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Inhaled Ions. Harvard's assistant professor of industrial hygiene Constantin Prodromes Yaglou is studying the effects of atmospheric electricity on health. The de pendence of gout and rheumatism, among other ailments, on weather conditions seem related to the electric charge, or ion con tent, of the air. In an empty, well-ventilated room the ionization is the same as outdoors, but falls off rapidly in crowded rooms. Dr. Lewis Richard Roller described a machine to count the ions in a room, another to bring the ions up to a healthy ratio. Unless there is something in nature beyond human perception...
After seeing Is My Face Red? and Love is a Racket, audiences may have been amused by studying colyumists pro & con. If the subject has obsessed them, they can go further...
...description of his $3,000,000 plant one discovers the secret of Warden Lawes's success. Mechanical details of organization are duly attended to, but predominant throughout is the personal, the human element. In focusing his attention, Lawes turns almost involuntarily from administration to the individual, the unhappy "con," fighting his way back to decent society. Consequently one is not surprised when the third section of the work unrolls to find therein a passionately sincere plea for more intelligent treatment of prisoners...
...Chamberlain Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, the Central Police Station opposite the Cherry Village Gate of the Imperial Palace. At the gate a Japanese reporter fell with a bullet in his foot. Other bombs were thrown at the residence of Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and a con stant adviser to young Emperor Hirohito...
...rose up in the House of Delegates and proposed a resolution on Birth Control. Let the A. M. A., urged Dr. Brook, appoint a committee to spend one year pondering the effects of contraception on health, wealth, morals, happiness. Dozens of physicians leaped from their seats to shout pro & con on the long suppressed topic. Retiring President Edward Starr Judd cleverly put discussion over to the next...