Show 9 H a Science T Quest Shows hows Aid To Progress f BAUKHAGE By J ii News Analyst and Commentator V WASHINGTON I I dont don't often go into such intimate matters as ts private murders in these columns but I have een een impressed f lately to see the results of the untrammelled spirit of modern F. F I youth whose repressions and inhibitions have b been en removed by thoughtful parents who use reason instead of the cruel discipline such as I 1 have suffered suffered having having to go to bed without supper for instance when I 1 was impudent to my elders or being kept in inthe inthe inthe the house for throwing my arithmetic at the cat instead of doing my homework or 01 having my mouth washed out with acme soap when I 1 used language unbecoming a future commentator Recently a pretty little brunette who was by having to leave the city to dwell with her parents in some dull rura rural area of Missouri 1 re re- re- re belled belIed After shooting Mama and Papa she stuffed them behind the sofa and tried to dispose of their property Then there was the poor little mUe seventh grader who smarted I under thoughtless taunting by a farmer farmer far far- mer on who thought the youth displayed on poor form in sawing wood The boy shot the old m man m and dumped him himin himin himin in a creek There was the year old girl from Portsmouth Va who playfully sprayed five G GIs I.'s Is with revolver shots in a shooting gallery and the six girls aged 14 to 16 16 who beat up their female gym instructor in a Bronx Bronx high school Of course 1 am not old-fashioned old enough to encourage corporal punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment but it does seem that a little less sparing of the rod might have prevented pre spoiling the crime record of the peaceful communities from which these youngsters came Perhaps it wouldn't have helped though when the nations of the world set such bad examples I couldn't help thinking of a paragraph paragraph para para- graph in the concluding chapter of that highly important and revealing book by former Secretary of State Cordell Hull Said Hull and I 1 can see him leaning back as he dictated looking over the wide sweep of the Maryland landscape letting his thoughts go back over the rich days of his years We have a desperate need for more religion and morality as the background for government The religious and moral foundations for thought and conduct require strengthening here as well as throughout the tee world There is no higher civilizing Influence than religious religious re reo re- re and moral concepts Corruption Corruption Corruption tion and tyranny can be driven out of government only when these concepts concepts concepts con con- give men the faculty to recognize recognize recognize rec rec- such evils and the strength to eliminate them In these days when we hear so many unpleasant references to to the atom bomb it was a relief to the national capital to get its annual reminder that the people who know most about atomic energy think far I more about about how It can promote human u welfare elf are than how Itcan Itcan it itcan can extinguish human life liCe Sixteen thousand high presented themselves this year as possible winners in hi the seventh annual annual annual an an- nual Westinghouse science talent search After Alter rigorous elimination elim tests 40 finalists were selected to come to Washington for talks with scientists visits to Capitol Hill and the White House and conversations with with their colleagues These 40 students have a reasonable reasonable reasonable reason reason- reason reason- able assurance of scholarships of 1000 each from various sources aside from the search awards while the two lucky top winners each are given 2400 with which to c continue their studies I There was another interesting thing about this years year's awards the awards the revelation that America still is drawing drawing drawing draw draw- ing heavily on the Old World for its scientific talent The boy who won the top prize was born in Budapest ItT ItT-i Andrew Kende displays his experiments cx- cx with new solvents to reduce reduce re re- re- re duce explosion hazards He is Andrew Kende a year old f chemist a handsome youngster five feet eight inches tall Of the 40 finalIsts finalists finalists final final- five were born in Europe and 26 parents of the 40 finalists were foreign i The girl winner was year old i v Barbara Claire Wolff of Flushing L L. I. I where the United Nations ns has its headquarters although there is no connection All AU the contestants must mus have worked on a special scientific scientific sd- sd project and Miss Wolff Wolf devoted devoted devoted de de- de- de voted her time to production of Now if iI you raise fruit you will be interested In this although although although al al- al- al though you probably wouldn't recognize recognize recognize nize a if iI you met It on one of your strolls through your orchard A is a change change change-a a change in the shape body of a fruit n fly The fly Cly itself itsell will not be permitted permitted permitted per per- to get at your our fruit Its eggs have been dyed and irradiated observation observation observation ob ob- ob- ob of ot which processes in the thelon thelong thelong lon long run probably will help the fruit industry When Miss Wolff isn't ding dying dying dy d- dy- dy ing eggs eggs and and irradiating them them she she I Ni Barbara Claire re W Wolff who plans to become a geneticist is shown with the equipment she uses to produce Is edit editing ng her school paper playing badminton studying and we suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose practicing the modern dance and enjoying her clubs which include in include in- in clude elude math cancer and microscopy organizations Young Kende's project has to do with removing or reducing explosion hazards in the chemical processes by which such modern synthetics as the silicones silicone sex hormones and some synthetic rubbers are produced com corn Some day thanks to him men and women may be able to face the most alluring hormone or the most explosive overshoe or automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile tire in comparative tive safety and may even be able to walk right up to a silicone silicon and slap it on the back The 40 finalists were reminded by Watson Davis Science Service director director director di di- rector Harlow Shapley director of Harvard college observatory and W. W W W. Waymack atomic energy commissioner commissioner com corn missioner that it is not enough these days however for scientists to stick sUck to their scientific last letting the rest of the world go by As Dr Shapely put It Dont be so laborious in your laboratories laboratories laboratories labora labora- tories that you ignore your our responsibilities responsibilities as citizens And as Waymack Waymack Waymack Way- Way mack warned Nowadays the scientists scientists sd- sd must not only aid in the creation of knowledge but in the dissemination and use of that knowledge for the general wel wel- fare Unfortunately there are all too few trained scientists in this atomic age As the report of the Presidents President's scientific research board pointed out the technological and scientific progress progress progress ress of this country depends upon one half of 1 per cent of our population tion some tion-some some persons This small group comprises the trained manpower the scientists technicians clans and engineers upon which the operation and the expansion of our economy depends And those actually actual actual- ly engaged in scientific research technical development or teaching comprise a much smaller group within this pool pool only persons The science talent search and similar similar similar sim sim- ilar projects undertaking to discover and encourage youthful scientific talents are helping to ensure the future fu tu- tu- tu ture security and prosperity of the United States which depend as never before on the rapid extension of scientific knowledge not knowledge not only because because because be be- cause the laboratory is the first line of defense in wartime and the scientist scientist sd- sd is the indispensable ble warrior but also because discovery is the basis for our progress against poverty and disease GIs Ex can upset the budget again this year In its attempt to trim Mr Truman's spending congress congress con con- gress makes no allowance for nearly near ly million dollars still unclaimed in n terminal leave e pay ay due enlisted men The Presidents President's bulging budget budget budget bud bud- get set aside only five million dollars for this item just 1 per cent of the total possible cost S SIn In contrast to the usual Hollywood practice the governments government's film production production pro pro- includes none of the usual thrillers Latest minute 25 short subject made by Uncle Sam bears the prosaic title tide Toward a Uniform Uni Un- ferm form Plumbing Code It Other recent cover movies on blister rust control Japanese agriculture foot toot and mouth disease S Some of the people who say they would rather be right than president dont don't get the chance they deserve |