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JULY 26, 1935.

CAN MAN CONQUER

DEATH?

By STEPHEN BLACK

This article tells the story of the "Chamber of Life,"

perfected at the Rockefeller Institute, U.S.A., in which the organs of a dead man be indefinitely kept alive.

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TT was the dream of the medine- val alchemist that he might one

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from the

The Very Idea!

SCRAPS OF PAPER

From His Scrapbook

The whole experiment raises the Kelly Tears Some Leaves much debated question as to what A doctor will oxactly in death. |sign a death certificate when he has noted the cessation of heart bents, and observed the failure of the

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Edited by Eddie pupil of the eye to contract when ACCORDING to a homeside exposed to light.'

film magazine the Dunning process has been perfected to From a scientific standpoint, such an extent that the film however, thene fontures may be

Furthermore, the time is not far distant when acience will grant to man the inestimable boon of being able to bite himelf on the back of the neck at any hour of the day or

It is here that the new inven- ton of the Rockefeller institute is of such particular. Importance to the scientifße world. As long a the organs living in the "Chamber of Life" are maintained in a sterile state at their normal temperature, night! and under their normal conditions, they are scientifically, though not legally, alive. Not only can the of disease be observed progress under conditions impossible with the organs in situ, but experiments may be conducted on them which would be otherwise legen.

We notice that certain. British authorities are congratulating themselves that only one out of the eight aircraft squadrons which at- avolded the defence more than the lowest fare of July priced units on the market, but combat machines and reached their objective. London's air defences they give you far better perform-are not so weak as was suspected; anco, far more stamina, much in fact they are probably very satisfactory, these authorities seem lower operating costs,

to belleve. While we do not pro And the handsome, distinctive pose to pose as experts in matters of modern merial warfare, we streamlined appearance of the challenge the suggestion that the 1935 Studebaker truck London defences are sufficiently shock-proof to allow the populaco makes it stand out from the to sleep soundly in the event of a day discover the elixir of life, which looked upon as the overture which industry is now able to produce. With its sleek, busi-threat of war. No metropolis the would give him immortality. The must be played before the spectre pictures showing a man sitting

of Death can enter from the wings. on his own lap, ness-like lines and powerful, size of London can feel itself safe modern scientist, in spite of his Perhaps the most satisfactory So there you are. But do we from attack unless its defending researches in bio-chemistry, ana- sclentinc definition of death is the stop there? No! Science must dependable engine, it is a truck air forces. are overwhelmingly

presence of bacterial decomposi- | match on. you will be proud to own, a truck superior to the attacking squadrons. tomy and physiology, has not as

vital organs of the

We are now in the throes of dia which inspires a feeling of pres-And even then there is no guar-yet laid bare the formula of this tion in the

body.

by covering the Kolly process. tige that suggests a price much antee that some isolated bomber, clustre elixir. The latest report,

Kome independent command" or however,

Rockefeller

means of which man will be able to take a running jump at himself. higher than its actual cost. company of bombers will not slip Institute in New York suggests to through the lines of patrolling the sclentic world that at long last planes, beyond the vision of search-the A.B.C. of immortality has been lights and anti-aircraft gun-crews, mastered. and even outside the range of the

Owing to the inherent news value remarkably accurate aircraft detec tion apparatus.

And one loal of attaching to the name of one of tas and incendiary bombs, which the collaborators in the experi- the huge bombers of to-day can

ments carried out at the Institute, carry, would be sufficient to cause many of the astounding scientific incredible disaster in the city's implications of the invention have crowded centre. In the first place been ignored in the daily Press. an attacking strategist will depend | More space has

been given to very largely upon surprising the Colonel Charles Lindbergh than to fields of research defenders, He might direct his the enormous Formations in attack from any or

which have been opened up by which the all directions, at any altitude from the invention with

famous aviator's name is coupled. 15,000 to 100,000 feet; for who can be sure that the night bomber of

Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rocke- to-morrow will not fly over its tar-❘ feller Institute of Medical Re- get at incalculable height, miles search, with Colonel, Lindbergh as hisch in the stratosphere? No his "most valuable biological ass doubt the Royal Air Force is assistant," has perfected a mechani-step from the production of im- elleint us any other to-day. No cal heart, which is capable of con- dentist itH defence of London ferring synthetic immortality on would be heroic and historic, But the organs of dead animals. is that any guarantee of security? It is axiomatte that weapons of attack are capable of more rapid An organ of any animal can now Improvement and evolution than be removed immediately after death weapons of defence, necessarily and placed in a sterilised glass bullt to resist them and conse- chamber which produces, through¦ quently subsequently "conceived. artificial means, something very Can we be sure that our potential akin to the natural environment of enemy has not some dreadful en- the organ.

A heart, for example. xine of destruction ready to des- can be coupled up with a series of RECONSTRUCTION patch against us from the upper glass tubes and small pumps kept air? Can We ever Teel secure at the normal blood temperature. PROPOSAL

again as long as there is no real By pressing a button the appara- A bold five-year plan, involv-and systematie control of aircraft tus is set in motion and the heart

national accord which will out- seen at once to begin to beni.

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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1935.

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In our laboratorics-the very same one in which a rising young Hongkong doctor, a martyr to science, gave himself freckles in. order to study the effect-in our laboratories we are now gradually getting into shape the culminating triumph.

As far as the physiologist and It is so big that we are almost pathologist are concerned the im- afraid to give it to the world. pileations of this new invention

After years of experiment, we appear to be almost unlimited.have almost perfected e process The apparatus also provides abun- whereby a man can go through his, dant food for the philosophers. To own porkels while he is asleep! the layman it seems but a smal

mortality in isolated organs to the maintenance of life in an entire being; but to the scientist, who realises the practical, mechanical and morphologient. difficulties of such an experiment, the step up- pears at first sight to be almost insurmountable.

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This will make man practically self-contained and will do away with the necessity for marringe and probably wreck the social structure of our time.

But let there be no dismay One must have a wife, because the never be invented machine will that can find your back stud.

Saying which, he strode thought- fully back to his test-tubes.

Last year we published several intimate letters from a Self Mado Colonial to his Girl Friend at Home.

The following are extracts from body of a man and to make it "live" a letter from a nowly-arrived In their "Chumber of Life." Will Self Made Colonial To-Be to that man really live in every sense his Girl Friend. of the word?

The whole problem of uncon- tion. which are sciousness and nervous degenera-

the necompani- | Letters Of A Colonial ments of death, boenmes particular- ly important. Experiments can, of course, be conducted solely on

that Dr. Carrel and Colonel Lind- animals, but suppose for a moment ing a loan of no less than one design and construction, an inter-contained in the glass chamber isbergh do manage tq, inke the dead thousand million pounds, is one how finally and for always that A fluid containing all the funda- of the proposals recently puttype of warfare which is directed mentally necessary constituents forward by a member of the primarily against civilians and of the blood is passed through the

........Hongkong Is marvellous- Council of Action for Peace and which depends upon its very rath- tubes into the heart and supplies

ly cheap to live in, darling. First of Wilt his sympathetic and frightfulness for the tissues of the muscles with the system-that which controls his into Hongkang dollars. They are all you convert your English money Reconstruction in order to wipe trasmess

nourishment fecessary for their unenscious bodily actions con- enormous coins. A man told me that continued activity. The pumps inue to work exactly as before? the Government made them so big in work at the correct speed of about And still more important, will the order to weigh the people down when 76 pulsations to the minute, and grout nerve centres of his brain there's a typhoon about. Anyway, to all intents and purposes the

since I arrived here three weeks ago The I've managed to outfit myself and scientific world must wait, perhaps live comfortably on seven dolins heart may be said to live again.

for the answers to fifteen cents. I've lived dashed well, The process, it is claimed, can be many years,

as a matter of fact. A bottle of continued just as long as the ap-these questions,

champagne costs only ten conts parte is kept working. Bealdes

(about 2d.) and, cigarettes, hair. the hearts of chickens ami ents, that

cute, tabacco, liquors and all other

out unemployment and put Brit- effort? ain on a basis of real prosperity.

The possibilities of the wireless- controlled aircraft, possession of

resume

their functions?

nervous

The Council, it will be recalled, ROBOT AIRCRAFT has been working in harmony with Mr. Lloyd George's schemes, taking the stand that the Government is failing to grapple seriously with the major problem facing the nation to day. In support of the proposal, it is pointed out that Britain is one of the richest nations in the world, having capital assess a weapon of destruction than kept alive over periods varying started, consciousness could ever be crowd, too, Ench time I pay my ten

which by Britain has now been officially disclosed, can easily be exaggerated, says the Edinburgh Berning Despatch. There is a natural tendency to jump to the clusion, perhaps unjustifiably, that a robot is necessarily more terrible

At

present it seems unlikely various glands, an ovary, a spleen organisation of the brain cells, luxuries are sold at the same flat rate.

once the tremendous dis-

The "boys" who take the money are and several kidneys have all been which takes place at sleath, has

an awfully jolly bero-worshipping an aeroplane handled by the fall from 20 days to several months.

re-established. We do know, how cents for a mug of beer, or anything variously estimated at from ble human agency. True, craft!

ever, that if this were achieved ilke that, they invariably ask me for forty to sixty thousands of such as the Queen Bee would in

the disruption of the As long as the pumps are kept phychology

general my autograph. One boy in parti. millions, an annual income of warfare obviate the sacrifice of in condition and the fluid renewed cause considerable suffering to the least a dozen times.I suppose the

would

at undoubtedly cular has collected my autograph four thousand millions, of which the lives of pilots and observers. at intervals, there seems to be no subject concerned.

poor beggars sell them to other only a quarter is appropriated But in the matter of bomb-drop- reason why the organs should not

"boy" who want to complete their by the State in taxation, and ping the position would presuma-Exe made to live for ever. An We know also that just as soon collection. It's amazing, too, how can borrow practically withoutly be much as before. The range undeveloped ovary was observed as the nerves began once more to Hoon they get to know you here. At limit at three per cent. or less, of the robot is at present very to grow and to increase considera- transmit their message to the

least a dozen Chinese people greet me limited. Ten miles would make bly in weight during "treatment." brain,

the subject. would suffer "Cumshaw Taipan",

In the street night. They call me the banks being choked with the

which means it very useful as a means of which is an even more conclusive untold agony. Perhaps it is just The Itig White Man From accumulated resources of the attacking the enemy lines in a war proof of the reality of this type as well that the research workers Across the Sea Who - Will people for which they can find like the last in France and Bel-of life than the mere fact of con- are dealing, aw yet, only with no outlet. It is suggested thatgium, but would not suffice for the tinued activity.

a start in reconstruction should bambing of distant enemy towns. he made by the raising of a It is to be expected, however, that national loan of one thousand range will be increased. It is also' millions on a three per cent. likely that, if other Powers he not basis, and that the Government already in possession of like air- should then instruct all local craft, they will not be long-be-

hind

Moreover, it is to be authorities to schedule such

presumed that ray may defeat necessary public work as is need-ray, and that the robot aeroplane ed in each district, which the would he particularly susceptible State would include in the five- to attack by those means which are year works development pro- now being subjected to intensive gramme. The programme en- experiment for putting ulrcraft visaged is one which would in- motors out of action. elude the-orection of new muni-

cipal buildings, bridges, second-

ary rouds, the clearance of waste HARD TO ASSESS areas left derelict by nineteenth Altogether the precise value of century industrialisation, the the latest addition to our air equip- drainage and afforestation of ment is rather difficult to assess. waste land, the modernisation Each new method of attack tends of farm buildings, the provisioning method of defence. There is spaedily to produce a correspond- of water drainage and electricity apparently no finality to this to villages now lacking these rather affrighting crescendo of amenities, the total clearance of

(Continued on Page 7.) derelict houses and the rehous- ing of citizens now occupying them, the building of dykes to therefore no hesitancy should be deal with coastal erosion, the felt, in spending a ninth of that electrification of all main rail-sum for the purposes of nation- ways, and the foundation of al reconstruction. The case for farm trading centres for young launching out on a big scheme citizens who intend to take up of works development is one for agriculture at Home or abroad. which much can be said at this The interest on this capital loan, į juncture, but whether the plans it is stated, could be provided by outlined rest on a sound finan- savings effected on the present clal basis is open to question. unemployment grants, and by The Government hitherto has the

revenue earned by the declined to be rushed into pro- scheme. Advocates of the plan jects which create work for point out that the country found work's sake, and it is mainly on nine thousand million sterling this ground that it has given for the war, which brought end- such a cold reception to Mr. less destruction in its train, and Lloyd George's New Deal.

isolated organa,

"Now, officer, can't you just let nie off with a good bawling out?"

Make a Vasi Fortuno in

Hongkong."

"Will write a longer letter next, week, snookums. Ever yours --

Yes-no

David Selznick is a brilliant follow; he has an acute sense of humour. But will be appreciate the story of the yes-men? It was during the making of "David Copperfield":

ex-

David Copperfield," he claimed, by David Selznick. Boys, don't it sound swell?

"Yeah."

Yeah. "'Yeah.'

"Yeah.

But the last man sak! 'Nò, * "There was consternation, Who had dared to disagree? Magnani- mously, tho Chief decided to overlook this. He continued:

We shall have special dialogue special scenes. It will be stupen. dous."-

**Yeah.

"Yeah,' "'Yeah.'

"Teah.'

"No!

"Again there was alganlling, frowning, RTI much breathless

Kasping amongst the others. But the Chief resumed:

And we shall have_special musle and a theme song. Boye, It will be colossal,'

* “Yeah.'

# "Yeah!

"Yeah.'

" 'No.'

und

It was more than fesh blood could stand. Mr. Selznick rose to his full height and swung his chair round.

Say, and who the hell aro you anyway?

came

the

Intimid

volco answer: 'Charles Dickens."