The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-17
Science at the CrosSroads"> -
An Appeal from U.S.S.R.

denies, this class has brought the
country on TO the highway Of con-
structIon, smashing and routing all
enemies under the leadership Of
the iron-WlUed and inflexiblo Party.
NOW we are discovering immense
~ deposits of ferrous and non-fer-
rous metals, coal, Oil potassium
salts. New Centers Of culture are
appearing and soon in the far north
great new industrial centers will
be built. The series Of expeditions
in the Arctic regions is famous
throughout the world.
Giants of metallurgy and ma
chine building have risen at d truly
miraculous rate Great electric
power stations surpass world tech
nical records. New railroads are
laid down The whole economic
landscape Of the country has
changed beyond recognition in the
last years
THE MAKING OYER
OF A PEOPLE
Great psychological changes have
come among the masses. The max
ing over Of a people has proceeded
at an exceptional rate. An army
OF builders Of the new society has
been created; culture has made de-
ciSiVe conquests.
The grandiose scope Of construc-
ton demanded q sharp growth of
scientific and research institutions.
During the revolutionary period the
network of these institutions
Widened and their influence in
creased to d remarkable extent.
The practical direction of all SCI
entitic work proved to be on the
whole a guarantee of its great the
oretical scope
THE structure of planned economy
increasingly demands a syn
thesis Of all the sharply separated
branches Of learning. Unity of will
and action presupposes an unusual
unity IN world outlook, making
common all the achievements ad-
vancing the new culture and the
whole cultural heritage.
We are far from despair, pesSi-
nllsm, running away from earthly
problems, disappointment in the
power of human reason. On the
contrary, While casting OF the re-
ligious and mystical idols and
fetisheS Of old, we do not hide the
enormous difficulties of the great
rebuilding, nor the defects and
faults which still remain.
REVOLUTION NOT
WITHOUT PAIN
The toilers of our land undergo
considerable sacrifices, but only
the blind, or the wilfully blind, be-
lieve that a revolution, whose equal
has not been known in any of the
preceding phases of historical de-
veiopmenG, can he u process with
out pain and harmonious in all its
parts.
We are working to raise the ma
terial level of the masses. We do
not in the least desire to build
soulleSS civilization like the machine
civilization of America, where the
toiling human being is an account
ing unit and an appendage of the
mechanical system. On the con-
trary, We are building a perfected
technical basis for society, where
the human being is the master of
the system, not its slave, where the
system is a means for satisfying
growing demands, where it is a tool
for relieving him from excessive
toll and basis for the approach
ing cultural poisoning of
brotherly human society.
The Academy Of Science. the
highest institution OF learning in
the Soviet Union considers with
pride that our country IS the basis
for a new, socialist world. 1t re-
CARDS it an honor to give it's powers
to the cause of socialist construc-
ton. We are surrounded by the
girdle Of hate and ennity of CAPT.
talist states. We do not work in
easy conditions But we well know
that back of us are fundamental
laws of the growth OF society,
which, with memorable and ada
mantine logic, are tending toward
the downfall of the rule of capital
and the victory Of socialism.
SCIENTISTS
GIVE PLEDGE
We call you all to firm and
friendly alliance with the revolu-
tionary proletariat.
We call you to active defense of
the Soviet Union.
We call you to strive against the
cultural reaction, hanging over the
capitalist lands.
We call you to join the ranks
of the fighters Tor socialism.
On our part we pledge ourselves
to accomplish all that the probe
tariat demands Of us for solution
of the construction problems of
the Second Five Year Plan.
We assure the Central Committee
Of the Party, its leader Comrade
Stain and the Soviet Government,
that we will not recoil by one step
from the solution Of the problems
linked with the whole heroic epoch
Of the great works OF socialism.
(Signed)
President Of the Academy Of
Science A. karpinsky.
Vice Presidents:
G.. krzhizhanoysky; K. Mari: