Catholic Central High School - Banner Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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EVER ON WARD Most people think of science as a sort of serious and solemn thing, a strain upon the strongest intellect. Modern industrial life places ns into a sci- entific environment to such a degree, that no one can escape a deluge of scien- tific terms. From miscellaneous reading in the newspapers of the day, says Edwin E. Solsson, Ph. D., Director of Science Service, Washington, the aver- age unscientific reader gets a confused, half-baked idea that Science says: Peo- ple are descended from monkeys, the sun is made of radium, Mars is inhabited by a race .of canal diggers, the earth is getting hotterg the earth is getting cold- er, the earth will be smashed up by running into a comet, the average mental age of Americans is thirteen, the world is going to starve to death from over- population, the world is going to die off from race suicidef It does not require serious scientific study to detect that many of these no- tions are false. Science, however, is always moving onto something new, ever advancing into the unknown. But with each new discovery begins an epidemic of false science. False scientists always try to create a mystery. Scientific fakers today are straining their minds in an effort to tear science away from religion. Science instead of taking God out of the world of existence, brings men into closer relation with Him, says Dr. Michael Pupin, Professor of elec- tro-mechanics at Columbia University. Everywhere, this noted scientist tells us' there is evidence of a divine intelligence. Science, then, is the handmaid of religion. It is making us better Christians. It is teaching men how to co-op- crate more intelligently with God, it is teaching men what G0d's laws are, and how to obey them. Science today is making more progress than ever before. The broad work of the scientist in his laboratory has made human life happier and healthier. Practically everything we eat, touch, or use in daily life is laboratorily control- led. When we look upon the highest attainments of modern engineering, we see science as a background. With these facts in view, we can readily see why science has become such an important factor in the education of the youth of today. In spite of all these proofs around and about us in every-day life, we can hear high-school students expressing their dislike for the study of science. One says, Because some people have to study tl1e sciences seriously, it is no reason why the rest of us should wear out our brains on the stuff. Another says Why am I made to study physics, I don't expect to become an engineer? Still another may say: Am I not wasting my time on chemistry? I do not intend to follow the medical profession. Someone else may as well ask, Why take any kind of exercises? I will never be a professional athlete anyway. It is the duty that every intelligent person owes to himself,-that of learning some- thing of what is going on in fields of labor other than his own! He feels that he must read news items to follow in a small way the course of events at home and abroad or he will miss something. So, too, if he does not follow the pro- gress of science, he is missing a greater something, that mightiprove interest- ing and an important step in his rise to the top. In a word, then, science is always turning over a new leaf,-the chemist is 'making new compoundsg the biologist is developing new forms of plant and animal life, such as never before existed, the astronomer is discovering unknown stars, the physicist is formulating new laws and giving expression to strange conceptions. A thoughtful study of Science, therefore, leaves us no escape from the conclusion that back of everything, there is a definite guiding principle. -GILBERT S. KESSLER. '28 NINETY-ONE