the Minimum Wage
Board today at 2 p. m. in the Dis
trict Building. Another month
probably will elapse before the
board fixes compulsory wage
scales for the 4,50O women workers
in local laundries and dry-cleaning
establishments.
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Elks Entertain
Mt. Alto Veterans

The shut-in ward at Mt. Alto
Veterans Hospital rang with tlnac-
customed laughter last night as
the Elks Good Cheer Gang staged
a combination minstrel and vaude-
Vile show. Johnnie Reh, as mas
ter Of ceremonies, led the per
formers with his one-man marion
ettA art.
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Greenbelt Clear Water Fish
Perish on Rai11-Qnd-Mud Diet

crappies, and yellow perch were
planted, but 1t IS believed that only
a few "cats" are now living. Game
authorities say that the muddy
water would be excellent for carp
and mullets, but none Of these
was nlanted.
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Births, Deaths
Marriages
BIRTHS

AAS@ RAA@
Harry and Lillian Henning, boy.
CourtIand and Lucille ferguson.
boy.
Henry and Helen COnIlOR: girl.
Richard and Annie Williams, girl.
Cyril and Helen COrbin, girl.
stuart and Doris Macdonald.
Curtis and OdeII Skinner, Eiri.
Richard and Henrietta Cattl,
girl.
Franklin and Ruth spruill, boy.
James and Rosemary McGee, boy.
Lawrence and Elsie Fitzgerald,
Arthur and Elizabeth Gold
Edward and Emma Carr. boy.
Jon and Alberta Abel, boy.
John and Dorothy Nutter. girl.
Paul and Mary CuIlisOn, girl.
. Walter and Frances Ferguson,
David and Eleanor Miller, girl.
Harry and Rose Heft, girl.
Christ and Beside Ponies, girl.
Milton and Margaret McNeal,
Joseph and Catherine Fitzgerald.
girl.
Roger and TheIma BuFriss,. boy.
Norman and Lois Ramsey, boy.
Arthur and Inez Young, boy.
william and Gladys Dtmler, boy.
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IN MEMORLAM

VESSELS, BARNIE DIN sad but low
ing memory of a dear son and brother;
this life October 15. 1887.
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
By his father. Walter w. Vessels;
brothers, Snowden, John, Claude and FL
mer Vessels, and sisters Mary and Flora.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES

John 9. Chase, 4S. and Elizabeth
r. ZOn, ~, both Of MuskOgee,
Okla.
william ID. Wilson, "a, 55S4
Connecticut Ave. n. W., and Mar.
garet j. FalcOne, 18, 5S37 Connect.
Hsryey n. Collins, Jr., 81. Fort
Myer, Va, and Elizabeth e. Ringei-
sen, 20, 1740 p st. N. W.
Otis A. Springs, IT,. %, Charlotte,
n. c., and Alice p. Straus, Fl, 72S"
APgOnne Apartments.
Mark W. Wilson, 22, and Blanche
j. Martin, 20. both from Airing
ton, Va.
Samuel W. steuart, 80. 637 h st.
N. E., and Willie NJ. Pier, 1S, 1O4S
BIadenSburg Rd. N. e.
James e. Gates, 20. Clemson Col
lege, s. c., and Harriet #. Reed, "a,
1870 Fifteenth 81. N. W.
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DEATHS

Franklin C. Snyder. SO. 6S New
York Ave. N. w.
Laura virginia Wright, "a. S5Oe
Sixteenth st. n. W.
Frederick SchroelI, 81, Walter
Reed General Hospital.
Nay BrOOzes Ransdell, 70, SO33 z
Lsslis J. Kind, "A. ssOs Fifth s..
Mary E. Penn, 70, St. EliuabethS
George A. BelbIn. ss. Emergency
Hospital.
Byron Z. Bradley, 81, oil New
York Ave. N. W.
,,,;L, Joseph Alva Rice, %, sibley Hos
Rudolph g, wOrch. 81. 71s Web
Sarah Eichberr. ss. 1S4s Upshur
Frank Welpelt, Sc. GallinEsr Hos
Thomas b. Crisp, IS, walter
Reed General Hospital.
James H. DOnlan, AZ, George
town University Hospital.
Margaret Stone, 81, GaIIinEer
Mary ArmintrOut. 80. GaIlinger
Hospital.
Sidney Peter, 81, GEORGETOWN
University Hospital.
Infant Beall, IL days, Gallinger
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1938-03-25

AERONAUTICS CHAIR
A chair of aeronauticS probably
will be added to Sydney University,
Australia, on the advice of a
British expert.
The Washington times., 1938-03-25
FLORISTS

a. 10 up BLACKTsTONE. NC. 81 IN up
%~ Funeral Designs
14O7 n st. N. W. Dist. 1900
GUIDE BROS. CO.. Funeral Design
1919 = St. N. ". NAT. z27S
WADE FLOWERS INC. FLORAL SPRAYS
$500 UP. S27 14TH ST. NV. RE 0S2T
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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WOOD 8, LIEUT.. MELVIN W. %. 9.
Nayy(-On Wednesday. March 30. 1888,
LIEUT.. MELVIN W WOODS. ~
Funeral services will be held at St. Pat
rick's Episcopal Chapel, Reservoir and
Foxhall Roads N. W., on Friday, March
25th, at p. m. '..
Interment. Arlington National Cemetery.
Services by W. W. Chambers Co. ,. =.
funeral. home y
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Surviving is his widow, the
daughter of a former Danish min.
lister to the United States: a
daughter. Mrs. Randolph Leigh, of
Virginia; a son, Lieut.. e. H. Till.
man, jr., now stationed at
Charleston, S. c., and five grand
children, Miss Frida Frazer
Margheritta Edwin, and Elizabeth
Stirling and Alice Tillman.
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SHIELDS, LOULTE BYRNES-on Friday,
March 20, 1888. at her residence. Isl
v Street Northeast, LOULIE BYRNES
SHIELDS, beloved wife OF John A. Shields
and mother of Edward B. and John A.
Shields, jr. &.
Nofion ~ fuparoJ later
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Dr.. Bush to Direct
Corneqie Institution

DR.. Vannevar Bush of Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology will
succeed DR.. John c. Merriam as
president Of the Carnegie Institu-
ton on January l..
DR.. Merriam, who has been pres
ident for 18 years, asked the trustees
to release him so that he could per-
sue research in paleontology and re-
lated fields.
DR.. Bush is renowned in mathe-
matical research. He is a native of
Everett, Mass, and was graduated
from Tufts College and took the
degree of doctor of engineering at
M. I. T. and Harvard. Tufts Col
lege, of which he is q trustee. gave
him the honorary degree of doctor
of science in 1882. For his work
IN designing analyzing instruments
for advanced mathematics, DR.. Bush
was awarded the Levy medal of the
Franklin Institute in 1923. The
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers gave him the Larme
medal for his contributions I'd the
application Of mathematical anal
ysis to electrical engineering.
DR.. and Mrs. Bush will make
their home at the Wardman Park
Hotel.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
University, Church
Join in Opposing
Liquor License
Coffee Shop Too Near
6. w., Union N. E.,
Spokesman Soys

Officials Of George Washington
University and the Union Method
ist Episcopal Church today regis
tered opposition to the granting OF
liquor license to the Colonial
Coffee Shop in the 300 block Of
Twentieth street NV. in a hearing
before the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board.
AS spokesman for the university
and the church, Wilbur La Roe pro-
tested the restaurant was inappro-
pirate because it was located too
close to their establishments.
Harry c. Davis, secretary of the
university board of trustees, said
the coffee shop was within two
blocks of the George Washington
University Law School and was too
close to other university buildings
to be permitted to have a liquor
license.
The Rev. John Edwards told the
board the Union Methodist Episco-
pal Church was less than a block
from the restaurant, and he offered
a petition signed by members of his
congregation opposing the applica-
ton.
The manager of the restaurant,
Nick johnson, argued that the
granting of the liquor license was
necessary to the success of his busi-
ness. The place now has a permit
for sale of beer and light wines.
Mr.. johnson told the board he had
suffered heavy losses in trade after
a competing restaurant in the sec
ton had obtained a liquor permit
and the university had opened a
cafeteria.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Nominees Picked
For Library Posts

Mrs c. w. Mitchell, chairman of
the Nominating Committee of the
Silver Spring CMd) Public Library
Association, today announced the
following had been nominated for
trusteeship:
Mrs. Rhees E. Burket, Vernon
Brewster, Shirley Workman, Rich
ard E. Grotlisch and Mrs. Herbert
M. Rockwell. Three are to be
elected at the annual meeting, jan
uary 81. Trustees whose terms eX-
pire are Mr.. Grotlisch, Mrs. Burket
and Harry S. Elkins. Other men,
bers of the board, whose terms do
not expire until 1910, are Howard P.
Bailey. president of the association;
Mrs H. H. Hewlett, Bernard Hub
bard and Mrs. Howard D. Dozier.
In addition to the election Of
trustees a budget will be adopted
and a number of amendments to
the constitution will be proposed at
the annual meeting.
Evening star., 1938-12-30
Seven Arrested in Raid
Freed Under Bond

Seven colored men, arrested in a
raid by vice squad detectives yester-
day near Forty-eighth street and
Deane avenue NE, were at liberty
under 81 500 bond each today pend
ing grand jury action on charges
they operated lottery and possessed
numbers slips.
The prisoners pleaded innocent
when arraigned before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
Immediately after the raid.
Police said they gave their names
as Samuel Walker. 30, of the 300
block Of Forty-fourth street NE;
Waverly j. Sellers, 25, of the 1900
block of Fitch place NE; James A.
Jackson, 81, of the 1900 block of
Eads street NE; Miner Lacey. 25,
Of the 4400 block Of Lane place NE;
John A. Marshall, 38. of the 1900
block of Hayes street NE, and VIII
liam E. Boiling, 81, and julius N.
McLendon, 80, both Of the 1900
block of Dean avenue NE.
Evening star., 1938-12-30

Monopoly Hearings
Will Be Resumed
On January Is
Insurance, Steel and
Oil Industries Next
To Be Investigated
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

With broad inquiries currently un-
der way in at least three giant in
dustries, those Of insurance, steel and
oil, the Federal Monopoly Committee
tentatively has set January 16 as the
date for resumption of its open hear
|dngs into American business prac-
tices, it was learned today.
Although one or more of these
studies probably will have reached
a point where 1t may be the subject
OF the hearings, consideration is be-
ing given to giving precedence to the
Commerce Departments desire to
present additional information on
the workings of the patent system.
More Time Was Asked.
Following conclusion of the COM
mittee's hearings on patent usages
IN the automobile and glass con-
ta1ner industries, in which emphasis
was placed on the opportunity and
actual practice of monopolistic poll
cies through patent controls, the
Commerce Department requested
time to present a more compre-
hensive picture of the whole working
OF the present system.
OF the three industry studies
mentioned above, that into the in
surance field probably is most ad-
vanced, but the extent to which the
committee is delving into the steel
industry was indicated by announce
ment today that questionnaires on
price policies have been submitted
to 60 companies.
"The Information called for is
fundamental to determining the
economic effect Of the pricing poll
cies Of the steel industry" a COM
mittee statement said.
Statistics on Shipments.
The QUESTIONABLE calls for sta
tistics showing the quantity of ship
ments Of 10 steel products to various
consuming districts, the invoice de-
l1vered value OF these shipments.
freight charges and freight paid
and extras included in invoice de-
lvered value.
This information is to be fur
nished for the month of February.
1889. AT later date, when seasonal
pressure upon clerical personnel of
the steel companies has been lifted,
similar information will be requested
for single month for each of the
years 1887 and 1888"
In addition. 1t was announced, a
second QUESTIONABLE dealing with
distribution of steel products as
related to the geographic concentra-
tion Of production will shortly be
distributed.
The steel questionnaires have
been prepared by the Department
OF Justice and the Federal Trade
Commission, both of which are rep
resented on the committee, after
consultation with representatives Of
the industry.
Evening star., 1938-12-30

area is split into right and left
halves, these halves when cultured
separately on plasma clots produce
respectively the right and left
halves of the fore-brain, each with
an optic vesicle. Anterior and pos
terror parts of the young embryo,
separated by cut passing through
the center of the eye-forming area,
produce respectively the anterior
and posterior halves of the FORE
brain.
I'm another series of experiments
the brain-eye area was completely
removed and the remainder of the
embryo cultured. Such embryos
have the power to compensate for
the loss by regenerating a COM
plete fore-brain with optic vesicles
This happened in % out of 1913
cases. If the operation is per-
pormed at young enough stages
the rectangular hole where the
original fore-brain forming area
was located, will heal over within
6 to 10 hours and a new fore-brain
will form as though nothing had
been done to the embryo. This pro-
cess of regeneration is usually alb
sent in older embryos. In younger
ones there seems to be marked in
crease in the capacity to reform the
excised part. In general the degree
or regeneration obtained seems to
depend on the size of the piece re-
moved and the age of the embryo
used"
Can Watch Growth.
For the fist time, 1t was pointed
out, Psychologists actually can
watch the growth Of the brain, the
highest and probably most complex
activity of nature and may discover
some Of the forces which sometimes
cause this growth to deviate. Philo-
sophically it demonstrates that the
brain is, in the words of Mr.. Spratt,
the expression of an already ex-
listing but invisible structural organ
ization."
Successful transplantation of ad-
renal glands, source OF two secre-
tions essential to life, into eyes was
reported by DR.. c. Donnell Turner
OF Northwestern University.
Not only did gland have better
chance OF survival when placed in
the anterior chamber of a rats eye,
where 1t was bathed with the aque-
GUS humor, DR.. Turner said, but for
the first time, looking into the eye as
through a window, it was possible
to watch what was happening.
Thus he learned why gland gratis
usually fail and made at least a be-
ginning toward transportation OF
that part Of the gland which secretes
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and bribe inefficient parents to bring
children into the world for whom
they cannot care. The natural re-
suits of this state of affairs will be
the adoption of child rearing by the
state itself.
"A happy life cannot be harmo-
nized with a life in which the
parents are reduced to the status of
studs. 1t is probable that the state
will sacrifice in the long run the
very advantages which it sought.
You cannot interfere with the deli
cate structure of family life and
parental affection and raise men
and women to be cogs in the ma
chine without endangering their
utility for everything else"
Doom of Dictatorships.
This principle, DR.. Swanton said,
spells the ultimate doom of die
tatorship, even if it survives its
other perils. One thing which it
cannot produce is efficient new die
tators to perpetuate itself, since it's
whole policy is to produce only cogs
in the machine.
DR.. Swanton also insisted that the
material Of science is without SCI
entiflc justification. This holds that
life was derived from the inorganic
world and that creation is headed
for the inevitable fate of death
by freezing" when all the heat in
the universe has been equally dis
tributed according to the second law
OF thermo-dynamics.
This is philosophlcally unsound,
DR.. Swanton said. I'VE cannot i'm
agine ourselves" he declared, ito
be existing in a fragment of finite
time balanced between an infinite
period of running down and an in
finite period of stagnation conse-
quent upon diffusion of energy. II
the period of approach were infinite,
1t would have no end. If the period
Of stagnation were infinite, how
could it have beginning? We must
either suppose we are looking out
on one-way street and that some
where there is another one-way
street carrying celestial traffic in
the other direction, or that such
phenomena are tidal and the pres
ent ebb will be followed by a flow"
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|. T.. T.. 10 Furnish
Wheeler With Data
On Cheap Rail Rates
Senator Says PIon
Looks Good as Aid in
Solving Industry's Ills

An Interstate Commerce Com
mission study of postalization" OF
passenger rates was expected today
to provide further material for con-
gressional debate on the railroad
problem.
Chairman Wheeler of the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
asked Chairman w. M. w. Splawn
of the I. c. c. yesterday to have
the plan carefully analyzed."
John A. Hastings, former New
York State Senator, has proposed
that fares be fixed on the parcel
post plan instead of a mileage
basis. Mr.. Hastings would divide
the country into nine zones and
fares within a zone. regardless OF
distance, would be 81 to SIS, de-
pending on which Of five classes of
service the passenger chose. All
suburban fares, limited to Al miles,
would be Is cents, or Is cents for
a round trip.
A trip from New York to Chicago
could be made for 81, the same as
a trip from New York to Pough-
keepsie, a distance of about 30 miles.
Looks Good" Says Wheeler.
Senator Wheeler, who did not
make public the figures on which
he wants the I. c. c. to pass judg-
ment, told Chairman Splawn he had
given thought to the Hastings pro-
posal for the last five years and Ion
its face, the plan looks good to me-"
The railroads of this country
constitute a mass production indus
try" he wrote. In order for
mass production industry to be sue
cessful, it must have mass consump-
tion. Mass consumption in rail-
roads means mass use of the seats
in the chair cars and berths in the
sleeping cars.
"The only excuse for mass pro-
duction is that, by such means, an
industry can produce better and
cheaper goods. What applies to the
automobile industry applies to the
railroads.
Costs No More If Car Is Full.
They must have more business,
and the way to get more business
is to give the lowest possible rate
consistent with sound business
principles. It costs as much to pull
a coach half full as it does full.
There is very little more cost for
maintaining roadbeds used by 10
trains than by one"
AS this means of affording rail
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relief was advanced, John J. Pelley,
president of the Association of
American Railroads, issued a state
ment estimating that the class
roads of the country will finish the
year with q net deficit of $125, ,OOO,-
900. compared with association-esti-
mated net income of $98 900, 600 in
1887. The deficit claimed by the as
sociation was the largest for any
year on record except in 1882, when
it was $139 9,000,0OO
Describing the past twelvemonth
as "one of the most disappointing
years that has ever been expert
enced," Mr.. Pelley said preliminary
reports indicate the net railway op-
Grating income, before fixed charges,
will be $362, 100000, or return of
1.39 on property investment. In
1887 it was s59OO0O,O00. or a return
of 226, and in 1930-the year gen.
orally used for comparative purposes
because of the good showing made
$869, 600, 900, or a rate of return of
1923 per cent.
In another development in the rail
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adrenalin, the body's most potent
hormone.
Hitherto there have been reported
a few apparently successful trans
plantations of bits Of the outer sur
face of the gland whose cells secrete
into the blood stream the hormone
"cortin" which is absolutely essential
to life. These gratis have usually
died in short time, supposedly
from inability to get an adequate
blood supply. Watching his CRAFTS
through the eye windows, DR.. Turner
found that the adrenal cortex has
reserve of embryonic cells which it
apparently carries throughout life.
The old cortin- secreting cells tend
to die rapidly in their new environ
ment, but as they do so the en-
bryonic cells step forward to take
their place. The work-urge in these
idle cells may be partial explana-
tion for the occurrence of tumors
on the cortex.
Have No Working Reserve.
On the other hand, the adrenalin-
secreting cells have no workers in
reserve so that when they die their
work Is ended. Placed in the eye
chamber, however, he found that this
portion could be kept alive and active
for considerable time by use of
proper techniques, by which it was
enabled to get nourishment. The
lower temperature in the eye cham
ber also is believed to have some
thing to do with the success.
DR.. Turner also found evidence Of
a strange balance of hormonic in
fluences in the body. The eye gratis
were generally successful in propor-
ton to the insufhciency of secretions
from an animals own adrenals.
This was especially true with the
notwithstanding portion. If a rat
was getting enough of his hormone
from its own glands the graft de-
generated very rapidly. If one of its
own adrenals was removed the
transplanted tissue from another rat
persisted. This Is due, DR.. Turner
believes, to another hormone from
the pituitary gland in the brain
which acts as boss" of the ad-
renals whenever they try to lay
down on the job. There is just
enough of this stimulating chemical
for the normal glandular equipment
of the animal and none left over
for adrenal tissue which it does not
need.