Show Science transforms world character This is the first in a series of guest articles by outstanding men in the field of World By HAMILTON HOLT the end of World War it was demonstrated to us that at last modern science had produce weapons which could control the atomic bombs based on air Modern more than any other has transformed the character of the modern If it were not for steam and we should all doubtless be living in such a world as Plato and Michelangelo lived Science has multiplied human power he who controls the the controls the human mind and he who has at his disposal the great modern engines of warfare warships and atomic bombs controls the human t We have witnessed one molding the thought of eighty million We have witnessed one hundred super-armed Germans or Russians control ten thousand unarmed The problem of the world today is the problem of controlling men that control the minds and the bodies of the world's If a few unscrupulous men seize these the rest of mankind must submit to something akin wherever must be and always has been achieved by enlightened men uniting arid and maintaining superior forces over unenlightened if the men who believe in justice and the Golden Rule wish to maintain these they must be ready to defend them with their very lives forefathers pledged their fortunes and their sacred to the Constitution they framed and what happened The United States of America Freedom is not a it is something that must be The only way that freedom can be made effective is by working through law and the only way that law can be established is by political In order that political organization may establish law establish justice and justice establish the world must be politically organized under the reign of In other a world government must be organized winch can make interpret laws in world courts of justice and t enforce them by means of a police The world government must have monopoly control of the agents of especially atomic power and air force since these two in combination can now destroy a large part of the world if seized by unscrupulous There is no longer a question of political theory which the slow processes of evolution will bring to It is a burning present There is no de- from the atomic bomb known to scientists or military Those bombs that are being manufactured by the United States daily are much more destructive than those that destroyed Hiroshima and If we do not establish a world government before the secret of the atomic bomb is discovered in other half of civilization throughout the world will be in jeopardy and may well be |