SCIENCE TOMORROW . . .
WHITMORE SEES WORLD ‘AGE OF PLENTY’
By FRANK C. WHITMORE—Dean of The Pennsylvania State Callege
School of Chemistry—(Written for The Associated Press*
THIRD OF A SERIES
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—At the
turn of the century, civilization
was about at the point where it
could leave the old era of scarcity
and embark on one of potential
abundance, made possible by sci
ence and its applications.
World War II will have demon
stra'ed completely the fact that
man can overproduce all his ma
Doan Whitmore
terial needs, in
c 1 uding food,
clothing, shelter
and everything
else of a mate
rial nature
which he re
quires, even to
1 u x uries we
cannot even
visualize now.
This overpro
duction is made
possible by a
combination of the relative physi
cal insignificance of man as com
pared to the raw materials avail
able to him.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon re
minded us that a box one-half
mile long one-half mile wide and
one-half mile high would contain
the entire human race. With an
estimated 2,200,000,000 humans,
each six feet high, eighteen inches
thick on the average, Van Loon’s
box would be only half full.
In contrast to this we have
thousands of cubic miles of raw
materials and near to the face of
earth which can be converted into
more food, clothing and shelter.
The earth’s potential raw mate
rials constantly are increasing due
to increase in our knowledge.
It should be emphasized that
this potential age of plenty is not
limited to our own country but is
possible for the entire world. To
make this an accomplished fact
three things are necessary.
1— The technical knowledge.
2— The technical men to apply
this knowledge.
3—The wisdom to create this |
plenty and distribute it effective- !
iy.
Of these three, we have only the
first. In the second we would need 1
perhaps 100 to 1,000 times as
many technically trained men as
the wotid has ever had at any one
time.
As to the third item, we are
practically helpless because for
the last 10,000 years we have been
building up a system of economics
based on scarcity. It is not strange
that in less than 50 years we have
been unable yet to work out a sys
tem of economics based on poten
tial plenty.
We should recognize that we
not even now are getting ready for
the age of plenty. Instead of train
ing additional chemists and other
technicians we have allowed a
few misguided rulers practically
to kill off ten years’ supply of
new technical graduates.
Our wealth of knowledge of
how to convert the thousands of
cubic miles of raw material into
more of everything will be useless
without a tremendous army of
technically trained men and wo
men to put this knowledge into
effective use.
• Next: Clarence Birdseye pre
I diets a boom in food processing*.
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CHURCHES
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Masses
Sundays .8:00 and 10:00
Week Days .7:30
FEDERATED CHURCH
10:30 a.m. Sunday School.
7:45 P. M. Evening Worship Serv-j
ice. Chaplain Courney will be
the speaker.
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LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSON
Sunday 11 a.m. — Sunday School
Service. Rev. R. Amundson will
preach.
Thursday 7:30 p.m. — Midweek
Prayer Service.
Thursday—Choir rehearsal after
prayer service.
Saturday 7:30 p.m. — Sunday
School teachers meeting for les-1
son study and discussion.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Carlson in
charge during the absence of the
Methodist Missionary.
NAZARENE CHURCH
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
“An ounce of Church is worth
a pound of police court.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and
Sunday School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message, “The
Lord’s Plantation.”
7:30 p.m. Singspiration.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message, Sub
ject “God’s Challenge.”
Friday Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m.
Come and bring your Bibles. You
are ever welcome to attend these
services.
ALASKA EVANGELIZATION
SOCIETY
Main St. just West of Polet's Store
Rev. and Mrs. Geo. H. Loveless.
Missionaries
Sunday
FANCY
MATANUSKA
PRODUCE
will be available in
NOME
During the Balance of the Season
Also
FRESH MILK
Will be available at Your Grocers
3 Times Each Week
MATANUSKA VALLEY
FARMERS COOPERATING ASSN
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service. Sub
ject: “Inspid Christians,” Rev.
3:16.
Thursday
3:00 p.m. Child Evangelism
Class.
Friday
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Bible
Study. Subject: “The Christian As
a Weaned Child.” Psalm 131:2.
• You are Invited—Everyone is
welcome.
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SCHOOL NOTES
At a meeting of the School
Board with the superintendent it
was decided to delay the opening
of the Public School from the 4th I
to the 10th of the month. This was
thought advisable due to the dis
rupted plane schedule caused by
adverse weather and the possibil
[ ity of delays in arrivals of the re
maining teachers on the staff. This
delay also serves for the comple
tion of the painting of the outside j
of the school building and the re
placement of the storm windows
before the opening of school. The
work on the interior painting is
finished and the class rooms are !
much lighter and more attractive.
A thorough cleaning job and also
some revarnishing and some re
placement work has been taken
care of by the janitor, as well as
the washing of hundreds of win
dows, large ones, too. This has all
taken time and hard and careful
work. We all appreciate every
thing that has been done this sum
mer to add to the fine appearance
and better service of our school.
We feel a real civic pride in this
building.
This week we have had the
pleasure of meeting one more of
our teachers on the school staff:
Mrs. Clara Millard of Iowa Falls,
Iowa. Mrs. Millard has had some
splendid teaching experience the
last few years in Iowa Falls where
she has her own home. Words of
appreciation of the service and
the cooperation of Mrs. Millard
have come from every school
where she has taught Her teach
ing career was interrupted for
a few years during her married
life, but was continued following
the death of her husband by a
tragic accident. With Mrs. Millard
is her thirteen-year-old son, Doug
las, whom we are happy to wel
come to our school. Mrs. Millard
received her training at the Ells
worth College in Iowa Falls, at
the University of Iowa, Iowa
City and received her degree from
the State Teachers College at
Cedar Falls, Iowa. Our school ex
tends a warm greeting to this
teacher of our 5th and 6th grade
pupils and we trust that both she
and Douglas may spend a happy
and interesting time in their Nome
home.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
CALLED OUT
The Nome Fire Department was
| called out about 9:00 o’clock this
morning to a fire in a cabin situ
ated just north of the Lomen Ma
chine Shop of Front Street. The
cabin is the property of Mrs. Helen
Bockman, and was rented to two
1 of the ACS boys. The fire started
when a native girl, friend of the
boys, went to the cabin and start
ed a fire in the stove, which had
a makeshift oil burner. The oil
flooded the base of the stove
which then caught fire. Little
damage was done except to the
! stove.
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TRANSIENT and PERMANENT ROOMS
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FRONT STREET NOME, ALASKA
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AND SANDWICH SHOP
Open Daily from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 A.M.
SOFT DRINKS, SANDWICHES
PHONE BLACK 20
SERVICE CLEANERS
4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickleson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
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