| Show LEAR CLEAR THINKING DX X DEMOCRACY DE Five hundred of or the worlds world's most tile Ible and distinguished thinkers met meta a New York for three days and the first week in September Dr a purpose almost unheard of or In tn story They met to disc ss science phi phi- sophy hy and religion in their relation o the democratic way of ot life I Preparations for this conference Jad ad been under way for more than o a Tear ear More than one hundred and and anO five leventy learned societies sties and religious bodies were represented re re- presented t resented in what was perhaps the I I brain trust ever assembled I IL r There were philosophers and mathe political scientists physicIsts physicists physicists phy phy- technologists teachers and clergymen of or every ery denomination and nd creed Protestants Catholics and Jews Probably never before has such a group been able to meet and discuss any subject without serious dissent The amazing thing about this meet meetIng meetIng meetIng Ing is that there was complete agreement agree agree- ment on the general proposition that the most dangerous we weapons pons by which nations conquer each other are not nol guns but ideas that the warin war warIn In Europe as js an out-growth out of ideas idea and that the and the French were defeated as much by thoughts as by tanks These five hundred thinkers found themselves able to agree upon at at least toast one fundamental principle I Ibe I That is that modern civilization can be preserved only by a a. recognition of the sr preme s worth and moral re responsibility responsibility ro- ro o of tho the individual human person That is the supreme essence of democracy de de- I I A Hollywood romance that has I become a legend Two famous s star I I I who defied scandal and risked all for tor love and seem so far to have I won But only time can tell ten how It I will turn out Dont Don't miss this intimate intimate inti mate the Scenes article by Adela Rogers Rogers' St. St Johns in The American Weekly the magazine distributed distributed distributed dis dis- with nex nex weeks week's Los Angeles Ange Ange- I les es Examiner |
