Show A NOTABLE GATHERING G the annual convention of the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- WHEN division of the thc American Association Association tion for the Advancement of Science is held middle of next June there will win assemble here notables in many fields of research These their talents anc and lure are men who vho have devoted Jives to the discovery of new means to make ife ft fuller for their fellow m men nin n. n In what ha lias hns been decried as an age of technology crushing they dare to on humanity go It is well that they do Rather Bather than accuse science of bringing new miseries into the thc world point the finger of scorn upon society for Tor having failed signally to take advantage of fl the benefactions it has brought Savants laboring in the field of f sociology of science and have discovered disco the effects inv invention upon man and his problems of ex ex- They have done a good job They have llave been too profound to suggest that progress rog ress' ress ress ess halt to give us time to discover the thc cures by iJ haphazard methods Their hei research however has las pointedly indicated indi- indi atel the tha great ri field ld in which there has been t too o o. o much marking time If economists had bad forgotten that Adam Smith ever lived if they hail had burned all aU their old textbooks textbooks text text- books bool s and unlearned their theories and ana started from scratch to look upon toda today's s 's problems and explore the possibilities for meeting them with virgin irgin ideas perhaps they would have developed some new v yardsticks with which to measure the thc length breadth and thickness of today's ills In the efforts being made to solve the riddie riddle rid rid- dIe dle of pf f the world economic plight there is some indication that the practical mind as opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed to th the garden variety Cf of economist has hast t turned rn d up many economic fallacies and is striking out wholly in innocent oc nt of scientific wisdom wisdom wisdom wis wis- dom to prescribe some new and strange cures for Cor th the maladies which inflict civilization It may turn out that some of or their foolish notions notions notions' notions notions' no no- are thoroughly rational and amI that when they ar are tried out they will perform If so it v will ivill ill recall the case of the ignoramus who sho h achieved the impossible for lor the sole reason rens rca rea s son on n that no one one had bad ever cyer told him him it was impossible It is to tobe be hoped that nothing the have haye conjured up to scare an already bewildered bC world will deter science in its efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts to take atoms apart to see what makes them behave as they do to round up strange bugs ng to put into our circulation to devour the destroyers within us to bring distant planets near enough to our own that we may have a alook a 8 alook look at them and discover what well-dressed well l or are wen wearing ring this season and to see sec if sunspots like the thc leopards leopard's leopards leopard's leop leop- ards ard's stubbornly resist all aU efforts to remove them thern These are arc all alJ praiseworthy endeavors Hay fay scientists all live long enough to finis t ir work and when the they finally fold the draperies of their couches about them roa may it be he with the satisfaction that they left a aricher aricher aricher richer world than the one they were born into info 1 |