| Show PF WHO'S R t w NEWS te THIS t WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW YORK If YORK If death is taking only a brief holiday on the west wall wan the opposition is making the most of it The life brigades press forward in Science Unlike medicine reD re- re D Death ath Pauses Paule search set eel Not for lor Holiday ence philanthropy philan- philan social Inquiries and studies and all that has to do with the two healing virtues virtues vir vir- tues of compassion and understand ing lag Even the sedate American Philosophical Philosophical Philo Philo- Philosophical association feels a touch of the new elan vital and is moved thereby to a spirited teleological Ideological free for as It tries to understand John Dewey The occasion was a special meeting to honor Professor Dewey on having become 80 years years old last October Never before has this courier seen a year wind up with vAth less arthritis and more punch in the field of science Young blood Is helping a lot Dr Albert D. D Sable Sabin of ot the University Uni of Cincinnati college of medicine who scores against Infantile paralysis and viruses attacking the nervous system Is 33 years old eld His paper read before the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of or Science at Ohio university reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the entrance entrance entrance en en- trance of the viruses Into the nervous system It I Is la regarded as an aD epochal advance toward award understanding of the disease and later conquest Dr Sabin was born in Poland and acquired his academic and medical education at New York university from 1923 to 1931 later studying at Lister institute London In 1932 he became associate research scientist at Rockefeller institute New York city During his tenure with this institution he discovered a new disease disease disease dis dis- ease caused by an agent which he calls the B virus His Ills new discovery of the anti anti- virus goalkeepers in human tissue was announced in connection with his receipt of the Theobald Smith award In medical sciences DR T R. ALEXANDER LESSER of J Brooklyn college finds there Isn't any such thing as social evolution evo evo- lution lution-at lution at least not in the old sense In the form Sees See Our Hope given Eiven It jt by In Understanding the classical Human Behavior evolutionists it is dead as asa asa asa a nail doornail says Dr Lesser But tossing aside subjective judgment he finds ample hope of new understanding understanding understanding under under- standing as he assails the old rationalization ration ration- of haunch paunch and jowl darwinism as rationalizations of force Dr Wesley C. C Mitchell 1 as above sees seea our ultimate hope in understanding human behavior behavior beha beha- vior and aDd urges the Ute scientists to keep on swinging Dr Mitchell 1 It will be recalled Is the widely known Columbia Colombia university economist economist economist econ econ- who headed President Hoovers Hoover's research committee on social trends MATTHEW W. W STIRLING anthropologist anthropologist an an- of the Smithsonia institution who delves into exciting origins and inducements of what is ise loosely called e jo Found Primitive civilization IsMan Is IsMan Man Possessed oU off for the Yen for lor D. D T. T Ts Maya country of Mexico leading an expedition which will hunt new clues to early Indian cultures cul cul- tures It is a renewal of Mr Stirling's Stirling's Stir Stir- lings ling's explorations of last January In which he found a stone bearing the earliest recorded date of the Americas equivalent Americas equivalent to November 4 B. B C. C A Princeton scientist traced the honey highball back years and thereby gained knowledge knowledge knowl edge of great historic Ind Indo Indo-Eu Eu European shifts In population Mr Stirling also has bas found mans man's early day elbow bending a light source lie He discovered that the drinking of primitive man ww was premeditated and aDd Indulged In to te Induce visions At Ostia Mr Stirling found a bar several thousands of years old lackl lacking only the brass rail and the free lunch to match ours In British Guiana in tn 1927 he found pygmies who for full dress wore artificial tails whose babies in arms smoked big cigars and whose dogs were In Flarida Florida Flor Flar ida he be found the Ole lost Caloo has the earliest Americans In the he was clubby with hunters head-hunters and learned much not only of their recipe for shrinking heads but of their visions legends and customs He lie was reared in the Salinas cow country of California and attended the University of California His explorations have been in North Central and St South uth America Europe and the th East Indies He lie Is 43 years old and as usual having the time of his life Consolidated Feature Pastures Service |
