The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-26

canal. Already a certain Professor
o. Bader has been placed in charge
of twelve ancient memorials, burial
grounds and dwellings, of men liv-
ing on the border line between the
old and new stone age-these mem
orialS having been unearthed by the
excavations for the canal.
Lovett Fort Whiteman, American
Negro who has been doing scientific
work in the Soviet Union for a
number of years now, remarks, in
press article describing these
finds, that the Soviet anthropologist
is happy in not having himself
bound down like anthropologists
abroad by preconceived, I'M
scientific racial theories, such as the
Aryan theory of the German fas-
cists.
The same thing applies to other
branches of science. There is in the
Soviet Union, for example, no sus-
picion of new inventions, no theory
Of a Moratorium on Research and
Invention such as is gaining favor
among the capitalist masters of
England and America.
Neither is the Soviet scientist
bounded out of his job because of
his personal politics, as the Ger
mans chased Einstein away. Like
all other Soviet citizens, the SCENT
list is free to work and to live
and be happy, whatever his opin-
ions in religion, sociology and poll
tics, as long as he does not actually
engage in counter Revolutionary
plots. The famous case of the
psychologist Pavlov, who is given
every possible facility for his valu-
able experiments, is provided with
premises, laboratories, assistants,
mechanisms, and all the expensive
animal and physical necessities his
work requires, might be cited as
proof of this last statement. For
Pavlov is not only so religious that
he crosses himself whenever he
passes church, but is VIGOROUSLY
reactionary in his political opinions.
Scientists Honored
The working masses and the
workers state not only give freedom
and facility for scientific work,
but highly honor successful SCENT
lists, and care for their families after
their death, care for them, too, in
old age.
On the fiftieth anniversary NOV.
90, 1884 of the scientific work of
the Acadenician agronomist Will
Jams, the Peoples Commissariat of
Agriculture voted to organize in his
name new agronomical and soil
museum, to establish five scholar
ships in his name, to reprint all his
books, to get out an almanac de-
voted to his work, to present him
personally with an automobile, and
to spend 100000 rubles on jubilee
celebration in the place where ne
lives.
The Commission for Aid to Scien-
fists works directly under the Coun-
Gil of Peoples Commissars of the
u. S. S. r., and takes special pains
to see that scientists get dwellings,
pensions, food supplies, medical
care, subscriptions to foreign litera-
ture and periodicals, etc. The COM
mission operates sanitoriums and
rest homes for scientists at Peter
hof, the Crimea, Teberde, Essen
tuki, Sochi and on the Volga. 1t
has turned the palace of the Grand
Duchess Maria Pavlovna in Lenin-
grad into a permanent home fol
aged scientists, where the old men
live in rooms carpeted with Per-
sian rugs, with furniture of Kare-
liam birch and mahogany, decorated
with masterpieces of painting anc
sculpture They live on their pen
sions, but some of them continue
working, from choice, because they
feel, as do most Of even the older
generation of scientists and, Of
course, all the younger ones, that
the Soviet state and socialist society
has done so much for science anc
scientists that it deserves even the
last ounce of strength in return.