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SECTION THREE TWELVE PAGES STRICTLY THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER EDITORIAL PAGE COMMENT ON THE NEWS 0 AMUSEMENTS SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1933 A Mud Puppy if. To You Is An Interesting Research Specimen For Local Scientist Gil" M- 7 (if Ui 11 111 4Jv Inn HBW TO 0 UY JAMES T. GOLDEX JR. MAN OR mud puppy -if it has a kidney or two, Dr. Irwin B.

Hanenson is interested in it. Which is one of the reasons Dr. Hanenson has just become the first Eda Kuhn I.oeb Research Scholar at the May Institute for Mediral Research of the Jewish Hospital Association. Dr. Benjamin V.

Miller, Director of May Institute since last fall, had been much involved in studies of the human kidney before leaving the East, and most of the work of May Institute is being directed now toward increased understanding of that important (and trickv!) pair of organs in charge of disposing of a considerable part of the body's wastes. MIXtXG man and mud pup- pies in connection with Dr. Hanenson is no mere alliterative device. For two vears, at Harvard Medical School and its Peter Rent Brighnm Memorial Hospital, Dr. Hanenson worked on the kidneys of the mud puppy big river dwelling salamanders known hereabouts os waterdogs or hellbenders.

True, a man and a mud puppy are pretty far apart biologically (no matter how near they may get, to their mutual disgust, when they are connected mechanically at the ends of pole and line). But, Dr. Miller notes, the mud puppy has a kidney for the same reason that a human hasto dispose of wastes and learning something about the simpler creature's equipment and the organ's modus operandi may provide some rather basic information on the kidney functions of the more effete creature. Besides, as animal specialization goes, Homo sapiens isn't out of sight of Necturus, the hellbender: having kidneys is a greater distinction than is probably realized by most men or any mud puppy. SO WHY didn't Dr, Hanenson use mice or guinea pigs? Well, the mammals, including mice, men and guinea pigs, have rather highly developed kidneys, and simpler kidney arrangements are easier to study and handle in basic investigations.

For instance, Dr. Hanenson points out, the mud puppy has only about 700 or 800 tubules Ifluid-bearing tubes) in its kidney, whereas a human individual has about. million Here are a few of the many ancient musical Instruments on exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum. At left, Mary Ada Woodward strums a 15th century Italian lute. The chair in which she is seated is from the same period but folds up as neatly as a modern lawn chair.

Above she plays a time-worn Irish harp, while Janet Schadler fingers an ornate piano made in Germany in 1820. Enquirer (Wc-llinger) Photos. tubules. The mud puppy's tubules, in general, finer than a hair, are just about visible to the naked eye trained to look for them, and, of course, still must be studied under the microscope. Dr.

Hanenson seemed a little surprised, last week, that specimens of necturus may be drawn from waters hereabout. Out East, he said, the laboratory animals were imported from Wisconsin and the shipping cost more than the critters themselves they had to be sent in water, and refrigerated at that. But let's not be saving our bass for ourselves, and our hellbenders for Dr. Hanenson; he's through with necturus for the time. Besides passing two years with the mud puppies' kidneys he put in another two years at Montefiore Hospital, the Bronx, New York, as a member of a large team doing clinical research on the factors responsible for sodium and water disturbances in the later stages of congestive heart failure.

Sodium, one of the two elements combined to form common salt, is necessary for life. The kidney, filtering the blood, passes sodium out, but then takes much of it back farther along the tubular system. In congestive heart failure an abnormal amount of sodium as well as water is returned to the body, THIS EXCESS fluid, in addition to accumulating in the tissues, places a further strain on the damaged heart. But occasionally a situation develops in which there is a decrease in the concentration of sodium in the blood. This "low salt syndrome" was of special interest to Dr.

Henenson in the investigation- pressed at Montefiore. Perhaps, Dr. Miller suggests, ways might be found to man- age the kidney so that its processing of sodium could be close- ly controlled, to the benefit individual with cariovascu-. lur trouble, That's the sort of! basic problem Dr, Hanenson' -must work on. But in spite of the puppy Investigations, Dr.

son's chief interest lies in clinical investigation; laboratory studies of the human patient and his problem, progress and reactions; comparisons of the variables in-; blood pressure and heart kidney functional behavior. I rom Cone I I 5 Orchestra Elaborate Exhibit At Art Museum Traces The Evolution Of Musical Instruments Harps And Zithers And Horns Reflect Artistic And Social Lives Of Several Civilizations power and variety of timbre cannot produce effects which the clavichord, a small Instrument of exceedingly simple construction, could give; and the violin, this marvel of energy, of sound and carrying power, was violently criticized for its 'shrill and ignoble' timbre when it began to compete with the soft and silvery viols." THE INSTRUMENT expert wants you to be wary also of selling short those musical devices developed by primitive and supposedly backward peoples. "There are many 'primitive' instruments such as the African zan.e, or hourglass drums, whose subtle effects cannot be matched by those of more perfect sound The instrument is nothing without the player and the playing methods of his place and time," he pointed out. And so it. comes down to that.

From the clay of the conch shell to the day of the grand piano it has been not so much the instrument as it has been the talent and ability of the man or woman behind it. see many instruments gaining or losing caste; they might be played one time by courtiers, another time by beggars, or passed from priests to shepherds, or as it sometimes happened in sculpture and painting played by muses or angels or the elders ranged in the porticoes of Romanesque and early Gothic churches. "Any thoughtful observer could guess an ancient instrument's social standing and purpose from its structure and decoration. Frequently, the material alone, whether cheap or precious, and the quality of decoration offer valuable hints. Good examples of an Instrument's restless social status are the bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy, which have wandered repeatedly from the hands of jugglers and rustic players into the hands of noblemen or the ladies of the fetes at Versailles back again into the hands of wandering shepherds in France and Italy." THE NEW YORK authority concedes that it very often is difficult to trace back to the actual birth of many instruments.

When, for example, did the first stringed instruments appear on the earth? The best authority we have for the birth of the first stringed instrument is in Greek mythology. Hermes the messenger god, so the myth goes, was walking along the seashore one day when his foot brushed against the shell of a dead tortoise and the sun-dried intestines stretched across it surprised him with a silvery tone. Hermes grabbed up the shell and dashed off to delight the other gods with his new toy. Dr. Winternitz hopes that the many examples of gradual mechanical improvement, visible throughout the Cincinnati exhibit does not mislead its examiners.

"Technical improvement and this should be stressed in our machine-minded century does not necessarily imply a musical progress," ho warns. "Musical vogues changes and each period demands its own tools. The later instrument is not invariably the 'better' one, The modern concert grand piano, for example, with all its Dr. Emanuel Winternitz, curator of the musical collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, points out that a study of musical instruments from various times and nations can give an insight into man's development in facets other than music. man-made objects," said Dr.

Winternitz, "reflect so impressively and truly the 'artistic and social life of a period or people. They are the' tools of music, that 'is contrivances for producing sound, and thus bear witness to past phases of musical life. But being machines and some of them quite intricate and complex they reflect also the growth of technical engineering. And moreover, being pieces of furniture, as the harpsichords, organs and were, tftey reveal in their shape and decoration the changing fashions of visual taste." Dr. Winternitz reads ancient-men read carvings on stone, musical instruments as other "Different social levels have different effects on musical instru- ments," he pointed out.

"We can BY CHARLES WARXICK MAN HAS been enchanted with music ever since his first ancestor blew into a conch shell or animal horn and was startled by the deep, melodious tone which came fourth. Remote as the relationship may seem, that first note blown onto a primeval landscape was the forebear of the funeral mass and Dixieland jazz, Crosby and Caruso. It was only a single, wild note heard possibly by the dull-witted dinosaur and the vicious pteridophyte. But from it have stemmed complex symphonies composed for huge orchestras and jarring singing commercials. Just as interesting as the music which has evolved over the centuries are the instruments man has devised to produce the sounds to worship by, to dance by and to enjoy.

Any person interested in making a visual study of- music's technical evolution would find a visit to the Cincinnati Art Museum rewarding. In the museum's musical instrument exhibit, where an 18th century regimental drum lies beside a Burmese zither shaped like an alligator, one gets a vivid idea of how vital a role musical instruments have played in the development of man. Since an art museum has a prior responsibility in exhibiting statuary and paintings, the Cincinnati gallery can't turn over unlimited space to the ancient musical instruments. But it does have on exhibit more than 100 drums, flutes, horns, fiddles and the director, Philip K. Adams, believes that the exhibit shows the long history of music as fully as possible.

A Members Fight To Retain Country Club Option Ends This Fall On Handsome, Rambling Maketewah Fund Committee Is Seeking $455,000 As A Purchase Price To Meet Crisis "Otherwise, We Close Up Shop" Mm IK lavish clubhouse. Times were good then. The building was to include a main dining room and private dining rooms, a grill, a cocktail lounge, an indoor luncheon terrace, an outdoor dancing and ice skating terrace, a six-lane bowling alley, and the usual kitchens and business offices. The building was under construction when the financial world tumbled. IX THE tough years following the crash, many business and professional men had to resign from luxurious Maketewah.

As the club lost members, its treas was facing a huge clubhouse building deot with a slim pocket-book. A wealthy and eminent member came to the rescue. Otto Armleder, trucking company owner, bailed the club out of its immediate trouble by underwriting the completion of the clubhouse and taking up the land mortgage. Before Mr. Armleder died in 1935, he leased the property to the social group with an option to purchase when the club was in better financial shape.

The lease terminates in 19B2 and the option ends early this fall. The price tag on the rolling green acres clubhouse is said to bo very reasonable at $455,000. Now the existing Maketewah organization is busy trying to raise the money, Mclvin Robbing, 320 Com ton Hills Wyoming, is heading the fund-raising committee. Mr. Robbins, past president of Maketewah, says, "If we do not raise the money, we will have to close shop.

We are selling land trust certificates for $1000 apiece with a three per cent, yearly interest rate." This type of financing would create a separate company. The new company would bold the real estate in trust and lease it to the existing club. The Robbins group, The Let's Own Maketewah Committee, has set August 31 as the target date for the completion of the fund raising. RICHARD WALLACE, club manager, believes, "Maketewah physically is the linest country club in the Midwest." This also is the belief of the present, club president, Joe L. Armstrong.

It is claimed that the Maketewah real property could not. be duplicated today lor a million dollars. There's a spirit of toil about, the historic club this summer. The 400 members are working long and hard to save their country club. BY DAN PINGER MAKETEWAH Country Club is trying to buy itself and if the purchase fails, one of Cincinnati's oldest private country clubs may have to be dissolved.

The club now is leasing its grounds and buildings Pt 5401 Reading from the Armleder Estate. If Maketewah does nbt buy the property by early next fall, the property could be sold to someone else. The club's history shows how this situation came fibout. In the 19th century, the club was the solvent Hamilton County Golf Club and it was located where Xavier University now stands. Its membership included such prominent Cincinnati in dustrialists as B.

H. Kroger, Al Streitmann and R. K. EeBlond. In 1911, the club moved to its present 160-acre location north of Bond Hill.

Its name was changed in 1921 to Maketewah, which is Indian for Millcreek Valley. Immediately before, the 1929 depression, thesocial organization mortgaged its land and began building a I It Enquirer (Hrlicl photo Dr. Irwin B. Hanenson of the May Institute has a clinical attachment for the fisherman's anathema, the mud puppy. Here he points to an enlarged diagram of a part of a kidney.

ury declined. So Maketewah of golf course and the rambling 4 i ft Now that, he is back at his desk, the Suburbanite isn't at all sure ihat vacations are worth the trouble. Just getting ready for two weeks in the mountains was so harrying that he and his wife very nearly quit, speaking to each other. A firm bellevrr In long range planning. Mie started guarding th family's best clothing 10 days before the departure date.

Hp couldn't wear bis coolest Miimmer mil to work because it hud to be kept cli'an for dinner at the lodge. She bid bis freshly laundered favorite Miirts so that he couldn't slip one on when she wasn't looking. Daily family conferences were held to solve the critical nupstion -2f, vv i -T 5 'f I 4t 1 v-, 1, -A S. 1 of whether the Suburbanite's wife Thia foodf needed a new swimming suit for the vacation. The Suburbanite thought the final decision was against the purchase until the morning of the departure date.

Then his wife informed him that she couldn't go near the lake in that horrible old suit. This necessitated a two-hour shopping excursion through downtown department stores before the family could get on the road. But the Siihiirlmnltc's worst blow came when lie arrived at the vacation resort. This summer paradise was located deep In a rich farming area and for weeks he had had visions of the fine food that would be available. Luscious ham steaks, eggs fresh from the lien, and hot biscuits anil tender fried chicken had monopolized his dreams.

But the food he found was atrocious. It seems that th farmers sent nil of their good products to the elty where the prices were better, subsist inn themselves on murgarine and mush. The 400 members of the Maketewah Country Club are going to have to buy their luxurious pleasure plant if they want to stay in operation. The rambling club house is shown at left. Above is the swimming pool.

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