| Show NEWS RIKA THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK the aged president 1 of poland ignaz put an air conditioning system in his old plush draped baroque palace three M 0 looks loohs r years scientist ago a deto A science to vout believer cure ill III world in i the benign miracles of the laboratory which will some day transform a tragically afflicted world he devised the system himself and superintended super intended its installation it turned heavy sluggish air into cool mountain breezes and gave hit him new energy for his continuing acl scientific work at the age of 70 perhaps the falling leaves give poignancy and sadness to the fate of this kindly old gentleman driven from his country in the up thrust of the new or possibly the old savagery of europe not even his fine intelligence could air condition europe against the germs of hatred or the virus of power politics one might write off joset josef beek beck and marshal edward political and military careerists also exiled as incidental casualties caught in the backwash of their own ambitions bit ions president although merely a symbol in feudal poland may find a place in the later balance brought forward if there is to be a new dark age it may be that laboratories will be the monasteries which win will be the havens of the humane spirit and the aspiring intelligence as were the monastic refu refuges es of the middle a ages aes es president will transmit a great deal to this legacy he is one of the greatest electro chemists in europe ranked with the great german haber in the field of synthetic chemistry he holds about patents he was a college professor for many years tall and thin lin with white hair and a spiked moustache as convinced as was woodrow wilson that a new freedom could be gained by the mobilization of planetary intelligence and good will much in the ma manner liner of our own distinguished dr robert hobert andrews millikan he acclaimed the ultimate triumph of science over hate and stupidity to date the good genii which they have summoned are enslaved by men of lesser understanding eagle beaked old marshal realizing that professor work in ri rebuilding building poland rated recognition put him away in the presidency and forgot him he seem to mind because this enforced obscurity gave him plenty of time for his bis scientific work which is perhaps just as well stacking up his achievements against those of the power men in the post war period |
