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James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor: "In a newspaper statement, I said: 'Some men are by nature beavers and some rats. ... A civilization rises when the beaver-men outnumber the rat-men. When the rat-men get the upper hand, the civilization falls. Then the rats turn and eat one another, and that is the end. Beware of breeding rats in America...
...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...
...vasectomy combined with vasoliga-ture (the Steinach operation), the implantation of tissue from gonads of other human beings or from animals (Voronoffs operation), the application of X-rays (useful with women), Kammerer's suggested methods of stimulation by electrical heat. He devotes some chapters to Steinach's rat experiments, as well as to numerous human cases from Lichtenstern, Schmidt, Chetwood (American urologist). Useful appendices are a glossary of technical terms in Steinach literature, and a "Who's Who" of persons prominent in connection with rejuvenation methods...
...enough to raise some doubt. Furthermore that this message was only a sigh--"How happy I should have been for such an opportunity as this"--instead of further elaborations of his stratum-of-energy theory or his plans for prevention of war must have made anyone nose a rat. Evidently the scientists did, for by measuring and weighing the cards they soon brought her trickery to light...
When female rats were raised (by Doctors Evans and Bishop) on a standard synthetic diet used in animal laboratories, containing vitamins A and B, they became fat, sleek and healthy, but practically all of them were sterile. When fresh green lettuce leaves were added to their menu, the sterile rats produced litters. Drs. Evans and Bishop found this X-substance also in the whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female rat...