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Still, there is some comfort left. The same dispatch that announces this epoch-making event also states that no detailed report of the test was made. No doubt the examiner feared the outburst of parricides and infanticides that must surely follow if he should set son against father and father against son with the report of "better' or "worse"; and decided instead to cool the smoldering fires with a soothing "satisfactory...
...Human interest" stories in scientific guise are commonplaces of journalism. But more than commonplace was a late dispatch from Paris, containing an ironic bit of information. Professor Charles Valliant was recently declared the winner of a prize of 15,000 francs, awarded by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for heroism in the cause of science. He was chosen because, after repeated operations, he has sacrificed both his arms in experimenting with the X-ray. But the Academy has now been obliged to withdraw its award, because Professor Vailliant is physically unable to sign for the money...
...task of such honor societies as this Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and especially our own Carnegie Foundation, to try to find some reward for these services, or at least to give them their due honor. But if the dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death...
What, then, is wrong with the reader? Besides a very human desire for sensationalism, he is unable--according to Mr. Allen--to appreciate the proper value of the important news items, "to distinguish the A. P. dispatch from the special correspondents' forecast of conditions, and the fact story from the rumor story, or to take into account the probable bias of the paper...
...neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books; but there seems to be as little worry about...