Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON YORK if death Is taking NEW only a brief holiday on the west wall the opposition la Is making the most of it the life brigades press forward in science unlike medicine re death pauses search act not for holiday gs g thropa ence phu S social on inquiries md studies and all that has to do with the two healing healin virtues of compassion and understanding even the sedate american philosophical so p cical association feels a touch of the new elan vital and is moved thereby to a spirited teleological free for fo ra all as it tries to understand john dewey the occasion oc c aslon was a special meeting to honor professor profess dewey on having become 80 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 B D sabin of the hersity of cincinnati college of medicine who scores against infantile paralysis and viruses attacking the nervous system is 33 years old ills paper read before the annual meet meeting trig of the american association for the advancement of science at ohio university reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the entrance of the viruses lato into the nervous system it is regarded as an epochal advance toward 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 reseat research ch scientist at rockefeller institute new york city during his tenure with this institution he discovered a new disease caused by an agent which he be calls the B virus his new discovery of the goalkeepers goal keepers in human tissue was announced in connection with his receipt of the theobald smith award in medical sciences rr ft ALEXANDER LESSER of DB brooklyn rooklyn college finds there any such thing as social evo luti at least not in the old sense in the form sees seea our hope given it by in n understanding the classical human behavior evolutionists it Is dead as a doornail door nail says dr lesser but tossing aside subjective judgment he finds ample hope ot of new understanding as he assails the old rationalization aliza tion of haunch paunch and jowl darwinism as rationalizations of force i dr wesley C mitchell as above sees our oar ultimate hope in understanding human behavior and urges the scientists to keep on swinging dr mitchell it will be recalled is the widely known columbia university economist who headed president llo hoovers overs research committee on social trends 0 MATTHEW MATTH tW W STIRLING ah of the smithsonian smithsonia Smith sonia institution who delves into exciting origins and inducements of what is loosely called found primitive civilization la is man possessed oft off for the v yen A v n for D Ts maya country of mexico leading an expedition which will hunt new clues to early indian cultures it la Is a renewal of mr stir lings explorations of last janun january ry in which he found a stone bearing the earliest recorded date of the americas equivalent to november 4 B C A princeton scientist traced the honey highball back years and thereby gained knowledge ot of great historic indo eu shifts in population mr bir stirling also has found cund mans early day elbow bending a source ile he discovered that bat the drinking of primitive man was waft premeditated and indulged in to induce visions at ostia mr stirling stilling found a bar several thousands of years old lacking only the brass rail and the free lunch to match ours in british guiana in 1927 he found pygmies who for full dress re artificial tails whose babies in arms smoked big cigars and whose dogs were in florida lie he found the lost the earliest americans in the he was clubby with head bead hunters and and learned much not only of their recipe for shrinking heads but of their visions legends and customs he was reared in the salinas cow country of california and attended the university of california his explorations have been in north central and south america E europe drope and the east indies ile he is 43 years old and as usual having the time of his life consolidated features service 16 |