Show the truth shall make you free by LEONARD A BARRETT A very pathetic picture recently ap feared in a P imber of periodicals professor einstein was represented as ELS walking down d 0 w n a gangplank of a tug which brought him safely to the shores of our country he boarded the tug t u g some miles out at sea in order to avoid danger as well as publicity ahe efforts of this great scientist to avoid being mur dered Is a stirring chapter in the his tory of heroism it Is commonly known that a certain faction in ger many placed a price upon his head professor einstein was able to get out of germany and found a reasonably safe retreat in england where he lee aured in a number of the large cities ue ile Is now a very welcome guest of one of our universities where he Is to lecture and continue his stud es in his coveted field of research many answers might be given to the question why was he not allowed to continue his research in germany of course the principal reason was that he Is of the jewish race and the atti attl tude of hitler and his followers to ward that race has provoked pro voLed the wrath of the entire civilized world A matter however far more imbor tant than racial discrimination Is in evolved in the act of forcing so great a scientist from his place in the varsity where he be labored so long no nation can afford to throttle the ad vance of scientific investigation or block the efforts of those who labor in the field of research every nation that has tried to do so soon passed out of existence A nation which by coercion endeavors to control the freedom of choice in the matter of per bonal liberties soon falls into the grave which by such acts she has dug for herself one of the great advantages of this country has been the freedom with which our men of science have been encouraged to continue their scientific work regardless of race color or re llalon large sums of money are an dually raised by taxation for the sup port of state universities and private endowments supply funds for the equip ment of laboratories if our govern ment were to attempt to thwart the progress of scientific investigation it would meet with such protest that the action would soon have to be rescind ed our conception of liberty and freedom of speech would not stand for it may our country be spared from such a fate as was experienced by other na eions which attempted to throttle truth only the truth can make us free 0 1933 western newspaper union |