The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-03
By DreIO Pearson

school of thought belongs my gracious ex-nother-n law, Mrs Eleanor Patterson
 Today an electric railway runs through our old trapping grounds connecting Phiadelpnia Wiun itS suburbs. remember how vahanuy ano peIssee"y s our trapping club fought that unwanted invader or our primitive countryside When the surveyors TOT the electric line laid out their stakes we pulled up every one of them Time after time they re-surveye1 sns1 line only to wake up next morning to lind tnew stakes gone.
 But it was no use Twelve-year-old boys OOufd not stop modern progress. used to house the president of Swarthmore college It looked stern, sedate and solemn. But rememper tn day when rank weeds grew on its deserted lawn, dense bushes surrounded it. a Robin-Hood band, in which played Little John, crept in and out o1 iSs broken windows.
 Came the day when Robin Hoods headquarters" found itself squarey in the path of modern civiliaa ton. The college purchased the old mansion and started to install new windows, electricity, ana furnace. Again we did our best to block the creeping paralysis of progress. Every weekend we ripped out the electric wiring and hid the carpenters tools But it did no good. How could 12-year-olds fight the adult machinery of college? We lost.
 And every time the college approaches me as of its notorious if not distinguished alumni, and asks me to add to its endowment fund, l always figure write check, that I'm helping to pay for that electrcwrng ripped out of the presidents mansion.
 So despite all could do to prevent it, the town of Swarthmore today is one of the most modern and beautiful have Its streets are better US lawns more beautiful, Its SCHOOLS are OeIUer equipped its children better educated and its peo- pie more intelligent Finally, they don't have the pungent odor of certain woodland animal waiting over the town from the Pearson woodshed on winter mornings.
 Yes the town is improved lot-despite all could do to stop it. Which only goes to show that you can't halt progress. You can't prevent the de- velopment of atomic energy whether in the u.SA or the U.SS.R. and you can't win wars with great masses of old-fashioned foot soldiers
 Mobilizing big conscript armies to put in the path of modern science is like 12-year-old boy pulling up surveyors stakes to prevent the building of electric railway.
 It was the professors who turned the tide of thss war-professors plus the factories which produced the airplanes the tanks the artillery, the ships the radar and the atom bombs. We had big armies in 1922. But they were fighting bare-handed with out-of-date tanks guns and airplanes-untn the factories and the professors and the industrial gers of the nation got going
 Many soldiers were trained and sent overseas N less than three months in this war, But 1t takes years to train scientists and skilled mechanics.
 So, as sit up here away from the confusion c& Washington, where you the trees as well as the leaves convinced that can't go backward to the type of army that begged France down: but rather must go forward to more education science, understanding of international problems. For the first time in history up against the unacceptable fact that we must work at peace as hard we have worked at war.
 We may not want to admit the need and benefits of progress but if save the world it has got to come