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READER CRITICIZES STONE ARTICLE

W.E., Vancouver: While agree-
ing that an article on Hinstein’s
latest efforts is timely, I cannot
agree that the one by Peter Stone
in your issue of February 3 fills
the bill. I admit that it would be
impossible for you to carry suffi-
cient information to bring us com-
Pletely up to date, but the mater-

’ ial you do carry should be accur-
ate, clear; it should present the
Problem before the answer, and
Should show the relationship bet-
Ween the scientist and the times,
Social conditions, and political en-
Vironment in which he finds him-
Self. Stone’s article errs im all
these respects. Here are a few
examples,

The treatment of Newtonian
“ether” is most inaccurate. Ether
Was supposed to permeate ALL
Space, including the spaces bet-
Ween the smallest known parti-
cles of matter, -To use the ideas
Of a “sluggish, jelly-like ether” in
Which “floated the stars and pla-
hets,” conveys the impression that
Newton required the concept of
the ether in order to keep the
Planets and stars suspended, or
for some equally foolish reason.

The ether was supposed to be
Such a substance that exhibited
no material property (weight, etc.,
therefore frictionless and unable
to produce “drift’”), yet could ac-
count for the energy transfer
Cheat, light, etc.) over apparently
empty space. How was Newton
to know that an equation could
be written with mass on one side
and energy (work) on the other?

With respect to clarity, the fol-
lowing statements leave me in a
Quandary: (1) “Hinstein’s equa-
tions are applicable only to finite
Space and lost their validity be-
yond the boundaries of this

Sphere”; and (2) “. .. it. follows
that there can be no absolute
boundaries of space..." These

two together render the discus-
Sion of “the infinity of space”

valueless and the reader can only
guess what the writer is driving
at.

No where in the article is there
a statement of the problem which
Hinstein has attempted to ans-
wer,. and which is indeed very
much a problem; if gravity, elec-
tromagnetism, and those forces
which when released in nuclear
reaction are properties of matter,
then there is a relationship bet-
ween each and matter, and hence
between these forces. Scientists,
having so far led us to satisfactory
use of the first two of these for-
ces, are worried about the third

‘because no known forces do the

tremendous quantities of work of
which the third is capable.

Many believe they will find a
force different in “nature”; -the

Jack Spratt

Jack Spratt could eat no fat, >
His wife could eat no lean,
And so betwixt the two

They licked the platter clean.

But as the children older grew
And times and customs changed,
The table manners of the Spratts
Perforce were re-arranged.

With children at the table too

They could not choose and pick,

With twelve observant eyes to
watch :

Of course they could not lick.

_ While father carved the roast of

beef
The children had their broth,
The heathen got a penny for
Each spot upon the cloth.

Spratt and his wife are much
improved
Their table manners too,
Which only goes to show the good
That children sometimes do.
—A.K.I.
Gibson’s Landing, B.C.

Takes issue with ‘inaccurate
treatment of Einstein theory

local press has carried the story
that an expensive laboratory has
been installed at UBC to explore
the “nature” of this force, Per-
haps Einstein has supplied them
with the answer. I’d like to know.
I didn’t find out by“reading your
article.

Scientists, like other humans
(maybe we can leave out those
who like to work on H-bombs),
live at definite points in time and
space. For Newton to have con-
ceived a universe without a super-
natural would have been impos-
sible, Almost as impossible as it
is for a genetecist to earn recog-
nition and a livelihood’ at many
American universities if he denies
the “blueblood” idea in his treat-
ment of heredity. Even in this
day and age a “little bit of hea-
ven” must be allowed for when
drawing your blueprints of what
space consists of.

_ Although we have progressed
to the point where we can. state
that matter and energy are in-
destructible. (which means that
there will be no “end”), the prin-
ciple mustn’t be put into reverse,
or people might get the idea that
there never was a beginning (and
hence have no need for a super-
natural). The question is one of
environment, which in the end
will seriously affect the product
of thinkers, at least insofar as
the speculative part of his work
is concerned,

As for the material side; that
part of a scientist’s work which
can be verified experimentally
and for which practical applica-
tion is shortly possible, the scien-
tist in this part of his work makes
the changes in society and in
turn upon his own environment.

Newton and his contemporaries
laid a solid scientific foundation
for the industrial revolution and
the material human advance that
‘accompanied it. Similarly mod-
ern scientists are laying the basis

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Holy War

Hark! I hear the bugle calling.

Hark! I hear announcers bawling.

See the lurid captions sprawling.
Gird your loins for war.

Join the dance in death’s cotillion.

Kill another hundred million.

Spend another hundred billion.
Thus the jingoes roar,

Build again the Nazi legions.

Dig them up from lower regions.

Find new Quislings for Norwegians.
Arm the Japs Once more.

All the wireless hacks and strumpets

Shall eat double buttered crumpets

With the gold that blows their trumpets,
Boosting up the war.

Jet-borne bombs to slay the Russians,

New Gaswagens for the Prussians,

Smashes, crashes and concussions,
Blimps and stinks and gore.

What, sirs, in the name of thunder,

Bred this stupid, vicious blunder,

Tearing sense from skulls asunder?
What in. hell’s it for?

What's the prize te make men willing

To go on a bout of killing?

Whose lean larder gets a filling?
What’s the treat in store?

Is it nice anticipation

To destroy a mighty nation

To bring millionaires elation?
_Is_ that what it’s, for?

Do you worship these fascisti?

Is Du Pont your corpus christi?

Aren’t you really somewhat misty
On the final score?

Don’t you know the war crusaders

Own the radio persuaders

And the press and movie raiders
In this Holy War?

Don’t you know the stuff they utter
Is dug up from hell’s own gutter,
Smeared with propaganda butter

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dices and superstitions which for-
merly beclouded them. In the
light of these observations, I don’t
feel that Stone’s “Marxist” criti-
cism of Hinstein’s work is very
well based.

LETTERS DIGEST

The PT usually prints a sort
of “letter of reference’ for the
author of scientific material, with
outstanding exceptions. This was
not done this time. What is
Stone’s récord as a scientist and
as a Marxist?

For my part, the “welter of
misinformation” has not been di-
minished. Can ‘you get a piece
on the same subject from J. B. S.
Haldane?

Tie-up of phones pledged
if telephone rates upped

FRASER WILSON, Burnaby: This week I sent the following
letter to Gordon Farrell, president of the B.C. Telephone Company:
I see by the papers that through your legal counsel you
have threatened the Public Utilities Commission, hearing your

current petition for a rate hike,
that unless you are successful in
attaining this increase the tele-
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Now, Mr. Farrell, I am one of
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ones (I have a whole phone book
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