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RUSSIA AND GERMANY
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Back of every crisis in Europe, no matter where
it takes place, there is the grim shadow of undying
hostility between Nazi Germany and Communist Rus
sia. There is between these two nations the most pro
found cleavage in political ideas. Fascism and Com
munism are pitted against each other in a struggle that
may dominate the affairs of Europe for a generation
to come.
It is a struggle between two antipodal ways of
life. Making the antagonism more immediate is the Ger
man lust for more land, and the fact of sparcely settled
areas in the Soviet Union—a tempting bait for aggres
sive neighbors.
This is the reason why the dispute over neutrality
in the Spanish civil war has such grave implications.
Rather than risk a European war. France’s Socialist
government went against its ultimate interest and made
a comprehensive neutrality pact. If the bulk of evi
dence is reliable, Germany has been violating this pact
extensively, and France and Russia only in trifling
ways.
When it probably was too late to save the consti
tuional government in Spain, the Soviet government
denounced German, Italian and Portuguese violations
of the joint neutrality. This failed to win French and
British support. The risks of defying Germany were
too great. Now Moscow has given notice that it no
longer considers itself bound by the neutrality pact,
owing to German and Italian violations of it in sup
port of the Spanish Fascists,
HELP OF SCIENCE ii
|
What is science good for, if its search can’t be ap
plied to the ordinary problems of everyday life? Is It
right for scientists to pursue abstract knowledge at the
price of neglecting those pressing human needs which
might be met if science would give them a little atten
tion?
These questions are almost as old as science itself,
and they usually make scientists angry. To hunt truth
for its own sake is a lofty calling; it is disturbing to have
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the multitude demanding that science be harnessed for
] the solution of sordid material problems.
The point was raised very effectively the other
day at the sessions of the American Institute of Phy
! sics, in New York. A young industrialist from Bost
on, John Ely Burchard, who has been working with this
new pre-fabricated dwelling idea, bluntly told the phy
sicists that they would do well to spend a little less
time on the mysteries of inter-stellar space and more
time on such an acute social issue as the housing pro
blem
He quoted these words by Grosvenor Atterbury:
| “We are spending millions to build 200-inch telescopes
to scan the universe and determine whether it is getting
measurably smaller or incalculably greater. All of
which, in the present state of the realm, seems bril
liantly useless, especially when you consider the mil
lions who cannot afford decent homes because none of
our great minds has ever been focused on the basic,
everyday problem of human shelter.”
There is a point here which scientists as a class
would do well to consider.
ihe housing problem is one which science can
solve. A distressingly large percentage of our people
live in dwellings that are below the minimum require
ments for comfort and decency. They need new hous
es very badly; the country needs the industrial boom
which construction of these needed houses would pro
vide.
But the houses aren’t being built, because no one
yet has found out how to build them cheaply enough
that people who need them can buy or rent them.
As Mr. Burchard points out, if a small amount of
such brains as are now concentrated on research into
the Einstein theory were applied resolutely to the task
of finding out how to build better and cheaper houses,
it would not be long before millions of Americans would
be infinitely more comfortable and happier.
And the point of it all is that we live in an age in
which many of our most pressing problems need just
this sort of scientific attention. The era of applied
science has opened infinite possibilities.
To cash in on them we must have a body of scien
tists who are constantly awake to the social responsibil
ities of their high calling.—Exchange.
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York, Pa., has more than a mere
professional interest in that shov
el with which he’s doing the man
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join the army at Seattle to serve
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Barracks. Alaska. When his 3
years are up he intends to home
stead in the north. (AP Photo) j
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Cloudy and unsettled weather
with rain, sleet and snow storms
were general conditions over the
Nome-Fairbanks air line. Rain
was falling along the Gulf. Fair
weather prevails in southeastern
Alaska. ~
Temperatures continue above
the seasonal average over most of
Alaska. They are near the freez
ing point or s ightly above in
western Alaska.
Low pressure was centered ar
ound Nome this morning and
moderately strong southwest
winds attend this pressure dis
tribution. Another storm area is
charted near the end cf the Aleu
tian Islands.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was 29 and the highest
yesterday 33.
Frozen to Death
(9y The Associated Press)
MISSOULA, Montana, Dec. 30
—'Henry Mohr, 23, formerly of
Bayard, Nebraska, was frozen
to death when he became lost
on a wood hunting expedition in
a snowstorm on Lolo Mountain.
The soles were worn from his
shoes from wandering around,
trying to find his way back to
civilization. His body was found
sprawled near a tree.
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