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Show Academy Ponders Implications of Atom Energy I De:m Arthur L. Ut'oley and ; Dr. Wuldemer Read of the L'ni-i L'ni-i versity of Utah were among the speakers at the meeting. Dr. LN.y-J Wilcox. Westminster West-minster Ave., professor of sociology so-ciology at Westminster College, reports that the Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, meeting in Ogden Saturday came to the conclusion that modern man became obsolete, or at least obsolescent, Aug. C. The atomic age was ushered in on that date with the detonation of the first A-bomb over Hiroshima, and man is now faced with the task , billion dollars to create the 1 bomb. One suggestion made at the Ogden meeting was that we ' now spend another two billion to mobilize an army of social scientists who would invent the social machinery for the survival of the human race in a shrunken shrunk-en world threatened with the wrong use of atomic power. ot auusting nimseir to totanv new conditions Revolutionary changes in the application of power to industry, with resultant displacement of labor, is only one of the minoi problems of the new era. The major problem is that of sheer survival in a world where even a small nation can destroy all of the basic industries of a great power within a matter of hours. An army of physical scientists was employed at a cost, of two |
