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preserve themselves And that prop
er control must of itself be In phys
zeal harmony with the rest of the
environment For instance, this fam
lily decide to dam a stream on the
place and divert the water for their
own use. The dam (control) must be
of sufficient size and built on a solid
base, to resist the pressure the stored
up water will exert, etc. In small
way it is an engineering job, q tech
biological problem and must be treated
from the scientific angle. How about
the other problems we have been dis
cussing with regard to this family.
Those problems all concern the phys
1cal, the material; all these problems
are therefore based on the physical
sciences. AS yet these pioneer prob
lens were the simple, age old ones of
the human species who have reached
an agrarian stage of civilization.
How about the grandson of that
pioneer. He lives in a crowded city
and from the time he arises In answer
to an electric call bell to the time he
returns home via subway train, to
retire he has been living in totally
different environment. He is trans
ported by the power from a distant
river, he is wearing clothes made in
far away city, Of material from
distant country; he has eaten food
| from dozen countries during the
day, and hears radio news from as
1nopu moro For hi xyorL bo ,aoo{x1oe
soiled paper promises or worn piece
of metal, which he trades off for food,
clothing and shelter He translates
the world and all actions, his own as
we'll as others in an entirely differ
ent way than his grandfather did, for
he thinks almost exclusively in terms
Of dollars and cents. He is absolute
ly dependent upon the continued oper-
alton of power plants, transportation
systems and the work of other peo-
pie.
However when you scrape away the
false fronts and price system super
structure of life today and get down
to the basic factors, you find that
just the same thing is taking place
with grandson as with grandfather.
The urges for food, clothing, shelter
and biological reproduction are the
principal factors involved. We are
still dealing with the physical set-up
even though it is camouflaged by
highly organized technologically oper
ated mode of existence For that
very reason our high powered society
has become supersensitive and it is
more than ever mandatory that we
treat all our problems as scientific
chronological problems, because that
is what they are.
Now you can enlarge the farmily
to communicable community to a
city, county, state, a nation, a
continent, or the world. Still when
you clear away all the camouflaging
brush of complexity, which goes with
each enlargement, you still come back
to the scientific basis of existence
the physical factors concerned with
food, clothing, shelter and biological
reproduction.
With each enlargement of the unit
from family on up, new problems arise
and we have had to change the rules
to the broadened outlook, that is to
the order of magnitude 1t took many
ages for man to pass through the
family stage of society; through the
stage to the city, county,
state and into the nation set-up. That
Is where we have been for many
We have adapted our
'ules to the national set-up; they have
become habits of living and thinking.
But our tremendous advance in tech
lology based on the scientific laws is
aking us along into new alignment
If forces and checks. We must be
careful in our analysis and conclu-
ions
Certain events jar us out of our
title circumscribed inches and jolt us
wake to new facts, new problems.
The war is such an event. Technol-
gy has hit the old chariot of the
Var God, Mars. We are forced to
waken and turn our attention to de-
ense. Like the original family unit
We must not loose sight Of the phys
cal factors involved and since we
re to face a threat from a continent
nechanized for war we must organize
n a continental scale here.
Here again the order OF magnitude
f the problem makes it mandatory
D so raise our own sights as to be
1 keeping with the requirements of
he job on hand, in other words with
a 20 ut Of
nvironment.
From this scientific engineering
oint of view isn't it clear that the
Tnited States is at the end of an
pooh as a nation and must now or
anize for defense as a continent?
The physical factors Of present day
echanized warfare would demand for
lie United States nation, standing
one, two-ocean navy, an air force
: at least 5000 planes with a po-
initial capacity of $4,000 planes, coast
defenses many times what we have
present, and a maginot line across
If northern and southern borders.
his is impossible, but by taking In
e North American continent we
inmate the impossible border
aginot lines and substitute naval
i'd air bases in the outlying posts
ON the pole to the equator, from the
ternational date line to the east
ore of Greenland. Most important
all, this is also a self sustaining
lit; the richest area of the globe.
,tter than half the worlds resources,
ore than half the industrial equip
ant toobnioiana doctors hOanitaIa