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Show ATOM MAN MAY , LIVE loxc; SAYS EDUCATOR Kolx-it M- Huti'hins, olmnoolUir ,,f tho I'ntwrsily of ChioaR-o, writos In tht lVoomlvr Aniorli'im m,U:ii-.iiu- tl:t ntoiuii- bombs can aiiiiiliiliito all lifo on oavtli but th;il if Will" iva.st'ss, atomic onorgy 0;ia niako man live as long as Mo-tluisolah. Mo-tluisolah. " Atomii tMH-rgy," he writva, auiUos all our oonoopt.ions of daily liviim olv;oloti vradioates virtually ;ul our limitations, cures all our m!il;iilii's. and opens the door to a w;lV of life as uiu'oniplicatixl as that of a south soas native bask-ing bask-ing in the sun and plucking his food from the bivadfruit tree. Our paramount problem, our chief hazard haz-ard in the atomic age will be what to do with our spare time." Heat, he says, will be so plentiful plenti-ful that it will be used to melt snow as it falls. "Lawns and gardens," he adds, "will be luxuriant, for atomic ! energy promises fortilizors and: soil balaiuvrs more powerful than ' any known today. There will be 1 flowers such as we do not have at present, for the atomic principle has the power to altor forms of plant life, just as it alters the structure of minerals. "Factories will operate only a few hours a week to produce more goods than can be used. They will produce, among other things, new metals, new types of self -insulating building materials, new fabrics, fab-rics, foods, furnishings, communication communi-cation devices which will eliminate space and time, and vehicles which will run for a year on two ounces or less of atomic fuel. "Most human ailments will be cured as rapidly as they are diag-; diag-; nosed." "The end of human suffering is in sight If we are permited to live at all, there is no reason we cannot expect to live as long as Methuselah." But he says, if atomic destruc-1 destruc-1 tion is to be avoided, five years is about all the time left to achieve agreements to end war. "Many of us," he explains, "who ' have thought the situation through have concluded that our only sal-; sal-; ration lies in establishment of international in-ternational morality, a mutual acceptance ac-ceptance of the futility of further " warfare and a mutual avowal to keep the peace. ..." |