Show WHO'S IHO'S CI NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON 1 EW YORK The YORK The aged ged president L X J-X of Poland Ignaz Mosci ki put an conditioning air-conditioning system in his old plush draped Baroque palace three years ago A Looks scientist a deTo deTo deTo de de- To Science to vout believer Cure III Ill World in the benign miracles of the laboratory which will some day transform a tragically afflicted world he devised the system hi himself him r self sel and superintended its ti tion n. n It turned heavy henvy sl sluggish air into cool mountain breezes and gave him new energy for his continuing scientific work at the age of 70 Perhaps the falling leaves give poignancy and sadness to the fate of this kindly old gentleman driven from his country in the thrust up-thrust of the new or new or possibly the old old say sav savagery agery of Europe One might write of off Josef Beck and Marshal l Edward political and military mil mit- careerists also exiled as incidental casualties caught in inthe inthe inthe the backwash of their own am am- President l al although al a- though merely a symbol in feudal Poland may find a place in the later Inter balance brought for for- ward If there is to be a new dark age it may be that laboratories lab lab laboratories oratories will be the monasteries monas monas- teries which will be the havens of the humane humane spirit and the aspiring Intelligence as were Yere I the monastic refuges of ot the Middle ages He is one a of the greatest electro- electro chemists in Europe ranked with the great German Haber In the field of synthetic chemistry he holds about patents He was a coll college ge professor profess r for many years tall and thin with white hair and a spiked moustache as convinced as a's was was was' Woodrow Wilson that a new freedom freedom free free- dom darn could be gained by the mobilization mobilization mo mo- of planetary intelligence e and good will Much in the manner of our own distinguished Dr Robert Andrews Millikan he acclaimed the ultimate triumph of science over hate hale and stupidity To date the good genii which they have summoned sum sum- are enslaved by men of lesser understanding o D DR R. R JUAN DEMOSTHENES AROSEMENA IENA president of the Republic of Panama is in spite spit of his middle name a practical man cautious ous in D L ChIef Lc c Panama speech and ac- ac Talks American tion As the keynote for U. U I so ahon t the h e 1 inter inter- n t e r- r American conference o of foreign ministers at Panama he sharply as assails sails totalitarianism and religious and racial persecution and invokes unity of the American republics in inthe inthe inthe the spirit of constructive tive isolation on for which our state department is just now new Dr Arosemena a rea realistic veteran of politics has in the past accepted our good neighbor policy on grounds ground of enlightened self self- interest He has been keenly aware that the Canal Zone might be a major trouble spot if war comes this way wiy and re recently recently recently re- re discussing its defense he said If they start shooting up the canal they'll be shooting dt lit litus itus us too and anti that's why we want to help defend it He was foreign minister of Panama Panama Pan Pan- ama fr from m 1929 to 1936 elected president president president pres pres- ident in the latter year and in years past has been sharply opposed ed to the United States on various issues In the presidency he has has has' inclined much more in our direction He i is isi friendly and genial rather in the cut of an man In Inthe Inthe Inthe the 1938 Lima convention he joined the Brazilian delegation in accepting accepting accept- accept ing big ing the Roosevelt overtures for ifor friendship p and unity THIS r ins writer has heard several ex- ex 1 s of ot astonishment ment over dyer r the eagerness of ot the Rev Martin l to fight for Nazi Germa Ger- Ger u T ma many y It iwas Free Freedom lom Like only last June dune Peace Perhaps t that h a the theIs theIs theIs Is Indivisible Churches churches of oi democratic tic co countries throughout t the world proclaimed proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed him the e first Christian martyr of mod modern times and set aside a Sun Sunday fay for commemoration of his heroism The submarine commander of of the World war having having hav hay ing become a great evangelical pastor pas pas- tor in Berlin had led lcd the nonconformists nonconformists non non- conformists in o opposition ion t to Nazi seizure of control of f religion and had gone to a conc concentration n camp The explanation of his backsliding backsliding back back- sliding as a martyr may be found In the records of his earlier ear car Her lier career lie He was an early and zealous ally of of Hitler and his brown shirts aiding in stamping out freedom complacent com coin placentin in the face of pogroms and the wreck of all civil liber- liber ties tics resistant only when his church was vas assailed Consolidated Features Feature's Service |