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Show UNIVERSITY NEWS BASIC ERKOF, "To be free is to be master of one's judgement. By denying the right of individual judgement, the totalitarian states seek . to destroy freedom at its very source. Dean William H. Leary of the University of Utah Law school lecturing at Kingsbury Hall last Wednesday night under the auspices au-spices of the Frederick William Reynolds memorial association, told 1500 people why nazism, fascism and communism must eventually fall. Dean Leary discounted the concept of Natural Law, recognized recog-nized by philosophers since Plato as existing in the world as an independent in-dependent force. Natural law lives, he stated, in the mind of I every man and is known as "com-Imon "com-Imon sense." "It was recognized I by the founding fathers of this country as existent before the state, and as mandatory for the state as for the individual. It is a product of the judicial quality of man's mind. This natural law, according to the law school head, is a science, a systematized knowledge of those abstracts and general rules of reason, which dictate what man should pursue and what he should avoid in order for him to obtain for himself life, liberty and happiness, hap-piness, and for his fellows ws justice and common welfare." Dean Leary asked the question, "Can this natural law be repealed repeal-ed in the heart of man?" Can in other words, Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini by mere dictatorial decrees, de-crees, destroy human reason?" In answer to his question, the lawyer stated that long after the dictators and their governments have perished the fundamental, natural laws will still be in action. Two and two still make four, and the individual man will still be ruled by the desire to do good and avoid evil. The greatest danger of the totalitarian to-talitarian systems, stated Dean Leary, is that they obscure the basic principles until men will not know what is good and what is evil. Man will forget how to tell good from bad. In this respect during the perilous times ahead, he said, "Prudence must be our guide. A prudent man knows the universal principles of natural law as a doctor knows medicine. Each man must be ruled by what he knows to be right." DIRT AND THE EXGIXEKK Soils Mechanics is a new science in the field of civil en-gineerng, en-gineerng, and the University of Utah engineering students are mighty proud, these days, of aj complete new laboratory dedicat- ed to study and research of a new subject. j The basic concern of the science of Soils Mechanics is the ques I .tion "How much moisture will soil absorb, how much will this I absorption expand the soil, and how lone will it take thp mnistnrn to dry out?" j Clay is the most dangerous of all soils on which to construe t a building or dam." said Instructor Boris Eoguslavsky, who studied the subject at the Massachusetts1 Institute of Technology. Clay will absorb a lot of moisture and it! will not give it up unless great1 pressure is applied to it. When a building is put up on clay, the weight eventually squeezes out the moisture, and the building will settle, sometimes dangerously or disastrously." To avoid settling in construc-( construc-( Continued on Page i) I UNIVERSITY NOTES (Continued from Page 1) tion projects, all "civil engineers now study the reaction of the different dif-ferent types of soil when they absorb mosture, and make their calculations according to wha they discover. The new University laboratory contains much expensive and del icate apparatus for conducting these soils mechanics tests. Exquisitely Ex-quisitely adjusted scales, for weighing the quantities of soils wet and dry, various kinds of ovens, ov-ens, and mechanical sifters. Most i spectacular of all equipment is the wide range of "shakers," j ranging from the ordinary malted I milk mixer, used to emulsify soils ' and water, and working up to a huge apparatus in a sound-proof chamber known as the "Los Angeles An-geles Rattler", whose poetic task in this mundane world is determining deter-mining how long you can bat a 'brick around and still have a brick. Because the science is so hew, and so important in the construction construc-tion of dams and all large buildings, build-ings, the soil mechanics department depart-ment is very much in demand, according to Mr. Boguslavsky. Although the "U" School of Engineering En-gineering will not turn out experts, ex-perts, the new laborory makes it possible to supply graduating engineers en-gineers with the fundamentals of the science so that they may conduct the essential examinations examina-tions of soils for homes and small buildings when they enter upon the career of engineering. It is possible that the testing equipment in the University Soils Mechanics "lab" will eventually be used as an aid to state contractors con-tractors confronted by especially difficult problems. ' |