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9 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MO.RNING, OCTOBER 5, 1913. ; I j ; a British Scientist Points the Way to A(tS ' I k - Cutting the Cost of Living in Three ' fZL - SlZT I W Nk A Frog'8 Egff Made to De- llP VelP Int a TW" W- WlM Headed Tadpole in W Wliil Professor Roux jKor Bailees Experiments, Showing How Oats Treated swith Radium Grew Three Times as Fast as Those -"Br Without It iSBSOR DAWSON TURN at the recent meeting of British Association inBlr 'England, made the aston aonncement that by treat 's egg -with radium he had Dg three times the normal e species, plication of this discov have several very Im portant results for hirmantty. Per haps its first, or at least the most obvious, value is that it will furniBh us with a meanB of increasing the food supply and thereby keeping down the ever-Increasing cost of living. Even at its present stage of de velopment the experiment is capable of greatly reducing living expenses. Frog's legs are delicious, succulent food similar In taste to fine chicken, and in many wayB superior to the choicest quality of beef. Progs are very easily raised, and when they are bred to a large size one leg will yield a dinner for a largo family at very 'small cost, probably not more than ten cents a pound. Frogs are now quite oheap, and when increased in size they will become relatively cheaper. It seems reasonably certain, honr ever, that the process can be ap plied to all the food animals, includ ing beef creatures. A steer three times the normal size will certainly represent a very great economy 'in the production of beef. In fact, it has already been calculated by the scientists of tthe British Association that such an anl ,mal would cost one-third less than the present type, owing to the econ omy of feeding one animal Instead of three and the great saving of time. At present an important item in the cost of raising a steer is the fact that the breeder must wait for three years before the animal reaches a profitable size for food purposes. If the steer grew three times as large in three years It would be equivalent to 'a saving of one-third in time. After the successful application of the process to many animals It will doubtless be tried on man. Of course, in its application to man it must be considered in a very differ ent light from the mere increase in ."bulk. A previous speaker at the BritiBh .Association, Professor Dickson, had demonstrated that within another century the food supply ot the world would at the present rate of con sumption become insufficient to keep the race from starvation. Pro fessor Dawson Turner's experiments Bhowed that science would have at least one way of meeting the deficit. DawBon Turner's experiments were a continuation of those already be gun by Professor Roux, of the Pas teur Institute, Paris; Professor But ler Burke, of Cambridge University, and many others. At an early period after the discovery of radium it was found that this wonderful subBtanoe would promote growth under certain conditions. If radium of a certain strength be turned on a living ani- t the Stars Promise for October . October lunation promises a Jfcaleldoscopic time In political aB tpHell as other avenues. Every jjjftBplanet is above the earth, show rfPndency of the ulterior forces. jftoccuples the quarter that will !iHtlie underworld and make crime B conflagrations will occur iu LrfjlHi and penal institutions, disgrace rfHih. to those in authority thereof, 'malcontents will be much in ; pHl looks as if a public functionary jpjW&d the bars. iii'W' affects legislators; official 4fi)tHCQ will bo brought to the sur DBlso much Illness in these circles, ,jlB?a unusual death list. jBis strongly posited in the second y4HtareIa she will benefit legitimate IfPjal enterprise, and a general OTBot expenditures will infuso new domestic trade relations, and jilifBe aSairB will be on the whole (jry, with agricultural prospects , "'lFShter than the earlier part of ffjBP1 save reason to expect. hear the following days are lKr incidents: fljjf 2 A railroad calamity In the fire department unusually .L4 excitable happenings In public 5flH?8' a pubIc building disaster. "jP.r 3 Excitement on -the market; JHprB ot a financial house. A WSjjMperlod Biirrounds these early J jBlo mouth, more likely in the fijflK States, nnd the autumnal ele be much in evidence. jHfi "ad better take notice. yjjjBt -Very active for the social JjlBW1 some function of thiB nature T BS,ct notlce; may concern the "JjTBonBe. A benefit to the navy, ujlBi or a special appropriation. T'fPf Pino weather from this to 2 Bb,a lowor temperature and snow 5yRm northern latitudes on 10th ,J JKBoclal scandal publicly alrod Hfc'13"? diplomatic Imbroglio, in jlE at a breaking point The po if3K?n usually disturbed, with iME?i-nary In lbo heavens. dEL T16The public mind and ifflK$i4Sical conditions equipoised i reslme. A satisfactory JK?1 In the financial world, mar--fK loJj publlc Request announced. jfjFtt TQl Pliant social augury, WHmLj v1 nature in higher circles, the Sunday publications. "Travellers on a certain Eastern line of transit had better look to their accident insurance. Market and tveather conditions much upset, a condi tion that extends practically to close of month, with temperature and quotations very much lower between 25 and 28th, in clusive. Railroad travel dangerous around the 27th, especially on electric lines. October 20 'Death of a public function- f ary, with the Coroners' calendar augment- h ed. Autumnal storms due at immediate fl close of month. jj During October Jupiter will rule bener- r olently In the lives of those born in the Jjf early dayB of January, March, May, Sep- 2 iember or November of any year. Busl- 1 ness and personal affairs may be pushed em with confidence, favors sought, while W those of the fair sex so disposed will en- 1 tertain new admirers; these natives may, i safely make Investments, enter partner ships and form new friendships, a good organizing Ipfiuenco that should be taken advantage of. Much caution will bo advisable this v month if born between the 7th and 11th of March, June, Septcmbor or December of any year; business and personal affairs will be dull and tedious, the mental and animal spirits depressed, and in some in stances the health affected, for Saturn, throwing an evil ray to their sun, will vi tiate the magnetic aura and render them susceptible to ulterior influences; attempts to force interests will but bring a strong er opposition to cope with. While gen cral, this has an especial applicat on if born in '62, early '63. '69, '71, '77 early '78 82, '84, early '85, '91 or '99. I thought well to designate theBo years as being of special importance. People born in the first three weeks of July must be careful of bums, scalds and about water; home affairs disturbed for came. The 2d shows accident or feverish com plaints in the coming year of life; money losses if born on 2d-3d; preferment if born beneath 4th and 9th; bereavement If on lOth-llth, but with probable legacy ac cruing therefrom; females born on these ' dates will have affectional disappoint ments or domestic anxieties. The 14th to 29th are excellent birth days as also on the 23d-24th, The 20th'2Bd are unfavorable, Bhowlng loss in business or speculation, as also between the 2oth and 31st t Those of the fair Bex born near the cIobo of January must be very careful throughout this Winter in attachments; men of business reversal; each should avoid radical changes of any nature and keep matters as near to the accustomefl grooves as possible. nial, it has the effect of destroying 'micro-organisms, such as disease germs, and "thus It favors the growth of the animal. If the radium has strong germicidal powers, however, its long-continued application will destroy the cells of the animal and the main organism Itself. But experi ment has now shown that the radium rays may be so modified as to ex ercise only a favorable effect on the animal's cells. Other experiments have Bhown that radium will greatly hasten the development of plants. A tube of radium of 2,000,000 activity was bur ied In the centre of pot planted with oats. A second pot was ar ranged in the same manner, but without the radium. At the end of four days the plants from the ra dlumlzed seeds were three times higher than those in the unexposed pot, but here was another enigma. The tallest plants were those which were farthest away from the tube. The radium tube wbb then taken from one pot and placed in the other. Immediately the second plants began to grow, and within three days were taller than those in the receptacle from which the ra dium had been taken. Professor Dawson Turner, in creat ing gigantic frogs and other monster animals, was especially guided by the experiments of Professor Roux, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris. Roux showed that the embryonic cells of animals were capable of being Influenced in an extraordinary degree, so that the charaoter of the resulting organism might be entirely changed. ThiB was due to the Indi vidual intelligence of the embryonic cells, an entirely different thing from the intelligence of the adult organism. The intelligence of each embryonic cell strove to do its nat ural work In building up the com plete organism. Roux manipulated the embryos by means of knife and needle. When one cell was sepa rated from Its companion cells It endeavored to do Its normal work, and It often went strangely astray in the absence of Its companions. Thus a body cell separated from the head grew a head. A head cell placed among the parts of another egg resulted in a tadpole, with two heads. - . 0V ( It was found that two eggs coaM be amalgamated to form one glgantto creature. Prof essor Dawson Turner proceeded upon the plan of applying the degree of radio activity, whioh had already been useful In stimulating plant growth, to the body cellB of the frog embyro whioh had shown themselves susceptible of great abnormal devel opment in Roux's experiments. After many thousands of experi ments Dawson Turner succeeded in obtaining a combination that greatly stimulated the body growth of the frog. This process also appears to be one that may be continued indefi nitely. Each cell of the embryo has the in telligence to enable it to develop Into a normal part of the adult organism. But when certain cells are activated by radium they acquire a different character and assume a dominant force like a man inspired by some extraordinary ambition. In theory It appears possible that this discovery may be applied to man. There would, of course, be little advantage to be gained from producing an enormous man, who would help to gobble up the avail able food Bupply. The desirable ob ject would be to breed a man of In creased brain power. The stimulation of the body cells of the frog would be replaced by a stimulation of the brain cells of the man. PerhapB the discovery that a healthy animal can be bred with two heads on one body may eventually prove applicable to man. There is an old saying that two heads are better than one, and this ought to lie all the more true If we could combine the two heads compactly with one body! What might we not expect if we could breed a man with two heads, one containing the brain of a Shake speare and the other of an Abraham Lincoln! -' - 'j ' i'- T m "PrfrT D TurnCr'S di8COVe make5 a Possibility 1 If 10 J ' ( WSrm 6 tHat tHe housewife be able to buy ex- i -v fy.C V qmaite, succulent giant frog's legs at ten cents a jffi ' ' " " ee at orfcy cent a pound." jJJ Copyright, 19XS, by th Star Company. Great Britain RlBhta Rcservs. ,j :ir-"T -' ., ,'""' (I j