davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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al repetirse aquella no
ia especial, y sin que Sc lie hui
biese dado morfina alguna. Es-
tos experiments nos llevan a
Greer que muchas intermediates
no son producidas por causas
reales en- 10 absolute; son pro-
ducto de la Influenza de causas
puramente imaginarias e inO-
fensivas que ell enfermo, por u
ma u otra raz6n, asociara con tai
O cual enfermedad maligna.
Hasta la palabra puede produ-
cir los reflejos condicionados.
Ell professor Pavlov, una vez hip
notiz6 a uno de sus pacientes y
lie di6 una ligera pinchada en- el
brazo al tempo que decia que
lie eStaba haciendoo dano. FL
paciente despu6s nunca dej6 de
responder al t~ratamientoo con
el pulse y la respiration abitada
y hacienda una mueca de inten-
so doror. AL r~epetirse este expe-
rimento un n1mero de wees, Sc
produjo Ell mismo resultado sim
p~lenamente por medic de la SUI
gesti6n y sin la mas minima pin
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v. R

Ell professor Metalnikov, en- su
reciente libro la lucha contra
la muerte", explica la inmuni?
dad contra las Intermediates
por los llamados "reflejos condi
cionales". Ell termino reflejo
Conditional s~ignifica una reac-
ci6n del ORGANISING causada pOr
agentes externos. Por ejemplo,
81 un perro We alimentos, habra
una secretion de jugos salivares
en- su boca, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
de su volici6n. Supongamos aho
ra que Sc hace alg1n sonido, tai
como, por ejemplo la vibraci6n
de un batintin, antes de que Ia
comida Sc ponga frente al Pc
rro. Despues de unos minutes Ell
perro asociara la aparici6n de
la comida con ell sonido, y sera
suficiente ell producer ell sonido
para que Ell perro segregue los
jugos necesarios para digerir
Una comida que nj siquiera es.
ta alli.
MetalnikOv, basando sus expe
rimentos en- este reflejo condi-
cionado, decide inyectar variOs
cultivos de microbes a varios
conejillos de Indias, y en- ell mo-
mento de la injection daba unos
golpecitos en- las peludas espal-
das de los animalejos. Fl anali-
sis de la sangre mostr6 la pre-
sencia de la inmunidad contra
los microbes. FL experiments
Sc reptile en- distintas ocasiones,
cuidando siempre de acordarse
de dar los golpecitos en- las es-
paldas, y Sc comprob6 que la in
munidad era producida por 81
reflejo, independientemente de
81 habian inyectado o no los mi
crobios, solamente con la accion
de los golpecitos Ia inmunidad
Sc ponia en- juego. Esto, natural
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Dolencias y llagas por suggestion
"~Sevodnia," Riga

mente, hizo que Metalnikov con-
cluyese que toda inmunidad era
nun simple reflejo Conditional, y
Sc nitric que este reflejo Sc de-
bia al sistema nervioso. Seg1n
parece, Ell sistema nervioso de
los conejillos de Indias habia re-
cordado los ~golpecitos en- Ell To-
mo y habia producido la inmu-
nidad por su propia cuenta al
sentirlos.
Estos ejemplos son numero-
SOS. Bajo la influencia de expe-
riencias p~uramente psfquicas,
tales como ell dolor, ell amor, la
ira, ell tenor y la ~vergdenza, la
frecuencia de los latidos del CO.
raz6n humane pueden aumen-
tarse O acelerarse, hay eambios
en- la preston sanguinea y en- la
respiration, vahidos, des6rde+
mes estomacales y sudores. Es-
tas experiences psiquicas pue-
den dirigir las funciones del CO
raz6n, de las glandulas saliva
res Y de los mdSculos intestinal
les. De la misma manera la ina
ginaci6n puede estimular las
glandulas sexuales.
Los discipulos del academico
Pavlov, renombrado fisi6logo,
y de los doctores Potkapaev Y
Krimov, han demostrado con
sus experiments que las enfer-
medades pueden ser considera-
das como un reflejo Conditional,
y han demoStrado sus teorias de
la manera siguiente. A un perro
Sc lie administr6 una larga dosis
de morfina a fin de producer un
estado t6xico agudo. AL mismo
tempo sc TOGO una nota muy al
ia en- 6rgano. Ahora bien des-
pu6s de doscientos experiment
tos, ell perro "mostr6" los sinto-
mas del envenenamiento por la
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habia tornado una llaga.


Todos estos experiments
Investigations tienen una gran
importancia practica. 81 impor-
tancia primaria es que nos han
moStrado que todos nuestros Or
ganos estan trabaiando armo-
niosamente bajo la direction de
nusstro sistema nervioso. En-
segrndo lgar, 10 que es de ma
yor trascendencia, nos han re-
velado ell gran papel de2empe-
nado por las ciencias psiquicas
en- ell tratamiento de las enfer-
madades mentales y organicas.
La voluntad Sc ha puesto tam
Lien de relieve como I'm factor
vitalfsimo. Ell professor Metaln.-
kov, basando suS conclusiones
en- estos experiments, da a la
humanidad consuelo y esperan-
"a adicionales cuando dice:
"Por medic de la voluntad pode-
mos combatir tanto las enter
medades como la llegada de la
senectud"...
Y ash contin1a la lucha de-
hombre contra la muerte. Qui.
zas 81 ell hombre esta mas cerca
de la meta de 10 que 81 mismc
piensa, Y es en- su alma que ell
hombre ~encontrara los medioS
de conservar su cuerpo...
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Ell COMUNISTA O r
~CONDENADO POR DESER-
TOR

Paris, Nov. 28.-Un trihunes
militar conden6 hoy a Mauricio.
Thorez, secretario general del
partido Comunista frances, a
seiS amos de preside como deser
tor del ejercito. Thorez Sc ha-
LA en- rebeldfa y la policfa L.
busca desde que desapareci6, eli
pasadO 6 de octubre.
Orden6 tambien que todas sus
propiedades lie sean confsca-
das. Thorez tiene 80 amos y es
miembro de la Camara de Dipu-.
tadoS.
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chada. La mente habia conquis-
tado a la materia.

chada. La mente habia conquis-
tado a la materia.
La doctora Vassileva una vez
hizo pasar una ligera corriente
electrical a la pierna de un pa
ciente para que contrajese los
musculos. En- ell mismo momen-
TO q.e Sc traSmitfa la corriente
So tocaba una campana y Sc de-
cfa en- alta voz la palabra CAM
pana. AL cabo de cierto tempo
los m1sculos de la pierna Sc con
traian al decirse la palabra cam
pana sin ell tanido y 81 mel con-
tacto electrico. Asi resulta un
progreso sobre los dos expert
mentos anteriormente describes.
Ell mas interesante hecho has
ia ahora, sin embargoo, ha 81
do el llevado a cabo por los pro-
fesores Chaser, Estomin y To.
pilsky, quienes dascubrieron
que haSta los gl6bulos blancos
eran susceptibles a la suggestion,
Estes hombres de ciencias tam
bien descubrieron que la enfer-
medal podia ser inducida por Ia
suggestion y en- cuando a este I'll.
timo han podido curar ebrios
consuetudinarios. No sc nos di.
ce, sin embargo, 81 estudiaron i
mas frivola posibilidad de indu.
cir un estado de euforia y ale
grfa sin que ell paciente hubies'
tornado unos tragos.
Con eStoS experimentos de 81
gesti6n psiquica es possible pro
ducir quemaduras y escaldadu
ras reales. Puede pensarse gu.
en- ell famoso caminar sobre car
bones encendidos que es un pas
tempo de los fakires indios c
de- verdad una suggestion inver
tida de la misma clase. Ell prof
sor Fine, en- compania de u
i. distinguido grupo de cientifi
} cos, hipnotiz6 a una mujer. Des
pues coloc6 una moneda de pls
] ia, fra, en- la palma de la man
: del sujeto y lie dijo que la none
| da estaba al rojo vivo. Despue
de veinticinco minutes Sc recI
! gi6 la moneda y habia dejado U
/ ma mancha roja en- la mant
Tres horas mas tarde apareci
: la ampolla tfpica de la Quema
dura. En- apariencia los sfntc
mas y los efectos fueron los mi
: mos que 81 ella hubiese sujetad
1 una brasa con Ia mano, pues, s
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DEFUNCIONES

Falleci6 aver en- un hospital
local, a la edad de SO amos, ell
Sr. Antonio Ibahez, vecino del
GIG de la avenida Once, en- esta
ciudad. LIE sobreviven una hija,
Sra. Jessie Villavicencio; un hi
jo, Ramon Ibanez; tres hernia
mas, cuatro hermanos y otros ia
miliares.
Hoy por la tarde, a las 4:30
sc ~verificara ell sepelio.
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FUNCION DE BENEFECIO
PARA Ell PUESTO MAR
CELLO GONZALEZ

Una function de beneficio pa
ra la compra banderaS Y unifor
mes Sc efectuara ell pe6ximo jue
YES por la noche, en- Ell edificIo
del puesto Marcelo Gonzalez
No. 70, de la Legion America
ma.
Ell programa comprendera
ona comedia, "Toby1s Come
dams, cantos, danzas y actoa
de magia.
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centavos, similar a una que u
sa la panaderia Bamby.
Concedi6 ell juez dos sema-
mas aesa panaderfa para po-
ner una nueva envoltura.
Bamby asegura que Alessi
Sc proponia disminuir sus ven-
tas con esa envoltura similar.
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I~NTERDICTO CONTRA UNA
PANADERIA

FL juez Sander, de la Cor
tie del Circuito, concedi6 aver
un interdicto temporal prohi.
biendo a la panaderfa de los
hermanos Alessi ell usar una en-
voltura, en- ell pan de cinco
Evening star., 1939-01-22

rapidly. To the right, or starboard,
we see a large area Of wild-rice
marshes. There are hundreds of
ducks and geese. The booming of
bittern and other marsh birds may
be heard. Reed birds find shelter
and food amid this luxurious
growth.
Beyond the marsh, which is to be
left Just as it is today. lies another
astonishing area-the East" lake,
containing IA small islands, separat-
ed by narrow, winding waterways
overhung by small trees, shrubs and
heavy growth. This lake also will
left as it is today, haven for birds
and wild life, for fish, which abound
there despite the poachers, and for
nature lovers. 1t will be cut off from
the Anacostia River to keep out mo-
tor boats, but will be open to canoes
and rowboatS.
Continuing on up the river we
pass soon under the height of forest
crowned Mount Hamilton, the site
of the National Arboretum. Large
trees and Towering shrubs grow
right to the waters edge.
After all this wilderness OF water,
marsh. islands and woodland, it is
something of a shock to come
abruptly upon the main passenger
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
crossing the Anacostia on a steel
girder bridge near the District line.
Just below the bridge is the entrance
to the upper end of the East lake, a
channel which soon loses itself
among the seemingly numberless
islands.
1t is here that poachers spread
their nets of foggy nights. The only
harbor police boat capable of thread
ing these shallow, winding channels
is so slow and noisy that it is diff
cult to surprise these illegal fisher
men at their work. Members of the
harbor force know these marine
mazes so well they can find their
way through the labyrinth without
lights in the murkiest nights. AL
though the noise of their open boat
usually gives sufficient warning to
the poachers themselves to permit
them to escape, they do not always
have time to get their nets up and
the police have conf1scated so many
of these nets that poaching has be-
come a rather improbable enter
prise. Nevertheless, there still is
some of it going on today. Final
development of the parkway, how
ever, is expected virtually to finish
Illegal fishing in the Anacostia and
its inlets by making them more
quickly accessible, even though large
areas are left unspoiled.
Above the railroad bridge the
channel today is too shallow fol
navigation. This condition will be
remedied as the work progresses. In
the early days. however, the Ana
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Bird Refuge and Retreat for Nature Lovers to
Be Preserved and Provision Made for
Arboretum and Aquatic Life

1928 acres, of which 1,3O9.66 acres
are land and 50297 water. There
are a77.87 acres of the park above
the Anacostia Bridge. 1t will be
connected directly, by picturesque
parkway, with the 425-acre Fort
Dupont Park. now second in size
among parkways of its kind only to
Rock Creek Park. The National Cap
ltal Park and Planning Commission
has just approved the construction
by Civilian Conservation Corps
workers of unique nine-hole golf
course from Fort Dupont down hill
through the connecting parkway
into Anacostia Park. there to con-
meet with the upper nine holes of
the existing Anacostia course.
Plans for the Anacostia develop
ment call for great sports area
at the east end of East Capitol
street facing the river. The develop
ment includes a National Guard
armory, a stadium capable of seat
Ing lis, 900 persons. a large review
ing stand, 35-acre demonstration
field. tennis courts, swimming pools,
equitation fields. track and field
facilities and other Improvements.
c. Marshall Finnan, director of Ma
tlonal Capital parks, is especially
anxious to see this development
carried along rapidly, in accordance
with broad general plans which al
ready have been approved by the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the Commission of
Fine Arts.
Mr.. Finnan believes that considera-
ton should be given to construction
of a new bridge across the Ana
costa in the line of Massachusetts
avenue. The Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge now is being replaced with
a beautifully designed stone struc-
ture which will greatly improve the
appearance of this section of the
parkway. .
Gilmore D. Clarke, chairman of
the Commission of Fine Arts, has
expressed the belief that ultimately
Washington will be approached from
every direction by parkway of
the type already provided to the
south by the Mount Vernon Me-
mortal Highway.
"It so happens" John Nolen, di-
rector of planning for the Park and
Planning Commission, said, that
the Anacostia Valley stretches to-
ward Baltimore and provides a
splendid natural approach for a
parkway into Washington from the
northeast"
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expensive trail during the off sea-
son. And, of course, the kid who
has yet to make good doesn't. To
be brutally frank, he lives on fish
and hominy grits during the winter
and waits patiently for spring, when
the ball clubs pick up the checks
for steaks a la carte and the desired
adjuncts to a lusty meal. The
average meal of ball player dur
ing the winter won't cost over 35
cents. The same player will think
nothing of signing for 81 break
fast at a hotel during the playing
season.
But what we we're trying to say
is that Griffith, in blazing his his
tory-making trail, is preparing to
pour the Bonura and Simmons
money back into young blood. OF
the as players he expects to train,
all except an astonishing few will
be revealed as thin, underfed youths.
They showed promise last summer.
Grifith's scouts swear to this on a
stack of Spalding baseball guides
But while Joe Blotz was winning
25 games for Emporia of the Rayon
States League he was no picture Of
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Army Engineers Develop Most Unusual
Area in Vicinity of Capital as One of
Series of Approaches to Be Provided

Beltsville and Fort George G
Meade.
OF most immediate concern to
Washingtonians and visitors to the
National Capital, since it now is
we'll advanced toward completion
is the section of the Anacostia Park
way within the District of Columbia
This section is unique. Army engi-
neers on the job there say they
know of nothing like it in the world
Almost unknown to Washington
people, because it has been access
sible only by small boats and canoes
this area possesses an amazing
variety of natural conditions. Its
Wild-rice marshes, haven for count
less ducks. geese, cranes, bittern
and other water fowl, are not to be
matched outside of the great Louisi-
ana rice swamps. according to Army
engineers. Farther up the stream
toward the District line, there is
an area of tiny islands and intri-
cate, reedy channels strongly remi-
niscent of the savannahs of Georgia
From these aquatic paradises
which are to be preserved for all
time as bird sanctuary and re-
treat for nature-lovers, the terrain
OF this parkway ranges to the forest
crowned slopes of Mount Hamilton
so richly forested that the area has
been preserved by the Agriculture
Department as National AbOretum
But this is not all. The parkway
also boasts another feature which
in time should make it nationally
if not internationally, renowned
the Shaw Aquatic Gardens, recently
acquired by the Federal Govern
ment These are said to be the
largest gardens of their kind in pub
lie ownership in the world.
With purchase of the lily ponds,
acquisition of land for the Anacostia
Parkway within the District of Co.
lumbia virtually has been completed
There is, however, in the opinion
of the Army engineers, very real
need for larger appropriate for
construction of seaWalls and similar
operations. At the present rate of
appropriation - $4,000 a year II
more years will be required for
work which should be pushed to
early completion.
The Army engineering phase of
the Anacostia Parkway develop
ment within the District now is
approximately IS per cent complete,
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costa was navigable for seagoing
vessels as far as Bladensburg. In
1743, according to old records, such
vessels docked at Garrisons Land
ing, at which point Bladensburg was
laid out in that year This landing
later became an important shipping
point for tobacco destined for Euro
pean ports. In 1872 British gum
boats sailed up the Anacostia to
Bladensburg to assist in the defeat
of American militia posted across
the present United States No. !
highway there.
With the passage of years sitting
built up floats and marshes which
were contaminated by sewers. and
the once clear, beautiful Anacostia
River gradually became a source of
menace to health and a barrier to
navigation
The first plan for improving the
Anacostia was submitted to Congress
in 1891 by Col. Peter c. Hains, Army
Engineer Corps, whose name is
memorialized in the naming OF
Hains Point. In 1898 Congress di-
rected that project for the re-
clamation of the flats be submitted
Various plans have been devised
since that time, resulting finally in
the present plan, upon which work
began in 1911. although the revised
plan was not finally adopted until
1923.
The present project calls for i'm
provement Of the river and the rec
lamation and development of ada
cent flats from the mouth of the
river at Hams Point to the District
line, 6l4 miles upstream.
"This park development is one of
the most interesting, yet one of the
least known of the National Cap
ital's recreational facilities" the
Army engineers have explained.
when completed, it will contain
more acreage than either Rock
Creek or Potomac Park, affording
to the east and northeast section
of the city what Rock Greek Park
affords to the north and northwest
sections and Potomac Park to the
southern section. 1t will contain a
tract set aside for development by
the Agriculture Department for a
national arboretum and botanical
garden and a nationally famous
water lily pond near Kenilworth,
D. c. 1t will also preserve in their
natural state the wild rice marshes
which are the home of numerous
wild fowl species"
The Anacostia Park within the
District has a total park area of
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the average ball player doesn't need
much time to be ready for the open
ing gong.
In the case OF Grifith and the
1899 Senators, however, the situa-
ton Is changed. The old gentle
man wasn't foolfng when he began
to sell OF his veterans. He said he
was going to rebuild on youth, and
ostens!oly he is going through with
his threat -. or promise.
Never before has ball club taken
more than 40 ball players to train
ing camp. Griffith is doing IL.
Never before has a team started
training as early as February l.
But Griffith is going to. Never
before, or at least not in recent
years, has any major league ball
club tried training table" style
Of camp. But Grifith's first squad
OF players, composed of raw pitchers
and raw catchers, will find them
selves serving as throwbacks to the
old days. They will be housed in
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Griffith, who plans to train no less
than 46 players this year, hit upon
the boarding house" idea and sent
the wheels of baseball spinning
backward, but in dignified style.
No cheap skate is Griffith, if you
sit down and give the man some
thought. His is peculiar sort of a
training program. He is going to
rebuild on youth. He admits that
the Washington club may become
worse before it gets better" He
admits that he is counting upon
raw rockies to make good
To those who know ball players
Griffith is undertaking no easy
task These days ball players come
from the backwoods. The youth
of the Nation who have money
jingling in pockets invariably play
golf or tennis. skate or swim, fish
or ride. 1t is the backWoods boy
who plays ball and it is the back
woods that offers the greatest field
for young baseball talent.
Even the high-priced diamond
stars, veterans of multiple cam
paigns and World Series, are not
known to hit the high, fancy and
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with additional appropriations o1
1852 900 required to reach the fina
estimated total of $4,290,O0O for the
job, according to Col. r. S. Thomas
Army Corps of Engineer for the
District.
Col. Thomas is enthusiastic ovel
the extraordinary possibilities Of
the Anacostia Parkway. With 1t
Col. David McCoach, new District
Engineer Commissioner, and Edwir
A. Schmitt, principal civil engineer
In the local Army engineer Office
Col. Thomas recently made 6
thorough inspection of the area by
boat.
This survey convinced Col. Thoma!
that, from the standpoint of rea
economy in engineering costs, the
work should be done in maximum
of five years, increasing the length
of the annual working season tt
take advantage of all good working
weather. Early completion of thu
project also is of great Importance
he believes, in connection with the
proposed development of the Wash.
ington- Baltimore Parkway.
From the Potomac River to Ben.
ming Bridge, the Anacostia Park.
way has been completed. This
portion Is well known and is usec
daily by many Washington people
With its paintings of crab apples
it is coming to vie with the Tida
Basin and Potomac Park as 8
springtime attraction to visitors.
From Benning Bridge to the Dis.
trict line, however, the valley i.
almost unknown to the averag.
Washingtonian. This is one of the
strangest, richest natural regions
in the country, Col. Tohmas be.
nves-a belief based upon years o1
Army travel into all parts Of the
world.
Going upstream from Benning
the downstream end of Kingmar
Lake soon is reached. This lake Il
being developed in unique manner
Water will be admitted to the lakt
through automatic valve gates al
the downstream end and will dis
charge through one-way valves al
the upstream end. BY this means
the water in the lake will be main
tanned at constant level, about 8
foot below the seawalls. The wall!
will serve as a continuous landing
place for boating parties and there
will be no slime or mud exposed
at times Of low water.
Kingman Lake will be available
for all manner of water sports
There is one straightaway Of
half-mile suitable for cupboard rae
ing and similar events. The lax
itself will have an average deptl
of about 6 feet.
Proceeding on up the river be
tween the stone seawalls. we sool
ind that the scenery Is changing