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THURSDAY,CTOiLK L,b J PiPAGE EIGHT (First Section) ' THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Scientists Say Facts On Atomic Bomb Must Not Be Kept h Secret WASHINGTON President Tru man's staten ent that he alone must decide the .natter of sharing the atomic bomi? secrets is deeply significant. It may mean he has come to the conclusion the secrets must be shared with all the na tions and that the only question is "When?" That still leaves to congress and the army and navy a tremendous task of development and utiliza tion of atomic energy, even cf control of the energy itself, but I the scientists are beginning to re- ' volt. They are beginning to say they will not go along with any program to control the atomic bomb's secrets, that they cannot go along with such an idea. In brief, they say the risk of aggres sor nations using the atomic bomb must be guarded against by phy sical restraints and controls, not by guarding the facts of atomic sci ence as secrets. This is something those of us who are not scientists have not thought out, but the view of the scientists on the subject is breath takingly simple. They say that if the secrets of the atomic bomb are not released and science con sents to a program of enslaving its knowledge to military and political considerations, then science will wither and die and be swallowed Why Mary My Cough Is Gone! "Bronehulint Sun Acts With Speed! Now I Know I Cm Gel Some Sleep." Such can represent the surprising xperlence of thousands who try BRONCHULINE for the first time! Tou positively cannot buy anything better for common racking coughB, Bronchial Coughs and Throat Irri tation due to colds. At once you feel its warming effects starting to work everywhere lrmlde your throat, then the comforting easing! Medi cines of such amailng efficiency command the highest respect of all! 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Followed 15 centuries of authoritarian and theocratic rule throughout the world in which there literally was no intellectual life except that given to poetry and speculative moral philosophy. The science of the Greeks was lost and error warped man's view of the world until the Tudor English man knew less of the earth and less of man than the Romans of Nero's day. The first breath of renewed in tellectual freedom came in Italy, but it was feeble, so feeble that the amazing discoveries of Leon ardo de Vinci came to naught. This 15th Century Florentine under stood the principles of the air plane, the submarine, the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, the modern skyscraper, and many other inventions. Not a single one of his idc. was developed! 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The OPA told retailers finally and definitely that war time increases in manufacturing costs are not to be passed on to the public in the form of higher prices for new washers, refrigera tors and similar long-awaited prod ucts. 2. To speed the sale of vast war surpluses, President Truman signed a bill creating a single Ad ministrator of the Surplus Prop erty Board. 3. Another war agency the Office of Economic Stabilization was killed off. 4. The Broomngs Institution held that "a powerful movement for higher wage rates'' is the greatest potential inuation force. 5. Builders estimated that 500, 000 new homes would be started next year, with building climbing to 1,000,000 houses annually by 1948. Strict Materials Control Chester Bowles, Price Adminis trator, reportedly was ready to announce stricter price controls on lumber .hardware, plumbing and other building materials. 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He suggested four methods as a means of continuing farm pro duction and prosperity: 1. Sending agricultural supplies to Europe through government or private purchase. 2. Efficient marketing by house wives including a better knowledge of nutrition. 3. A better knowledge of agri cultural values on the part of the housewife. 4. Better knowledge by con sumers of seasonal and local mar ket gluts so their buying can be adjusted accordingly. "We hope we will not have to resort to curtailment of produc tion. But we must be in a position to carry out such plans if other support and plans do not succeed," he said. W. R. Ogg, head of the federa tion's Washington office, said the federation would "insist" to the administration in Washington that farm price control commitments under the Stcagall Act be carried out. He added that the federation would ask for the liquidation of farm subsidies and an increase in agricultural price ceilings where necessary. Mr. Ogg said the federation would recommend that the Federal government continue the farm labor program through the next caelndar year and reorganize the farm credit system through support of the Flannagan bill. Introduced by the chairman of the House Agricutlural Commit tee, this bill would reorganize the Farm Credit Administration as an independent agency outside of the Department of Agriculture. Not at all pleased with the strike situation, the Telfair County, (Georgia) draft board has gone on a "sit down" strike. Feeling that it was unfair to induct boys of 18 who were badly needed on the farms, the board is refusing any further inductions as long as the present strike situation continues. western world. As for the atomic bomb's sc crets, the scientists say they cut across every field of knowledge. For the bomb is not based on new speculative discoveries made dur ing the war, but on information engineered out of pre-war discov eries. To tic up its secrets would be to dam up almost all the ar teries of the great body of modern science for the life-stream of science is accurate information in great volume. The great destroy er of accurate information, the sovereign creater of error, is se crecy. So say the scientists, to resort to secrecy about the atomic bomb. we would have to cloak nearly all our major science and engineering in a withering secrecy, and if that happened, our science and the civi lization based on it, in a few decades, would become a gan grened zombie. We would enter a new period of dark ages, dark ages more frightful and gloomy than those that shrduded the earth from the time of Julius Caesar to that of George Washington. announcm The Addition of New Departments By The HAYWOOD COMPANY A MODERN Machine Shop L. R. Scott, well known machinist, is in charge of our new department, doing welding, lathe work, machining and general repair work of all kinds. Consult us on any size job. 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