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Show Wit and Humor of the August Senate APPARENTLY none of the twelve men who can understand Einstein's Ein-stein's theory of relativity is in the United States senate. Here's a parf of the proceedings in the Congressional Congres-sional Record : Mr. Penrose Mr. President, will the senator permit an inquiry? Mr. Williams Certainly. Mr. Penrose The senator' has referred re-ferred very eloquently to Newton and others who have contributed to science. I know the senate would patiently listen to him if he would explain his views on Einstein's theory of relativity. rela-tivity. Mr. Williams Mr. President, I have long contended that the wittiest, the vaguest and most indefinite man in this body is the senator from Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, but I did not know until this morning that he could discover anything any-thing more vague and indefinite than himself. I frankly confess that I do not understand Einstein ; I frankly confess that I do not believe the senator sena-tor from Pennsylvania understands Einstein. I frankly confess I do not believe the senator from Connecticut (Mr. Brandegee) would even contend I x'jat he un!ll'S!;ood .Einstein, and 1 do i - not believe that even the senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge) would make a very positive pretense in that direction. Mr. Penrose Mr. President The Vice President Does the senator sena-tor from Mississippi yield to the senator sen-ator from Pennsylvania? Mr. Williams I yield. Mr. Penrose I own a volume of Einstein, in the introduction of which it is slated that there are only 12 men in all the world who understand the book. I thought, perhaps, the senator from Mississippi was one of them. I confess that I have nearly lost my mental faculties in trying to understand under-stand Einstein. |