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The Brussels Post, 1949-5-18, Page 7Machine That Restores Life :1 machine with a heart, Maga and oven blood which, it is claimed, can defeat death by keeping a hu- man body in a state of survival in certain circumstances, has beau In- vented by Dr. Andre 'Thomas, a Professor at the Sorbonne. where he Is director of cellular expei•i- menital biology, The invention ha; been announced in the official journal of the French Academy of Science.' By' putting a finger on one of the rubber arteries of this amazing machine, which looks like a white -enamelled body about one-fifth the size of a small car, you can feel the heart pulsate. Called a life machine. it has three switches and it is Said to be the nearest approach to a ntecitan- ical human being "that has ever perfectly replaced the human heart, lungs and liquid blood." It is said to be able not only to preserve hu- man life when death approaches, but in some instances to restore it after death has actually occurred. The machine may help to save stillborn babies; it may restore life after the sudden failure of the heart following a successful surgical operation. Twenty years ago two Russian scientists claimed that as long as the blood circulation can be re- stored — and it seems that the French machine can do this—re- suscitation his—re- suscitation after death is possible. One of them, Professor Kuliobko, basing his experiments on the the- ory that death is not an instanta- neous phenomenon but a gradual process, declared that he had re- vived the heart of a man several days after he had been pronounced dead. And Professor Andreiev demon- strated with the heart of a dog which functioned apart from the rest of the body many hours after the dog's death. A man whose heart thrice stop- ped beating lived to tell the story of what it felt like to be "dead" He "died" in a railway waiting - room after being taken suddenly ill in a train, Describing his impressions, he said; "I have a vague recollection of standing beside a doctor in the waiting -room where my body was lying. I appeared to he an inter- ested spectator, watching him try- ing to bring me back to conscious- ness," In Tor 10 Years—Paul Maku- shak, 33, sits disconsolately in a Brooklyn, N.Y,, police station, after his self-imposed 10 -year exile in a 3 -by -5 foot cubby-hole ended. Makushak shut himself up in the iooiu in 1939 because he didn't like "how the outside world was going." His mother fed hits through a. trap door. Pis existence was discovered when site became ill. Lots Of Time ff you're getting on for middle , age—even if you've passed- that mark -and haven't yet produced that masterpiece of yours, don't worry too much about it. Some of the world's greatest artistic works were produced when their creators were well advanced do the downward side of the hilt For example: At 74 Kant wrote his Anthropol- ogy, 1letaphysics of Ethics anti Strife of the Faculties. At 74 'T`intorctto painted the huge 74 x 30-footsca4avas, T?aradise, At 74 Verdi produced his brit - Haut Otello, At 79 Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote Over The Teacups, At 80 Verdi wrote Falstaff. At 80 Goethe completed the manuscript of Faust. At. 83 Tennyson wrote Oros:ing The Bar, the year lie died. At 98 Titian painted hi fantinh- iiielitre of the. ltnnle of Le`,anto. he Thurnb In The Soup Lao's, inspection and court action are necessary 10 aceotnplishidg res- taurant saIIIIRUou, but persistent education is e.-ential for perman- ent remits, states Homer N, Cal- ver in an era(' le ---"The Thumb in the Soup" ---in the current issue of H1;.•11,'TI•I, official magazine of the Health League of Canada. Ile states that three groups Must be reached by this education: (1) the people who own and operate our public eating places, (2) those who work in them, and (3) those who eat there. NEC and undeteriorated food, protected from spoilage and Mice - tient served by non-infectious per-. sonntjl with clean habits and in clean eating and drinking utensils are the public health requirement for eat- ing and drinking places, Mr: Cal- ver writes, Good light good venti- lation and generally clean surround- ings are most desirable attributes of any food handling establishment, but in the last analysis they have little direct bearing upon disease. Good equipment and proper sup- plies are useful in purveying a non - dangerous food, but they are not essential. "Stainless steel does not prevent the thumb in the soup," says 1\4r, Clover, "Many a lipstick -smeared ;glass emerges from inexpertly oper- ated modern dishwashing equip- ment. The little ways in which foodhandlers work can have more effect on health than the most ela- borate things they work with." The author remarks that a chan- nel of infection runs from person to person via the things we eat and drink and the things we eat and This Is High Art—Maybe—A bit puzzled? Well, so is Adolphe Landru, French worker at left. He doesn't know whether that sculpture is a bird, an eye, a wheel, or what. It's one of the many modern paintings and sculpture pieces on display at the 16th art exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in Paris. Another head -scratcher in the show is the surrealistic figure called "Musician," right. .- drink from and with. The undis- infected glass can carry the bac- teria aateria and viruses of trench mouth, measles, influenza, scarlet fever and the common cold from mouth to mouth. The unwashed hands of a cook can spread typhoid and dy- sentery. The sore on the finger 6f -a kindly tnentber of the Ladies' Aid Society can poison the chicicen salad for the church supper, 25,000 M. P. II. No Pipe Dream By 5, Burton Heath This may sound like somebody's pipe dream—but: Solemn scientists' and engineers actually are talking about the pos- sibility of man -carrying airplanes that will fly at 25,000 miles an hour planes that could ,go outside the earth's atmosphere, where no air friction would slow their speed, that could circle the earth at such speed their centrifugal force would off- set the pull of gravity. Out, in sub -stellar regions, some- where between here and the moon, the engineer could cut his engines. Then plane and crew could circle the earth forever—or, at least, un- til they got hungry and lonely and bored—without using any power. When 'their job was done, or the crew members couldn't tolerate one . another any longer, the engineer could start his engines, and the plane could fly back to where gra- vity took control. From there on the trip. back to earth could be a coast -in. "There are lots of things to be licked before we could do that," remarks Robert D. Grange, project engineer in the 'Wright Aeronauti- cal Corp.'s gas turbine division, "but there's nothing that says lt'e im- possible." The experts do not flirt with such ideas out of Idle curiosity, or even to provide future escape for folks who get fed up with human society. The military thinks such a "space ship" would be a valuable weapon. It could hang in the sky, over- looking a full half of the earth's surface at once, With electronic devices, the; crew could take con- trol over atomic missiles, launched from the earth, and guide them un- erringly to explode in the Tittles Square, the Wall Street, the Penn- sylvania Avenue, the Willow Run of any enemy country that was no more than half a world away. Obviously, nothing like this is just around the corner. But the rocket engine, perhaps even more than the possibility of atomic power, makes it- ate idea From which sci- entists of substance do not turn scornfully away. Ignoring atomic power for the time being, the rocket engine is the only power plant that might shake such a venture conceivable. For one thing, only the rocket en- gine could provide speeds from 23,- 000 to 25,000 miles an hour neces- Merry Menage:fie-DyWalt Disney 'You'll have to give me a push, fear—I'nt getting awful hard to alert, these cold mornings!" sary to break through the earth's gravitational pull, so that the ship could coast along through space. For another, engines and turbines and jets need air, as a source of oxygen to support combustion. But the rocket engine carries its own oxygen supply, and it alone can operate above the 80,000 -to -100,000 foot level at which the earth's at- mosphere tmosphere becomes too thin to sup- port combustion efficiently. There are several obvious major problems in connection with such a space ship, They start with the designing of a plane capable of building up, in a few. hundred miles, to a speed of 25,000 miles an hour. The cabin would have to stand a pressure of 14.7 pounds to the square inch, inside, against no pres- sure at all, outside, without explod- ing. Insulation would be needed against heat generated by air trig tion while moving 25,000 miles an hour in the earth's atmosphere; and also against the fact that in space there would be no atmosphere •to temper the sun't heat by day or .to hold and distribute remnants of that heat by night. In the absence of gravity's pull,, there would be nothing to hold down the crew, or anything else' that was loose. The rocket engine still is in its infancy. It has been used on ex- perimental fighter planes•chiefly be- cause, at the: time, no turbo -jets powerful enolgh were available. Its principal immediate interest is In connection with missiles of the V-2 type. It has helped to achieve manned -plane 3'jteeds unofficially es- timated to have approached 1700 miles an hour —unmanned- missile speeds up to about 4000 miles an hour. It has at least one major defect thus far. Its fuel consumption is so enormous that a rocket -powered plane can stay 10 the air only a few minutes. The name "rocket" is deceiving. Its power does not conte from a series of explosions from rockets, but from the continuous burning of a mixture of ethyl alcohol and. liquid oxygen at a temperature around 5000 degrees fahrenheit. The rocket engine actually is another jet'ettgine that carries its own oxidizer instead of depending on the air. Like any jet it expels high pressure, super -heated gases from a rear nozzle, and these kick the plane"along with the same re- action a heavy gauge shotgun ap- plies to the hunter's aching shoul- der, Very secret work is being done on new propellants to replace ethyl alcohols and liquid oxygen. Most are very poisonous and highly cor- rosive. Some will ignite with explo': sive suddenness the instant they come together, wldclt creates a ha- zard to experimenters and adds . to the problem of finding new ma- terials to 'contain and utilize them. Tho rocket engine can operate at any speed, but—unless working hp- yond the atmosphere at 16 to* TO mile altitudes—there le- no weed a for using it until speeds from 2004 miles up are required, Any nee at lower speeds, eco , that turbo -jet and ram -jet are hilt? Ala, i8 not because of tate rook. own virtues, but merely to porn*ft study and experiment with racket$ before malls speedy planes be- come available. ' ' The Last Cry By [NORMAN FRE1LICH He stood outside his uncle's room, and as he listened for a brief moment to the labored breathing coming from within, his features became became distorted by some sinister emotion. For the physical wreck within the room, his uncle stood between him and Itis inheritance. Only upon Jason Stonleigh's death would he come into his estate, and only yesterday he learned from Doc- tor Phelps, his uncle's physician, that old Jason would perhaps live for years. It was then he had made his decision. Alex clenched his fists as he thought how simple it would be to strangle the life out of the old man —but there was an easier way, one which would never throw an inkling of suspicion his way. His uncle kept a loaded gun in his room, eccentric as he was, he lived in fear of his life. He kept only one servant, who would be away today, and there would be a way today. Alex smiled to himself, deeply satisfied with his plan, as he en- tered the room. He greeted hie uncle with robust good cheer, but his uncle, a dark scowl upon hie thin bony face, eat in his chair silently. There was no movement in his body. "Aren't you feeling any better?" he asked with feigned concern,• and then the eyes of the two men met, and their glance seemed to sweep aside all pretense between them, "It's been a long wait, hasn't it, Alex," the old•man said with biting contempt, "but I'm afraid it will even be longer. Doctor Phelps has been quite encouraging.' Alex edged toward the desk in which the gun would be. He open- ed' the drawer, felt the brittle cold- ness of steel. He swept about to Jason Stoneleigh, and the gun was in his hand, "You miserable wretch," he slurred, "I won't have to wait a day longer." The old man's eyes stared wide with terror, His body did not rise from his seat as though he night be frozen with fear. There was only a pitiful cry: "You'll hang for it, Alexi" A moment later, with detached oaten, Alex wiped the gun clean of his own fingerprints, and then placed the weapon in the murdered man's hand, -He tookone last glance about the room assuring himself there was. no trace of evidence. IIe was sleeping soundly that night, happy in the thought that In the morning he would be a wealthy man. But It was almost midnight when he was awakened by the poke. He was ordered to get into his clothes at once, "But I don't understand," he pro- tested, his face whits and drawn. Then he succeeded In controlling his tsars, realizing, of course, that this would be only a routine investl- gation. Surely nothing could have gone wrong. He hastened into his clothes. The police drove him to the house of his uncle. It seemed ail of them were awaiting him—the state's at- torney ttorney men, Jason's servant—and In the background—Doctor Phelps. "I'm here to give you gentleman every help," he said, gravely, and the sound of his voice gave him sudden courage, "I'm terribly upset to hear of my uncle's suicide." - "Suicide? You're certain It was suicide?" the question was hurled roughly at him. Panic gripped hmi, and his cyan turned desperately to Doctor Phelps. "Surely, Doctor Phelps, you can tell them how absurd it is to think Patric gripped him and his eyes, wild with sudden fear, turned desperately to Doctor Phelps. otherwise. You can't tell them of my uncle's brooding over Itis ill -health." The doctor stepped toward Ale.; his face stern, almost menacing. "` can only tell them the truth, Alex—°' "Yes, the truth," Alex pleaded. "Your uncle suffered a stroke a. week ago—and the gun which killed Jason _Stoneleigh was found in his right hand"—the doctor paused— "and that hand and the whole arm were paralyzed." Smart Manager Circus man Jolui Ringling kept an eagle eye on the purse strings. One day, says the Mllwaukee,Jour- nal, a clown came to his office and asked, for a $10 raise, 'Ringling looked at the man as if he had been struck a blow. "Tett dollar raise!" he wailed, "I don't think the job is worth the $40 I'tn paying you nowt" The clown didn't press the mat- ter. He didn't think It would be good business at the moment to remind Ringling that ' his salary was $60. Deciding to leave well enough alone, he turned and .left the office. - The moment the door' closed be- hind him, Ringling lohned back and chuckled. Nobody knew better than he that the man was earning $60 a week. But he had taken the wind out of the other's sails. Jack: "Well, did you succeed in making your girl's father toe the mark?' Tom (sadly): "Yes, but, unfor- tunately, I was the mark." According to a man who amulet know what he's talking about— he's F, IC. Hare, assistant professor of geography at McGill—what hoe been acompliahed out wast, since the passing of bhe Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act back in 1935, le a pattern which might well be ap- plied to soil conservation through- out all Canada, including Ontario, * * * By 1946, Professor Hare says, no leas titan 29,900 dams had been constructed, at a cost of twenty- two trillion dollars, Thai aeeme like a lot of money. It IS a lot of money, for that matter. But It seams sinall in comparison to the gross value of agricultural production in the prairies provinces which, in .e normal year, is in excess of a bil- lion dollars. * * * Three things that have been ae- ccomplished are — soil saved from erosion; the wheat farmer in many areas is no longer completely de- pendent on that grain for his en- tire income since pastures have in- creased his possibilities of raising cattle; and a large scale irrigation and water -use program hes been developed. * * * A checkup made in 1946 showed that there were 1,361,000 acres of rehabilitated pasture land support- ing 55,060 cattle, 11,920 horsee and 3900 sheep. This pasturage is be fifty different units, and on moat ed them there ate pedigreed bulla, provided under the act, to raise hitt general level of stock breeding. * * * This good work out en the prairies hasn't stopped, by any means. As a matter of feet It is expected that projects under eon- etruction on the St Mary's and Milk Rivers will more than treble the land available for cropping. With dust storms threatening many western areas this year, a lot of folks out that way are going to be mighty glad the Government took the atap it did, 11 year® ago. * * * As I said before, it would seam that the folk up around Queens ?'ark might well go in for some- thing of the same sort on a far larger scale than is being done at present. Of course, in Ontario re- forestation is being carried out In several localities, but it wasn't un - ill after the Provincial Depart- ment of Planning and Development had uncovered a tale of erosion, land abandonment and uncontrolled flooding that was simply shocking. * * * You folks who are in the poul- try business hardly need me to tell you that uniformity of per- formance among hens is vary often the exception rather than the rule, The performance, pf full sisters la apt to be almost as variable as that of unrelated females, and the pro- geny of one hen will differ among themselves as much as they do from Ube progeny of other hens. This, of eouree, is a real handl- cep to the poultry raiser, and greatly claws up the improvement in a flock whioh should, theoretically, be possible by means of careful Mee - don. * * * Some of tide variability is due to Inherited differences; but the great, sr portion to the effects of climate, management, feeding and disease. Yet two groups of birds that are housed, fed and managed alike can differ more widely in performance than groups upon which different treatments have been deliberately imposed. So the exports have come to the conclusion that very minute differences—so small that they are not even recognizable—can have a profound effect on performance. * * * The same experts say now that unsatisfactory incubation can be one of the more important causes of tirfq lack of uniforsstlty. The rate of egg production of a laying pullet can depend not only on the care she gets during her laying year, bet also on the treatment she got dur- ing brooding and rearing; yes, even during incubation before she was hatched. * * * Here's a really striking example of what I'm talking about. At et Dominion experimental station out he British Columbia eggs from three sires were incubated up to the four- teenth day in n machine which ha- bitually gives satisfactory perform- ance. Then one half the eggs from each sire was transferred to another machine for completion of the hatch. * * 5 Temperatures fa this ,second ma- chine ware et 100F for the top trays and 98F for the trays I'mrna- dtately below—these being the only two rows of trays used in the test,. The (Celts hatched from both ma- chinate were brooded and reared to- gether, and carried through their drat laying year in the same pens. * * * So what happened? Well, from the good incubator 92 per cent of the pullets housed survived the year and averaged 229 eggs par bird. From the machine where half the eggs were at 95ir temperature only 47 par cent survived and aver• aged a mere 187 eggs per bird, * * * Now those are mightly big dif- ferences—toobig 1>o try and laugh off—and they indicate that unsatis- factory conditions of incubation can have a profound effect on the future performance of a pullet. And, flays the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, these facts place a heavy responsibility on hatcherymen, in- sofar as the quality not only of true chicks" but also of the future lay- ing aying stock It concerned, For It would seem that no amount of care during the brooding, rearing and laying period can nullify the effeeta of unsatisfactory conditions of In- cubation, Royal Vacation for Princess—A dip in the blue waters off the Isle of Capri is in store for Princess Margaret Rose, as site steps in a rowboat on a private beach on the Italian isle. Helping that Princess aboard are her gentleman -in -waiting, Major Thomas 4 Harvey (left) and a boatman. The photographers were not permitted within 500 yards of the scene, ;TITTER A SRAY61kITOR PAINTING SCREGNa4..WIUT DOYo! 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