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The Government grants ucarly five times as much money for research Into the powers of death as it grants for research into the powers of life, yet scientists are blamed for the Iniquity, of selence. Imaging what might happen if they were free to devote all their energies to Increasing the good in the world instead of the evil!
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the nation's traditions and that no expense will be spared to ensure the security both of the Mother- -land-and-the-Empire--oversens, 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 said and done, however, the fundamental fact, as Sir Samuel Hoare has pointed out, is that it is upon the
HEN people And something going wrong with their scheme of living, their irst instinct is to look for some- one to blame.
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 upheld as a liberator.
Emerging from the isolation of his laboratory, he is learning with increasing horror the reason this unexpected unpopularity.
EVE
VERYWHERE the powers
he has released, which could have been used to increase a man's wealth and freedom, are instead being used for enslavement and destruction.
The power he has given the world to Increase its food supply so that no one need ever go hun- gry, has been defeated by restric- tion In the interests of private profit
The weapons which could have bora need to exterminate those Inzest parasites which can wipe Put A year's work in a single night,
sen that the nation and the Empire NOTES OF THE DAY
depend for their existence, the course of his speech, Sir Samuel
the
by Prof. B. W. HOLMAN
or to destroy those ver- minous ani- mals which Infect man, with epidemiles devastating as a war, huve Instead been directed suffocation.
towards human
Extracts from substance ke coal tar have brought dyes, per- fumes, and flavours (once luxuries) within the reach of the massCH, But they have also been seized on for the production of TN.T. to destroy life,"
Explosives which made possible the building of grent 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 hostility!
YET, 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 slt on in- Auential bodies which shape public polictes? Are they ever consulted
questions which on decide the direction of events as distinct from those concerning ways and means?
The destruction of science would do no more than drive man back to the days when human blood and muscle fled the role now played more effectively by lubricating oil and steel. Human, slaves would return in the place of mechanical -inves: ---
Plague, famine, and war- would once more take the place of science's substitute-birth control The fact that war still remains in
JESTERS
one
have
-FOR HEROES, killed by Science on the 'Somma.
a modern world from whleh plague and famine
been practically ellmiinated is in spite of, hot be. cause of, the scientist,
which War. once necessary for the ncquire- ment of slaves and for the adjust- ment of puputation problems, is now a wicked anachronism.
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Selence has given man mechani- cal slaves, an artificial solution to population problems, and a great ideal to work for, the conquest of Nature.
The reason Why scientists. having brought man in sight of mastery of the universe, now find their discoverics being used to arm evil with might, is because they are simply puid servants in the outer courtyard of the Palace of Power,
They may be consulted or dis- missed at the mere whlm 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 seizing all the money in the world and dumping it at the bottom of the
Son.
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
HE same is true of selence. It is the sheer might of modern science, which roba people of their sense of proportion. Per- haps the most important scientine
Professor B. IV. Holma in general secretary of the navelation of Scientific Workers.
DISTRUSTED
ruled Soviet Russia with a rod of iron.
Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the
the
was
of
referred to the stand taken by The system of postal communi. A RECENTLY published life Leon Trotsky owed his downfall to his impish sense of humour. He certain types of pacifists and to cations in Great Britain has of the late Henry Labou-was wise, but he was also sarcastic. their miserable, inconsequent, reached a standard of almost per-chere M.I., to those who read Consequently he was exiled; while Improvident attitude." He un-fect efficiency. Of all the millions between the lines, shows what Stalls, 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 man of nation's defences, and who also lost, and the speed and prompt- criticise the Government's policy news with which the mail is dealt consummate ability. He went greatest President the United States on the ground that it is likely to with is remarkable. An important into Parliament, and became ever had. But there were thousands
of the most of citizens, who held that he encourage the war spirit. But part in the despatch and delivery known as
incisive speakers and droit unfit for his high office, because he Manufactured by there is a strange illogicality about of letters is played by what i digters in the House. His was known to tell funny stories and to have a king for the work of the arguments of these people, known as "Travelling post office,"
are seventy in great gifts entitled him to almost Artemus Ward! In the eyes of the SHOE-MAKER' who, professing to be the enemics of which there
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 glum. ART LOOMS, plunge Britain and indeed the earringes attached to a train. Mr. Labouchure, weekly paper SOLDIERS MUST BE SERIOUS
whole of Europe into hostilities Every night four trains, which proprietor.
WAS And why? Because he makers of
Ethiopian
As witli statesmen, so with soldiers. dispute. are devoted cutirely to Post Office the very over
Hence the coining of the term business, travel five hundred and known far and wide as a fester, a Leaders like Wellington and Haig are mocker. The British trusted to the death because they are finest natural lustre "militaristic pacifiats" as applied forty miles between Euston and soller, a
or wrongly,
dis- Incapable 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 between Paddington and trusts people who, jest and scoff soldier. There was none wiser and
and mock. even been made in some quarters Penzance.
When a man does not take the more preselent in the councils
the Allies. But Mr. Lloyd George to discourage recruiting for the The trains running between world seriously the world will not says of him that he had attributes Army, but, in spite of this London and Aberdeen are the take him seriously. This ought to campaign, a slight improvement in largest of their kind in the world, be taken to heart by any young man which explained and to a large ex- tent gave warrant for the suspicion the number of recruits has been They usually consist of sixteen who wants to get on in life. reported, indicating that the public vehicles and carry a staf of forty world will gladly reward those who in him,"
Let us distinguish, however. The and lack of confidence so widely felt is awakening, slowly though it persons.
make it laugh-as a business. It Mr. Lloyd George explains: "He will heap While travelling at full speed, Robeys and 17. G.
riches on HAND WOVEN may be, to the necessities of the
the George was whimsical almost to the point Wodehouses of of
answered times. There is surely no doubt the train receives or despatches the day. They are being funny for serious question
buffoonery: He
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 points ou 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. fences must go forward with the very highly skilled. It works utmost energy. It will be a long with such speed and efficiency that POLITICS IS GRIM
Nothing damages a political leader authority time, if ever again, that the British even in the foggiest weather little
no time Is lost. The first like a sense people will be lulled into a policy travelling post office was run as does not try to repress. The great capacity ought to have glyen to his of disarmament whilst other na- an experiment in 1838 on the Marquess of Salisbury was a master counsel."
Great generols may tions are re-arming as fast as they Grand Junction Railway, between of sarcasm and irony: but lie took
no1 be Birmingham and Liverpool, six care to be quite serious in his public whimsical. Sir J. M. Barrie may be whimsical, because. that is his job. months after the Tailway was utterances.
He knew the temper of the British But we do not pay our statesmen and opened. It consisted of a horse-
public and how they resent facellous generals and leaders of commerco box temporarily fitted up
carriage-on. extra-ness in their statesmen. His hidden and industry to crack jokes. They sorting,
of his opponents on one occasion, far forget themselves. ordinarily primitive contrivance our broke out in a gibe at one are distrusted immedinely if they so compared with the officient trains however, and it did him a great deal used to-day!
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know how. Some people may call the Government's policy militar- ism; In reality, it is only sanity, for to permit the nation to re- main inadequately armed at this juncture would be nothing short of suicidal.
or
of humour
which he
dignified in a man of his grave rés- ponsibilities. He Jested over ques tions of life and death. This habit detracted from the weight and which his position and
Vaughan. Dryden,
discovery ever made was the way to make' fire.
Imagine a world Ignorant of this knowledge? Woul the
lith- selentists drive us back to a sub- human aluge of existence simply because fire has immense possl- bilities for destruction? Can those who would not.advocate this log- cally oppose other scienting dis- coveries?
It is not the scientist who is the menace in the world to-day-it is the divorce between power and sclentille knowledge,
It is true that there was once a time when the scientist wilingly accepted his status as servant. He held that his pursuit way "pure" knowledge, and that W13 no concern of his what use his discoveries were put 10. "Th 15
AR not true today. over the world the scientist :- waking. to A se1150 of responsibilities.
HE IS
E is chaing 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 Belentine Workers and The British Science Guild in Britain;
similar
In and
organisations other countries, aimed to oppose with pen and voice the idea that. zelence is an enemy rather than a friend.
Ecientists are not only in re- volt at the perversion of valuable discoveries to evil uses; they are also uniting in protest at the of and crippling
suppression
'already powers of production avaliable for the greater benefit of "MAKINA...”
At present science could pro- duce plenty for all, at the same 1line reducing tho working perlod to between two and tour hours a day. Is science allowed to do it?
From the scientists' point of view, human clothing has not changed substantially since Neo- lithic times..
and
Houses have not basically changed within the
span or history. Science R
pra ided means by which clothing and housing could be vastly cheapened completely revolutionised, These means are not developed be-
they cause
challenge vested interests.
People complain at Londen weather. Science could place a city like London under flexible glass and condition different sections so that the inhabitants might choose whether they wished to live in a temperate, torrid, humid, or dry climate.
RESTRI
ESTRICTION of mass mean production is bound to hostility to science-the expan- alon of productions leads naturally to its encouragement.
.For this reason we find in Fascist countries that the status of the scientist is sinking, where- as in a country aiming at in- dustrial expansion, like: the U.S.S.R. he is coming into his own.
In Britain, by recognising that the true role of the scientist is that
of a director of progress, as well as of a servant, we also may learn to see him as a saviour rather than
a destroyer.
To-day's Thought -MANKIND has honoured its destroyers and perse- cuted its benefactors, build- ing palaces for living brigands, and Combs for long-dead prophets.
DEAN W. R. INGE.
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