Moscow’s

great new
university |

By RALPH. PARKER

: MOSCOW
QOARING .one thousand feet

above Moscow a golden star
beckons youth to the future—to
Communism. Immediately below:
it, in the vast new Lomonosov
University building, 10,000 young
men and* women are learning to
master nature and harness its
forces for the benefit of man.

A palace of science, such as the
world has never known, has
arisen. :

From an early hour on Sep-
tember 1 people streamed out to
the’ Lenin Hills to attend the
opening ceremonies.

The great building, construc-
tion work on which was begun
four years ago, houses all the
natural science facilities of the
university, in addition to the
university library, various mu-
seums and living accommodation
for some 6,000 students and post-
graduates.

It has been built in a style
that combines super-efficiency
with decorative features that
make a direct appeal to the taste
of the ordinary man.

Over the colonated entrance
stand the bronzed figures of a
young man and woman with that
calm, confident bearing that those
who have seen the Soviet youth
at international festivals will
readily recall.

These statues, like the pair of
thoughtful figures reading books,
the sculptures of the worker and
peasant high up the towering
Structure, -are symbolic of the
young people who poured into
the university for the first morn-
ing’s lectures.

~The marble walls of the vesti-

bule carry mosaic plaques of the
world’s great scientists of all
lands, East and West.

»-There is no arbitrary selection
to satisfy.superiority of one civil-
isation or one part of the world
over another.

Here honor is done to the
great men of China and Greece,
to Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac
Newton, to Darwin and Michurin,
Maxwell and Paviov—to the uni-
versality of science. .

Every student has a separate
room 12 by 6 feet, and shares a
private bathroom with his neigh-
bor. Every floor has a sumptu-
ously furnished common room.

Most of the ground floor is tak-
en up by a social club, with a
theatre that many a country
would be glad to possess as its
national theatre, two cinemas
and a handsome dance hall, ‘‘suit-
able for dancing the Mazurka in,”
as one student commented.

There was an atmosphere of
tense excitement in the building
on the opening morning. Bursts
of applause greeted lecturers as
they made their first appearance
at the convocation.

The elevator system—there.are
110 elevators in the whole build-
ing—was being studied intently
by boys and girls who were not

quite sure whether they could ’

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find their way back from the 28th
floor to the canteen. :

A group of athletes was get-
ting réady to try out the big
air-conditioned gym and swim-
ming pools in the basement.

One of the girl students at-
tending the new university is
Lydia Shishkina, who for the past
three years has been a building
worker engaged on its construc-
tion.

During * the

evenings Lydia

qualified as a university entrant

and became one. of the many
student builders now studying at
the university.

Lydia has a room on the 10th
floor. It is fully furnished by
the university with a divan bed,
linen provided, a_ glass-fronted
bookcase containing geological
specimens and textbooks.

There is a dressing table across
which Lydia has stretched a
hand-embroidered runner and
placed a bottle of scent and a
desk table with a vase of dahlias
on it.

Lydia lives here rent free. She
can entertain her friends in her
room. She can take meals here
that she has prepared in the
floor kitchen—where there is a
fridge and pressure cookers.

She does not have to clean
her own room, but is expected
to make her bed. She can come
home as late as she likes.

The laboratories are equipped
with the most modern apparatus.
The principle of the Soviet uni-
versity is to keep work in the
lecture rooms to a minimum and
practical work in the laboratories
at a maximum.

That partly accounts for the
fact that there are so many labor-
atories and that there is one
teacher to every nine students.

Of the university’s 13,000 stu-
dents about two-thirds will work
in this new building, the rest mak-
ing use of the historic old build-
ing near the Kremlin.

Ninety-five percent of these
students receive grants, which
will last throughout their five-
year courses, adequate to cover
all their living expenses during
term and vacation.

The new university is named
for Mikhail Lomonosov, 18th cen-
tury Russian poet.

Association meeting.

over its military uses.

. : LONDON
ee existence of a “duplicate

universe” of stars giving
out radio waves -instead of
light, and visible only to a
radio telescope, was pictured

meeting of the British Asso-
ciation last week:

Sir Edward, who is this
year’s president of the asso-
ciation and whose own scien-
tific -work led to the inven-
tion of radar, devoted his pres-
idential address at Liverpool
to describing new develop-

. ments in radio-astronomy.

“Dark” stars, the existence

A tremendous new industry has grown up
round the products of Britain’s atomic pile in
the last ten years, including the extensive chemi-
cal industry engaged in ‘modern alchemy” —
the transmuting of one element into another.

This point was made by Dr. R. Hurst of
sHarwell Atomic Research Station at the British

Dr. Hurst forecast that the economic use of
atomic energy will in the future take precedence

Nuclear power plants would soon begin to

Radio waves from unseen worlds

by Sir Edward Appleton at the

Shown here

pile at left.

of which has only become
known recently, are now be- ‘
ing plotted and Sir Edward
said that two important
“point” sources of radio waves
have been discovered in the
constellations of Cygnus and
Cassiopeia.

In each case there had been
no corresponding visible object
on the star map, and Sir Ed-
ward suggested, ‘Could it be
that a radio star is always a
dark star, and so a new type
of object in the universe?

“Tf so, could it be that there
was a duplicate universe only
to be seen with a radio-tele-

supplement oider power supplies, he said.

machine which was recently exhibited in Cana
dian and American centres to demonstrate how
an atomic engine would work.

Power for the operation is generated in the
Heat flows from the power source
to a transfer tank where steam is generated and
then carriéd through steamlines to the turbines
at centre. Spent steam is condensed beneath the .
turbines and returned to the original tank bY
the condensate pump.

is the model atomic energy

scope as distinct from a visual
telescope?” ;

He told the association that
the distance from the ea
of the constellation of Cygnus
“is estimated as being suC¢
that it required 100 million
years for the light and rage
waves generated in it to travé
to us here on earth.”

He added: “It is rather
humbling thought that it _
only during the last 60 years °
that travel that human being
have managed to learn how
to produce radio waves 22
to receive them.” ,

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‘Your dear old pal, the boss /

By THOMAS SPENCER

HE smooth gentlemen with
salesmen’s smiles who pretend
that workers’ wage demands are
just laughable misunderstandings
have made a film about it.

It purports to show how Moral
Rearmament, the organization fi-
nanced by industrialists to make
workers love their bosses, can
settle strikes to everybody’s satis-
faction.

MRA hopes that’many big cor-
porations, which have had strikes
in the past, will show the film to
their workers. .

U.S. has 2.5 million illiterates

tT report of a three-year re-

search project which President
Eisenhower began when he was
head of Columbia University, re-
veals that 2,500,000 Americans
are so poorly educated they can’t
even read or write.

The study, headed by Dr. Eli
Ginzberg, noted U.S. economist,
finds that illiteracy is concentrat-
ed mainly in the South among
Negroes, Indians and migratory
workers. It warns, however, that
increased migration northward is
making illiteracy a problem for
all of the states.-

'
Pointing out that the US.

spends more money caring for
the young of migratory. birds
than it does to help educate the
children of migrant workers, the
report recommends a more lib-
eral program of federal grants-
in-aid to the states for education-
al purposes. —

This recommendation, how-
ever, is in direct conflict with ‘the
policies of the Eisenhower ad-
ministration. Budget Director
Joseph M. Dodge has made it
clear that he wants the govern-
ment to get out of the grants-in-
aid program, and has directed
Health and Education Secretary
Oveta Hobby to make cuts.

The film purports to show how
MRA settled a nine-months strike
in a US. airline by applying the
principles of absolute honesty,
unselfishness, purity and love.

It shows the president of the
airline saying how he could get
along with his workers and union
officials shaking hands with the
boss.

The principle of absolute hon-
esty doesn’t extend to telling you
what: the strike was about or
whether the workers got what
they were striking for.

But MRA does boast that the
airline, presumably by practising
absolute unselfishness, increased
its profits in a year from $1,500,-
000 to $7,800,000.

The film introduces a plump
shop steward who is said to have
had the ridiculous idea that it
was his job to fight on, behalf of
his workmates. When he apolo-
gises for this absurd notion and
shakes the works superintendent’s
hand the superintendent beams
with joy.

Today, we’re told, he works
with the superintendent and this
makes the president of the com-
pany and practically everybody
in sight very happy. Everybody,
perhaps, except the men whose
rights are no longer being pro-
tected.

this? According to this film, eS

performing plays and SI ‘he
songs and by proclaiming “,
virtues of loving the boss
series of advertising slogans.

This reconciles quarrellin8 a
bands and wives and makes
nuclear ‘physicist apologize , nce
Japanese for any inconvem
the atom bomb may have ¢@l
The Japanese apologizes t00-

Various hard-faced inaustit
ists, speaking slowly under fess
stress of great emotion, a
with absolute purity that t E
to MRA they are now jolly iow
fellows who love their fe fel
men, particularly when thelr, go"
low men love them instead % °
ing on strike. mice

All this leads up to 4 py
words from the boss of sl 33

Frank Buchanan, who rese™ Fi

j e co
plump bird of prey. H ost

his opinion that absolute hom Jove

purity, unselfishness and
will save the world from
munism.

a
It was absolute love that
pelled Dr. Buchman to

10 :
heaven for Adolf Hitler ant

proclaim the Nazi Gestapo bu
er Himmler a “great lad.

kes
His film is called An Idea 4
Wings. I predict a fatal &

How does MRA achieve all it is ever shown to workers:
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 18, 1953 — pace

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