Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-23 | Page 4 | Not Always Mercenary

Not Always ys Mercenary AMERICANS AMERICANS 1 are often accused of making I. A dollar chasing their chief concern We are even even told by visiting scholars and some of our sown own ow philosophers that th this s even ven enters into the field ifield of science here We Wo are arc ur urged ed that we sho ho should l ld l find more more enthusiasm for pure pure science that has has no no direct with money rewards This country perhaps docs does engage in scientific scientific sd- sd entitle research to a greater extent than any other Most 1 of it is applied to industrial techniques techniques techniques tech tech- and other forms of commercial enter enter- prise It is not all mercenary however An excellent refutation of the criticism is to be found in the of the inch U casting eye ye for what is to be the worlds world's largest t telescope le cope when it shall be completed This enormous piece of glass was cast at Corning N. N Y It took a solid year to cast and cool it It will win take perhaps five years more to grind it Then it can be mounted in a telescope that will enable men to peer off olf into space for the unimaginable distance of 1200 light years Here is a tremendous and expensive bit of oI work which will never bring a nickel to any any- one Astronomy is pure science it brings no useful inventions no great new industries nothing but knowledge kno And this greatest and most costly of all telescopes i is being financed and d constructed in money-grubbing money America