Archives Officer Tells A. U.
Group Progress Must
Keep Step.
Danger to civilization is seen by Dr.
fcolon Buck, director of publications
of the National Archives, because of
the failure of the “so-called social
aciences,” to keep pace with progress
in natural sciences, in technology.
Speaking before the College Honor
Society at American University last
night, Dr. Buck warned the "real
jsource of the difficulty is man's ignor
iance of the fundamental laws of hu
man nature. The possibilities of the
physical sciences,” he explained, “are
so obvious as compared to those of the
human sciences that they have in
recent years attracted an undue pro
portion of the best minds into their
eervice.
“Unless the balance between the
two can be improved,” he declared,
“unless, for eamplxe, scientific progress
in destructive warfare is balanced by
progress in the art of preventing wars,
modem civilization may give way un
der the strain.”
Cites Separation of Years.
Pointing to an amazing series ot
scientific inventions in mechanical and
chemical progress during the past 50
years, the speaker said that “turning
from the natural to the social sciences,
we find no comparable progress in
the last half century. It is doubtful
If men know much more today about
how to live together as an organized
society than they did 50 or 100 years
ago. Such working rules as are ten
tatively formulated may serve for a
brief period, only to become useless
and even harmful as a result of new
advances in the physical sciences and
technology.”
"The most outstanding variation in
the progress of the human mind—that
is, of knowledge—in recent genera
tions,” said Dr. Buck, “has been be
tween the natural sciences, and the
sciences, if we may call them such,
that deal with humanity—in other
words, the so-called social sciences.
“Men have acquired knowledge of
certain kinds and physical wealth |
more rapidly than they have acquired
knowledge of how to use them for the
best interests of humanity. It must
be admitted, moreover, that the ten
dency of most men to use their acqui
sitions of knowledge for the benefit
of themselves and the groups to which
they belong has not always been con
ducive to human progress.”
Nine Join Society.
The speaker called on the nine stu
dents who were inducted into the
College Honor Society to pursue their
future course with this discrepancy
between the scientific and the human
relations in mind. He hoped there
“may be a few who will make some
contribution toward the discovery of
the laws of human nature and their
application to human affairs.”
Dr. Edward W. Engel, president of
the College Honor Society, presided.
Dr. Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor,
spoke for the university, and Dr.
George B. Woods, dean of the College
of Liberal Arts, introduced the speaker.
The nine senior students, including
seven girls, whose high academic rec
ords for more than three years had
led to their election to the honor so
ciety, whose standards are similar to
Phi Beta Kappa, are: Susan Drager,
Margaret Hall, Marguerite Stevenson,
Frances Page, Helen Sanderlin,
Owenita Sanderlin, Ethel Whitlow,
Richard Hummer and William Powell, j
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PARADE LEAVE GRANTED!
Government employes who actively
participate in the Army day parade
April 6 will be excused for the after
noon by most of the Federal depart
ments, according to officials of the
Military Order of the World War,
aponsors of the parade.
In response to a request from the
order, it was announced, adminis
trative assistants of most of the de
partments have replied that if em
ployes are given leave to participate
in the parade it will be necessary
for them to present a certiflate that
they actually participated in the
parade to prevent such time off be
ing charged against annual leave.
Arrangements are being made to
*upply such certificates to members
of Reserve, veteran and patriotic
organizations marching in the parade.
Ouch! Strangled!
SO SAYS THIS
YOUNG WASHINGTON TREE.
Have you ever noticed how
the tree boxes in Washington
are getting so run-down at
the heels that they give a
shoddy appearance to the sur
roundings? Well, keep your
eyes open and you toill be
surprised. Somebody hit this
tree box at Fifteenth and N
streets an awful whack, and
that is the way it stays—and
stays—and stays. Somebody at
the District Building ought to
be getting busy on the tree
boxes, now that Spring is here,
and help spruce up our town.
The furniture is certainly
wearing out.
—Star Staff Photo.
FIRST AND 1,O0O,OO0TH
PASSENGER TO BE FETED
The first and tire one-millionth
passengers on the American Airlines
system will be guests of honor at a
dinner by the National Aeronautic
Association Tuesday evening at the
Willard Hotel.
Federal officials in charge of civil
aviation affairs, members of Con
gress, air transport and other avia
tion executives will be guests of the
association, it was announced by
Charles F. Horner, president. Among
the speakers will be C. R. Smith,
president of American Airlines.
On February 16 T. C. Baker, Brook
line, Mass., purchased the one-mil
lionth ticket for a vacation trip to
Florida. He is to receive a gold me
dallion from the airline, a round-trip
passage to Europe on the airship
Hindenburg this Summer, with $1,000
for expenses, and a silver loving cup
from the N. A. A.
The first passenger, Mrs. Gardiner
Fiske of Boston, who made the first
trip on April 1, 192*7, from Boston to
New York, also will receive a loving
cup.
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