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FUSED QUARTZ AS AID TO HEALTH Makes Healing Ultra-Violet Rays Independent of Sun. New York.—The perfected method •f making fused quartz In quantities, •a announced recently by the General Electric company, is expected to make man Independent of the sun's rays so tor as his ability to obtain ultra-vio let rays are concerned, according to the opinion of scientists now engaged In experimenting with the newly da veloped material. E. R. Berry, assistant director of the Thomson research laboratory of the General Electric company, an nounced that he had enlisted the serv ices of Dr. W. T. Bovle. professor of blo-physlca at Harvard medical school, and Dr. Clarence C. Little of the Uni versity of Maine and their Institutions to further Important experiments In the as* of fused quartz. The property which makes fused quartz stand out above all others la Its ability to transmit ultra-violet rays, the healing chemical rays which, emit ted by the sun, cause sunburn. These rays are excluded by ordinary window glass. Now that Mr. Berry has made R possible to produce fused quartz la quantities, efforts are being made to learn whather It will be practicable to nae the material In the extensive man ufacture of electric bulbs. Independent of the Sun. “If we can provide artificial llluml aanta that will emit ultra-violet rays we won’t have to depend on the sun, which la so uncertain In winter," said Doctor Bovle. "We can get the sun'a effects on cloudy days by using quartz bulbs or tubes with Incandescent Ught.” Doctor Bovle la planning to erect on the grounds of Harvard univer sity a greenhouse glassed with quartz In which will be determined certain effects of the rays upon growing plants with a view to applying any knowl edge thus gained to Improving human health or preventing human diseases. ! Experiments with a similar object are to be made in the University of Maine laboratories, where conditions are con sidered especially favorable. While those who have undertaken ; the experiments with quartz desire to refrain from raising false hopes as to the possibility of curing or preventing certain stubborn diseases, they feel en- j couraged that Infant mortality from l rickets, particularly In crowded cities, may be further reduced as a result of the work. “We all know that exclusion of light results In the blanching of plants," said Doctor Bovle. “They may beeolhe more aucculent for table purposes, but their tissues are not stout and well developed. This Is because calcium and phosphorus saltB are not deposit ad In the absence of the ultra-violet rays In sunlight. “Similarly, If babies are submitted tot the same absence of sunlight, or of Ultra-violet rays, their bones do not grow, and hence rickets “»t in. This Is a common disease, how common I* not generally realized. It Is perhsps little realized, either, that It Is prev alent among the babies of the well-to do who are not allowed to play in the Streets. “Remember that playing In the sun. behind window glaas, does not expose the children to these beneficial ra.va. However, quartz windows which do admit these rays are now entirely within the bounds of possibility as S result of Mr. Berry's work. The Havoc of Rickets. “But to get back to rickets. Autop sies on babies In Dresden showed that : of those who were born in the fall and died to the spring, 96 per cent had rickets. Of those who were born in the spring and died In the fall only a very small percentage had rickets. The babies born in the spring were outdoors In the sunlight during the summer.” After remarking that tlie sun’s ef fects could be obtained on cloudy days by the use of quartz bulbs. Doctor Boyle added: "Certain foods act Sympathetically to sunlight. It Is not Inconceivable that we could light our restaurants with sources of ultra-vlo lat light so that while partaking of foods rich In phosphorus and calcium 1 we could partake of light energy that would enable us to utilize these salts In normal manner. “There are diseases other than rick ets which are due to faulty metabol ism, the ‘machine gun sneeze' Is one. Buch diseases might be alleviated by feeding calcium lactate and using ul tra-violet light In connection with It “Altogether, the availability of quarts suggests very Interesting possi bilities. With Doctor Little we are undertaking the Investigation of the effects of the ultra-violet rays on the calcium metabolism of milch cows The object, of course, la to see If the rays can have any effect on the milk we feed our bablea. It la not Im probable. Other animals feel the ef fect of the lack of these rays. Deep aea fish do not produce bones, though living In water prodigally saturated with calcium salts. Fish of the asms species living In the npper water, where the ann rays strike through, have bones In profusion. Ultra-Violet Rays for Poultry. “Likewise poultrymen in the North are unable to grow chickens for early market satisfactorily. In the dark ness of long winters the chickens suf fer from 'weak legs.’ This Ts noth ing bnt rickets and ultra-violet raya core them. Hughes of the Kansas ex CABD OF THANKS We deaire to express our sincere Hwkg to our many friends for their kindness to us during the illness and death of our beloved daughter and sis ter, Edith, and for the tender sym pathy conveyed in the many floral tokens sent Mr. and Mrs John Adams and Family. li—pHm in The Monitor! perlment station exposed hens to ul tra-violet rays ten minutes a day and doubled their egg production. Fur ther, the weight of the individual egg was increased 20 per cent. “I am personally convinced that pins trees in our forests, deprived of light, suffer from rickets Just as humans do. We shall tiang ultra-violet quarti lights ubout the woods in the course of our experiments and see what the result is." Doctor Bovle pointed out that the employment of ultra-violet rays is not ' new, that they were used by Egyp tians, Romans and Greeks, but that their chemical nature was not known. Their Identification and control are of recent accomplishment. Among oth ers, Flnsen In Copenhagen succeeded in curing a skin form of tuberculosis and In showing the beneficial effects in the treatment of smallpox. “In America, however, progress has been retarded and some such event as the production of this quartz has been needed to redirect attention to the subject," said Dr. Bovie. “Amer ican doctors did not understand ths scientific side of ultra-violet therapy. Its use developed Into a bad form of quackery. Apparatus called ultra-vlo lent lamps which did not emit any of the rays Flnsen relied upon were used. The raeult has been that many reputable physicians of America have refused to have anything to do with It." Essence of Sunlight the Year Round Those conducting experiments with fused quartz point out that If the new quartz merely makes it possible event ually for the average home to have the essence of sunlight, artificial or natural, the year round. In bad weath er and good. Its meaning In health to countless thousands who, "grown un der glass" have been deprived of the beneficial qualities of sunlight, heat excepted. Is likely to prove measure less. It is believed that the action of the ultra-violet ray Is sufficiently well known to make this possibility a pre diction and that Indoor living, or res Idenoe In regions overcast for long pe riods. need not be so hazardous In the future. If the views of some scien tists are to be accepted. Mr. Berry will be regarded as the man who made “perpetual sunshine" possible. “There are now opened possibilities of studying the effect of ultra-violet rays on the fundamental Instinct of migration and hibernation and upon the Inherited characters of animals and plants," according to President Little. “It will be possible also to comps re the effect of ultra-violet and X-rays on Identical material. “Also, the fact that strains of mice at the university’s laboratory have long been used for research with can cer lays open a field of prospective value In the relation between ultra violet rays and biology and medicine." Cost of World War Is Fixed at $80,680,000,000 New York—A book, "The Inter-Ally Debts," published by the Bankers’ Trust company, estimates the total coat of the World war at $80,080,000,- | 000 gold. That sum would reproduce all the railway mileage of the world, with more than *20.000,000,000 to spare for other uses. During nearly two hundred and twenty-six years there were eight ma jor wars, each at what was considered an enormous cost at the time. The wars of William III coat *150,000,000, the War of Austrian Succession *200, 000,000, and the Seven Years’ war *350, 000,000. The American war cost $500, 000,000 and the French wars, from 1792 to 1815, about *6.000,000,000. Later, the Crimean war cost $350,000, 000, and finally, the Boer war cost about *1,500.000.000. In spite of all that, the total cost of government for Great Britain In that period amounted to but *53.000,000,000. As for our own government, the total cost from 1791 until 1914, Including the costa of the War of 1812, of the Mexican war, of the Civil war, of the Indian campaigns and of the Spanish war, together with pensions, purchase of Louisiana, Alaska and payment for the Philippines, as well as the cost of bnildlng the Panama canal, all com bined, amounted to *24,500,000,000— less than one-third the cost of the World war. “Wonder Child” Puzzle to Russian Physician* Moscow.—Soviet Itusxta has pro duced a “wonder child," a boy four years and ten months old, named Vic tor, son of a Vladivostok physician, who already wears a full beard of whlskera and la able to throw a full grown man In a wrestling match. The learned professor, Leontlef, and Rls colleague, Doctor Boslk, who exam ined Victor, speak about hypertropblcal development, the thyroid, pancreetlc and other glands and a "mysterious malady” from which the child Is suf fering. But Victor continues to grow despite them and their treatment. The precocious Infant, who walks stiffly and stnmbllngly, plays like a child and has a child’s mentality, yet he can eboke his small playmates black faced. He puzzlee professors as the great country where he waa born puzzles Western theorists. Trees Six Cougars Montesano, Wash.—For the pelt of a cougar recently killed by himself, Jack Eckstrand of Aberdeen has re ceived from Auditor W. D. Campbell a bounty of *20. Eckstrand killed the cougar near the headwaters of the Bataop river. He told Mr. Campbell that at the time his dogs had treed six of the animals, but owing to the lateness of the hour the others got sway In the growing darkness. The District of Columbia leads in the number of colored female com positors say typesetters. Illinois ranks hi second place, followed by Massachusetts, Pennsylvania «wl Now York. 1 It would be great if we could win a« many prises in science and in mechanical skill as w« do in oratory. 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