Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK if death Is taking L only a brief holiday on the west wall the opposition Is making the most of it the life brigades press forward in science p unlike medicine re death deaf A pauses search acl not for holiday ene philan an tl thropa irony social inquiries and studies and all that has to do with the two healing virtues of compassion and understanding even the sedate american philosophical association feels a touch of the new elan vital and is moved thereby to a spirited teleological ideological free for all 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 sabin of the university of cincinnati college of medicine who scores against infantile paralysis and viruses attacking the nervous system is 33 years old ills his paper read before the annual meeting of th the american association for t the he advancement of science at ohl ohio 0 university reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the entrance of the viruses into the nervous system 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 caused by an agent which he calls the 13 virus his new discovery of the v goalkeepers goal keepers in human tissue was announced in connection connect on with his hi s receipt of the theobald smith award in medical sciences rh ALEXANDER L LESSER E ER of ass oe rooklyn brooklyn college fi finds s there ther any such thing as social evolution at least not in the old sense jn the form sees our hope given it by in understanding understands Under standi ng the classical human behavior evolutionists it is dead as a door doornail nail says dr lesser but tossing aside subjective judgment he finds ample hope of new understanding as he assails the old rationalization aliza tion of haunch paunch and jowl darwinism as rationalizations of force dr wesley C mitchell as above sees our ultimate hope in understanding human behavior 11 and urges the scientists to keep on swinging dr mitchell it will be recalled is the widely known columbia university economist who headed president hoovers research committee on social trends M W STIRLING an i 1 of the smithsonian smithsonia Smith soma sonia institution who delves into exciting origins and inducements inducement of what is loosely called found primitive civilization is man possessed oft off for the yen for fo r D Js Ts maya country of mexico leading an expedition which will hunt new clues to early indian cultures it is a renewal of mr stir lings explorations of last january in which he found a stone bearing the earliest recorded date of the americas equivalent to november 4 B C A princeton scientist traced raced the fmc honey highball back 0 years and thereby gained knowledge of great historic indo eu shifts in population mr air stirling also has found mans man early day elbow bending a light source fio he discovered that the drinking of primitive man was premeditated and indulged in to induce visions at ostia mr stirling found a bar several thousands of years old lacking only the brass rail and the free lunch to match ours in british guiana in 1927 he found pygmies who for full dres dresp wore artificial tails whose babies in arms smoked big cigars and whose dogs were in florida he found the lost the earliest americans in the he was clubby with head hunters and learned much not only of their recipe for shrinking heads but of their visions legends and customs he was reared in the salinas cow country of california and attended the university of california his explorations have been in north central and south america europe and the east indies he is 43 years old and as usual having the time of his life consolidated features service lCt |