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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Injunctions Invasion of Citizens Rights
So much is being said and written about our “rights”
that I quote the Constitution of the United States, in part:
I do not wish to be very technical, but in studying our
Constitution, having in mind that the thirteen original
States formed the Union; as they themselves expressed it:
“In order to form a more perfect union . . . do establish this
constitution for the United States ofAmerica.”
Now observe: “All legislative powers herein granted
shall be vested in a Congress,” etc. Then we find the powers
granted to Congress—There is this reference: “to provide
for the common defense and “general welfare.” Nobody ever
dreamed of “welfare” as we have it. In the Constitution
it was related to “common defense.”
Something else: “No appropriation of money for the
“army,” (now armed forces, of course) shall be for more
than two years.” That is violated by “authorizations” which
bind our Nation for a period greater than two years.
Incidentally the idea of the President as Commander-in-
Chief does not confer the authority commonly assumed to
be his. Congress shall have power—“To make rules for
the government and regulation of the land and naval
forces; That is, as you see, the function of Congress.
Now as to some of the anomalies of the proposed Civil
Rights Bill—
Here is something to remember: “The trial of all crimes,
except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such
trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall
have been committed.”
You don't see any authority for arresting citizens by “In
junction,” do you? Nor has the Congress (or Courts) any
authority to deviate from this law of the Constitution. “Nor
shall any person be deprived of life, liberty or property with
out due process of law.” I challenge ^‘Injunction” as an
invasion of a citizen's rights and in derogation of the Con
stitution.
Citizens have the right to assemble peaceably; and they
have the right to petition the Government for redress of
grievances. It isn’t one and the same thing; there is a com
ma after “assemble,” and it is followed by» “and.”
An this: “No warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the persons or
things to be seized.”
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy . . .
trial by jury of the State and district etc., etc.
Of course the 9th and 10th Amendments, reserving rights
to the people.
As to the much discussed 14th Amendment, the final
clause is “The Congress shall have power to enforce by
appropriate legislation the provision of this Article.” No
authorization for the President or the Court to legislate
about it.
Mathematics Key To Modern Laving
Excerpts from an excellent address by Dr. DuBridge,
President of California Institute of Technology.
[v, “Much has been written in recent years about science
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as the hope of man’s future and also about science as the
instrument of man’s destruction. You have read of the pos
sible glories of tomorrow’s world of technology when peo
ple won’t have to work—but only push buttons—and can
spend endless hours of leisure speeding across the country
in radar-guided, air-conditioned, pink Cadillacs at 120 miles
an hour or more.
Cheap and abundant atomic energy is still a long way
off—though in some parts of the world (not in America)
it will soon be cheaper than other sources they have avail
able.
I cannot say whether these extraordinary things that
technology is going to bring us are good or bad. In fact,
no one can say—for anything can be either good or bad, de
pending on how it is used, whether it’s a stick of wood or a
stick of dynamite Things aren’t bad; only people are bad.
And as to whether people are going to be bad or not there
is no argument; some of them certainly will be. But wheth
er they are or not, these new things are going to come any
way—for on force on earth can stop men from thinking,
from inventing, from exploring.
The things men ihvent will arise from new things they
learn, from new understanding they acquire about the
world. On the foundation of new ideas, men create new
technologies, new industries, new machines, new ways of
doing things.
Our whole modern civilization .is built on mathematics!
Not a street can be laid, a foundation dug, or a building
constructed, without the use of algebra, geometry, and trig
onometry. Not a machine can be designed, an engine’s per
formance predicted, an electric power plant constructed,
without mathematics through calculus. And the design of
an airplane, a ship, a guided missile, or an electronic com-
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puter requires a profound knowledge of higher mathematics.
No one, in short, from a grocer’s clerk to the nuclear phy
sicist can do without mathematics—and the study of mathe
matics can be a great adventure in the methods of quanta-
tive thinking which will provide a lifetime of bettter un
derstanding of a technological world.
The adventures of science are by no means confined to
outer space. And the chief practical reason for learning
the language of science may not be to understand about
distant galaxies, but to understand what is going on right
here on earth. There are adventures in each day’s routine.
You arise in the morning to the ring of ah alarm clock—
an electric clock, no doubt, synchronized within seconds to
millions of other clocks all over the country, all over the
world. Synchronization is achieved by the miracle of al
ternating current in our power linesjlconnected in a network
extending hundreds of miles, and connected by radio to
other network.-; far away. Adventures? Just follow those
alternating current impulses back along the wires to a
transformer on a pole in the street, to higher voltage lines
strung across the countryside to a power station by a
dam in the mountains.
Or maybe the power station burns coal or oil—where
man’s most primitive discovery, fire, is producing his most
modern carrier of energy, electricity. Think of the inven
tors, engineers, scientists—back through the generations,
the centuries—who made that possible. Think of Michael
Faraday in a little laboratory thrusting a magnet into a coil
of wire and noting that a current was produced; pulling it
out, the current was reversed—an alternating current!
And so, even before we awake in the morning of each day,
our adventure has begun. We get out of bed, put on nylon
hose, a dacron shirt or an orlon sweater—fabrics made of
coal and air and water. Shades of the alchemists who tried
to make gold from lead! They would have been far better
off if they had made nylon from air! And as you dress be
glad you are not a silk producer of Japan or a wool grower
of Australia whose every livelihood is being threatened by
synthetic fibers madde in America. Yes, adventures in
science have their tragedies too.
Your breakfast is another kind of adventure—food
brought to you from the far corners of the earth, prepared
over a flame which burns gas piped from Texas. And as
you eat you read of world events only a few hours old—long
stories, and even pictures, which have been flashed with*
the speed of light from London, or Calcutta, or Cairo. Only
a few years ago—less than 100—a famous British physicist,
Lord Kelvin, slaved away years of his life supervising the
laying of a cr 1 o across the Atlantic through which feeble
electric impiii. e - could be slowly pushed—dot, dash, dot—
so slowly, but thousands of times speedier than the fastest
ship. ^
After breakfast you st°" into a real miracle—your car.
You seldom look under t’^ hood to witness the bewildering
array of examples of th~ r s of thermodynamics, of mech
anics, of electricity, of r ". fahurgy-—of almost every science
and technology. All we t ^ is that this device converts a
gallon of gasoline into ^ miles of travel—at speeds much
faster than we ought t a ’ r e.
From morning ala-- i t venipg TV program we are liv
ing is a world which h ^ ~ fited from adventures in science.
Just as the great adv - ' re of Columbus opened a new con
tinent, so the inspire ’ ? ~ 'itures of many scientists—from
Galileo to Einstein; f • n Newton to Bohr; from Faraday
to Edison to the thoi ' of trained men and women work
ing today in laborat v'e throughout the world—have creat
ed on this new conti c t a new kind of civilization. There
are certain things a u this civilization that we are not
satisfied with. It is f e i’rom perfect. But the defects will
be fixed by those wh ' understand the nature of the world
in which we live. The world will be made better by know
ledge, not by ignorance.
The making of a future scientist or the making of the fu-
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'T'HE American people are being
spoon-fed on ? diet of propa
ganda only slightly tinged with
the pale color of fact concerning
their government here in Washing
ton. This i#opaganda diet is being
screened through a tight censor
ship divulged to the people only
through the medium of the press
conference, speeches by public
officials and the mimeographed
press hand-out.
This dangerous pattern, which
has been developing over the past
few years is due partly, in some
government agencies, to hold-over
war time censorship practices;
partly to hysteria ever security
consciousness which ran rampant
during Communist probes and in
vestigations; partly by just plain
cover-up tactics by bungling gov
ernment officials for fear of crit
icism, and partly because of the
crack-pot and fallacious theory
that what the people don’t know
won’t hurt em.
That this is true is borne out
every day in debates on the floor
of the congress, debates which
seldom see the light of dissemina
tion through news media; in ev
ery-day discussions by veteran
news reporters at the National
Press Club; by resolution adopted
by Newspaper Associations and
various press organizations — all
seeking to rip off the lid of un
necessary and arbitrary censor
ship which is withholding essen
tial facts, or disseminating half-
truths which confuse the people
and prevent them from arriving
at any informed opinion relative
to their government and the issues
confronting it.
It is further borne out and
spread of record through thou
sands of pages of testimony by at
least two congressional investi
gating committees, one which
has been in session for months a
subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Government Operations,
under chairmanship of Rep. John
E. Moss, of California.
This Committee has just issued
another progress report under
date of Feb. 22. Here is a passage
from this repqrt:
“The maze of Federal restric
tions on the people’s right to
know is becoming a little less
complicated as clear policies are
developed to spell out this basic
right. Recent activities of the
Special subcommittee on Govern
ment Information have bolstered
an earlier conclusion that a maj
or cause of the restrictive maze
is the attitude of the Federal
Executive agencies. The 25th In
termediate Report of the House
Committee on Government Opera
tions defined this attitude as one
‘which says that we, the officials,
not you, the people, will determine
how much you are to be told about
your own government.’
Here is an example of misin
formation from somebody. The
news media for many months
has been reporting on the need
for new schools, more and bet
ter teachers and more classrooms.
On February 22, 1957 the United
States Chamber of Commerce,
through its published Washington
Report, said: “No classroom
emergency exists. The emergency
need for the Administration’s
school construction aid plan is
disproved by the Administration’s
own studies. No critical national
shortage in class rooms has been
or can be demonstrated to exist.
From (he Page News and Cour
ier, Luray, Virginia: If any of our
readers feel there is serious need
of another organization for the
protection of something-or-other,
we propose herein the American
Association for the Prevention of
the Disparagement of Corn!
No other member of the entire
vegetable kingdom is quite thor
oughly American as com. It
sprang from tills continent. It gaye
the noble redman his most de
pendable sustenance. It even en
couraged him to occasional spurts
of industry.
Corn succored the first settlers,
both in Massachusetts a«d Vir
ginia. But for corn, we would
have no “first families. w Com
became our earliest important ex
port, the backbone of Colonial
foreign trade. It became a medi
um of exchange—to the discredit
of foreign coinage, and before we
had a system of our own.
The plow that broke the plains
was planting corn at the time. The
growth and prosperity that fol
lowed were based on com And
while 85 per cent of this premier
national crop still flows into feed
troughs to fatten our pigs «nH
cattle; and while today’s Ameri
cans are as fond of roasting ears
and succotash and com bread and
com chowder as their ancestors—
and have invented com flakes be
sides—it further supports mighty
industries producing starch, dex
trose, syrups, com oil—even al
cohol and synthethic rubber!
But the end is not yet In fact
say chemists who began serious
ly working only a score or so
years ago to break down the ,
starch molecule, this is the be
ginning. They now suspect in fact
a curious chemical alliance be
tween the petroleum hydrocarbon
and the com carbohydrate! They
hope to find a corn-starch '“ring*’
analogous to the “benzene ring,**
from wdich has sprung the synthe
sis of hundreds of unlikely petro
leum products, such as plastics,
rubber, drugs, paints, dyes rwH
fabrics.
To this end, the Cora Industries
Research Foundation, Inc., which
began underwriting scientific in
vestigation into our most useful
grain since 1935, has this year al
lotted $200,000 for 20 fellowship
grants to science centers over the
nation. So perhaps. In view of the
$2,000,000 already provided by
CIRF, and the scientific progress
already achieved, we may be on
the brink of discoveries that will
make com our leading industrial
raw material, and the farmer a
leading industrial personage!
In wtych case, you won’t need
to join the AAPDC mentioned
above.
LENS AIDS VISION . . . Dr. A. E. Winner of Chicago grinds his
new parabolodial miniature contact lens, smaller and thinner
than predecessors. Insert shows parabolic curvature which in
sures greater comfort and safety to wearer, even during sleep.
ture intelligent citizen begins in the fifth grade or before
and continues at all levels through the university graduate
school. Except for a very few unusual individuals, scientists
and engineers are made, not born. Interest and facility in
mathematics and science are created by fine teaching; by
intelligent, sympathetic interest in the individual; by the
uncovering and stimulating of exceptional talent; by mak
ing the subject matter exciting rather than dull.
But there are certain illusions about science and mathe
matics that must be eliminated before the adventures of
science can be appreciated and advanced more rapidly in
America. The first illusion is that mathematics is too hard
i n c t o n
Q—Can yon teU me the effect of the Cooley bin adopted by the House
Agriculture Committee by a 17 to 16 vote as a Soil Bank Amend
ment? ..
A—Briefly and roughly, the expected effect of the measure would
provide farmers with close to the same income benefi a
return to 90% of parity supports would do, and secondly it would
reduce feed grain production in 1957 below current market
demands, which if true, would require the trade to go to the
Commodity Credit Corporation for enough feed commodities to
fill out jthe demand. And since CCC cannot sell for less than the
105% of their support price, plus a carrying charge, it is intended
to establish the overall market price for commodities the supply
of which is reduced below current demand. And it would thus'
free feed grain producers from the 65% of parity price supports
imposed by Sec. Benson for 1957. . . „
Q Does not the Attorney General under present laws have the right
to bring action against violation of the right to vote under civil
rights? And If so why is he so Intent on the right to proceed under
a civil action and why are the southerners so set against this
civil action right?
A—The main reason judging from the Attorney general’s testimony
and debates on the floor over the civil right bill, is that the
Attorney General must now bring a criminal action, which means
he must obtain a criminal indictment by a grand jury and usually
have a trial by jury. The record in such civil rights cases in the
South is that indictments and convictions in criminal cases by
juries are hard to come by. Under a civil case, the attorney
General obtains an injunction from the Federal Court and there
is no trial by jury, merely a citation for contempt by the court,
if the court pleases. The southern Senators declare that in such
instance the sacred American right of trial by jury is by-passed.
Confusing, isn’t it? _ A _ r
Q—Is the Act which appropriated Funds for Rural Libraries still
effective?
A—Yes. The Act passed in 1956 authorizes $7,500,000 for five years on
a matching basis by the States. $2,050,000 was appropriated for
the current fiscal year and $3 million is asked for in the 1958
budget 28 States have submitted plans for participation.
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BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
Today’s Problem:
DOES FAITH HELP?
D OES religion help one solve a
problem? In other words, can
God help you?
You may say that God never
meant to do our work for us; that
he expects us to solve our own
problems. Or you may believe that
God intends us to look to Him.
‘ Ethel Webster, 430 Washington
Avenue, Dunkirk, New York, says
that she has embraced these be
liefs alternately, but that she
eventually combined the first with
the second. “It may be,” she says
“that faith in God’s help means
merely calming our fears’, enabl
ing us to look at a problem objec-
.tively, which always helps in com
ing to a solution.”
“I lost my lob during the middle
of the Great Depression, and only
those who had a similar exper
ience can know how discouraging
that was. For weeks I looked for
a job, and got nowhere. One day,
after trekking from one employ
ment agency to another, I went
into a church, not to pray, not te
look to God, but just to rest my
weary feet. A noon hour service
was being held. When I left that
edifice these words rang in my
ears:
“‘God never meant you to be
forever depressed; God fiever
meant you to remain down in your
luck; God never meant you to
fail ultimately; He gave you prob
lems in order to test you. Believe
in Him and He will help you.’
“It was as if that minister were
speaking directly to me.
•*The remainder of that day and
all of the next, I held to those
thoughts, though at times I had
difficulty as discouraging thought
tried to crowd them out.
“The third day, I was sent for
by my «ld employer. Another had
married, and unmarried women
were being given priority over
those who had another member oi
the family with employment.
“That religion helped me, you
may doubt, but I do not. I know
that my thoughts, inspired by the
minister in that church, wrought
gain out of havoc for me.”
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17 Narrow inlet
18 Brawl
20 Feminine
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21 Capture
23 Writing
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24 Child’s toy
26 Correlative
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29 Article of
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30 Bitter vetch
31 Answer
34 Represen
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37 Mongol
39 Speed
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62 To hasten
63 Shrfflbark
67 Vedic god
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60 Repasts
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73 Narrow
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75 Portray
77 Number (pL)
78 Blights
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for young minds to grasp. That is false. Properly presented
and properly taught mathematics is an exciting adventure
—especially for youngsters. The second illusion that must
be eliminated is that mathematics can be taught by teach
ers who don’t know any math—or are only a chapter ahead
of the student.