The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-12
FRANK REPLIES
TO HIS CRITICS
Tells Scientists at Madison
University Will Push
Research Work.
SAYS LINCOLN NEEDED
People Cannot Endure Half
Scientific and Half Super
stitious, His Claim.

Madison, Wis. = ATI = President
Glenn Frank of the University OF
Wisconsin, today satisfied what he
termed national curiosity of the
scientists as to Wisconsin's attitude
toward extension of scientific re.
search, when he declared that the
university will neither cut itself of
from the cooperative efforts OF
American and European scholarship
no. retrench on its own research.
The statement was made before the
opening session of the national acad.
envy of sciences here. Recently the
regents of the University of Wiscon-
sin adopted a policy of declining gifts
from educational foundations fol
scientific research, and the statement
wa interpreted as having an indirect
bearing on that issue, over which Z
controversy has arisen.
II understand that the scientists OF
America have been specializing OH the
probable effect of certain local acade-
mis- legislations on the future Of
science and research at the Univer-
sity of, Wisconsin," President Frank
declared. 81 ask you to follow the
scientific habit of waiting for all OF
the facts and resisting the tempta'
ton of drawing hasty conclusions"
DIR. Frank Gives Welcome.
The address was in the nature of 8
welcome to the annual meeting of the
academy, which this year has brought
a large number of the leading scien-
fists to Madison.
Science and superstition are running
neck and neck, DR.. Frank declared
adding that America is being dis
honored by various abscurantist move
ments that resist and reject the scien-
tifc spirit.
What the nation needs, DR.. Frank
asserted, is a Lincoln of the labora-
tory as reminder that people can
not endure half-scientific and half
superstitious.
The spirit of the scientific, he said
must ultimately take public affairs
out of the hands of modern witch
doctors whose methods is that of in
tellectual and emotional incarnation
He also asserted that American life
must undergo new birth of realism
"We are forced to admit that labora-
tories of the~nation may be richest in
the discoveries of science when the
lives of the people are poorest in the
spirit OF science" DR.. Frank said
"Until the mind of the people is
guided by the spirit of science, the
discovery of science may mean suicide
Instead of salvation"
The educator declared it is fashion
able to worship at the shrine of
science, and many persons give it at
least lip service. Science, he said, was
actually becoming slogan, with some
danger OF it becoming a ritual rather
than a matter of reality.
Famous Scientists Speak.
Other speakers included Edwin B.
Frost, director of the Yerkes Observa-
tory of the University of Chicago;
Professor Joel Stebbins of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, and Professor
Thomas Chamberlain of the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Following a business session of the
academy it was announced that T.
Wayland Vaughn, geologist and d.
rector of the Scripps institute at La
Jolla, Cal, had been appointed chair
man of the committee in charge of the
Murray fund for research in ocean
ology and geology.
Professor Frost announced that the
speed of the sun through space had
been measured in recent experiments
and observations at about eleven
miles per second directed through a
point near the boundary of Hercules
and Acquilla. Professor Stebbins dis
cussed observations on the brilliancy
of stars, asserting that the brilliances
are not always the same, but changes
in some cases as much as two fifths
in short time. Professor Chamber
lain advanced 4 new theory in regard
to the nature of the substance which
holds up the earth's crust. He said
the interior might logically be said
to consist of an elastic solid rather
than molten or rigid materials IS a
number of scientists have asserted.