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MONDAY, AUG, 10, 1936.
THE "MILITARISTIC PACIFISTS"
James Melton.
Stress was laid, in a recent James Melton,
speech by Sir Samuel Hoare, .Stuart Robertson. First Lord of the Admiralty.
Stuart Robertson. the point
on
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long in 80 Derek Oldham has Derek Oldham naval rebuilding that she is now faced with the task of Molly Picon. building what virtually amounts to a new fleet. He added that it is Molly Picon. a matter of life and death that Sam Browne. this rebuilding should proceed on the right lines, and intimated that the Admiralty is therefore avail- ing itself of the teaching of experi ence, of the discoveries and inven- Lions of science, and of the lessons of actual experiment to ensure that the soundest methods of con- struction be followed.
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the nation's traditions and that no expense will be spared to ensure the security both of the Mother- -and-and-the-Empire overseas
Coincident with this programme of naval reconstruction, there is to be big expansion of the Air Force and increased attention to land defences, When all is sold and done, however, the fundamental fact, as Sir Samuel Hoare has pointed out, is that it is upon the
DON'T BLAME
US POOR SCIENTIST
HOMES, built by Scienco in Clapham, S.W.--
by Prof. B. W. HOLMAN
or to destroy those ver. mirious ani- mals which infect man with epidemies devastating as a war, have instead directed towards human
been into the
The Government grants nearly five times na 'much money for research powers of death as it grants for research into the powers of life. set selentists are blamed for the Imagine iniquity of selence.
what might happen if they were Cree to devote all their energies to increasing the good in the world instead of the evil!
W
HEN people And somelbing going wrong with their scheme of living, their fist Instinct is to look for some- one to hinme.
Threatened to-day with the destruction, not only of every- thing they value, but of their very existence, the world-with apparent logic is beginning to turn against the persons who brought these forces of destruc- tion into being.
The unhappy scientist dream- Ing of emancipating mankind. awakes to find himself regarded as a menace when he hoped to be upheid as a liberator.
Emerging from the isolation, of his laboratory, he is learning' with Increasing horror the reason. for this unexpected unpopularity.
EVER
·VERYWHERE the powers
he has released, which could have been used to inerense a man's wealth and treedom, are instead being used for enslavement and destruction.
The power he has given the world to increase its food supply 30 that no one need ever go hun- Ary, has been defeated by restric- tion in the interests of private этоло
The weapons which could have Fen used to exterminate these Insect parasites which can wipe t a year's work in a single night,
sea that the nation and the Empire NOTES OF THE DAY
depend for their existence. In the course of his speech, Sir Samuel
suffocation.
Extrnets from a substance like coal tar have brought dyes, per- fumes, and flavours (once luxuries) within the reach of the masses. But they have also been seized on for the production of TNT. destroy Hie.
Explosives which made possible the building of great reservoirs, bridges and railways, are used to shatter human beings.
Flying, which has been man's greatest challenge to space, is studied mainly as an opportunity for dropping bombs on civilians and military alike,
The list could be much longer.
No wonder the world's reaction to the scientist is one of horror and hostilityl
ET, before crying out for the suppression of the scientist, let us look a little closer. Is this wise? Is this just?
What control has the scientist over the application that is given to his discoveries? Are scientists represented among the nation's rulers? Do they sit on in-
which Auential bodies
shape public policies? Are they ever consulted
questions which on decide the direction of, events as distinct from those concerning ways and means?
The destruction of selence would do no more than drive man back to the days when human blood and muscle filled the, rôle now played more effectively by lubrienting all and steel. Human slaves would return in the place of mechanical slaves
Plague, famine, and war would onco more take the place of science's substitute-birth control. The fact that war still remains in
JESTERS
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and indeed the
EL
a modern world from which plague and. tamine have been practically eliminated Is In spite of, not be cause of, the selentist,
-FOR HEROES, killed by Scienco on, the Somme: War.
wlifeli WAS once necessary for the acquire- ment of slaves and for the adjust- ment of population problems, is now a wicked anachronism.
'Selence has given man nechant- cal slaves, an artificial solution to population problems, and a great Ideal to work for. The conquest of Nature.
The renson why scientists, having brougtų man in sight of mastery of the universe, now find their discoveries being used to arm evil with might. is because they are simply paid servants in the outer courtyard of the Palace of Power,
They may be consulted or dis- missed at the mere wilm of those who occupy the inner sanctums— men whose disastrous heritage it is to be possessed of "power without knowledge."
While these people control the application of science, of what use to attack the scientist? It would be just as effective to try to deal with wrong spending by scizing all the money in the world and dumping it at, the bottom of the
SQL.
Sound people do not advocate the abolition of a means of ex- change because some people use it to obtain harmful things. They realise that money is not in- herently evil-that the pivot of the matter is the use it is put to.
T
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HE same 18 true bl selence. It is the sheer might of modern science which robs people of their sense of proportion. Fer- haps the most important scientife-
11'. Profennor B.
Holman in general secretary of the Association of
Scientific Workers.
DISTRUSTED
ruled Soviet Russia with n rod of iron.
Abrahum Lincoln was perhaps the greatest President the United States
of the most of citizens who held that he
to have king
Way
Leon Trotsky owed his downfull referred to the stand taken by: The system of postal communi-A RECENTLY published life certain types of pacifists and to entions in Great Britain has of the late Henry Labou-to his impish sense of humour. He was wise, but he was also sarcastic. their "miserable, inconsequent, reached a standard of almost perchere M.P., to those who read Consequently he was exiled; while improvident attitude." He un- fect efficiency. Of all the millions between the lines, shows what Stalin, who preferred mathematics to doubtedly had in mind those people of letters and packages circulated a handicap it is to have too humour, sat in the Kremlin and who have been objecting to the expense involved in rebuilding the every year only a very few are great a jesting disposition.
Labouchere was a man of nation's defences, and who also lost, and the speed and prompt- criticise the Government's policy ness with which the mail is dealt consummate ability. He went on the ground that it is likely to with is remarkable. An important into Parliament, and became ever had. But there were thousands encourage the war spirit. But part in the despatch and delivery known as one Manufactured by there is a strange illogicality about of letters is played by what is incisive speakers and droit unfit for his high offler, because
the arguments of these people, known as "travelling post office, debaters in the House. His was known to tell funny stories and 'SHOE-MAKER' who, professing to be the enemies of which there are seventy in great gifts entitled him to almost Artemus Ward for the work of of war, would not hesitate to Great Britain, each one consisting any position to which he could world, a great man must be serious,
of one or more letter-sorting aspire; but he lived and died plain not to say glunt.
to a train. Mr. Labouchure, weekly paper SOLDIERS MUST BE SERIOUS
And why? Because he was As with statesmen, so with soldiers. makers of the
Ethiopian over, the very
dispute. are devoted entirely to Post Office Hence the coining of the term business, travel five hundred and known far and wide as a jester, a Lenders like Wellington and Haig are mocker, The British trusted to the death because they are finest natural lustre "militaristic pacifists" as applied forty miles between Euston and offer,
or wrongly, disincapable of making a joke. Sir to these individuals and their Aberdeen, and three hundred and spirit, rightly
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peculiar outlook, Attempts have five miles besvcen Paddington and trusts people who jest and scoff Henry Wilson
and mock.
councils of even been made in some quarters Penzance.
When a man does not take the more preseient in the to discourage recruiting for the The trains running between world seriously the world will not the Allies. But Mr. Lloyd George the take him seriously. This ought to says of him that he had attributes which explained and to a large ex- pure sheep's wool and Army, but, in spite of this London and Aberdeen are
campaign, a slight improvement in largest of their kind in the world, be taken to heart by any young mu tent gave warrant for the suspicion and lack of confidence so widely felt machine spun yarn.
the number of recruits has been They usually consist of sixteen who wants to get on in life.
Let us distinguish, however, reported, indicating that the public vehicles and carry a staff of forty world will gladly reward those who in him."
make it laugh--08 is awakening, slowly though it persons.
n business. It Mr. Lloyd George explains! HAND WOVEN may be, to the necessities of the While travelling at full speed, will heap riches on the George was whimsical almost to the point
Wodehouses of of Robeys and P. G. times. There is surely no doubt the train receives or despatches the day. They are being funny for serious question
buffoonery. He answered
or expounded a in the minds of reasonable mails by special apparatus at a living. But it will not readily grave problem in a vein of facetious FAST COLOURS people that the programmes for more than thirty poluts on the forgive or trust those who are funny and droll frivolity which was un-
strengthening the national de- journey. The staff employed is when they do not have to be.
dignified in a man of his grave resé ponsibilities. He jested over ques- fences must go forward with the very highly skilled. It works
tlons of life and death. This habit weight and utmost energy. It will be a long with such speed and efficioney that POLITICS IS GRIM
no time is lost. The first like a sense of humour
Nothing damages a political leader detracted from the time, if ever again, that the British even in the fogglost weather little
which he authority which his position and people will be lulled into a policy travelling post office was run as does not try to ropress. The great capacity ought to have given to his of disarmament whilst other na-an experiment in 1838 on the Marquess of Salisbury was a master counsel,"
generals.
not tions are re-arming as fast as they Grand Junction Tallway, between of sarcasm and trony; but he took know how. Some people may call Birmingham and Liverpool, six cure to be quite serious in his public whimsical. Sir J. M. Barrie may be whimsical, because that is his job, the railway was utterances.
He knew the temper of the British But we do not pay our statesmen and ism; in reality, it is only sanity, opened. It consisted of a horse-
pubile and how they resent facetious generals and leaders of commerce AB AL
His hidden and industry to crack joken. They ness in. their statesmen. for to permit the nation to re- box, temporarily fitted up
carriago-1} sorting
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humour broke out in a gibe at one are distrusted immedinely if they so main inadequately armed at this
contrivance of his opponents
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discovery ever made was the way to make fire.
Imagine a world ignorant of this knowledge? Would the anti- scientists drive us back to a sub- human stage of existence simply because Are has immense possi-
lities for destruction? Can thonс who would not advocate this logi- cally oppose other scientific dis- coveries?
It is not the scientist who is the menace in the world to-day-It is the divorce between power and scientific knowledge.
Whh
no
It is true that there was once a time when the scientist wilingly scrvant. accepted his status as He held that his pursuit was pure knowledge, and that 11 of his what concern use his discoveries were put to That is not true today. At over the world the gel ist 1. waking to î SPF150 of his responsibilities.
HER
E is chafing against his enforced impotence in the face of the terrible perversion of his dis- coveries.
The result has been the forma- tion of bodies like the Association of Scientific Workers and The British Science Guild in Britain; In and
similar. organisations other countries, aimed to oppose with pen and voice the idea that selence is an enemy rather than a friend.
Scientists are not only in re- volt at the perversion of valuable discoveries to evil uses; they are also uniting in protest at the
and crippling
suppression of powers of production atrendy available for the greater benent of mankind
At present selence could pro- duce plenty for all, at the same time reducing the working period, to between two and four hours a day. Is science allowed to do it?
From the scientists' point of view, human clothing has not changed substantially since Neo-
thic times.
Houses have ndt basically changed within the span of history, Science has provided means by which clothing, and housing could be vastly cheapened and completely revolutionised. These nieans are not developed be- causo they challenge vested interests.
People complain at London weather. Sciener could place a city like London under flexible, glass and condition different sections 50- that the inhabitants might choose whether they wished to live in à temperate, torrid, humid, or dry climate.
RE
ESTRICTION of mass production is bound to mean hostility to science-the expan- slon of productions leads naturally to its encouragement.
For this reason two and in Fascist countries that the status of the scientist is 'sinking, where- as in a country aiming at in- expansion, like tho dustrial U.S.S.R. he is coming into his own.
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In Britain, by recognising that the true role of the scientist is that
be
of a director of progress, as well. as of a servant, we also may learn to seo him as a saviour rallier than a destroyer.
To-day's Thought- MANKIND has honoured its destroyers and perse- cuted its benefactors, build- ing palaces for living brigands, and tombs for long-dead prophets.
DEAN W. R. INGE.
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