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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) XJEW YORK. On the bestowal end of the Maria Moors Cabot Latin-American Journalism award, recently presented, is the 80-year-old Dr. God-Dr. God-Dr. Cabot Injects trey Lowell His Bankroll and Cabot of Self Into Progress Boston' als0 a generous contributor to democratic enterprise. enter-prise. For many years, he has been a steady ground-gainer against the disturbers and trouble-makers, not in political theory, but in his activities activi-ties in the field of science and the humanities. He not only bankrolls progress, but helps it over the hurdle hur-dle by his own resourcefulness and inventiveness the true Yankee genius here. South America ought to be particularly interested In Dr. Cabot's now successful and working: scheme to bottle sunshine sun-shine and keep It In the cellar, like jelly or preserves. His 1937 grant of $616,773 to Harvard university uni-versity was a great help in storing solar energy and today, in Florida and other southern states, household hot-water rigs, fuelled by trapped sunshine are almost as common as oil burners burn-ers up north. The next year, Dr. Cabot gave a similar amount to the Massachusetts Massachu-setts Institute of Technology, for the same purpose. His many contributions contribu-tions to the useful arts of peace, including his enthusiastic co-operation with aviation, may well be put down as an antidote to war. He learned to fly a seaplane in his late years and invented a system by which a plane can pick up fuel in flight. He attended M.I.T. two years, finished at Harvard in 1883 and, after laying the foundation of his fortune manufacturing lamp black in Worthington, Pa., branched out in gases and carbides. car-bides. He has always insisted that democracy, to survive, must plow a lot of its gains back into the business which he steadily does. His Latin-American journalism awards are in honor of his late wife. IN 1913, Carlos Davila covered murders and fires for El Mercurio of Santiago de Chile. He was a good reporter, telling what happened, rather than , Prize Journalist what he Expounds Faith inthought Militant Democracy unt t0 happen. Later, as president of Chile and ambassador am-bassador to Washington, he maintained main-tained much of this same detachment. detach-ment. One thing that he observed in 1936 was that the world was going go-ing to hell in a hand-basket unless un-less there could be a successful collective "organization of peace." He also observed that it would be foolish to think that treaties would be an effective stopgap against the oncoming apocalypse. He was away out ' in front in urging bold affirmations affirma-tions and aggressive action, instead in-stead of pacifistic negations as the survival technique of democracy in which he is a fervent belinver. One of the four Latin-American recipients of the Maria Moors Cabot prize in journalism. Dr. Davila has exemplified his faith in a militant and crusading democracy, which faith he expounds in the public functions func-tions attending the prize award. As editor of the Editors Press service, he is possibly the most important journalistic liaison in the new cultural cul-tural and, to a degree, political entente between North and South America. After becoming editor-in-chief of La Nacion, he came to Washington Wash-ington as ambassador, in 1928 at the age of 34. He became president of Chile in 1933, in a period of. political upheaval, helped incline his country to its present liberal trend and landed land-ed back in the United States where his daughters were educated edu-cated and which he considers the world's hope for democratic leadership. It is doubtful whether wheth-er we have In South America -, any U. S. A. citizen who can match Dr. Davila's penetration of the mind and institutions of another country. Living in New York off and on for quite a few years now, he mixes around casually, knows a lot of people, peo-ple, speaks quite a lot of our idiom and demonstrates hemisphere solidarity sol-idarity in his small, compact, alert person as few North or South Americans have ever done. Bombs and bullets were sometimes some-times an obligato to his rapid rise in Chilean statesmanship. He helped build the Chilean state and knows that democracy is not easily come by. He says we were soft, but are toughening up and getting back our "crusading spirit and stoic fiber." |