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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 24, 1958
What Is Our Real Enemy?
An unseen danger—radiation—is haunting the world today, and may be now laying the groundwork for the destruction of the human race.
It may not be necessary for man to blow himself off the face of the earth with nuclear weapons. In the opinion of many scientists, he need only continue nuclear tests until a date in the not-too-distant future when the radiation protection produced from such tests will be sufficient to either kill all men outright or alter man's genetic makeup to the point where he can no longer reproduce normal humans.
No one knows the danger of the radioactivity which nuclear tests are blowing into the atmosphere and strewing over the earth. Scientists themselves hold widely differing opinions on the question.
However, 9,235 scientists of all nations are concerned enough with the situation that they recently petitioned the United Nations to end nuclear tests through an international agreement. On Jan.13,1958,their petition was presented to the Secretary General of the U.N.
The scientists declared that the radioactivity gradually created by nuclear tests represents a grave danger for all parts of the world, particularly serious because its consequences will be an increasing number of deformed children in the future.
Heading the U. S. campaign to end the potential danger of nuclear tests is the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, which claims as its members many of the nation's leading scientists, educators and clergymen. Supported by some Americans, but lambasted by many others, this committee has received attention in many magazines, but has seldom been mentioned in American newspapers.
The committee asks, "Do we or any other nation have the right to affect the atmosphere and the land that belongs to other peoples?"
The committee is much concerned with the possible effects of radiation on the reproductive cells of the human body. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who strongly backs the committee's work, said, "Many years may pass before the evil consequences appear. They make themselves felt, not in the first or second generation, but in the
following ones, in an ever-increasing number of children with mental and physical defects."
The U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, although outspoken in defending the American nuclear policy, admits that the U. S. is the hottest radioactive place in the world. A survey conducted under the auspices of the AEC found that there had been recent increases in the amount of strontium-90 (radioactive substance most dangerous to man) of from 30 to 60 per cent in the bones of the American people as a result of nuclear tests.
All scientists agree that we and the things around us are becoming more radioactive month by month. The disagreement is over how dangerous this radioactivity is.
Strontium-90 is stored in the bones and emits from there its rays into cells of red bone marrow—where blood cells are produced—causing fatal blood diseases if radiation is too great. Its concentration is heavy in the reproductive cells.
The official U. S. stand on the question of nuclear testing is—"The continuation of nuclear tests is necessary and justified in the interests of national security."
Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, dismisses the threat by saying that the "clean" bomb will eliminate the danger of radiation. But he neglects to say that the trigger for the "clean" H-bomb would be an unclean bomb the size of the Hiroshima atom bomb.
Scientists can tell us exactly how much radiation it takes to kill a human, but there is widespread disagreement as to how much constitutes a "danger" to future generations. At least 9,235 scientists are worried about the effects of continuing nuclear tests. Many of the leading minds of the nation have shown their disagreement with nuclear tests by joining in the work of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Are all of these men wrong?
We may see the day—and possibly soon—when America and Russia will be more fearful of the danger of radioactivity than they are of each other. Perhaps both sides will sacrifice "defense" and halt nuclear tests.
TV Notes
Jack Harrison
NBC will repeat 11 of the "M Squad" episodes during the summer, June 27 through Sept. 5.
"The Californians" will have a summer session of 13 re-runs on NBC, today through Sept. 16. The two sponsors of this program have signed for next season.
There will be 13 weeks of live variety half-hours starring Andy Williams on ABC as summer replacement for Pat Boone's show. Williams begins July 3. Boone returns Oct. 2. Comedian Dick Van Dyke will help Williams carry the burden.
One of the shows Walt Disney is preparing for use on "Disneyland" next season is "The Tchaikowsky Story," a one-hour film about a phase of the Russian composer's life. The leading players will be Grant Williams and Narda Onyx.
Ann Sothern, who has been staying in the TV public ken for about three years now via re-runs of her old "Private Secretary" series, will be back with a new network series in the fall. "The Ann Sothern Show" is the title, and she plays the assistant manager of a New York hotel. CBS will air it at 9:30 p.m. Mondays, beginning Oct. 6. Ernest Truex, Reta Shaw, Ann Tyrrell, Jack Mullaney and Barry Gordon are some of the players who will be seen regularly.
Screen Gems has taken over the task of producing the half-hour dramas next season for "Goodyear Theatre" and "Alcoa Theatre," which alternate in the 9:30-10 p.m. Monday spot for NBC.
The Bible story of manna being provided for the Israelites is buttreated by solid fact. During summer in the Sinai, the National Geographic Magazine says, scale insects secrete white droplets of a sweet and nourishing substance that seems to appear mysteriously on bushes.
... Letters ..
Editor:
I cannot pass by in silence the strange story printed on page two of the June 17 edition. Your headline was French Accept de Gaulle. You state that he has made "an encouraging start as the 'authoritarian' premier of France."
Encouraging to whom? And where is the evidence? I realize that this story is signed United Press International; that it is, therefore, not the work of a member of your staff. Still, are you thereby absolved of the responsibility of publishing dangerous nonsense? Are you not as a University editor bound to some canons of scholarship worthy of the community you serve? I am sure that any European history student on your staff could have written a more perceptive editorial on the tragedy of the French Republic
You are perhaps too young to remember that the election of Marshal Hindenburg in Germany was greeted in similar terms by the great American press. His successor was Adolph Hitler—also billed in the same quarters as only displeasing to the extremists of right and left. Part of the consequences of that folly is embodied in twenty million tombs of World War II.
It is well known that the treason of "respectable politicians" was a necessary condition for the success of the fascists of Algiers and Paris and Corsica. This, too, is but a reenactment of the German tragedy of 1933.
It is common knowledge that Gen. de Gaulle's path to power is already littered with the bones of tens of thousands of Arabs and Frenchmen killed in a murderous colonia' war.
If you wish to know what kind of men conspired for the legal ascension of this ersatz Joan of Are, may I suggest that you read the following: "The Question," by Henry Alleg; introduction by Jean-Paul
Sartre. (New York, George Braziller,
Inc.)
When you have read this nightmare book, madame editor, you would do your readers a service by writing a review of equal length to the story of June 17.
Robert G. Colody visiting ast. prof. of history
Robert G. Colodny
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