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greater impact on their gen.
Grafton than Vannevar Bush.
This impact has been on
the generations wars, on the
material progress which has
dizzily revolutionized Its ways
of life for good or evil, and
on the thinking and dreaming
with which it looks out from
it's narrow, disintegrating and
isolated island of space and
time towards ultimate reality.
In this last respect the in
fluence on Tomorrow promises
to be far greater than 1t has
been on night-encircled To-
day.
Dr.. Bush is about to retire as
president Of the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington-up
to now the worlds greatest
privately financed organiza-
ton for the pursuit of pure
science. He is going home to
his New Hampshire farm where
during the remaining years
of his life, no longer pestered
with the petty annoyances of
administration and politics and
in the baptizing atmosphere
of granite mountains carved in
the likenesses of mans ancient
gods, one may expect con-
fidently his accomplishments
will elevate him to a higher
status in history than any,
thing he has done in the past.
DenOunces Stuffed Shirts
He has been an outstanding
scientist in his own specialties.
These happen to have been of
great Importance in the pat
tern of his time. Above and
beyond this have been his Serv-
ices as co-ordinator of the
whole inrushing high tide-as
head of Carnegie, vice presi-
dent of Massachusetts, In
stitute Of Technology, director
Of the Nations wartime re-
search. These have not been
petty jobs as administrator,
boss, brass hat. OF all men, he
himself would be the first to
ridicule such a status. Should
one. in fact, try to condense in
a sentence the gospel he leaves
with his fellows it would be
that 1t Is a devastating de-
nunciation of stuffed shirt
ISM" which somewhat am
biguous term comprehends a
big part of all the worlds
evils. The same was the gos-
pei Of Carlyle, Of Goethe. and
of Emerson in whose aura DR..
Bush was reared and educated.
For as he prepares to leave
Washington this outstanding
electrical engineer who has
been able to look with under
standing and sympathy on in
vestigations of crashing gall
axies in far realms of expand
ing space and on the eternal
mysteries Of the arbutus bios
soming under dry leaves in late
winter has left behind for his
fellows what may well become
one Of the classics Of the
century. 1t is a testament for
the scientists, an exposition of
the intensely laborious, unde-
waiting, self disciplined-above
all intensely honest-pursuit Of
truth for truth alone. DR..
Bush outlines. in a sense, a
religion of science. He strives
to penetrate a little way-fully
realizing that all such attempts
probably always will be futile
into the forces that are above
and beyond natures universal
laws of cause and effect, as
morals are beyond ethics and
expediency.
Quotes From Last Report
DR.. Bush'S last annual re-
port was prepared for the
Carnegie trustees. But it is
addressed to his fellow workers
in all fields of science. A COM
prehensive condensation of a
statement that might have
come from the pen of Emerson
in his more inspired hours is
quite impossible. A few quota
tons must suffice:
THE scientist operates on
faith because he can operate
in no other way. His depend
ence on the principle of cas-
uality is an act of faith in a
principle improved and I'M
provable. But some of us, con-
fronted with the bizarre as we
delve into the nucleus of the