Evening star., 1946-08-06
Man Moves Too Slow
In Changing 10 Atom
Age, Scientist Says
BY the Associated Press

More than a score of scientist
and other leaders warned last nigh
that mankind is not moving fas
enough in fitting his institution
and attitudes to the atomic age.
David Lilienthal, chairman of tn,
Board of Consultants of the Stat
Department Committee on Atomic
Energy and a principal author Of
the report which forms the basil
of United States internationa
atomic policy, summed up:
1--WE are now in a race against
time-already decades, by oldel
standards, have elapsed since Hipo.
shima-to find ways to put atomic
energy to work for human welfare
and eliminate its use for destruc
ton"
First Anniversary.
The occasion for the report wa
the first anniversary of the frs
use of the bomb, August s, 1945
The statements were issued through
the National Committee on Atom,
Information, which describes itsel
as "a clearing house established b,
so national organizations 60 provid.
a medium through which they car
cooperate With the atomic scien.
lists and their colleagues for public
understanding of the scientific fact.
OF atomic energy and their impli.
cations for society,""
r. F. Bacher of the physics de.
partment, Cornell University, said
progress toward peaceful utilization
has been made, but he expressed
uneasiness over developing com
placency" among the people about
the atomic bomb. He reminded
that even though the Bikini guinea
pig fleet in sea tests was not wiped
out, that result had been expected
and future effects against another
city would be no less than those at
Hiroshima.
we have had revolution in the
physical sciences, but we have not
had a corresponding revolution in
the minds of men," said Jerome S
Bruner, lecturer on social psychol-
ogy at Harvard University. He added
that without that second revolution
we shall never be free of the fear
that the atomic age has brought
upon us a curse far in excess OF
its blessings
Protection Is Impossible.
DR.. Arthur H. Compton, chancel-
lor of Washington University, st
Louis, Mo, asserted that ''the
atomic bomb makes impossible the
prolonged protection of any nation
by military means and requires that
international agreements be reached
which will insure our safety"
Representative Helen Gahagan
Douglas, Democrat, of California
called it a miracle" that the world
had survived the first atomic year
while knowing that the choice is
between peace and annihilatior
"and not doing much about it,"
DR.. James Franck of the chemis-
try department., University of Chi
cago, expressed the wish that
nuclear power had been introduced
through its peaceful uses rathe,
than through its destructive po-
tency, and observed that "a very
last chance is given to mankind
to mend its ways, =. = to learr
the lesson that selfish power politics
and narrow nationalism must be
wiped out g ="
Prof. Albert T. Pofenberger, Co.
lumbia University psychologist, tool
similar view on the way atom
pc yer came to light but said feal
would end when nations show de-
sire for peace.
Urges Pledge Against Bombs.
Harold Ickes, former Secretary o1
the Interior and now of the Inde-
pendent Citizens Committee oI
Arts, Sciences and Professions, said
the most fitting celebration of thu
anniversary would be worldwide