The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-28
SCIENTISTS DISCUSS
 WEALTH CONCENTRATION
CONDITION VIGOROUSLY DE- NOUNCED AND JUST As EAR
 NESTLY DEFENDED.

Henry Laurens Call, of Washington, Att
 tacks the Right of John D. ROcke-
 feller to His FOrtune--Asserts That
 it Is Not the Result of Natural Causes
 Created Through the Activity of
 CorpOrations-HoM Oil King Cut
 Price in Half by Building Pipe Line.
 New York, Dec. 27.-The concentra- ton of wealth in the hands of compar- lively few persons was vigorously denounced and just as earnestly de- tended to-day at the opening session of the fifty-seventh annual meeting or the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. Tn a paper on 'The Concentration of Wealth Henry Uaurens Call of Washington, D. C., at tackled the right of John D. Rocke1el- Ter to his fortune, asserting that IL was not the result of natural causes, but had been created through the &C., tivity of corporations which the speak CT termed "vicAaus,"
 During a subsequent discussion or "the evolution of property Louis Mc- Emerson, assistant to the late Samuel Spencer. as president of the Southern Railway, took occasion to reply to MT. Call. He declared that MT. Rockefel- Ter had had his financial struggles and had done much good which was gen erally lost sight of in the criticism which success brought. He told or MT. Rockefeller's early attempt to se- cure S25,000 with which to construct pipe line for oil. One man who refus- ed aid met the financier when the pipe line had been laid. To him MT. Rocke- felaS said:
 q built that pipe line to make oil cheaper, and I succeeded. I cut the cost more than half. And yet they find fault"
 MT. MoPherson the less seriously told of a dinner party several years ago at the Rockefeller home when Mrs. Rockefeller explained the absence of oysters by saying i've like them, but are too poor to have them.' One, to illustrate MT. McPherson's point, might be worth $1OO,00O,00O and still be short of ready cash if he kept his fac- tories in operation.
 Wealth and railroads were but two of many subjects discussed by well known writers and speakers. After convening at Columbia university, where they were welcomed by Presi- dent Nicholas Murray Butler, the sev- eral hundred scientists separated into various groups, where as many sub iects were discussed.
 Dr. w. H. Welch of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, the new head of , the association, talked on medicine; Charles A. Conant of this city and John Y. Crowell, on currency; Vice President William M. Rice on geology, Richard T. Colburn on this city on price fluctuations, while others spoke informally.
 The feature of to-night's session was the address of Dr. c. NJ Woodward of St. Louis, the retiring president who spoke of "The Science of Educa- tioss."
 Dr. Woodward agreed with Huxley 4 and others that there was no valid dis tinction between pure science and ap- oiled science and pointed out that a healthy and timely growth and devel- hpment of the brain was to be promot- ed by an education involving great variety of activities, skilfully adjusted as to quality and quantity to the mental and physical status of the child.
 q see nowhere he said, fin either ancient or modern times a people whose youth have been trained as oui Americans should be trained. Neither Greece nor Rome with their pinnacleS of culture resting on the barbarou' fo,ndation of human slavery; nor tht flooded aristocracies of modern times can teach us how to educate and trair and adorn an American citizen. We must not expect all our students tt ru1e nor vet all to be ruled; to direct nor vet to be directed; to employ. noi to be employed. They must be capable of all these things. No narrow selt1sf aim, no prejudice or caste, no tals' claim of high culture which scorn service. must mislead the growing, eX banding minds. Give them a generous symmetrical training; open wide tn avenue of usefulness, to happiness, t' power; and this age of scientific pro gress and material wealth shall be als an age of high intellectual and socia achievements"
 From g o'clock until il o'clock Presi dent Butler, of Columbia, received tn
 members 1of the association in Ear hall. and there was also a smoke for the members of the association a n the Faculty club.