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MONDAY. FEBRUARY-J, 1945*
PRIZE WINNERS
The greatness that his
torical circumstances have
suddenly thrust upon the
United States was well
illustrated the other day
in New York, where, for
the first time since their
institution, the award of
the Nobel prizes took place
on American soil. Five of
the prize winners were
Americans, and the sixth
was a Dane now resident
in this country. The liter
ary prize had previously
been awarded to another
Dane, Johannes Jensen.
This present American
preeminence in scientific
activity comes to us prin
cipally by default. The
clmate of Europe these
past half-dozen years and
more has certainly not
been propitious to scienti
fic or intellectual achieve
ment. Perhaps the same
might be said of Asia,
which can claim at least
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Cl DOC SHOES -((1 Charles W. Williams of Portland,
Ind., fits his war dog with a p* ir of custom made shoes, devised
after it was found that Ions hikes over Burma jungle terrain cut
the dogs’ Itel badiy.
one Nobel prize winner,
Tagore of India. It will
probably be long before
either of these parts of
the world return to that
condition of social stabil
ity and tranquility which
is most conducive to great
scientific accomplishment.
This leaves the United
States with a tremendous
opportunity for scientific
leadership and a tremen
dous responsibility in the
exercise of it.
Today, however, Amer
icans have rather less
faith than they had a few
decades ago that science,
of itself, will be able to
chart the way of salva
tion. They have grown
aware that the discoveries
of scientists can be applied
to destructive ends as
easily as to benignant
ends. This being so it is
perhaps not strange that
some of the speakers at
the prize award ceremon
ies should have sounded a
slightly defensive or, at
an any rate, somewhat
less self-sufficient note
than formerly. President
Dodds of Princeton said
that while it is the duty
of both scholars and scien
tists to “apply scientific
methodology,” it is also
their duty to recognize
“their moral and social re
sponsibility to history.”
Dr. Herbert Gasser, co
winner with Dr. Joseph
Erlanger of the prize in
medicine, observed in a
complicated metaph o r
that the “standards from
other domains of human
striving” must be woven
with the threads provided
by “the comradeship of
science,” if there is to be
strong “fabric of human
motive” to give stability
to the peace. But Dr. Hen
rik Dam, the Danish win
ner of the chemistry prize,
thought that the scientific
principles which have
worked so well in medicine
and industry could be
successfully applied to in
ternational relations and
to the distribution of
wealth. — (Washington
Post).
ON COMMISSIONERS
A report made by Joe
W. Kehoe, while special
assistant to the attorney
general, has recently come
into our hands and it is
interesting to note that
even as far back as 1943
at which time the report
from an investigation was
made, Judge Kehoe had
the interests of the Second
Division in mind and stud
ied its needs. At that time
there was considerable
agitation for the combin
ing of the Second and
Fourth Judicial Divisions.
After a thorough inves
tigation of the matter,
with people throughout
the Division, he made the
recommendation that the
Second Division needed
its own court and that
any supposed saving
would be lost in the lack
of proper administration
of justice.
In the same report he
also made another recom
tmendation wihch to date
has not succeeded in be
ing followed up, but which
certainly should be
brought to the attention of
our readers. He recom
mends that the office of
the Commissioner should
not be one depending on
fees alone, but should be
on a salary basis, probably
under civil service. The
salary to be determined by
the amount of work re
quired by that particular
office.
He stressed the point
that the Commissioner in
Alaska is not like a com
missioner in the States.
In the States this officer is
only a committing magis
trate, while in Alaska he
is also Recorder, Coroner,
and Probate Judge.
It is to be hoped that ♦
when the country turns
from the necessary war
problems that this worthy
recommendation will be
given more consideration. *
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