The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-29
uoRI D WAS TURNED
BACK FIFTY YEARS
.ocovERY FROM REC EN- T
RE rpEAT WORLD WAR WILL
TAKE THAT LONG.
cIvu WAR TOOK THIRTY YEARS

CIVIL wan lOOM lAANAA ~
pobert Woodward Declares Science
~ ul;u Rise From the Ashes. Sees
c.a.+ Progress When People Begin
To Think sanely.
NJ Robert Simpson Woodward,
~ roccntly resigned as president of
VINO Tornpoie institution of Washing
. .no saws that the war has set the
lo ,orfd hack half century. DIR. Wood
M .ord who is u years old, says that
war war his wears of work for science he
al'o cow going to take UP the study of
nJ his mind the most consum-
PS Pc nnrsuit in the world, says the
New York Times.
N' ives the war has set the world
1.ot half a century" said DR.. Wood
D .ord "The workmen have gone crazy
wa aar ~ the Injuries which the high wages
t4,orght them. The essential virtues
ooroCtired by our forefathers, who
5,;It this great country-industry,
! Jr;# and fde1ity-have almost been
Jnstrovcd. Neither you nor | will live
~ see the regeneration. After the civil
'r.r i took 80 years; now it will take
nv Nations rise and fall, but the prog
-.ss goes on For instances, this war,
mich has wrought such tremendous
s.roc abroad. has produced an enor-
mons mons stimulation in all scientific re-
n ssarcb and a greater appreciation OF
the meaning of scientific work, than
he world. and particularly the lay
nan has ever before had. People have
oot TO know one another better. Men
4 one walk of life have lived in close
contact with and learned to understand
st5ose of another. The bonds are closer
Ind the ties of sympathy greater, so
Even out of a tremendous debacle good
has come, and that is the way history
h the world is written.
81 am studying people, the people |
meet. who seem to see no reason why
wages should not go on increasing i'll
efnitelv-the railroad men who vot-
hi 10 strike and the men on my farm
no struck, curiously enough at the
moment when the government called
national conference on unemploy-
rent Human nature is strange isn't
AM GuL ID tlilDlOyC1 VIII ID llllCJllSNill
Ian fail to recognize the steady de-
eneration of the caliber of employees.
While the wages during the last six
ears have mounted steadily, the quail
" OF work given for the high prices
as with equal regularity declined.
Recovery a Slow Process.
That is why I say the old fashion
ID virtues are being destroyed-not
completely destroyed, however, for on
be whole believe in the progress of
he human race, the sacrifice of the in
ividual to the race if necessary. All
rough the history OF the world
rogreSs has gone in cycles, or, we
blight say, in pendulum like waves of
km and stress. We're on the wrong
de OF the storm center now, but with
next swirl it will carry men little
gher along the path. | believe that
horoughy In 1850, perhaps, or 1880,
r shall once more be on the upper
Fend-that is those who come after
s-the next generation.
But We have many obstacles in the
ay OF progress and civilization. SUI
ersutions that everyone has are ex-
femely hard to batter down in the
ght ior progress. They die hard even
a race which believes it is civilized.
OF so long ago the newspapers re-
ped how multitude of men, women
ID children, many of them suffering
om loathsome contagious diseases,
gathered to kiss an ancient relic with
idea that 1t had peculiar properties
at would cure them. 1t was a case
superstition against scientific knoWl-
lge No less hard a death was that
the idea of a hat-four- cornered
ODE. Who would believe that as late
the latter part of the 10Th century
theory was argued by intelligent
en-;
However, the epochs and episodes
Ken INTO account in making up the
umatc OF scientific progress. The
tTage position of so called civilized
en- Is always behind the mean posi-
obtained by scientists. But | be-
we that the war has given impetus
science and that the future looks
bright In the past century we
We seen the extinction of the ravages
Such dread diseases as typhus and
HOW fever, and a great mitigation
consumption and typhoid. 1t was
S5Sslty which cleared Havana of yell
lever and produced there extra
uHdIy and effective health regula-
,as. those elements will largely aid
onward march OF science"