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Show Honor the Scientific Worker There are, we know, smart individuals in-dividuals in Sanpete valley who are pleased to deride the efforts of scientist:. Others pride themselves on religion and wax sarcas'ic bi-causg bi-causg the search for truth seems to be antagonistic to some of their pet prejudices. The time has come, however, for intelligent people to give the scientist; scien-tist; a hand and to appreciate what they have done and are doing for the world. Working in innumerable innumer-able laboratories these men labor for years in the pursuit of some apparently infinitessimail grain of knowledge. Suddenly, from it begins be-gins a series of experiments and nobody knows what the result will be. Maybe a cure for cancer, or a deflnate treatment for pneumonia or the unfolding of some process that will mean better health for millions of people. The idea is not far-fetched. Recently, Re-cently, as a result of experiments at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, in Philadelphia, a new drug was developed from quinine. It was a purely chemical invention but tests indicate that it will prove succes f ul in the treatment of all types cf pneumonia. , Warfare against the dread enemy of maffik'nd, cancer, is oteadily being be-ing fought by the doctors and scientists scien-tists of the world. They receive little public praine, and seldom does wealth come their way but progress is being made. Recent researches reveal a chemical substance In the kidneys, which, if present In sufficient suf-ficient amounts, will give immunity to the individual. Not so much, yu say. but it won't be long before these benefactors of men: and women wom-en will tell you how to get it into kidneys that lack it. We could go on and on, telling of the work being done. One col-lego col-lego of pharmacy is exploring the air, reeking ,to find the cause of hay fever and asthma. The foolish man will say they are wasting their time but just as surely as the1 scientific scien-tific spirit lives one of these days this line of work will offer mankind a cure or a preventative for these maladies. Another doctor, spending year upon discovering a method of locating lo-cating blood clots In the veins, heretofore here-tofore unrtiscoverable under X-rays, has discovered that an injection of a liquid iodine compound saturated in glucose and chilled will reveal the clot and often save the patient's life. There is no u-Je to cite other examples. ex-amples. We cainnot, in these columns col-umns tell the pecple of this valley about all the men and women of science and their great work in behalf be-half of humanity. The examples given are enough to convince us ail that no matter how foolish the experiment ex-periment may seem none of us can forsee Its importance. All that the average layman can do is to develop an appreciation of the scientific .spirit and the) worker work-er who is willing to labor for years to discover and reveal the hidden truths that some day will make men free frcm disease. They de-rerve de-rerve the praiss of thir day and their generation because very often they die before the importance of their work is appreciated or its results fully comprehended. |