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yersity classroom was related last
night by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president Of the institution, be-
fore the Christmas meeting Of the
Washington Board Of Trade at the
Hotel Statler.
Keynoting his speech with the
words of the old English Christmas
song, God rest you merry. gentle
men, let nothing you dismay," the
educator spoke out against $50
cial philosophy OF defeatism, ("
brought on by atomic developments.
DR.. Marvin predicted the atomic
age soon will bring creative Inn
pulse that will free mans time,
Imagination and power to create
and work.
"The state will become the SER
want Of men, freed to fulfill their
spiritual destiny" he said.
Tells Of 1895 Meeting.
DR.. Marvin told Of joint efforts Of
the Carnegie Institution and of
George Washington University to
bring together q number OF the
worlds great physicists. The group
first met here in 1885. He said the
dean Of the group was Neils Bohr
Of Copenhagen.
DR.. Bohr had talked with the two
great atomic physicists Of Germany,
DR.. Otto Robert Frisch and DR.. Lise
Neither, then refugees, Just before
he left Europe. DR.. Marvin said.
The refugee physicists had told
DR.. Bohr, DR.. Marvin related, how
use 81 uranium with neutrons might
result in the splitting Of the atom.
releasing collosal quantities OF
energy.
The George washington Carnegie
group met again on January as,
1880. There had been much re-
search and study. Dr.. Bohr an
nounced the formula.
Sees Higher Plateau.
"Thus, this Nations Capital, from
one of her classrooms," said DR..
Marvin, gave to the world the final
step in the development Of world
creating idea; the completed idea
Of fission, and the experimenters
went back to their Laboratories to
get results from their cyclotrons. .
Despite the ominous rtlmblings
that have followed from Hiroshima
to Bikini, DR.. Marvin pictured FAN
other plateau of thinking" This
reasoning, he said, sees In the dis
covery Of fission but the beginning
Of q glorious future"
The Rev. Merritt r.. Williams,
canon Of Washington Cathedral,
also spoke, reviewing the philosophy
Of Christmas through the ages.
City Planning Report Submitted.
From its committee on city plan
ming, the board heard report that
Decentralization Of the downtown
business area may be our most i'm
portant problem" Further steps to
prevent dangerous effects" Of de-
Capitalization may be called for, ac-
cording to the report, presented by
Chairman Fischer 8. Black.
The committee said 1t was not pre-
suming that decentralization is ac-
tually In progress or that orderly de-
Capitalization Is dangerous. But it
is investigating all factors concerned
with the problem to map what cor
rective measures may be necessary.
Plans for . dinner to be given in
honor Of the 121 new members Of
the incoming Congress on January 4
were related by Bruce Baird, chair
man Of the Congressional Relations
Committee Of the board. He asked
for cooperation Of board members
in giving the new legislators vel
come to the Capital.
Dinners ON Two Nights.
D. Merrill Conner, chairman OF
the Midwinter Dinner Committee,
reported this years affair viii have
to be double baxrelled" because Of
overflow turnouts In recent years.
The dinner will be held on the nights
Of January 81 and February !, he