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it Seems to Me HEWOD BROUN E'DUCATORS are curious people in the mass beJ fj iv ;n their own deliberations they neglect so flagrantiv *he me*hods which they advise their pupils to employ. I am assuming that teachers tell the vnune that no debate on any subject can be fruitful un*il there has been some preliminary definition of *he terms which are in use. But for the last several days the word “Red'* has been flying * .olio address and prnate brawl without a minutes truce to ascertain just what it means.
Some say the * Reds” are in the schools and then upon investigation it turns out that the accused teacher merely said that Eugene G. Grace drew down quite a chunk of dough in the series of “incentive” bonuses paid to him for being a good boy In the making of munitions. It may be that some of the superintendents actually believe that the 512.000.000 which found us wav into the toe of Bethlehem s star executive was actually what Jefferson meant when he spoke of “the pursuit of happiness.” And others are content to say, “Mr. Hearst knows best,” and let it go at that.
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I am afraid that the bulk of the school superintendei I have not yet learned that in America redness is still a local issue. I will guarantee to take the moH conservative educator in the convention and find *ome spot in this country where his views will seem extreme and radical. To be sure, in the ca-e of one- or two it micht be necessary to travel deep mto the remote hills of some backward state. But still it could be done. am* Even President Xot Safe JDO not -peak in fantasy. When I was last in Washington a reporter told me that he had never seen a man speak with more genuine emotion than J'istire Mrßrvnolds when he made his impromptu rejoinder to the jority gold decision. “He wasn't fooling.” said my friend. “When he spoke of the Constitution being gone he pulled his challenge up from the floor and laid it right behind the ear of Chief Justice Hughes. In effect, he was saying that Charles Evans Huches and his associates had ganged up m a revolutionary attack upon the bulwark of our liberties.” Now it the accusing finger can be pointed in this manner at the chief justice of the United States, just wno is safe? Certainly not the President. In spite of Fianklin D. Roosevelt s helter-skelter retreat from Moscow I still run into occasional manufacturers who say. “Why that man in the White House is no better than a Communist.” Naturally, any lone teacher is terrified to touch ideas or even look at them when such a vast domain has been mapped out as the “kingdom of the heretics.” It does not seem to me a wise thing for anv school or college to send its graduates out into the world with a complete set of hand-painted air cushions upon which to sit forevermore. I don’t care what the color of the cushions may be. But surely no one is educated until he has been taken to some high place and allowed to look upon the kingdoms of the world and see them whole. mm* Peril Did Xot Always Lose AS a .matter of fact, the church from the earliest times has recognized the function of the devil as an educator. It was the practice of holy men to live as hermits In the desert and aw*ait the coming of the tempter. When Satan arrived there was always a lively bout —best two out of three falls. Stranglehold not barred and winner take all. I suppose the devil old not always lose. He could not be that much a glutton for punishment. He took Faust in his stride and certain others. But back from the desert came men who had been tried. They knew the ropes. Upon their broad and massive shoulders it was possible to build for stability. They became the defenders of the faith. I will admit that I gravely suspect that in their repertoire they included and retained a few trick holds which they had learned from the ancient adversary of mankind. It is my notion that the educated man does not scorn to accept gifts of learning borne by the Greeks and also by the fiends and seraphim. A complete education is a dangerous adventure but it is less risky than a partial one. In college I knew* a lad who used to hold revival meetings in his room to the discomfort of all the rest of us living In that corridor. We objected and he told his sad stcry. His was a secluded education. His father, as a militant atheist, denied him all access to the Bible. He first encountered the book when he w*as 18. It knocked him. as you might say, for a loop. He is now* a missionary in China. I don’t present that as lamentable. But at least it w*as not the intention of his father. lOoprrwhit, 193S*
Your Health -BY PR- MORRIS FISHBEIN-
MOST of us estimate our weight according to the usual height. weight and ace tables issued by various organizations. These tables are calculated for persons of average build. Unfortunately, there are not many persons of average build. There are far more of unusual build. However. doctors who give particular attention to these questions of weight realize that a person is usually a little safer from the point of view of health if he is slightly overweight under the age of 3d. and slightly underweight after that age. If you really are overweight and past middle age, there are good reasons whv you should do something to br-.nc down your weight. Every pound of extra tissue means extra work for the heart. • mm IF there is excess fat in rhe body, this fat. may actually get into the heart muscle and weaken it. Moreover, fat persons are more likely to get gallbladder diseases and diabetes than are thin persons. Avery small percentage of persons are definitely overweight because of some peculiar action of their glands. These, however, represent the smallest percentage. The gland usually involved is the tfiyroid gland, of which the secretion is closely assqgiated with the rate at which the body bums up food to produce energy. There are two wavs of reducing weight. One is to increase the amount of energy used up. and the other to reduce the amount of fuel. There are various ways of increasing the energy burned up. Exercise is one way. m m a Unfortunately, it is hard to get persons to take enough exercise to burn up much fuel. Moreover, we are so constituted that slight amounts of exercise increase our appetites and cause us to eat more than wc would ordinarily. There are certain drugs which may be taken to speed up the consumption of fuel. For example, extracts of the thyroid gland and dinitrophenol. All those are dangerous and should never be taken except under careful supervision of a doctor. The best way to reduce is to cut down the diet. In doing this, fads of all kinds should be avoided. Such dietary notions as the lamb chop and pineapple diets, the tomato and cotfiage cheese diets, and the 18-dav diet are pc licious. They will cause a reduction in weight if adhered to. but few persons follow them for very long.
Questions and Answers
Q —Where can government thrift stamps, issued during the World War. be redeemed? A—Office of the Treasurer of the United States, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. Q —ls Frankie Frisch, the baseball player, a college graduate? A—He has aB. A. deg Tee from Fordham Univerty. New York.
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The LOVE LETTERS of NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE
CHAPTER FIFTEEN *‘A Dvins: Army in a Dead Land” jyjOX AMIE, I have just received your letter of Oct. ISth. I was very sorry to hear of the death of the little Prince of Baden. His mother will l?e greatly distressed. it is a very painful occurrence, particularly for a mother. As soon as I have gone into winter quarters, I will have peace signed in order to keep my promise. You must not doubt hut what I shall he desirous as you yourself to meet you, for you know how I love you. My health Is good, the weather Is glorious, slightly cold, with very fine sunshine. I am drawing nearer to you every day. and as soon as things are settled I will write to you. Meanwhile, as I know you are very reasonable. I trust you will mind not to be uneasy, but cheerful, contented and ke<*p from worrying, which would grieve me too much. Kiss my son three times for me and never doubt all the very loving feelings with which you inspire me. Your faithful husband, NAPOLEON. Yiasma, November 2nd, (1812) And here is what the name of Viazma and the date of Nov. 2 stand for. While Napoleon is silent here as regards the military operations, the “Bulletin de la Grand Armee” is more informative: “Elver since the fighting at Malojaroslavetz, the vanguard had not caught sight of the enemy, save for the Cossacks, who, like the Arabs, hang about our flanks and annoy us by sniping. “On Nov. 2, at 2 p. m., 12.000 Russian infantry, covered by a swarm of Cossacks, cut the road, at a distance of one league from Viazma. between the Prince of Eckmuhl and the viceroy. The Prince of Eckmuhl and the viceroy ordered this column to be attacked. drove it off the road into the woods. . . . Since then the Russian infantry has not been seen, but only the Cossacks.” This is what had happened: The viceroy, Eugene de Beauharnais, was close to Viazma. but the Prince of Eckmuhl. Davout, had not got beyond Federowskoi, where Miloradowitch, “the Russian Murat,” debouched between them. Caught as between the two claws of a pair of tweezers, he received reinforcements which enabled him momentarily to occupy Viazma, so that both adversaries claimed to have been victorious. mm* THERE is no reference to this fighting in the letters of the next day, except: “My affairs are going well. In a few days’ time we shall be In position.” And he
DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —
WASHTNGTON, March I.—A little over a year ago it was proclaimed that Huey P. Long politically was dead. A brawl in a Long Lsland club's washroom was the cause of his “demise.” There is no weapon like ridicule, and Huey was subjected to a dose large enough to have 1 ided a political party. Medals suggestive of the washroom were struck off and passed around the country. Hueys colleagues in the Senate gave him absent treatment. Whenever he made a speech they rattled newspapers, talked in whispers, or stared
blankly at the ceiling. It is doubtful if any legislator in American legislative history' has been subjected to such severe hazing. Today ail that has changed. Today when Huey harangues, the galleries are crowded. A hundred sightseers a day ask of Capitol guards: "When will Huey Long take the floor?” This might be chalked off as mere curiosity—the same instinct which impels crowds at a circus. But now Huey also gets attention from his colleagues. And. most indicative of all. he gets it from the "Little Congress." "Little Congress” is the organization of clerks, stenographers, doorkeepers and other functionaries who make the wheels go round on Capitol Hill. To them Senators are no treat. They have to humor them, nurse them, slave for them, until they are sick of seeing them. But the other night these Senate functionaries hung around the Capitol long past working hours until 9 o'clock in order to listen to Huey P. Long. Baa 'T'HE most notable achievement A of the Kingfish at this session of Congress has been his final admission into the Progressive bloc. Last year its members ignored him. Huey made speech after speech supporting their causes, but they turned the cold shoulder. This year It Is different. One progressive Senator, asked why Huey had gained the inner circle, explained: "When a guy just persists in working for the things you are working for, you can't ignore him forever.” Also the K.ngfish shows shrewd strategy in making friends. When Senator Bronson Cutting returned from his bitter clash with Roosevelt forces for re-election in New Mexico, Huev Long was the only Senator to take the floor and denounce the President. Senator Cutting will not forget that speech. On a lot of things he does not agree with Huey Long. He loathes much of what juey
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s the eagles of France, those imperial emblems which only a few weeks before had been borne so proudly through a smiling autumn, *d back through Russia on the great retreat from Moscow, nothing but white desolation spread out around them. The northern w ing, killing, set in; supplies began to run low. Napoleon's troops, weary and mute, were “a dying army trudging through natural lings that were dead.” J. Rouffet's painting, reproduced above, po rtravs vividly a scene along the march.
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Is already turning his attention to the enchanting place whereat he might receive Marie Louise and her father in Poland: Mon amie, I have received your letter of the 19th. I was glad to read the favorable account you give me of the state of your health and that of my son. We are having very fine weather here, bright sunshine with 2 or 3 degrees below freezing point, this is very helpful with regard to our movements. W : e shall have taken up our position in a few days’ time. Y’ou will be very pleased to find we are 190 leagues nearer, you were fearing lest I should be moving away still further. My affairs are going w t cll. My health is perfect. Take care of yourself and keep well. Kiss the Little King twice for me. Tout a toi. NAP. Half-way from Viasma to Dorogobuseh, Nov. 3rd. (1812). Mon amie, I have just received your letter of October 20th. I am expecting you to inform me at any moment that my son has cut his teeth and the slight distemper that has been trying his health is a thing of the past. The weather keeps very fine. My health is perfect; such an autumn is unheard of—bright sunshine and only 2 to 3 degrees below freezing point—this makes marching easy and not fatiguing. Pray write often to your father and to Vienna. Supposing you were to come to Poland. would your father wish to come and see you there for a few days. Adio, mio bene. Tout a toi. NAP. November 3rd. (1812). Ma bonne amie, I have received
stands for. But in Bronson Cutting. Huey now has a friend whom he can count on. a a a A LL-IN-ALL, Huey Long has become a force to be reckoned with. There are two main reasons for this. One is absurd on the surface, but actually important. First is the fact that Huey has taken advantage of Roosevelt's recent conservative trend by launching a radical appeal to the old "Forgotten Man.” Second is the fact that Huey has gone on the wagon. This is not a ioke. Huey Long sober is a complete transformation of Huey Long drunk. For despite his veneer of clownishness—frequently deliberate Huey has brains. When they are not befogged with alcohol he knows how to use them. The result is that a lot of Administration Democrats are hoping against hope that Huey will fall off the wagon. So far this hope has been in vain. For Huey not only has decreed that his staff in Louisiana follow his example. but he has started to reform Washington. aaa WHAT Huey Long is doing is splitting the Democratic party. He is using the same "bore-from-wi'hin” tactics -which Hitler used back in the days when every one laughed at him. He has set up the rich against the poor. He has no basic idea as to how to distribute wealth, but as long as there is unemployment and starvation his oratory will have a following. Asa result. Mr. Roosevelt is worried. More than one Whits House conference has been held recently to consider the all too possible eventuality that Huey Long, by capturing Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and one or two other states, may take enough votes away from Roosevelt in 1936 to let a Republican slip back into the White House. (Copyright, 1935, t>v L.med Feature Syndicate. Xnc.>
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY. MARCH 1. 1935
your letter of October 22nd. It would have given me as much pleasure as to yourself to make the journey to Fontainebleau, but it is no longer to be thought of this year, that of next year will be all the pleasanter. I hope you will soon inform me that my son has cut his teeth and recovered his good temper. The weather is still fine here. But I think it will be bad before long. My health is very good. Tout a toi. NAP. November sth. (1812). n u n ■tTERY different from the preY ceding letters was the imperial missive penned on Nov. 7, at 1 a. m., which betrays both anxiety and discontent; discontent with the Minister of War, anxiety for Marie Louise. The remains of the Grand Army were dragging along, soaked to the skin, and shivering. Their strength failing them, men would fall down, to be soon covered up by the snow. In this “dying army trudging through natural surroundings that were dead.” to quote General de Segur. a man trudged along, with a stick in his hand, and clad in a fur-lined coat and astrakhan bonnet. It was the Emperor. He was arm-in-arm with the King of Naples, when Count Daru brought him a letter from the Empress. What did she write? She was living quietly at Saint Cloud when a detachment of the guard rushed into the courtyard of the chateau. In her dressing gown, her hair disheveled, she hastened out on to the balcony in a state of extreme agitation. The Emperor was reported to be dead and the Empire to have come to an end. Everybody was unnerved; Cambaceres, Savary, Pasquier, Hulin, the arch-chancellor, the jurists, the prefect of the Seine department, all took the news to be true without verifying it. Yet an old adjutant, Laborde, had his doubts. He had recognized an ex-prisoner. And very soon the guilty party,* General Malet, was arrested with his accomplices. The fact remained, none the less, that alone, without money or credit, a rnan who had been in prison came very near to bringing down the pillars of the Empire. This it is to which reference is made in a letter of the Emperor’s, written in a house surrounded by a palisade, which had served -as a postoffice. It affords no inkling of the fact that the news had so deeply affected the Emperor that it was not long before he left behind the remnant of the Grand Army and returned post-haste to Paris.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
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Mon amie, I have received your letter of Oct. 23. I am sorry the Minister of War sent an aide-de-camp to you about the soldiers who offended Hulin (?). He should have informed the Duchess or Baussois (?) of the affair. All this, I fear, will have upset you, though I know your disposition. You see, I am drawing closer. Tomorrow' I shall be at Smolensk, or more than 400 leagues nearer Paris. The weather is beginning to show signs of impending snow. My health is good. I read your letters with as much pleasure as you can have in reading mine. Henceforward I shall receive yours in 12 days, instead of 17. When the sledge transport (?) has come in and I have taken up my winter quarters. I shall receive them in 8 or 10. Adieu, ma bonne Louise, kiss my son twice and above all never doubt all the love I bear you. Tout a toi. NAP. Nov. 7, 11 a. m. (1812). n b n NAPOLEON followed the devastated road that led to Smolensk, which he reached on Nov. 9. In summer, the town had struck him as charming and its environs as rich and abounding in cereals. What a disappointment! Instead of resources he found nothing but scenes of desolation: thousands of sick and wounded had been brought here. Supplies were almost exhausted. Vanished in mm smoke were the promised land, the expected manna. And two mor? enemy armies were hastening up to cut off the retreating army. It was necessary to hasten away before the last avenue to safety was closed. On the 14th, the Emperor left Smolensk, leaving to Ney the duty of blowing up the city walls. The situation was getting worse. Os this, not a word from Napoleon to Marie Louise: Mon amie, I have received your letter of October 29th. It gives me pleasure to see you are satisfied with the French and that you esteem them. As for myself you think altogether too highly of me, but that is the effect of your partiality, which I value very much, for my happiness is bound up with your sentiments. You know well how fondly attached to you I am on my part. Kiss my son, I long to see him, he will, by that time be very big and very good, I hope. Adio mio bene. Tout a toi. NAP. Smolensk, November 12th. (1812). Ma bonne amie, I have just received your letter of the 30th. I see you have been to the Salon; tell me what you think of it, you
a connoisseur for you paint pretty well. The cold here is pretty sharp—B degrees below freezing point, which is rather lucky. My health is very good. Kiss my son, tell me how he is getting on with his teething. Adio, mio bene. * NAP. Smolensk, November 14th. (1812). nan 'T'HE' next letter is dated from Orcha (Oracha). A mere allusion to the raids of the Cossacks. Asa matter of fact, the break-up was beginning. A proclamation issued at Orcha on Nov. 19 admitted the sad truth: “A great many of you have deserted your colors and proceed alone, thus betraying your duty, the honor and safety of the Army. Such disorders must come to an end. . . . Offenders will be put under arrest and punished summarily.” On that day, Napoleon consigned to the fire all the papers he had collected with a view to writing the history of his life. And now let us read his letter to Marie Louise. Ma bonne amie. The Cossacks have swooped down upon our communications, which prevents me from hearing from you. I am in good health and drawing nearer to you. In a few days’ time communications will be opened up. Adio, mio bene. Tout a toi. NAP. Orcha, November 20th. (1812) Pass on the news to the Queen of Naples and the Vice-Reine. Show my letters to the Archchancellor. (Tomorrow —Supreme Disaster). Natlonale; in all other countries by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.) LIST SPEAKERS FOR LENTEN SERVICES Noon-Day Series to Start on March 12. The Rev. George S. South worth, Church of the Advent rector, has been added to the committee in charge of this year’s Lenten service held each day at noon at the Christ Episcopal Church on tht? Monument circle. The Lenten season begins March 12. Speakers for this year's meetings will include: The Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Francis, bishop of Indianapolis; the Rt. Rev. Thomas Casady, bishop of Oklahoma; the Rt. Rev. William Scarlett, bishop of Missouri; the Very Rev. Chester B. Emerson, dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland; the Very Rev. Kirk B. OFerrall, dean cf St. Paul’s Cathedral, Detroit, and the Rev. Harold L. Bowen, rector of St. Mark’s Church, Evanston," 111. Other members of the local committee are Bishop Francis, Arthur D. Pratt, the Rev. William Burrows, the Rev. E. Ainger Powell, Mrs J. F. Morrison, and Robert C. Alexander. NEW MODELS VIEWED BY GRUNOW DEALERS 200 Guests of Distributor at Columbia Club Dinner. Eight electrical refrigerators and 13 radio receivers were exhibited Wednesday night as the 1935-36 line of Grunow merchandise at a dinner of more than 200 Grunow dealers in the Indianapolis area at the Columbia club. The event was sponsored by the Griffith Distributing Corp., local Grunow' distributor. Speakers were George Deacon. Grunow central division sales manager; H. C. Bonfig, vice president in charge of sales; Allen Messick, a member of the executive council; F. H. McCarthy, factory engineer, and Otis Nusbaum, Ft. Wayne, a representative of the Franklin Investment Corp. William C. Griffith, Griffith president, was in charge of the meeting. Anthony Adverse Is Banned By L'nitrri Prr*t DUBLIN, March l.—Hervey Allen’s best seller, Anthony Adverse, was banned from the Irish Free State today. -No reason was given.
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Entered Second-Clss* Matter at Pestnffiee, Indianapolis, Ind.
Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER IT turns out that our honest man, Frank Greges, wasn't so honest after all. but out of his head. Our honest man was slopping along- the street one day recently, packing sandwich boards fore and aft for $6 a week, when he kicked up a wallet containing $42,000 in negotiable stuff which had been dropped in the slush by a broker’s messenger. A little too eagerly, we pegged him for an honest man, put him in the newsreels and the papers and made a June-bug celebrity of him, although a lot of us privately insisted that It was
8 to 5 that anybody who was down to packing a sandwich sign for $5 a week must be crazy to turn in $42,000 picked up on the street. It wasn’t the normal thing to do. If it had been normal, there would have been no story in it. However, we fixed him up with a S2O job and a suit of clothes and some odd presents of money and the first thing anybody knew, our honest man popped a string and began to rave. He yelled that he was God and that he could kill anybody with a look and. sure enough, when a man
rl >shing up to see what was loose with him. tad TthTl. T ANARUS„‘ he eiar " on hlm 'M h,m dead If this had happened a few centuries K C J'™ W *""* f ""™ ™ “Kir laces an S lo kiil t s ™ SC 11 ]M Y rvM >' m,,l > *ho ran threaten 10 T, l a , per^° n wuh a look and make good called hterfX hm k fh- 3S th ° Uph the old ma n had tMkthP H?.? thls 1S an age of science so they un With thJ d r man apar J at the mor e ue and came hL i he reassunn P discovery that he had been expired ofVoPt m^ ute . anyway and had merely hear that * excitement. It was a relief to an Might Disturb Their Gtands 'T'HE doctors who put our honest man In a that ie h J ad Ck h et an V elt of his head reported that he had been made violent by the sudden disturbance in his diet and way of living Anklinc a t^ ro U gh the crowds with his head down and talking to himself as a sandwich man for $5 a week he was just a harmless old josser whose eccentricity in°the°snow Se f ° rm tha ” the retUrn of $421(K)0 lound There might be a big, broad lesson in this if you tnrn e h° mu J tip J y th e one case by several million. It t “^ ed °“ fc t 0 be a cruel thing to pamper our honest man that way and there is no measuring the distress that might be caused if wholesale numbers of people who are better off miserable were suddenly treated as Mr. Greges was. It might disturb their glands. Now our honest man is filed away from the routine wretchedness w r hich he enjoyed along the Bowery and may never be allowed to strap on his sandwich boards and shuffle along the streets again He is nuts in a sane world, a misfit who couldn’t possibly understand the world today. He could never realize that the way to get out of debt is to borrow and spend more money, that the way to relieve hunger is to destroy food, that the way to recovery is to increase prices of commodities which people couldn't find the money to buy if they cost only half as much. b an Cruel to Relieve Poverty HE would think, in his wild, rambling way, that the way to preserve the peace would be to destroy the guns instead of building more and if you were to ask him about the Townsend plan he would give you the crazy answer that you can't expect taxpayers to pay other people, without dependents, more money for loafing than the taxpayers, themselves, receive to support their families and pay their taxes. Our hone ,f man would give you all these wrong answers because he is, unfortunately, out of his mind with no ability to reason things out in an orderly way. It mast be pretty terrible to be nuts in a world of rational, intelligent people and unable to appreciate the meaning of sound reasoning. Old Frank, being nuts, would squirm in his strait-jacket and try to beat his swirling head against the quilted walls of the padded room if you were to sit down and explain to him why it Is an unfortunate thing for veterans of the w*ar to demand a bonus of a dollar a day, but all right for Eugene G. Grace of Bethlehem Steel Company to receive bonuses of $3,669,000 for 3 years’ work manufacturing munitions. Old Frank’s explosion demonstrates how cruel It may be to the poor themselves to relieve their poverty. It will be a conscientious relief to know that the cure might be more heartless than the disease. Nobody wishes to treat them heartlessly. (Copvright. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
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Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ
A NUMBER of readers have written me Lstters commenting upon a recent article in which I summarized Prof. Harrison Hale’s study of the nationality of Nobel prize winners. Prof. Hale pointed out that Germany has won the lion’s share of Nobel prizes with a score of 34 prizes out of % total of 145. England tj*as second with 19, France third with 18*3 and the United States fourth with 16. One correspondent writes, “It Is true that 39 persons in Germany have been honored with the Nobel prize. In some cases the prize was awarded jointly to two winners. But 14 of those 39 were Jews and since the present German government has no use for Jewish scientists these 14 should be subtracted from the German list. “It is also interesting to note that while the 60.000.000 Aryans of Germany, as Mr. Hitler prefers to call them, produced 24 Nobel prize winners, the 590,000 Jews of Germany produced 14.” While I did not state the number of German winners who were Jews in my original article, I did call attention to the fact that a number of them were Jews, and, as in the case of Prof. Albert Einstein, no longer welcome in Germany. a a a I FEEL sute that Prof. Hale would agree with me that too great emphasis should not be placed upon the nationality of Nobel prize winners. The approach to the situation should not be one of narrow partisanship. But since the prize represents some great discovery in the field of physics, chemistry, or medicine, the writing of some great book, or the advancement of the cause of world peace, we should be interested in encouraging the type of work and creating the conditions which lead to those achievements. If some other nation is winning more prizes than we are, we should ask ourselves why. We should not do this because we are jealous of another nation. We should do it in the interests of all humanity. a a a IN the end. the progress of science is international. It has always been so and probably always will be so. Each scientist builds upon the discoveries of his predecessors and national boundaries do not play much part. Call the role in any field you please and it Is so. Roentgen, the German, discovered X-rays. That paved the way for the discovery of radio-activity by Becqueral. the Frenchman. TTiat in turn led to the discovery of radium by Curie the Frenchman, and his Polish wife. Rutherford of England analyzed the rays of radium. Thomson of England and Lorintz of Holland demonstrated the existence of the electron and Millikan of America was the first to isolate It. A similar international role ca i be called in the field of astronomy or chemistry or medicine or whatever field you please, &
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