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Show GERMAN SCIENCE IN NEED OF AID Has Few Instruments and No Books Published Since 1914 BY MWTMILIAN H RDEN Special Cable t the Standard-Examiner. Copyright, 1922. by the Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) BERLIN. April 1, Germany's science needs aid. It Is without required re-quired textbooks or scientific Instruments. Instru-ments. Cannot America's young idealists create a world 01 ganlzatlon to insure tho mutual exchange, at reasonable prices, of all scientific literature published pub-lished slnco 1914? Cannot we later make possible, perhaps per-haps through cheap credits, the repair re-pair and resloratltm of all scientific Institutions and instruments between Coblenz and Moscow. To let science bog, or from sheer misery, be dograded Into baser wurK would be a monument to the shame of our time. Tho greatest hater of Germany's Ger-many's Imperial policy does not desire de-sire to perpetrate a rovengo which calls for strangling Teutonic science which bus provided imperishable monuments mon-uments to humanity. Countess millions In gold are needed need-ed for maintenance of foreign troops on German soli, which harms victor and vanquished, alike There comes an extra demand for sixty billion marks, the rapid collection of which would wrench the economic organic i-tlon i-tlon of the world but there Is no provision pro-vision mado therein for ensuring productive pro-ductive scientific research. Is it not high time to ring thy alarm bell nnd realise that tho vital Interests of hu- I manlty, rather than Germany, now is at stake ? VALUE OF RESEARCH While the reparatlono committee j was composing its note ordering tho German government to rale sixty I billion marks and to provide tho levying levy-ing of an hundred billion in new ' taxes. Professor lbert Einstein, of Berlin, wan trying to pro e to business busi-ness men that scientific research ' would bo helpful to them. Another i professor was showing tho advan-of advan-of a thorough knowledge of chemical elements, which he argued. , would nave- many unnecessary expen-I expen-I slvc experiments. . y I Still a third professor was showing I the value of understanding the laws ' of heredity. He showed that In Swed-I Swed-I en tho yield of wheat had been lu-creased lu-creased 4 5 per cent through a scientific scien-tific mixing of tho seed I Cattle, poultrs and name all would benefit by the application of such a 1 theory. And, possibly, the same 'science might pre ent the early de- o of national civilizations i The object of these experiments was to show business men, that the fires I built on the altar of discovery may furnish the machines whereby Incomes ' ire increased and thus persuade them to -mpport scientific research in world science. AXOMAIM EXPEXSIVE Does the world realize that In German Ger-man science there today Is distress never before dreamed of? Bactero-loglcal Bactero-loglcal research and animal experi-i experi-i ments are almost Impossible. The ' moxt miserable dog costs 160 marks, a I rabbit 70 marks, a monkey 500, ami i tho larger animals are held at a prohibitive pro-hibitive flguro, copper, nickel, zinc, clfi.ss. all are 85 times more than the ' pre-war figure, and, with a wape mill-' mill-' tlplled 20 times, it is easy to see what prices are for scientific instruments. Efoarcely anything has been bought since 1914, All reserve stocks of ma-teriala ma-teriala and tools are exhausted. Even that "dally food" for scientists, scien-tists, book reviews, has been almost I unobtainable Inasmuch ns the latest sclentlflo publications today are a lux-I lux-I ury only for the rich, scientists today are considering sidling thtlr libraries rather than purchasing books. BOOKS UNPUBLISHED All books nnd journals published I abroad during the war aro lnckinp here. Filling the gaps at present ; prices Is unthinkable. Yet It must be ( filled. German scientists need act-I act-I nal knowledge of all progress mado ; abroad, nnd the world likewise oueht I I r hare the most complete knowledge of all that the German scientists have been able to find out. Hofore the wa. , more than n third of tho scientific lit-I lit-I erature of the world came from Ger-I Ger-I many. Now the price of paper and I printing Is so enormous and the m.'ir-I m.'ir-I ket so small that works of the great- est value are imprinted. The peril to Germs n science readily I would be understood If the people of I the world realized how scientists hne' been broken by their eerlastlng wor- rles over how to get food for thiMr families Studonts scrape only a most miserable existence by accepting ojl sorts of odd Jobs The loss to a slngTe generation, through being compelled to do without needed scientific implements, im-plements, and to miss the careful educational edu-cational facilities of past generations, never can be repaired. oo |