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THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1636

A NEW LEAF TN its approach to the problem of its jobless, the United States has turned fc over anew leaf. Unsatisfied with Red Cross and charity handouts, soup kitchens and doles, even with improvised madework projects at subsistence wages, this country begins today a nation-wide system of unemployment Insurance, based upon industry's resopnsibility for Its casuals. Under the new Wagner-Lewis-Doughton Social Security Act, taxes for unemployment insurance are collectable as of now on some 20 billions of pay rolls, covering about 17,500,000 wage workers, the first taxes to be paid a year from this month. The unemployment insurance clauses of the new act are far from perfect. So many classes are exempted that only about a third of all the gainfully employed are covered. Because the act guards the states’ rights principle there will be a checkerboard of 49 different systems with only a lowest common denominator of standards. So far only eight states and the District of Columbia have unemployment insurance laws. Maximum benefits under these laws range from *ls to $lB a week for from 13 to 20 weeks in ar- year. But since the Federal government gives a credit to employers in states with approved laws up to 80 per cent of their taxes it is expected that the states will waste little time in passing suitable laws, so as to keep their tax money at home. There is nothing radical about this American adventure. Compulsory unemployment insurance laws operate in 10 European countries, voluntary systems in nine. The offset method, by which the Federal government hopes to bring all states into the unemployment insurance picture, has been used for years here in the collection of estate taxes. u a tt TOO much should not be expected of the new system. The word “insurance” is a misnomer. Steady work and living incomes must come through social controls, industrial planning, collective bargaining for higher wages, a unified and co-operative effort between management, labor and government. Even then, we believe, we must hold reserves for planned public works to care for the jobless through longer periods of depression. But the new way will cushion the shock of temporary loss of jobs for these millions of families. Senator Wagner estimates that if the United States had had a uniform system of jobless insurance for all the states with a 3 per cent pay roll tax it would have braved the depression in 1929 with industrial reserves of more than two and a half billion dollars. Such reserves of mass buying power might have shortened the depression by years, saved billions in relief and conserved the morale of millions of families. Enemies of this new system should realize that we have spent in the last two and one-half years more than seven billion dollars for relief. We are catching up with Europe. We have turned a corner. Herbert Hoover and the other sufferers from the “Golden Age” psychosis to the contrary, we will never go back to the careless ways of social unpreparedness. A MAN WHO CONQUERED “QWEET are the uses of adversity," wrote Shakespeare. In some lives that is proved true with startling clarify. James E. West, orphan and cripple, today has been chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America for 25 years. Placed in an orphan asylum without knowing any living relative, he succeeded in getting an education, studied law, and at 30 was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. President Theodore Roosevelt called Dr. West "one of the most disinterested and patriotic citizens to whom this country stands under a debt of gratitude.” Any person who has had a son go through the Boy Scout ranks or who lias had the opportunity to observe the sons of others will feel grateful for the spirit of goodness, virility and reverence with which James West has permeated the organization. INEXPLAIN ABLE TT'S not the $45 out of the SSO that has put the SSO •*■ a plate Jackson Day Dinner in the category of political mistakes. It’s the $5. The other $45 goes to the campaign fund. Any one who reads knows that by now. But what about the sum that’s left? Five dollars for a dinner! And for Democrats! To the average voter, to the ordinary rank and file of us, who feel more than fortunate about a 35cent shopper's luncheon, or in times of great unbending a dollar table d'hote at the Imperial Hotel, $5 for a dinner is indeed a Lucullan feast, as the press agent for the G. O. P., under the inspiration of his Blue Points and his shad roe, alleges. And to those less flush who still turn away, blessing thur daily bread, from a 10 cent bowl of chili—with beans—or a 15-ce::t barbecue in Nick's Diner down next to the alley next to the laundry, or to one who has regaled himself beside the grocery stove on a nickel’s worth of crackers and cheese—the $5 figure for a single meal is all the more out of proportion. No, the Democratic National Committee management can explain $45 of the SSO but the.; never can live down $5 for just one dinner. OUR LIBERTIES WE propose right now to have our say about two bills pending before Congress, because if these bills are made into law we shall probably not be allowed to say it. The measures, fellow Americans, are what are known as the “Federal Gag Bill,” a brace of dangerous assaults on the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, falsely wrapped in the red-white-and-blue of patriotism. They are: 1. The McCormack-Tydings bill to “punish for exerting mutinous influence upon the Army and Navy,” and for inciting "the members thereof to disobedience.” 2. The Kramer-Russell sedition bill, subjecting a citizen to 10 years’ imprisonment if he advocates the overthrow of the American government by “force or violence.” The McCormack-Tydings “military disaffection bill” has been called by Congressmen Maverick and

Kvale, who are war veterans, “a brash piece of Hitleristlc Fascism.” Ostensibly aimed at Communists and other subversive groups who might try to propagandize the Army and Navy, it could well be used to intimidate all critics of these two arms of the national defense. Under them the Federal courts could be used to buldgeon into silence not only anti-militarists but any patriotic citizen who honestly tried to prevent graft, waste, profiteering, brutality, insanitary conditions and other evils. The anti-sedition bill apes a score or so of state “criminal syndicalism” laws that broke out like a rash In the post-war hysteria only to become dead letters or be diverted as weapons against organized labor. Rep. Celler denounces this bill as a threat to free speech and press, a menace to minorities and a dangerous trend toward the “Fascist -concept of law.’ Let none be lulled into a feeling of security about his rights under the Constitution to speak and write freely in the United States. These bills are powerfully and cleverly supported by the American Legion, the Chamber of Commerce, so-called patriotic societies and a certain section of the press. The very elements, it would seem, that cry out in the Constitution’s name against industrial reforms by Congress demand that Congress nullify the spirit of the Bill of Rights under measures like these. Enactment of either of these bills would mark passage of the first Federal peacetime gag law since the disgraceful Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. These acts caused a reign of terror, and eventually led to the downfall or the Federalist Party, Let the men of Congress read and learn from history. HIGH COST OF NEUTRALITY SELDOM has Congress tackled a bigger, more complex or more important job than the scheduled legislation designed to keep us out of the next big foreign war. It already has laid the foundation for such legislation. By joint resolution of Aug. 31, 1935, it was made mandatory upon the President to proclaim an embargo on arms, ammunition and implements of war. And this the President has done in the case of Italy and Ethiopia. He has gone even further. He has warned Americans that they travel on the ships of these belligerents, or engage in any kind of trade with them, at their own peril. This stop-gap measure, which proved quite adequate for keeping us out of the isolated Italo-Ethio-pian conflict, will have to be broadened and clarified if we are to have a neutrality policy that will be effective in event of another real World War. Congress now proposes to draft such an all-embrac-ing law. Almost certainly loans and credits to belligerents will be barred and the list of taboo war materials considerably extended. Right there Congress will bump into one of its biggest obstacles. If we are to stay out of the next big war, declared Bernard M. Baruch, one of America's foremost captains of business, we shall have to stop trading with foreign nations almost altogether. That would be costly. To many, it would spell disaster unless the Federal government went to their rescue. Cotton and foodstuffs are just as important to the successful pursuit of war as cannon and high explosives. Yet if cotton were embargoed, our Southern plantations would be seriously hurt. And if foodstuffs were stopped, agricultural prices would be certain to fall. tt A SSUMING, therefore, that Congress passed such legislation, could it stand the strain? The purchasing power of one-third the total population of America would be greatly lessened. This would react on industry. The industrial East would join with the agricultural West and South in the effort to repeal any such neutrality measure. A prodigious amount of horse sense will be required of Congress if a practicable law is to be framed. To pass one that merely looks good on paper would be worse than none at all. It would create for us a fool’s paradise, nothing more. It seems pretty clear that the President should be given power to ban loans and credits and to add to his list of “key materials.” And, if it is neutrality we are seeking, it is likewise plain that any embargoes applied against one belligerent must be applied against all belligerents. Otherwise, we would quickly become partisans, instead of neutrals. Cotton, foodstuffs and a wide range of commodities vital in war might be placed in a category apart, if the neutrality law is to be workable. When not declared actual contraband, their export might well be limited to normal peacetime quotas, preferably on a cash-and-carry basis. The only alternative to some such arrangement is to remunerate agriculture and certain other legitimate activities hard hit by the reduction of foreign commerce. It would cost billions. But there is one consolation. Whatver the expense, it would cost American taxpayers less than the 100 billions which the late Calvin Coolidge estimated the World War will cost them before the bill is finally paid. And it may be the means of saving thousands of American lives. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson T REACH instinctively for the salt shaker when I hear that American women own 40 per cent, of the national wealth. If it is true, however, that we can actually lay claim to any such sum, you may be sure that men are managing it for us. Where the handling of funds is concerned, the average male classifies us with children. Perhaps he's right. But for people who can’t always make change, women seem to have done pretty well for themselves in a financial way. Sometimes it looks as if it were the men who were dumb about money matters. In spite of this being the Twentieth Century, women are subservient in the business world. Though the courts have made many legal concessions, public opinion still holds that few of us have sense enough to take care of an inheritance, or invest savings, or run a corporation. That’s why you invariably find these stories about “Woman Makes Good” or “Widow Carries on Her Husband's Trade” given front page position in the papers. They are on a par with the “Man Bites Dog” flash. Moreover, that the working woman doesn’t have a fair chance with the working man is common knowledge. Lower wages, fewer opportunities and slimmer pickings are her lot. Fortune Magazine disclosed recently that no woman, however remarkable her ability, can hope to earn a very large annual income. The male still dominates in business and will continue to* do so for some time, I dare say. Once we have accepted this as true, we prove one of two things. Either we have pretty good business sense after all, or we’ve made suckers out of a lot of men. How else explain that within less than half a century we have taken possession of so much national wealth? Peace in itself is not an ideal. It is a state which results from the achievement of ideals of the rule of reason, justice and law within and among nations.—The Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, archbishop of Canterbury. '

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

MY chronic insomnia has enabled me to digest the many “bests” of the old year selected by the knowing young men on the Indianapolis newspapers—best films, best football players, best everything. I would like to find out who started this “best” business. This morning at 3, when I awoke and could not go back to sleep, I had a good time checking up on been best and why. I was left with just a trace of gloom, however. What is going to become of us if there is no credit to the wheel horse, the fellow who is just good but who can not hope to be rated best? tt 'T'HIS is a genuine problem in psychology. I have a little friend, a boy, who at 10 does not look forward to the pinnacles. .He has plenty of latent talent, which education may bring out. But when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he answered, “Just a plain man.” There is wisdom from the mouth of a babe. Time was when to be just a plain man was a desirable ambition. But now, when everybody is graded, the good, plain man may be made to feel inferior, which is one of the worst fates that can descend upon a human. Another boy of considerable wit—a lad who, by the way, perished in a motor wreck not long ago—was asked the same question so many times that he became irritated. The son of a distinguished lawyer, he astonished the head-patter by saying that when he grew up he wanted to be a wiper in a roundhouse. tt a tt nnHIS is the time of year when huntsmen come home with more rabbits than they can use and give them to their friends. If you watch closely you will see men going home from their offices with rabbits, wrapped in newspapers, under their arms, in the summer it’s fish; in the winter it’s rabbits. Although one’s family may have no tolerance for rabbits, one must be polite and accept with feigned joy, at the same time praising the prowess of the hunter. That’s what he wants anyhow. Long ago I developed a fine protective technique in this gift bunny business. My natural thrift prevented my dropping the unwanted rabbits over the railing of a bridge. So I made a practice of stopping at the nearest fire station and passing the delicacy along to the firemen. That rid me of the rabbits and raised my standing with the firemen. They naturally thought I had shot them. tt a npHE trouble with wild game is that it is out of the average person’s line of eating habits. A Nimrod once brought back a deer from Canada and presented us with what I suppose should be called a haunch of venison. Well, we accepted it with thanks. I do. not remember how we disposed of it; probably to the firemen. The next day the hunter’s wife called up and asked us to dinner. Too dense to decline, we arrived to find the remainder of that deer—or most of it—carried in state to the table. So we had to choke down venison after all. TT'ORTUNATELY, the guests were not solemn about it. They saw the humor of a group of everyday Indiana citizens sawing away at a deer. Irrepressible Kenneth Merrill was in the crowd, as I recall, and he dubbed this great dish from the forests of the North “the ancient withers of a Fatagonian puma.” Merrill, by the way, has a curious hobby. Wherever he goes he nunts up the principal church, or cathedral, and gets permission to play the pipe organ. He has played organs all over America and Europe. For a manufacturer of plumbing supplies to play the organ in St. Paul’s, London, is quite an achievement. But he did it. OTHER OPINION On Controlled Production [Chester C. Davis! There is a definite school of thought among economists that the way to recovery lies in increasing sales of both agricultural and nonagricultural goods by keeping prices as low as costs of large scale production will permit. On the face of it, that sounds like a good arrangement for every one. Certainly there is nothing novel in the idea as far as the farmer is concerned. It is the principle he has generally followed. The novelty would be in its application to nonagricultural production. Take, for example, the farm implement manufacturers. If they were to adopt the practice of operating all plants at capacity throughout the year, throwing the output on the market when produced for what it would bring, and if other manufacturers did likewise, certainly farmers would be less minded to co-operate in adjusting their own production to demand t’J'-n Z believe they axe today.

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The Hoosier Forum

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to ZSO words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt tt ADVISES THAT U. S. DO SOME SWORD RATTLING By Jimmy Cafouros This talk about neutrality and peace in due time cloys the appetite. A respectable neutrality or a dignified peace is really what the pacifists, both selfish and altruistic, probably mean. It is evident that self-respect is too high a price to pay for peace, and that even neutrality has its borderline. The Lord once said. “If a man slaps you on one cheek, turn ye to him the other cheek.” And I am sure that the Lord would have said that if this man developed a habit of slapping your cheek that you would do well both to yourself and to him if you punched him on the nose. It does not take much imagination to see our grandfathers ana their forefathers bouncing violently in their graves, rattling their bones and gnashing their teeth at some of our antics. Japan roars and we listen. Germany shakes a battleship or some new gadget at us and we wonder. Mussolini fires a salvo and we scurry to our mole hills of neutrality in the land of peace. We dread war. In fact we dread war so much that it is becoming an. obsession, a trait of our generation ,and inherent characteristic of our times. If our forefathers had taken the attitude we take we hardly would be an independent nation today. They lived by God and by right and feared no man. “By the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” They feared the Lord and kept their powder dry. They well realized that the Lord helps those that help themselves. The time has come for Uncle Sam to quit singing neutrality and worrying about the peace of the world. It’s time now to put the house in order, to buckle on his own armor, to go into the international market place and do a little sword rattling on his own score. It is time for Uncle Sam to tell some of the Hitlers and Mussolinis and premiers and prime ministers and dictators that they shall pay or else. That they shall pay this nation what they owe.*** Then the veterans can get their bonus. What Uncle Sam owes the veterans is but a flicker aside of what the other nations owe Uncle Sam. Sometimes one sees a comparison

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WHERE WILL IT END?

I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

between the veterans of the Revolution and those of the late war. Neither one got much out of the mess. However, there is this distinction. The Revolutionary veterans knew they were going to get nothing. Because they knew there was nothing. B a ADVANCES MRS. COOLIDGE AS G. O. P. CANDIDATE By Martin R. Kuehn, Richmond Recently Gen. Hugh Johnson reported in The Times that most of Roosevelt’s recovery plans had gone haywire. The 1936 elections were approaching. He had scanned the horizons and there was nobody other than Roosevelt in sight. Not even a dark horse to cast a shadow across his path. Hugh simply forgot to look around the corner. There are at least 99 men in the state of Ohio alone who can smile as desperately as my candidate Roosevelt. Some of them have a better radio voice. Hardly one of them, however, would be so reckless as to try to Hde two white horses running in opposite directions. That’s what my candidate Roosevelt has been doing. I have been reading The Times quite regularly for several years. As a Roosevelt man I read most of the pro-Roosevelt editorials. But it has seemed to me that the editor has been just too much “all sweet and light” in one corner. It seems to me he’s been neglecting his country. Do you twig me? Many Roosevelt admirers have been doing him a disservice by signing on the dotted line—it mattered not what the contents, as long as it bore the New Deal label. My candidate is in the market for some honest-to-goodness criticism from the pens of Mr. Roosevelt’s friends. This, for the editor of The Times. Long ago The Times had a duty to take Roosevelt to task for his Navy’s (it’s his Navy, isn’t it?) insulting gestures to Imperial Japan. Why did The Times editor wait until Senator Key Pittman, stool pigeon of the New Deal, blasted the flimsy pretense of Roosevelt’s “neighborliness” policy? A big drive has been on for months and montlis to pit the United States against Japan. Where have you been, Mr. Editor? For a full year now British diplomacy has been taking Uncle Sam for a ride. Why did not the editor of The Times announce in good time that “sanctions” was but a misleading term for “war.” Why did he not point out that

bers and surgeons were each to use a pole. The barbers were to have theirs blue and white striped with no other appendage; but the surgeon's pole, which was the same in other respects, was likewise to have a galley-pot and a red rag, to denote the particular nature of their vocation, Q —Does the common juniper tree bear fruit? A—The juniper communis of Europe and America, bears dark blue berries, about one-fourth-inch in diameter, which are used in flavoring gin. Q—Can justices of the United States Supreme Cour; retire on a pension? A—They are eligible for retirement w r ith full salary after they reach the age of 70 years. Q—When did the last total eclipse of the sun occur? A—Feb. 13-14, 1934. It was not visible in the United States as it occurred in the Pacific Ocean. Q—What are the ingredients of allspice? A—lt is the dried, nearly ripe fruit o' pimenta officinalis lindl, and is thought to combine the flavor of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Q—lt newsprint -a hyphenated word? * A—No.

England was as much a “belligerent” as Italy in this post-Versailles wrangle with Ethiopia? It has taken time to make a lot of editors and Roosevelt’s “neutrality” policy look ridiculous. What’s The Times editor going to do about the coming drive to make Hawaii into “the 49th state of the Union.” As for my candidate Roosevelt, permit me to point out that just around the corner is a whole chariot of dark horses. I’m taking a chance on naming the classiest in the stables. Here they are: Landon and Coolidge ; Donahey and Coolidge; Frank (Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin) and Coolidge. I have led these presidential thoroughbreds out for the purpose of warning the blind followers of Roosevelt that the 1936 campaign is not likely to be the one-sided affair as was the campaign of 1916. Glenn Frank and Grace Coolidge, as I see it, in the Republican chariot, is the pair that may leave the Roosevelt horse -and - buggy safely behind in a cloud of dust. A PRAYER BY GRACE M. COOK This day seemed long and wearisome, The hours dragged by on feet of lead; The same old, tame old slow humdrum, Tonight the same old bed. And yet there was the miracle Os rising sun and falling rain, And a fleecy, flying, sea-gull cloud Seen through my window pane. Dear God, let not this apathy Os spirit rule my day again; If loveliness I can not see, Then stab my heart with pain, DAILY THOUGHTS If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.—St. Matthew 17:20. FAITH evermore looks upward and describes objects remote; but reason can discover things only near—sees nothing that’s above her.—Quarles.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“I told him if he ever kept me waiting again I’d do something horrible. you think it ought to be?”

JAN. 2, 1936

Your... Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

SOME people believe that use of chlorinated water causes sterility and a decrease in the birth rate. Others have tried to blame the incidence of influenza on chlorination of water. Some people have asserted that cancer has resulted from using it. There is not the slightest reason to believe that any of these assertions is true. Chlorination protects water against dangerous germs. For that reason it is commonly adopted by all health departments to prevent epidemics of disease when a suitable supply of fresh water is not otherwise available. There are fanatics who flood their bodies with fluids and In their places of employment wear paths from their desks to the drinking fountain. tt tt B OVEREMPHASIS on water is just as bad as overemphasis on anything else. Water in excess of the body’s requirement in its chemistry is eliminated from the body by the kidneys, if they are functioning well. If the heart or kidneys do not function well, an excess of water may be a serious detriment to the human body. The human body also requires a certain amount of salt for its health, and an excess elimination of water after undue sweating may bring about severe headaches, abdominal pains, or cramp-?, which are an indication of an unsatisfied need of the body. If salt is added to drinking water for workers exposed to high degrees of heat it should be added in the proportion of a tcaspoonful to a quart of water. The fluid will then be retained in the body to a greater extent and the symptoms are not likely to appear. a a a DOCTORS commonly recommend the drinking of large amounts of water when people are sick, particularly with fevers. This is done because fever increases greatly the rate of evaporation of water from the body surface, and water is necessary in such cases to replace the fluid that is lost. The following foods contain more than 70 per cent water: Beef '.uice, berries, buttermilk, calf’s foot jelly, cream, eggs, fruit juices, fresh fruits, gruels, leafy vegetables, milk, shellfish, string beans, tomatoes, veal* and vegetable juices. These foods contain less than 30 per cent of water, as they are usually eaten: Butter, cakes, candy, ready-to-eat cereals, coconut, crackers and biscuits, dried fruits, nuts, popcorn, potato chips, pretzels, farmers’ sausage, smoked bacon, suet, sirups and zwieback.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE star of Bethlehem, we are told, led the \yisemen to the bedside of an infant. The tidings heard from the sky were said to have been, “On earth peace, good will toward men.” In recent years, it has been fashionable to blame many of the world s troubles on science. Science has made war more horrible. It has aggravated unemployment. The scientist is pictured as cold and unfeeling, interested only in his laboratory, careless of the fate of his fellowmen. I have chosen, therefore, to preach a sermon in defense of science. The situation was well summarized by Prof. Albert Einstein in an address before the students of the California Institute of Technology. "Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work, and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness?” he said. “The answer is: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. ’ It is not enough that you should understand about applied science, in order that your work may increase man’s blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this is the midst of your diagrams and equations.” Science has not only brought the world great technical advances, but also a spirit, its own guiding spirit, and in this there s hope for mankind. The spirit of science is, first of all, the wish to know, the urge to seek, the desire to comprehend the universe. To the true scientist, practical applications have always been secondary. He has sought primarily to understand nature and the universe.