Show IWHO'S I WHO'S NEWS hii THIS y yx x r WEEK ByN By LEMUEL F. F PARTON EW YORK If If death is taking N NEW only a brief holiday on the west the wall waIl the opposition is making most of it The life Hie brigades press forward in Science 0 Unlike medicine research re re- re- re Death Pauses search science for Holiday ence phil philanthropy philan philan- n- n Not soda social 1 inquiries and studies and all that has to do with the two healing virtues virtues virtues vir vir- vir- vir tues of compassion and understand understand- ing Even the sedate American Philosophical Philosophical Philo Philo- Philosophical association feels a touch of the new clan elan vital and is moved thereby to a spirited teleological free-for-all free as it tries to understand John Dewey The occasion was a special meeting to honor Professor Dewey on having become 80 years old last October Never before has this courier seen a year wind up with less arthritis and more punch in the field of science Young blood is helping a lot Dr Albert B. B Sabin of the University University University Uni Uni- of Cincinnati college of medicine who scores against infantile infantile in infantile in- in paralysis and viruses at attacking attacking attacking at- at tacking the nervous system is 33 years old His Ilis paper read before the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Ohio university reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the entrance entrance entrance en en- trance of the viruses into the nervous s system stem 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 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 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 R. R ALEXANDER LESSER of 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 HIn the form Sees Our Hope given it by In Understanding the classical Human Behavior evolutionists v it is dead as asa asa asa a nail door-nail says Dr Lesser But tossing aside subjective judgment he finds ample hope of new understanding understanding under under- understanding standing as he assails the old rationalization rationalization ration ration- rationalization of haunch paunch and jowl darwinism as rationalizations of force Dr Wesley C. C Mitchell as above sees our ultimate hope in understanding human behavior behavior behavior beha beha- vior and urges the scientists to keep on swinging Dr Mitchell it will be recalled is the widely known Columbia university economist economist economist econ econ- who headed President Hoovers Hoover's research committee on social trends 0 iv 1 MATTHEW X Nil W. W STIRLING anNil anthropologist an- an of the Smithsonian institution who delves into exciting origins and inducements of what is Found 17 in Primitive loosely called civilization is M Man an Possessed off for the Yen for D. D T. T Ts Maya country o of f M Mexico e x i c 0 leading an expedition which will hunt new c clues ues to early Indian cul cul- tures It is a renewal of Mr Stirling's Stir Stir- Stirling's 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 k knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of great historic Indo Eu shifts in population Mr l Stirling also has found mans man's early day elbow-bending elbow a light source He discovered that the drinking of primitive man was premeditated and i in I. I D ioU induce visions At Ostia M Mr l Stirling found a bar several thousands of years old lacking Jacking only the brass rail and the free lunch to match ours In British Guiana in 1927 he found pygmies who for full dress wore ore artificial tails whose babies ies in arms smoked big cigars and whose dogs were In Florida Florida Flor Flor- ida he found AUnd the he lost Calo t the he earliest Best ear Americans In the he was clubby with hunters head-hunters and learned much not only of their recipe for shrinking heads but 5 of their visions legends and customs He was reared in the Salinas the country h Sy University of f California nia and attended cow of California His explorations have been in North Central and South America Europe and the East Indies He is 43 old and as u usual usual- ual having the years time of his life Consolidated Features Service |