Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1949 — Page 36

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Astronomer © Hits Russian

Attack on Western

al Astronomical Union should not!

West, emphasizes the American

_ says that he has found their as-

- tromomy, Dr.Struve finds, is the

“er who has developed his ideals

Wav

imho Jumbo ‘Outsiders’ Back Views, He Says

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — A of non-scientist “outwhose “mumbo jumbo” the support of ‘the Soviet t is to blame for. reRussian attacks on Western » believes a Russian- | American astronomer. - Dr. Struve, director of the| ive of Chicago's Yerkes tory at Williams Bay, told Science Service that abuse is being heaped on Western Astronomy and astronomers by Soviet officials appointed to Keep Communistic doctrine alive In ussian astronomy. Rarely trained scientists, these Soheinmant hacket outsiders to field “have not enough knowledge to co-ordinate the antiquat- & scientific views of Marx, En- ;, Lenin and Stalin with ," Dr. Btruve declares,

Urges Scientists Speak To combai “the threat to seience” in this development, Dr. urges American astronomers prepare for publication “a more or less official statement to give voice to the American point, of view.” He proposed that the statement be drafted by a com-

, might include persons of political opinions. One member might be Harlow Shap- , director of the Harvard ColObservatory, ‘or others who re bi or public opinion,” Dr, Struve says.

Because of the Soviet ' astron-|

omy. ‘position, he feels that the! next meetings of the Internation-|

held in Russia, as is now)

Reeognized Russian leaders in Ascronbmy are vastly different from the officials attacking the

L Dr. Struve has met] and visited with delegations of them several times in the past few years and bas done research since the war with Academic G. A. Bhajn. ! Postwar relations with Russian astronomers have been ‘entirely harmonious,” a group who visited

entirely friendly manner,” Dr. Struve recalls.

While the Soviets have made great official claims, Dr. Struve

tronomers personally “often too modest.” Eut the attackers of Western views of the universe are men who would have been called “political commissars” in. earlier] days, the American astronomy adn: explains. Unlike genetics, here a major controversy is raging between the Soviet's party views and accepted theories, the astronomy differences are not clean:cut, Dr. Struve feels, Soviet officials uphold materialism and won't admit that there are any problems a follower of Marx and Stalin cannot solve, Absord "he “it =» simply that the official Soviet mind abhors anything that is left unexplained.” : Sharpest indication of the “party influence” in Soviet as-

scceptance of theories of Academician Otto Y. Schmidt. Mr. Echmidt is a famous Artic explor-

of such matters as the origin of, the solar system, While Mr. Schmidt has become “well known for his brave exploits in the Arctic,” his theories of astronomy are another matter, Struve

emphasizes. . The American astronomer. has studied Mr. Schmidt's theories in some detail, because “he was kind enough to send to me autographed copies” of some of his work. Dr. Struve found Mr. Schmidt's astronomical “rather naive and usually completely wrong." | The Schmidt theories were disproved by Boviet astronomers at 8 meeting recently of the Moscow Institute of Astrophysics.

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