Εικόνες σελίδας
PDF
Ηλεκτρ. έκδοση
[graphic][merged small]

A“

"REGULAR FELLOW"healthy, active, brimful of vitality-a good sport in work and play -that's what you want your boy to be.

The first requisite, then, is a sound, well-nourished body.

Malnutrition is the great handicap which keeps millions of children today from developing into vigorous, sturdy men and women. On an average, one child out of every three is suffering from the menace of undernourishment.

If your child is underweight-if he is listless, cross or finicky-you should at once regard it as a danger signal. Make sure first through your doctor that your child has no actual organic defects to be overcome. The correction of malnutrition then becomes largely a matter of selecting the proper food-food that is rich in nourishment, easily digested, and that your child likes.

Eagle Brand does much to fill this need. It is a familiar food that you know is pure and safe. Extensive experiments with Eagle Brand for undernourished children have proved beyond a doubt its new usefulness in combating malnutrition.

Give your children this corrective food regularly, every day. It is easiest to serve diluted, as a drink-2 tablespoonfuls to 1⁄2 cup of water. This daily ration taken between meals will build up the underweight child of any age.

Tempting the finicky child who does not eat readily

Food that your child likes will do him twice as much good as food he is fussy

about. That's why Eagle Brang is doubly effective in overcoming malnutrition. Itsupplies all the nourishment and energy a growing child needs, and at the same time appeals to the most finicky appetite.

Even the child who is captious or indifferent about his food will enjoy Eagle Brand. For it can be served in a variety of attractive ways that will tempt his appetite and arouse his interest in good food.

Once this interest has been aroused, new energy is developed. New energy in turn leads to greater interest and better appetite for wholesome food.

Ways to serve Eagle Brand

If your child does not want always to drink plain diluted Eagle Brand, you can vary it in any number of delightful ways. Serve it one day in the form of a delicious little baked custard. Another day made up in an eggnog, or flavored appetizingly with chocolate. Pour it liberally over a big dish of cereal in the morning. Children love it, too, served with all kinds of attrac tive gelatine desserts.

The form in which it is given is of minor importance. The principal fact to bear in mind is that the child should have at least four tablespoonfuls of Eagle Brand every day. If he takes it undiluted, be sure he drinks plenty of water.

You will find a great variety of recipes and suggestions for serving Eagle Brand-including the dishes pictured below-in Menus for Little People, one of the 3 Little Books you should write for today.

Mothers

must fight MALNUTRITION

6,000,000 children in our country-one out of every three you see-are victims of malnutrition. If malnutrition were a contagious disease, not a school could remain open.

And there lies the danger of malnutrition!

Malnutrition is invisible, insidious. You notice it only in its advanced stages, when underweight and lack of energy become very apparent. Long before that time malnutrition may make serious inroads on your child's health-effects that last a life-time.

Underweight is one of the most easily recognized

symptoms of malnutrition. Weigh your child and find out if he is up to normal for his height and age. Complete authoritative height and weight charts are given in the 3 Little Books, published by the Borden Company.

Unless you are sure your child is perfectly normal in weight and health, do these four things now: (1) Order Eagle Brand from your grocer and start feeding it at once. (2) Check up his health habits-cleanliness, sleep, fresh air, exercise and diet. (3) Take your child to the doctor for examination. (4) Send for the 3 Little Books-they tell you all about malnutrition.

Use the coupon for the 3 Little Books

In the 3 Little Books you will find full information about malnutrition and what to do for it-its cause, effects and treatment; important height and weight charts; diet and health rules; menus and recipes; calory and vitamin tables, and records of the Borden experiments with mal. nourished children.

Menus for Little People, one of these three books, is full of interesting menus, recipes and suggestions

that will prove a real boon to mothers faced with the problem of feeding chil dren.

Send for the 3 Little Books at once. Nowhere else can you get this information. Nothing like the 3 Little Books has ever been written before. Fill out the coupon and mail it today. The Borden Company, 386 Borden Building, 350 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.

[graphic]
[blocks in formation]
[ocr errors]

THE
BORDEN
COMPANY

386 Borden Building,

350 Madison Avenue,

New York, N. Y.

Please send me the 3 Little

[graphic]

Address..........

1427

LAW

14th Amendment

In New Orleans, a suit has been filed in the Federal District Court to oust Walter L. Cohen, Collector of Customs of the Port of New Orleans. Mr. Cohen is a Negro, and the petition, filed by Edwin H. Both of Washington,

children and their children . . . are disbursing it nine times as fast as he made it.

"Of course there is a catch in these figures. . . . His heirs are limiting their law suit deluxe to three four-hour sessions weekly."

business. Radiocasters are divided chiefly into two classes-the big fish and the small fry. Between them the same rivalry exists as between the large department store and the neighborhood shop. The matters taken up:

Super-Radiocasting.

David Sarnoff, Vice President and General

D. C., and Carl E. McHenry of New SCIENCE Manager of the Radio Corporation

Orleans, alleges that he obtained his appointment in the U. S. revenue service by subscribing to an oath that he was a citizen of the U. S. when, as a matter of fact, he was "of African descent and, therefore, incapable of becoming a citizen of the United States." The basis of this contention is that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was never legally ratified by three fourths of the states. It was submitted, it is charged, by a Congress from which the Southern States were excluded. Also, it is said, the six Southern states which ratified it did so "under compulsion" and New Jersey and others withdrew their ratification.

The validity of the 14th Amendment has frequently been discussed as an academic question. This suit, however, marks the first time it has ever been before the courts. Said The New York Tribune: ". . . an engaging attempt at nothing less than the juristic revision of the Civil War. . . . The confidence of these two Southern gentlemen in the Supreme Court is monumental. Not even Mr. LaFollette ever charged that it could remake history."

De Luxe

In Manhattan, "the most expensive private litigation ever known" continued in its eighth year. Referee James A. O'Gorman sat four hours daily listening to depositions in the tangle of suits and counter suits that stand between the seven heirs of the late Jay Gould.

Lawyer William Wallace, counsel for the estate of the late George Gould, arose to protest a duplication of documentary evidence; stated that the case was costing the Goulds $2,500 an hour. A statistician for The New York World made computations. Said he: "Every time one of the serried array of learned counsel . . . clears his throat or blows a bugle call on his proboscis, a cost of 69.4 cents is imposed on the estate, assuming that indulgence in either of these forensic flourishes consumes a single second of time.

"The mumbling of a question . . . an expense of $10.46. . . if only 15 seconds.

"The cost of reading a single typewritten page ... $82.32 and $124.98, in inverse proportion to the pace of the reader.

"The late Jay Gould

succeeded

[blocks in formation]

Radio Congress

Herbert Hoover, Tsar of radio, called his Duma together. From far and near came radiocasters to the Third National Radio Conference at Washington. Mr. Hoover calls these conferences, invites those present to make suggestions for alterations and additions to the radio code. On the basis of their recommendations, the Department of Commerce from time to time draws up and recodifies the laws of the other.

The Secretary of Commerce presided over the conclave and welcomed it with a speech in which he said:

"It is our duty to consider the possibilities and potentialities of interconnection as a regular daily routine of the Nation. Unless it be systematically organized, we cannot expect its continuation. I realize that this matter, except in so far as it may be fostered and encouraged, does not lie in the Government. It would be unfortunate, indeed, if such an important function as the distribution of information should ever fall into the hands of the Government. It would be still more unfortunate if its control should come under the arbitrary power of any person or group of persons. It is inconceivable that such a situation could be allowed to exist.

"I believe that the quickest way to kill broadcasting would be to use it for direct advertising. The reader of the newspaper has an option whether he will read an ad or not, but if a speech by the President is to be used as the meat in a sandwich of two patent medicine advertisements, there will be no radio left.

"I do not believe there is any practical method of payment from the receivers. I wish to suggest for consideration the possibility of mutual organization by broadcasters of a service for themselves similar to that which the newspapers have for their use in the press associations, which would furnish progams of national events and arrange for their transmission and distribution some sort of a financial basis, just as the press associations gather and distribute news among their members."

on

Then the delegates got down to

of America, declared that his company was ready to erect a great "superpower" radiocasting station near Manhattan, and later link it up with a series of such stations if the exThe periment proved successful. smaller radiocasters were afraid of interference, and a compromise was finally reached for permitting experiments with superpower radio under close supervision.

Radio Relays. Proposals for linking radio stations for simultaneous broadcasting of one program was considered. The technical method of so doing would be by wire, a system developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., or by shortwave radio relaying, a system which the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. is developing. A continuing committee to deal with the problems of relaying was recommended.

Wave-Lengths. The ether was thoroughly overhauled and new bands or groups of wave-lengths allotted. The manner of classifying radiocasting stations was also changed. The net result was to obtain less interference by a different allotment of wave-lengths, give more ether room for marine signals, and at the same time obviate the interference of these signals with regular programs.

Censorship. Any supervision of the programs of radiocasting stations was condemned and the Department of Commerce policy of non-interference recommended to be continued.

Length

The

Engineering added a temporary milestone to its faith when one Benjamin B. Odell, a former Governor of New York, drove a rivet. He completed the longest single span in the world. great span, borne on 18-inch cables, is 1,623 ft. long, and dangles 155 ft. over the Hudson River about six miles north of Peekskill, between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain. With its approaches, it cost $6,000,000 and will be open after January as a toll bridge. Except for the railway bridge at Poughkeepsie, it is the only vehicular bridge across the Hudson south of Albany.

But it will be only a temporary milestone. In 1926, a bridge will be completed across the Delaware from Philadelphia to Camden, whose main span is to be 120 ft. longer. Sic transit gloria longitudinus.

[graphic][subsumed]

A Limited autographed Collection
of the complete works of

H. G. WELLS

HIS achievement represents the first effort to put into
adequate form the works of this master of letters. It is
a monument to Mr. Wells and an enviable collection to
have in the library of any home. Only one thousand
copies will be printed for sale in the whole country.
There will never be more. The printing will be directly

from type; then the type will be destroyed.

This edition represents the best traditions of American bookmaking. Type face used in printing, the beautiful, clear-faced Scotch Roman. Wide margins. Decorative initials by Edward Edwards. Pure rag deckleedge paper specially made with "H.G.W." watermark. Binding, buckram back, paper label, French handmade green paper sides with stamped monogram. The beauty of these volumes is evidence that craftsmanship in the United States has reached a new high level.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

THE PRESS

"Hairless-Browed"

Said Newspaperdom, a journalistic trade sheet, in an editorial:

"Time, the news weekly, looks down rather disdainfully on the New York News. We never have been able to understand why. They both have much in common. Their size is not radically different; both run pictures; and the purpose of each is to condense the news of the world in the smallest possible space and here and there through it all planting little seeds of thought from which great ideas will grow and make this a happier place for all of us. They differ only in the selection of the community class they have decided to

serve.

"Time's frequent reference to the News as the gum-chewers' sheet' undoubtedly brings a smile from Dr. Marvin [acting President of Rutgers University] and his kind; but it is as nothing to the giggle that would sweep Manhattan if the News would forget its manners and frequently brand the readers of Time as 'hairless-browed nuts.'*

"Both of these publications will succeed financially according to the leadershipt they supply in their particular fields. From the standpoint of leading the world upward, the leadership of the News is much more important than that of Time. There are many more persons in the community the News has selected; and it is in greater need of leadership.

"The News has started by leading its community class to read regularly; and after that its following is going to think. The News, in the meantime, will continue financially successful so long as it maintains leadership. Permitting itself to be led, Time might step in and take its circulation."

Equivocal

The purposes of a newspaper headline are: 1) to summarize, 2) to attract attention. Reputable papers stress summarizing. Sensational sheets seek attention. Both kinds, however, limit their headlines to facts within their stories.

As a rule. Not always. Now and then there will be a "possibility," a fact suggested, but not contained, in a story, which the headline can imply or actually express yet not be lying. For example, last week The New York Telegram headlined: CANADA JURY ACQUITS FORD ON LIQUOR PIRACY CHARGE.

"Acquits Ford? Henry Ford?" exclaimed the reader. No, it was Captain Samuel Ford, the story explained. Henry Ford's name was nowhere mentioned. Yet what more natural that

"High brow," the definition implied by Newspaperdom, is a loose, archaic slang-word, absurd in its application to the normal, intelligent people for whom TIME is written. †TIME is a digest of fact. It professes to have no bias. It professes it is not try. ing to "lead" anyone anywhere.

[blocks in formation]

to Prof. Imre, Dr. Koppanyi cut the muscles and tissues around the eyeball and left the eye in place. There was no proof that the optic nerve was cut through. He said, furthermore that in every case witnessed by phy sicians in which the eyeball was removed from its place, there never was any other result but complete destruction of the eye.

Prof. Imre advanced as his opinion the statement that even if the optic nerve could grow again-which has never been established-and even if there were a possibility of transplanting a complete eye from one man to another, the question could not have any practical importance, because no physician should be allowed to, and no physician with any conscience would remove an eye with good vision for making a rather uncertain experiment.

Prof. A. J. Carlson, of the Department of Physiology in the University of Chicago, replied (Oct. 11) to Prof. Imre's attack on Dr. Koppanyi, testified as to the scientific status of Dr. Koppanyi's work. Prof. Carlson pointed out that Dr. Koppanyi has been on the research staff of his laboratory in the

MEDICINE University of Chicago since January,

Rat Blood

If a man be ridden with a great weight of sleep, as one who has tasted mandragora, so that his eyes glue themselves together, and all his functions are dried up in drowsiness, the blood of a rat poured into his veins may avail to remove the curse and call back the soul into his body.

This is not a quotation from an archaic book on medicine. It is a theory put forward by Dr. W. H. Taliaferro of the University of Chicago, who has been experimenting with rat blood as a cure for sleeping sickness. "Rats are immune to sleeping sickness," says he. "There are evidences that

they produce certain immune bodies in their blood which will have an important bearing on the eradication of the disease."

Eye-Grafting

Countless newspaper reports relative to the possibility of transplanting the eye have aroused a controversy among physicians and surgeons which finds expression in issues of The Journal of the American Medical Association for Oct. 4 and 11. Prof. Joseph Imre Jr., head of the Department of Diseases of the Eye in the State University of Pecs in Budapest, pointed out (Oct. 4) that he considers it his moral duty to relate the results of investigation in this connection. His studies have shown him that Dr. Koppanyi (TIME, June 18, 1923)-who incidentally is not a physician-performed experiments on rats and rabbits in attempts to find out whether or not an animal with a transplanted eye could see. According

and that such newspaper stories as have appeared have not been authorized either by Dr. Koppanyi or by the laboratory. Experiments have been made on spotted rats; and the transplanted eyes have undergone varying degrees of change from complete destruction to mere cloudiness of the tissues. Most of the cause for failure is believed to be secondary infection. In the most successful experiments, the transplanted eye appears normal in size; the cloudiness clears up; and, so far as the scientists have been able to determine, there may be some return of vision. Carlson has controlled Dr. Koppanyi's work and believes that it demonstrates definitely that transplantation can be carried out with at least partial success on the spotted rat. He pointed out that it remains to be seen whether such results can be duplicated in the dog and the monkey; and, if this is achieved, there still remains a very high percentage of complete or partial failure which must be converted into success before anyone would be justified in attempting any such operation on

man.

Prof.

Supplementing the letter of Prof. Carlson, Dr. Koppanyi declared (Oct. 11) that the charges of Prof. Imre are not true. He denied that he gave unwarranteded publicity to his work. He said that the return of vision is possible, but admitted that the optic nerve was not cut in his eye transplantation experiments.

The actual facts seem to be that experimental work of interest and value is being done; but there does not appear to be the slightest reason to believe that it will be possible for many years to transplant a human eye successfully.

[graphic]

Is The Equipment of Your Desk For Accurate Work Up-to-Date?

Why not give yourself, or your secretary, a modern dictionary and desk-book?

Besides being an up-to-date dictionary containing twenty thousand words (including new words recently added to our language) this book also contains a complete guide to:

The material in this book was selected by experts as being the most needed by every business man or woman. The simplicity and skill of arrangement is part of the value of this unusual volume.

In a quick, sane and efficient manner this inexpensive book will give your communications the final touch of correctness and form. Why not be accurate? It pays. At this offer the cost is nominal. After you have had this book on your desk for one day you will feel that it has paid for itself.

The supply is limited. Ask for your copy Today.

A Well-bound, valuable book designed by a group of experts for the modern busy desk.

Special

Doubleday, Page & Co., Dept. 4710, Garden City, N. Y.

Please deliver to me a

copy of the "Business Man's Dictionary and Guide to Eng

lish," bound in vellum-de luxe indestructable red cloth. If I do not

enclose remittance with this request you may send C. O. D. for the special price of $2.95 (full payment!)

Garden City,

New York

Address

« ΠροηγούμενηΣυνέχεια »