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

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Dec. IS. =
Professor Julius Schaxel. a German
now working in Leningrad labor
atories on important research prob
lens was recently deprived of his
German citizenship by the Nazi
government because he stayed too
long in the Soviet Union SchaXel
then wrote a letter to the press err
planning why he remained in the
U. S. S. R. He says:
When in the spring of 1888, I
received the esteemed invitation of
the Presidium of the Academy Of
Sciences of the U. S. S. r., &C
cepted it in October of the same
year, with all the more pleasure as
I had twice previously carried on
scientific work in the Soviet Union
for prolonged periods of time. I
had thus become acquainted by my
own personal experience with the
tremendous development of cultural
forces which was a result of the
October Revolution under the die
tatorship of the proletariat. i. Fur
thermore. precisely for my speciality,
biology, there are opportunities for
development here both in the field
of theory and practice. such as
nowhere else in the world"
From Baroda, India, H. G. Naik,
professor of chemistry, writes to the
Soviet press to thank the Trade
Unions of U. S. S. R. for moking
it possible for him to visit the
Soviet Union, and says:
II feel that real education in my
life, late as it is, has begun with
my visit to your country. The
greatest facilities given to your
countrymen for the development of
science and consequently industry
and agriculture, for education and,
consequently, culture, and the re-
actions of all these on the social
order are touchstones of the bril-
liant work and colossal progress
which he who runs may read"
These are the two latest of many
foreign scientists who have paid
tribute to the work of Soviet science.
and to the opportunities placed in
the way of scientists here to do
their work.
The opportunities, indeed, are I'M
limited. Every few days there is
announced in the press some new
institute for the special study of
some particular problem in science,
either applied or pure. On the one
hand we have such an institution as
the Pulkhovo Observatory which is
working to finish plan made in
agreement with all other observ-
atories in all countries to photo
graph every inch of the sky in order
to observe star movements. and on
the other hand we have such an or
ganization as the Research Insti-
tute of Communications which has
lust announced the perfection of
the first Soviet-made stroboscope, A
stroboscope. the announcement
states. is an instrument for OBJ
serving rapidly revolving shaft as
clearly as though it we're standing
still. not in motion at all.
Ranking from the "hut labora
tories" installed now on number
OF collective farms, and the labor
atories in most big factories of the
Society of Inventors. which now has
about 100000 members, there is a
growing network of laboratories and
Institutes, run by the main produc-
ton trusts, run by the Peoples Com
missariats, run by colleges and
technical schools, or existing more
or less independently under the
Commissariats of Education of the
various republics of the Soviet
Union.
Unlimited Facilities
The demand for scientific work
ers, and the facilities placed in
their hands seem almost unlimited.
The results appear in such concrete
form as the solving of the problem
Of creating synthetic rubber, which
created huge rubber manufactur-
ing industry in the Soviet Union;
in such useful forms as the devel-