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it frivni to Me MOD MIN CORNELIUB VANDERBILT JR., in a recent address in Buffalo, cited ten men as enemies of the new deal and another ten as its valiant defenders. Young Mr. Vanderbilt seems to have fallen behind in his home work during recent months, because high up among the defenders he lists William Randolph Hearst. the publisher. # Mr. Hearst's name has not been coupled much with complete candor and blazing frankness. There have been instances in which his own editors, let alone the reading public, could not quite make out on which side of the issue Mr. Hearst was standing. And even if it were possible to guess, there always remained the additional problem of just how long he would stay there. But in the present instance Cornelius Vanderbilt

Jr. does a grave injustice to Mr. Hearst. The sage of San Simeon has made no attempt to conceal his bitter hatred of the new dispensation. He has been as outspoken as Jimmy Wadsworth or Reed Smoot in his opposition. Most of his signed utterances have been filled with a nostalgic yearning to go back to the Coolidge era—before the birth of the brain trust. Mr. Hearst has been highly impatient with all newfangled notions which threatened to cut into the profits of big business. Only a few months ago I had the privilege of commenting on one of his editorials in which he advanced

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the theory that first of all the employer must get his and that after a decent interval some of the fair rewards might sift down to the worker. a a a Among the Very Rugged ANY suggestion that the government should endeavor to regulate hours, wages and working conditions in general is repugnant to Mr. Hearst. To my mind he is the chief cheer, leader in the shouting of the slogan, “Nobody is going to tell me how to run my business.” It should be remembered that William Randolph Hearst is more than a publisher. He is a potentate He owns quite a slice of the state of California and controls the rest Mr. Hearst’s idea as to the proper nature of government may be accurately gauged from the fact that Mr. McAdoo is one of California’s senators and Uncle Jimmy Rolph its Governor. Neither gentleman is likely at any time to get in the way of Mr. Hearst s desires. It is a case of "government by my people and for my people.” Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is doubly unfair in accusing William Randolph Hearst of devotion to the new deal, because Mr. Hearst has opposed it not only by word but deed as well. Possibly young Mr. Vanderbilt might plead extenuating circumstances in this respect. The deeds of Mr. Hearst have been less open than his words. In action he has dropped the battle ax and substituted the stiletto. . . . . There is, perhaps, cause for a slight confusion, since in a recent editorial the publisher declared that in spite of his opposition to the code system, ne had accepted all the requirements and requests of NRA and even gone a good deal farther. But part of this extra journey consisted of a detour which enabled Mr. Hearst to sneak up behind a salient principle and deliver a Brutus thrust. a a a Mr. Hearst Declares War CERTAINLY the principle of collective bargaining is the keynote of NRA, and it is against this precise feature of the newspaper code that William Randolph Hearst has declared war. Perhaps “declared" is too strong a word. He has remained mum in the face of every request to state his opinion. Yet his position is clear enough, since when he was questioned about wage cuts he discharged the president of the San Francisco Newspaper Guild and threw the fear of Hearst into a large group of writers on his New York papers. I think that even non-newspaper men may be interested in Exhibit A. which is a letter of resignation from the Guild signed by thirty of Mr. Hearst's New York reporters: “It was with astonishment that we learned recently of the high-handed, arbitrary and impudent action of the Guild in endeavoring in a lefthanded manner to bring reproach upon Mr. Hearst, whose kindness and generosity toward his employes has been of the highest order.” A later paragraph asserts that the boys and girls who work for Hearst have hetter salaries than are known elsewhere and really could not think of anything more Utopian. Mr. Hearst is empowered by the same thirty, "The Pieces of Silver Assn.,” to take what revenge he chooses upon employes who seek collective bargaining. We could not blame Mr. Hearst if he deeply resented the resolution.” a a a The Good and Kindly Ross ALTOGETHER it is a remarkable document, written by some individual in a high state of emotion. Sherlock Holmes upon viewing somewhat similar footprints during his investigation of the “Hound of the Baskervilles,” exclaimed. "That man was running for his life!” (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

AS much as the hit-and-run driver is a menace to other people, the “eat-and-run luncher” is a menace to his own health. In your endeavor to save time, during the lunch hour you are likely to lose your sense of proportion and abuse vour health, which is certainly far more valuable than time. Without health, time can mean little, if anything. Because luncheon is taken in such a hurry by most workers, it usually includes a sandwich, a cup of coffee, and possibly a piece of fruit or some dessert. ■ . On many occasions, this food is gulped in five to ten minutes, so that the remaining time may be spent in gossip, bridge or shopping. Such a luncheon is of little, if any, use, either for nutrition or for even satisfaction of hunger, and is usually supplemented in the middle of the afternoon by candy, soda fountain drinks, or some other food substance.- # * • THE sandwich is probably one of the most costly types of food that you can purchase, in relationship to its food value. The average American sandwich consists of two slices of white bread with a piece of meat trimmed by a razor-like apparatus. It affords little in the way of nutrititon; its only advantage is the speed with which you can consume it. Nevertheless, you can make a most nutritious sandwich by using with a slice of meat, if meat is necessary, a mixture of egg. lettuce, tomato, fish and other food products which contain not only protein, but also the necessary vitamins and mineral salts. . 000 WHILE coffee or tea is stimulating and have become the standard American drinks, you should remember that hot milk, which can be in the form of cocoa or chocolate, is just about as appetizing and certainly far more nutritious. So for a light luncheon, you probably will get more for your money in a milk drink than in either coffee or tea. If you do not care for coffee, tea or milk, there is still the possibility of taking a bowl of vegetable soup, which will provide not only the hot drink but also the useful bulk and the vitamins and mineral salts associated with the vegetables. Your dessert with the noon-day luncheon probably should be fruit. Although we eat more fruit as a class than any other nation, there are still far too many persons who neglect the possibility of getting nutrition and body-building substances in the form of the apple, the banana, the orange, the berries of various kinds, peaches, apricots and the other fruits easily available in any lunchroom.

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GERMANY—WAR OR PEACE?

Reich Once More Stands as Formidable Military Power

Milton Bronner. dintingnisbcd European ataff writer for NEA Service, portrays for you the “New Germany’’ under arms in today’s article, the second of three which he wrote after touring cit ies, towns and villages to study the results of Hitler rule. ana BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Writer BERLIN. April 19.—Whether Chancellor Adolph Hitler means war or peace for his country and for the world, of one thing there is no doubt—he means that Germany shall once more take its place as a country with a sizable regular army, unless other nations disarm pretty well down to the German level. His defiance of the world, by withdrawing from the League of Nations and from the disarmament conference, thrilled the German people. Soldiering is in their blood. They love the tramp of goose-stepping legs, the beat of drums, the playng of martial music, the flying of colorful banners. If the truth be told, it is this military complexion newly restored to German life which contributes most to the undisputed away that the comparatively young chancellor (45 years old tomorrow) holds over the fatherland. Every time the Nazis talk about Germany’s disarmed condition, compared to its heavily-armed neighbors, there are hoots of derision. The French point to the two million men enrolled in the Nazi troops. Furthermore, experts says it hardly is possible to disarm a great industrial nation. The same foundry which makes gas and water pipes, can easily be turned over into making cannon. Tha same factory which makes peace-time chemicals, can also quickly be converted into one for the making of war-time chemicals and poison gases, etc. a a a a a a FRIENDS and enemies of Germany alike at times have asserted that she has more war material than she wants the w’orld to know' about. There is even a myth that apparently has descended from high places in Nazidom and permeated ~ the crowd. , /fN

For instance, one night this writer was taking supper in a Berlin beer hall. The little waiter was talkative. ‘The French,” said he, “always think we want to w T ar on them. We don’t want war. We could beat them tomorrow if we wanted war. Long before the Nazis came into power, some of the greatest scientists in Germany placed at our disposal all kinds of chemical discoveries which would be a surprise for the world.” Now what are the easily ascertainable facts about Germany and arms? First of all, there is the Reichswehr, the regular army of Germany, composed of 100,000 men. That is all Germany is allowed under the Versailles peace treaty. And that is where the allies stubbed their toes badly. To prevent great masses of men being enlisted and passed through the army for short terms, they decreed that the men must enlist for twelve years. a a a THE result w’as different from what they expected. The little German army becamee the most perfectly trained and disciplined in the world. The result

TODAY and TOMORROW n tt n tt n By Walter Lippmann

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S budget registers the conviction that for Great Britain the crisis has been surmounted and that substantial recovery is now in progress. It is a good omen to all mankind. For the prosperity of Great Britain is essential to the prosperity of the world; her strength is essential to its peace; her wisdom in the art of government essential to its sanity. To be able to say that the crisis has been mastered in Great Britain is to know that the foundations of our civilization are more secure.

It is interesting to compare the British policies with our own. But it is not a simple thing to do. For there are certain radical differences between the British problem and our own, which have to be taken into account, and yet are extremely difficult to weigh fairly. Let us note a few of them. The first is that the vicious spiral of deflation, of falling prices and insolvency, was arrested in Great Britain some eighteen months earlier than it was in the United States. It was arrested at a point which enabled the British to escape the whole dreadful catastrophe of 1932-1933. Second, because, Britain did not have to go down into this deepest pit of the depression, because also she possesses a sounder banking sytem and more seasoned bankers, the financial mechanism did not collapse and her financial leadership was not paralyzed and discredited. Third, Britain is almost entirely an industrial country, and therefore she did not have to deal both with an agricultural and an industrial depression. Had Britain been compelled to have a policy which suited the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada at the same time, her problem would have been more nearly comparable with ours, a a a AS it was, Britain, Australia and Canada have each pursued somewhat different policies suitable to their special circumstances. Thus, for example, the British pound has been allowed to depreciate much less than the Australian pound, and somewhat less than the Canadian collar. Many measures for the relief of agricultural debtors, w'hieh we have had to take, were unnecessary in Great Britain. But they have been applied in Australia. Moreover, because Britain escaped the worst of the deflation, because her banks and her finances did not collapse, there has been non popular indignation in Britain comparable with that which existed here last spring and expressed itself in the Securities Act and the related reforms. The British voters did not swing so far to the left as did our voters, because they did not go through such a disaster. For that reason the national government has been able to pursue a policy devoted unreservedly to promoting a capitalistic recovery. In pursuing this policy Great Britain has had the advantage over us in certain important respects. The liberal economists, led by men like Keynes, Hawtrey, Salter, Stamp. Layton, have understood the mechanism of the capitalist system far better than most of the economists in the so-called brain trust, and they have gotten themselves into a muddle about the role of profits, such as we see exemplified in the NRA. On the other hand, the conservatives in the treasury, the Bank of England and the City of London have, understood the

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While the thrilling tread of marching feet fills the populace of German towns and cities with new patriotic fervor . . . government construction experts (as at left), calmly, efficiently go about their business of building the reich to a military and naval strength that bends—but ostensibly doesn’t break —the limitations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.

is that today every man-jack in the Reichswehr probably is capable of being an officer in a bigger army when the time comes. Second, there is the Schupo, the security police. The allies

mechanism of capitalism in the postwar era better than most of ours. They have not been haunted as most American sound money men by the ghost of William Jennings Bryan and the echoes of 1896, a a a THUS without fuss or feathers, with all the outward manners of perfect orthodoxy, the British have revalued the pound, inflated their currency, brought down the long-term rate of interest. Most of our conservatives have objected to each of these steps, and presumably would have taken none of them—except possibly the conversion which would have been impossible without the other two measures had they been in power. The British have taken them in their stride. On the other hand, having taken them, they have proceeded to reap the advantages, whereas our liberals, having done the things that were absolutely necessary and demonstrably sound, have been neutralizing and confusing them by wellmeant but misguided measures,

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allowed Germany 150,000 of them. But they are more than mere cops. Every one of them is a perfectly trained, potential soldier. Third, there is the unknown quantity, the 2,000,000 men, mostly

YOUTHS ADMIT ROBBING 3 STORES, POLICE SAY Part of $65 Loot in One Raid Is Recovered. Arresting three youths in connection with the burglary of the Holt Auto Service Company, 2030 West Washington street, police last night recovered $47 of the $65 loot. Those arrested are Gilbert Whitt, 1122 South Pershing avenue; Wade Davis, 17, of 1517 Trottman avenue, and James Faulk, 16, of 1236 South Belmont avenue. Police said the youths admitted robbing three stores.

which paralyze the capital market and distort the relationship of prices, costs and profits. Had we followed the prescriptions laid down by our leading conservatives we should not be better off than we are. We should be worse off. We should be in the position not of Great Britain, but of France, which is holding fast to the dogmas of orthodox finance. We should not have taken the monetary measures which have been taken in every country that is emerging from the depression. But if we had had the wisdom and restraint to apply the NRA as the act clearly intended it should be applied, had we had no blanket code, no wholesale round-up of all industries into codes, had we set up only a few experimental codes carefully adapted to the special conditions of industrials where competition was really out of hand, had we reformed finance while recognizing its indispensable role, we should have a much more substantial and a much more assured recovery. • Copyright, 1934.)

By George Clark

youths, enrolled in the Nazi storm troops and other organizations. If they have arms, aside from pistols, the nonsnooping visitor to Germany does not see them. But 'they do things that look more

-The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, April 19.—This is cherry blossom time in the nation's capital. It also has developed into scandal-mongering time. Never since the Wilson administration has the capital reverberated with so many rumors—suicidal if true, most of them too absurd to be listened to—regarding the private lives of the new dealers. Apparently a concerted lobby is actively at work trying to smear some of the most important members of the administration. A flood of anonymous letters constantly are deluging newspaper offices, are sent even to the White House. Anonymous attacks of this kind are not new. And they are personal enemies who can not hurt those in power in any other way. a a a a a a A LARGE crowd of sightseers was milling outside the public gallery of the senate. Fretfully a youthful guard was trying to keep the corridor clear of congestion. “Keep moving, keep moving,” he ordered.

A short, well-dressed man, with pronounced square jaw, and his eyes fixed on Gilbert Stuart’s historic painting of George Washington paid no attention. “Hey, you,” demanded the guard, “didn’t you hear me? Get going!” The visitor did not even turn his head. To a younger man standmg beside him he remarked: “Can you detect a scar on Washington’s face? I can’t. But I’m told that there is a Stuart painting which clearly reveals a cut across the jaw. I’ve been hunting for that painting for a long time.” The companion, anxiously eyeing the menacing guard, tugged at the speaker’s arm. Finally, the latter saw the guard. “I’m sorry,” he said pleasantly, and moved on. Note: Scar-seeking sightseer was Ferdinand Pecora, fighting counsel of the senate bank investigating committee, recently offered the undersecretaryship of the treasury by Secretary Morgenthau, which he declined. a a a Franklin roosevelt sent the marines into Haiti when he was assistant secretary of the navy twenty years ago. But as President of the United States he is having a hard time getting them out. The trouble is that a lot of Haitians don’t want them to go. Specifically President Vincent, conferring at the White House this week, hates to see their exit. The Haitian President has been extremely discreet in mentioning this, and the above statement probably will be denied. Nevertheless last summer he requested their retention one year longer, and now would like to see this period extended further. His trouble is that when the marines go it becomes difficult for him to remain in office. But he didn’t find Roosevelt very sympathetic. It looks as if the marines will leave Haiti next October. ana General Johnson has issued secret orders for a barrage of prosecutions against NRA code violators. This time his punitive expeditions are not to be confined to Greek restaurants and New England beauty parlors. Big business is to be taken on. This is what is behind the new litigation and enforcement section of the NRA. Its legal sharpshooters have been working for weeks checking over complaints in preparation for some spectacular cases. Personnel of the litigation and enforcement section is almost as

like training for war than anything else. Foreigners living in Germany for business reasons told me it is a regular thing for companies of Nazi troops to make practice hikes of fifteen miles, carrying knapsacks weighing fifteen pounds. After a while, the weight of the knapsacks is increased, and then the length of the march is increased. In case of war, that practice would have its enormous value. a a a HERE is another thing that is no secret; not long ago there appeared in the papers of Bavaria a call from one of the officers in the Nazi troops, asking for volunteers for the mountain corps. They were to be men initiated in winter sports, who were used to skis, etc. There is in that corps the making of a body of men fit for warfare in the mountains and inured to all the hardships of winter. Further there is this enormously interesting fact to be gleaned from prominently printed articles in the German press: It has been made an offense to print or disseminate news about the movements, training, maneuvers of Nazi storm troops, unless official permission has been received. a a a ✓GERMANY already has an air force in possibility. The great German air trust, the Lust Hansa, runs one of the finest commercial air forces in the world. All over Germany are fine airports—built with American loans, the cynics say. German commercial planes are fast, fine and safe. The young men, who pilot them, could just as easily run war planes. Furthermore, many of them have foreign runs, which take them into most of the lands of Europe and into most of the capitals. The Versailles treaty sought to make Germany harmless on the sea. She was allowed to build cruisers not to exceed 10,000 tons. So their naval geniuses contrived what has been called a “pocket battleship,” capable of twenty-six knots per hour and carrying six eleven-inch guns. One has been completed, another is nearly completed and two more are on the way. They can defeat the ordinary cruiser and run away from the more powerful foreign battleships! Next—Hitler routs his foes.

large as the justice department, and its legal caliber far higher. Private word is that it has several big prosecutions in the making. ana SENATOR MILLARD TYDINGS of Maryland remains the most harassed man in Washington . . . His constituents remain continually on his doorstep . . . For senators from the west, life is comparatively a bed of roses . . . Travel is long and expensive. But Tydings’ electorate can reach him with the expenditure of ten cents . . . Senator Bojah was irate over the statement of Ted Marriner, counselor of the American embassy in Paris, that he preferred Frenchmen to Americans . . . Other senators share Borah’s views, probably will make it hot for the state department . . . Secret service operatives consider it significant that a large number of anonymous letters to Roosevelt cabinet members come from Radnor, Va. . . . This is a small village in the heart of Virginia’s horse and hound region, where mint juleps, thoroughbreds and English accents are the vogue . . . Apparently the new deal is not pooular there ... A lot of anonymous Utters also are written on the stationery of the Mayflower hotel . . . Supreme Court Justice Stone still cherishes on his desk the medicine ball used when he was a member of the Hoover Medicine Ball Cabinet . . . On it are inscribed the names of all those who turned out at 7 a. m. to exercise with the past president. a a a A CCORDING to Congressman Kenney of New Jersey, George Washington purchased the first lottery ticket in the United States. . . . Kenney now wants to establish a government lottery for the benefit of war veterans. . . . Cherub-faced Ross Collins, Mississippi’s crusading congressman, now finds himself in a paradoxical spot with the army . . . For years Collins—who rules on army appropriations w T as hated and feared by army officers. Now they look upon him as their chief friend. . . . Reason is that the house military affairs committee, usually pro-army, has turned against them. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Eyp Clinics Established Clinic for treating cross-eyes by orthor training have been established m six communities, reports the National Society for the Prevention o' Blindness.

Second Section

Entered as Second On at Matter at Postofftce. Indianapolis

Fdir Enough miimm YORK. April 19. —The baseball industry buys less and receives more advertising than any other industry in the country but. this spring for the first time, it is in a position to repay, in public service, some of the favors which it has enjoyed. The opening of the business season at the major league baseball plants not only marks the close of the toughest winter of the great American panic but constitutes a reminder that the country didn’t get quite mad enough at itself to sting itself to death when things were at

their worst. There were prophets who, within the last year, would have laid you no better than even money that the park would reopen, as usual, for the season of 1934 and the fact that this nonessential industry is resuming in its routine way gives proof in the dawn that the flag is still there. If the magnates themselves had been unable to come up with their ground rent and the price of new suits and all such equipment it would have been good political business for the administration to stake them to a subsidy or loan. The spiritual

importance of the resumption is best appreciated if you consider how very morose the citizens would have felt if they had been told that things had come to such a terrible pass in the U. S. A. that the major leagues had been compelled to quit operations. Asa career, baseball is much less attractive nowadays than it was in other years, for wages and allowances have been revised sharply downward and the proprietors of the baseball firms have neither the NRA nor a players’ union to contend* with. The individual athlete, as always, found himself obliged to take it or leave it when his boss sent him his contract for 1934, with the difference that this year he was obliged to take much less—or leave it he is one toiler who positively is not done right by, being denied the right of collective bargaining and even forbidden to shop around for another job with a more liberal employer than the one to whom he finds himself rather agreeably enslaved. a a a The Preferred List T>UT the case of the baseball peon presents theoretical grievances not nearly as urgent as the practical problems of other workmen and it never yet has been advanced to the preferred docket. Even on as little money as $2,500 for an eight months’ year of four-hour days, plus $2.50 a day for meals when he is on the road, he lacks defenders who would try to shove his complaint ahead of that man’s who is willing to grab a hoe, hod, or hammer and hire out to the CWA. The magnate, himself, is a curious critter, for he seldom admits that he has made a dollar on the season, even when he has entertained a world series on his premises, yet hangs on to his plant and franchise until the bank sends the sheriff around to claim it. But always, when that happens, some other man previously unsuspected of the weakness, suddenly reveals himself as a magnate at heart and bids in the property with the announcement that he is going to pour money into it with a hose, and give the loyal fans of insert-name-of-city a winning ball club worthy of their proven devotion. The fact is, of course, that the fans were not loyal at all, for if they had been the old proprietor would not have been compelled to go through the wringer. But it would not endear the new management to the local trade to announce that the town deserved nothing better than the worst in baseball. a a a Off Babe Ruth T SOMETIMES have wondered why the proprietors, close and practical as they are in most of their business dealings, have overlooked qr deliberately shunned certain great advertising possibilities which are open to them. It would be worth something, I should think, to a company manufacturing soup, hats or mouse traps to be represented in the boxscores in every American daily paper and across page one of most afternoon editions by a ball club bearing the name of its product. This is my year to swear off seeing rainy-day essays about Babe Ruth. I was slow swearing off Ty Cobb and iris Speaker and presently discovered the ball yards cluttered with a lot of new hands on whpm I had no data. They come and they go in the baseball business and there is nothing that dates a journalist Ike oft-told stories of a hero who is ex. (Copyright, 1934, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

nnHE oyster is a free-swimming creature for the J- first two weeks of its life. Then it attaches itself to a rock or other object on the ocean floor and spends the rest of its life eating and growing. *The oysters you buy on the market or are served in restaurants are from two to five years old. The oyster Ls a heavy drinker, according to Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch, director of the United States fisheries biological station at Beaufort, N. C. He tells us that during the warmer months the average oyster will pump fifteen gallons of water through its gills daily. From this water it extracts practically all of the oxygen and the suspended food materials. Its “drinking,” it will be seen, therefore, is an allinclusive process which accounts also for its breathing and eating. 000 OYSTERS sleep through the winter, Dr. Prytherch reveals. When the temperature of the water falls below 44 degrees Fahrenheit, the oyster stops eating and hibernates until the return of warm weather. “In the north the hibernation period usually extends from November until April,” he says, “and is an important factor in insuring the purity of the oyster and improving its condition for marketing and transportation. Dr. Prytherch says that through the activities of federal and state health bureaus and bureaus of chemistry, t*ie purity of oysters reaching the market is now surrounded with the same safeguards as those which protect milk and water supplies. The final step in preparing the greater proportion of oysters for market is the shucking or removal of the oysters from the shells. This is not only laborious, but expensive. It exceeds in cost all other oyster-farming operations, according to Dr. Prytherch, and involves an annual expenditure of over $1,500,000. 000 SCIENCE which has aided the oyster industry by studying the life history of the oyster and gathering valuable data about its propagation and growth, has also come to the aid of the oysterman in solving the difficulties of getting the mollusks out of their shells. The difficulty lies in the fact that the oyster loses its shells tightly and holds them together by means of the strong muscle whose duty it is to operate the shell. The scientific solution of the problem is to put the oyster to sleep. It is immersed, according to Dr. Prytherch, in a harmless narcotizing solution of acidified fresh or salt water. “A small amount of acid, such as acetic or hydrochloric," he explains, reacts with the shell carbonates producing an excess of carbon dioxide which in turn induces relaxation of the oyster muscle with automatic ooeni* g of the shell."

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