The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-19
ELECTIONS, 1916, ATOMIC ACE

their ineptness, or their inability t.
cope with the problems of the atomi
age we are laundering into wa
with Russia" Again DIR. Hutchins, SIS
olationism as national way of lif
is an anachronism in the atomic ag'
and if we are finally to survive, WI
must now, as never before in history
act our age"
Can Be Thankful This Is An Election
Year
In view of the urgency of this new
age, we can at least be thankful thai
the people, who are responsible fol
our laundering statesmen have an op
portunity to voice a protest and to
play positive role in Strengthening
the wisdom of our governing body.
The senate of the United States has
formed committee on atomic energy
On VI Day this committee knew
about as much about this subject as
you and | do But they were given
an opportunity to attend comprehen-
sive> hearings covering almost every
phase of atomic energy. The commit
tees records show that many of the
II members were absent from most
of the hearings. At five sessions dur.
ing February only three of the mem
bers were present. We should en-
quire into what business was more
important to the members than their
education for their biggest job.
Fortunately, we can do better than
our absentee senators in learning the
truth about the atomic bomb Every
American should regard ONE WORLD
OR NONE a recently published SYM
postum whose subtitle is, A REPORT
TO THE PUBLIC ON THE FULL
MEANING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB,
as required reading for the mature
citizen and prospective voter. This re-
port is published by McGraw, Hill &
Co., New York, priced at one dollar
and contains chapters by Prof. AL
bert Einstein who produced the fam
GUS equation which is at the root of
atomic physics, and by II of the sci
entists who shared in the project
which produced the bomb. Two lay
contributors are Gen. H. H. Arnold
and Walter Lippmann of the New
York Herald-Tribune.
The scientists, whose genius pro-
duced the atomic bomb are valiantly
striving to inform the public Of the
awful nature of their invention. They
have prepared this book for that pur-
pose. Every responsible citizen should
study it without delay.
Bombs Will Come in Hundreds and
Thousands
Dr. Phillip Morrison, in his chap
ter of ONE WORLD OR NONE, gives
us a graphic picture of the conse-
quences of one small atomic bomb If
it were dropped on New York City.
He tells us that 100000 people would
die instantly; that 100000 people
would be seriously injured; that TO-
600 others would consider themselves
lucky because they were seemingly
unhurt and that these lucky indi-
viduals would die of the effects of
IlC ICAio 10 tiieib thio III
aginary picture is unreal in only one
way = it is unreal because "the bombs
will never again, as in Japan, come in
ones and twos," they will come Gin
hundreds, even in thousands" He says,
eff the bomb gets out of hand, If we
do not learn to live together so that
science will be our help and not our
hurt, there is only one sure future;
the cities of men on earth will per-
ish."
AS we plan our personal futures and
those of our children, let US remember
that these men of science who pro-
duced the bomb warn us urgently
that there is no defense against it!
No Time for BIundering
Time is running out. We must work
hard on our homework. We must go to
the polling booth this year armed
with the determination to send good
men to replace bad in our govern
ment. Capitol hill, Washington, D. c.,
in the year 1916, is no place for the
bunglers, for the nourishers of per-
sonal prejudice, for pettifogging, fill
clustering, spiteful men. 1t is no place
for political hacks, the sour men of
frustrated personal ambitions, the men
who are the tools of greed. 1t is no
place for men whose public records
have shown them incapable of vision
or wisdom or vigilance in their duty
of safeguarding humanity. The time
for laundering and fumbling of the
vital business of government is past.