Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-05
ROYAL ACADEMY CONVERSATIONAL
 ON PRESIDENT
First Citizen of United States Becomes Member of Italian Scientific Body; King and Queen Witness Ceremony
(By Review Leased Wire)

ROME, Jan. 3.-President Wilson
 was made a member of the "Reale Academia de Lincei" or Royal Aca- demy of Science this morning
 The president and Mrs. Wilson were seated between the king and queen, while among others present were the American ambassador Thomas Nel- son Page, and other members of the diplomatic corps and many distin- guished Italian officials and scient- ists.
 Senator d'Onidio, who is president of the academy, hailed the president as the worthy representative of the culture of the new world, which now revivifies the ancient culture of the old world In reply President Will son said:
 Your Majesty, Mir President and Gentlemen of the Academy:
 Must Reclaim Science
 q have listened with the profound est appreciation to the beautiful ad- dress which you have been kind enough to deliver, and 1 want to say how deeply l appreciate the honor you have conferred upon me in per hitting me to become a member of this great academy, because there is sense in which the continuing of human thought is in the care Of bodies like this There is serenity, a long view, on the part of science, which seems to be of no age, but to carry human thought Along from genera to generation freed from the elements l of passion.
 Therefore, it is, I dare say, with all men of science a matter of pro l found regret and shame that science ! should in 6 nation which has made | science it's boast have been put to | such dishonorable uses in the recent | war Every just mind must condemn 1 those who so debased the studies of men of science as to use them against I humanity, and therefore, it is part or . your task and of ours to reclaim | science from this disgrace-to show 1 that she is devoted to the advance ment and interest of humanity, and | not to it's embarrassments and de | struction.
 Politics Poor Science
 T wish very much that 1 could be- lieve that I was in some sense a | worthy representative of the men of science of the United States. 1 can not claim to be in any proper sense | a man of science, my studies having . been ill the field of politics all my life, and, while politics may by cour- tesy be called a science, it is ascience which is often practiced without rule | and is very hard to set up standards for. so that one can be sure that one ! is steering the right course.
 At the same time while perhaps !. there is not science of government, there ought to be, l dare say, in gov ernment itself the spirit of science, that is to say, the spirit of disinterest- edness, the spirit of seeking after the truth so far as the truth is ready to be applied to human circumstances. after all, the problems of politics is to satisfy men in the ar of their lives, is to real ize for them, so far as possible, the objects which they have entertained generation after generation and have seen so often proposed.
 Therefore, l have often thought that the universities and academies have their part in simplifying the problems of political affairs and thus assist to advance human life along the lines of political structure and poo litical action.
 Tt is very delightful to draw apart for a little while into this quiet place and feel again that familiar touch Of thought and of knowledge which it has been my privilege to know famil- iarly through so great a part of my life. If I have come out on a more and disordered stage, l hope that I have not lost the recol- lection and may in some sense be as- sisted by councils such as yours