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Fossils Intrigue Bright
j Young Scientist-Farmer
One of 40 Talented Youth Honored With Trip
To Washington; Many Ponder Careers
i As Atomic Researchists.
By BAUKHAGE
I News Analyst and Commentator.
"WNTJ Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
He knew what a sphygmomanom
eter waa used for; that a decigram
equals 1.5432 grains; and that
septicemia and anaphylaxis are dif
ferent. Besides that, he collects fos
sils ? enough to fill the farm
kitchen at his home near Ellens
burg, Wash. That's why 18-year-old
Jim Gibson got a free trip to Wash
ington, D. C., where he ate buffalo
steak at the zoo; drank tea at the
White House; gave congress a criti
cal once-over; and listened to Lise
Neitner, physics wizard, talk
on atomic theory.
Jim is one of 40 bright young high
school seniors selected as finalists
in the fifth annual science talent
search, sponsored by Science Serv
ice of Washington, with scholarships
offered by Westinghouse Electric
company. Sixteen thousand scien
tific-minded boys and girls, from
every section of the country, took
competitive examinations on such
things as sphygmomanometers and
decigrams; wrote essays on "My
Scientific Project"; were inter
viewed by leading scientists. Three
hundred of them won special recog
nition; 260 were given honorable
mention; and 40 "finalists," includ
James Gibson
tag Jim Gibson, came to Washing
ton, D. C., to attend the Science Tal
ent institute.
I met Jim at the banquet which
wound up the hectic weekend of
Interviews and sightseeing tours,
and asked him how he'd hap
pened to start collecting fossils in
stead of stamps, birds' eggs, or
matchbox covers. Jim, a ruddy,
rumpled, serge-suited farm boy,
scoffed at stamps as "dull." Fos
sils aren't.
One Fossil
20,000 Years Old
Why, just this year, he was nos
ing around some cliffs in his part
of the state of .Washington, and he
came upon an interesting rock. That
is, it would look like a rock to you
and me. Jim saw something em
bedded in it. Maybe a bone. He and
his fossil-minded companion hacked
out the rock, and with considerable
effort, lugged it into their car. It
weighed 130 pounds. At home, Jim
"liberated" what he had seen em
bedded In the rock. A small piece
of wood. He took it to a scientific
professor friend of his. and learned
that what he had found was a
30,000-year-old fossil. Jim was as
excited as if somebody had present
ed him with a brand-new 1046 model
automobile.
The serious, brown-eyed young
ster tosses decades and centuries
around with great ease. Over the
mushroom soup, he dug around in
his crowded pockets and produced
an odd-looking object.
- "See this?" he asked.
"Um," I said. Another piece of
rock.
"It's a shark's tooth," Jim ex
plained. "It's eight million years
old. Dr. Foshag of the Smithsonian
Institution gave it to me."
I hurriedly rolled the conversa
tional ball back to 1M6.
"What does your family think of
your fossils." I wanted to know.
WeU, it turns out that Jim, and
his father, a dairy farmer, "batch
dt." Mr. Gibson has no objections to
fossils under the bed so long as they
don't interfere with Jim's cooking.
Yes, Jim does most of the cooking,
but he's deprecatory on this score,
saying his culinary exploits depend
largely on a can-opener.
Likee Collector
Of Brains
Girls? Well, to appeal to Jim,
they'd have to be as smart as Lise
Neitner. The little gray-haired femi
nine scientist whose research led di
rectly to the development of the
atomic bomb, impressed him most
of anything or anybody he saw in
Washington, with the exception of
the cyclotron at the bureau of stand
ards. However, there was one girl
he met at the Science Talent insti
tute who he admitted was "interest
ing." She collected brains.
He knows all about running a
farm and he keeps bees as part of
his 4-H club work, but Jim Gibson
isn't keen about farming as a liv
ing. He prefers fossils. And he's
casting a speculative eye on the
field of nuclear physics . . as are
well over half of the scientific
minded youngsters who came to
Washington this year.
Incidentally, at the same banquet,
Science Service Director Watson
Davis mentioned a few "firsts" this
fifth group of young scientists had
chalked up. They ate broiled buf
falo steak without a qualm after
viewing the live variety at the
Washington zoo; they prepared a
"talk back" report of their opinions
on the atomic energy and Kilgora
bills to be submitted to congression
al committees . . . and among the
group was one Missourian, said Mr.
Davis ... the first Missourian, he
added, who had ever gone into the
White House and had not come out
with a federal appointment.
? ? ?
There is a strange paradox in con
gress and it may cost the Demo
crats the pro-tern presidency of the
senate. It's the exact reverse of the
"unholy alliance" of today?the
coalition between the southern
Democrats and the northern Repub
licans?and this is the way some of
the crystal-gazers on Capitol Hill ex
pound it;
tucie nave ocen no reai issues D?
for* th? country over which th*
voter* could tear their hearts asun
der. But there have been some bit
ter ones within congress and among
the Democrats in the senate espe
cially, which have caused incendi
ary intramural political friction.
Senator McKellar, Democrat of
Tennessee, has been, in the eyes of
some of his more progressive col
leagues, a brake on the wheels of
what they consider their progress.
Senator McKellar has sturdily and
steadily bucked administration
legislation, not merely the Fair
Employment Practices bill, but
other measures which the "lib
eral" element on both sides of th*
aisl* have supported. Nobody denies
that after the next election the Re
publicans are going to get some of
those 17 seats in northern and west
ern constituencies away from their
Democratic opponents. They may
get enough of them so th* parties
will be at least more evenly bal
anced even in th* opinion of the
more conservative prognosticators.
That is half of the proposition. The
other half is the growing wrath of
some of th* liberals on th* Demo
cratic side who are very sore at
McKellar for deserting th* party
line.
It Is not out of th* picture that
enough of these liberals will b* trill
ing to kick over th* traces and vot*
for a Republican president pro-tern
or at least vote against McKellar
and thus produce the Strang* but ?
possible phenomenon of a represent
ative of th* minority party presid
ing over th* senate.
This is not a prediction, but it
la th* presentation of a paradoxi
cal possibility, granted th* trend o<
th* times becomes the course of to
morrow.
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The FCC must decide whether th*
new telephone recorder destroys
the telephone's privacy. It might
keep people from wasting telephone
time, and think of all the things you
wouldn't say if you knew they wer*
going to be on the record! For on*
thing, it might make people mora
sympathetic toward radio commen
tators.
jJ BARBS ? . . by Baukhagt
?Nm iim la a ceiling on butter
when cream can rlaa as high aa it
wants toT Naturally it will seek?
revming gravity?the highest lev
els. including ice cream.
? ? ?
The black market in America ap
pears about as assy to handle as
the bootlegger oi prohibition days
. . and the bootlegger is waiting
? in the wing. tos.
USO Pres. Lindsay Kimball says
Americans move from vast enthusi
asm to complete indifference.
That's certainly true. Remember
monopoly, Coue, mah-Jong, minia
ture goUT
? ? ?
Practically every woman in
America Je pursuing poly amide
products, these days Polyamide is
what nylon stockings are mate at.
ON THEIR DIAMOND WEDDING DAT . . . Seventy-five years of wedded bliss, spent in the leg cabin home
which they constructed themselves when they were first married, la the proud record of Mr. and Mrs.
George Turner, Viroqna, Wis. They were married by a Methodist circuit rider and have four married
children who live In the surrounding countryside. Mr. Turner Is M and his wife, Mary Jane, is 92 years old.
HIROSHIMA KNOWS EFFECTS OF ATOMIC BOMB. . . Seven months niter the atomic bomb hit Hiro
shima, what was once a thriving city still lays in rains except lor an emergency housing project which is
attempting to provide shelter. Shown In the photo is one of the 600 homes which are arising from the
rabble of what was once war factories. These natives know the real power of atomic bombs.
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HER LAST VISIT . . . Mrs. Ens
Hasp*, whose son was executed
ss a spy after he landed by sub
marine from Germany, visits her
hashaad prior te her deportation
to Germany, and the start of Us
Hfe sentence, far aldiac son la Us
spy wort.
HIS BOLOMETER SEES IN
DARK ... The ability to see ob
Jetti la the dark as far away as
IS miles, wlthoat Mai seen la
re tarn. Is made possible by the
iaeeatioa at the bolometer by Dr.
Dwell H. Aadrews *t Baltimore.
Peacetime ase will raage from
?re alarm to eaaeer wespso.
FAMINE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE APPOINTED . . . With Ches
ter C. Davis, upper left, as chairman. President Truman has named
the executive croup of the Famine Emergency committee. Other
members are Eugene Meyer, publisher, vice chairman, lower left;
George H. Gallup, upper right, director of the American Institute
of Public Opinion, and Miss Anna Lord Strauss, lower right.
BRINGING G.M. STRIKE TO AN END . . . Weary and
al the ead of the US-day General Meters strike, federal conciliatsr
James Dewey, with strike terms in Us hand, reads the terms which
seat the workers back to work. Mill lens of dollars in wares and
profits wore last while the strike was be ins conducted. la addition
?? aa increase e< IfiVi cents aa bear, ether benefits were seeared by
the aaiea members.
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BEHIN^ftj
By PaULMaLI&C?^
Released by Western Newspaper Union. ;
TRCMAN'S CABINET FORCED
SECRETARY BYRNES' HAND
WASHINGTON ?The story is told
?I do not know how truly?that
State secretary
Byrnes faced a
verbal firing squad
in the cabinet be
fore his recent firm
ing of international
policy against en
croachments by
Russia around the
world.
In the inner
group, it is re
lated that Pres
ident Truman
allowed nis cabinet advisers to
express plainly to Brynes their
dissatisfaction at the total lack
of results from his position as a
diplomatic nentral. Indeed, a
majority is said to have pointed
oat to him that to be a neutral
in conflicts between democracy
and totalitarianism is to be in
effective.
Some of Mr. Byrnes' friends are
trying to stamp out the story, con
tending he wrote one or two of his
firming notes before the date of the
meeting at which the execution of
appeasement, if not of Mr. Byrnes,
took place.
PURPOSE OF CHURCHILL'S
MISSOURI ADDRESS
I am inclined to believe the story
because Mr. Truman stepped out
conspicuously on the same platform
from which the Churchill address,
urging an Anglo-American alliance,
was presented. Mr. Truman did not
commit himself, except by his pres
President Truman
ence, but when a Missouri univer
sity grants an honorary degree to
anyone you may be sure Mr. Tru
man arranged the affair. Indeed,
he is supposed to have read the ad
dress in advance. You may recall
Mr. Churchill paid a final visit to
Washington a week or more before
they both went out together for the
historic occasion.
The union of these two men
for the occasion, however,
should not be interpreted as a
definite forecast that all Mr.
Churchill wanted will come to
pass, immediately or even soon.
Indeed, common interpretation
around the country, lodging by
the comment and reaction, was
that Mr. Churchill was inspired
by a desire to give a boost to
the proposed loan-gift of more
than four billion dollars to the
British government. No donbt
this is trne, bnt the deeper
meaning of his words should not
be lost in inch an obvions de
duction.
. The important thing is, fye spoke
out against Russia. He removed the
diplomatic velvet from his tongue
and talked of realities. He dropped
pretense and said what he thought.
DIPLOMATIC TRICKERY
HAS NO PLACE IN O. S.
Such plain words bavt not been
much in order around here lately.
The Byrnes policy had been found
ed on other factors than plain speak
ing, to say the least. I think it is
fair to say the advocates of the
Byrnes school of tactics (largely
confined to the left-wing groups)
were timid in their fear to face
truth.
The mere facing of it in these
new diplomatic ventures there
fore represents progress. The
confused world cannot find sta
bility and peace in diplomatic
trickery, appeasements, spoken
words without meaning, written
and sworn words not to be car
ried into effect, or any of these
devices?all lacking confidence,
security and good faith neces
sary to sound understanding.
Agreement must be built upon
these ingredients as a foundation, or
they are meaningless and danger
ous. To fear that war will come
is in itself a position of weakness.
It will come either way, if it is
to come, because it can come only
through action of our adversaries.
If we face the facts, we will know
what the score is and we will be
prepared. If we dodge the issue and
retreat from position to position in
the face of mere diplomatic pres
sures, and delude ourselves into be
lieving surrender is pence, our fate
in hi the hands of our adversaries.
Byrnes
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