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With painful concentration, two uneducated carpenters in the little courthouse at Flemington, N. J. last week watched and listened to a brawny scientist from the Wisconsin woods. From the witness stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect...
...intellectual freedom. Under such stifling conditions all vital interest in art and literature would fade and enthusiasm for pure thought would vanish; what would remain would be a barbarism which all the radios and automobiles and skyscrapers in the world would not conceal. In such a desert, the applied scientists, essential for a smooth operation of the complex mechanism, might be the only men with a true education. The monks in the Dark Ages preserved the remnants of one civilization to enable another to come to life. Perhaps, in some measure at some time, the scientist and engineer may have...
...Newspapers cannot be expected to set themselves up as judges of the truth of theories and the merits of discoveries, or take a census to see if nine-tenths of a scientist's colleagues agree with...
...attempts on the part of businessmen to write into the NRA codes measures favorable to their respective businesses, has also brought into the town its quota of shady characters--chiefly gamblers, and touts of all descriptions. The writer positively knows of one instance where a prominent scientist was accosted by a woman of shady occupation in front of the White House. Be this as it may, the District is still very clean, compared to its sister cities...
Possibly the most interesting aspect of Mr. Florinsky's book, from the point of view of the political scientist, is the account of this first experiment in international government. He is convinced it has failed miserably, whether or no because of the fact that for years France controlled the League's Governing Commission. Suffice it to say that under the League's control, the Saar has suffered economically more than at any other stage in her history. The Saarlanders have clearly resented a government with no knowledge of their culture and traditions. "The Saar Struggle" may be said...