CONTENTS
For March, 1956
THE
ULTIMATE WEAPON ........................................................................................... 2
DESTINY, FATE AND FREE WILL ............................................................................. 3
HUMOR? .......................................................................................................................... 4
VERSE AND WORSE .................................................................................................... 5
SPACE CRAFT DEPARTMENT .................................................................................. 5
PROJECT MAGNET .................................................................................................................................................. 5
STEPS TO THE STAR ................................................................................................... 7
THE NONLINEARITY OF PHYSICAL LAW ........................................................................................................ 8
MORE NUCLEAR TESTS ............................................................................................. 11
THE BULLETIN BOARD ............................................................................................... 13
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EDITOR ................................................................................................... DANIEL
W. FRY
circulating manage .............................................................. evelyn
nicolais
corresponding secretary ....................................................... rhoda
mills
Art work by ................................................................................. ralph
huffman
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The dominant nations of the world of today are engaged in
the greatest race for armaments which this earth has ever seen. Every efficient
means of destruction is being harnessed and developed to its highest possible
degree of perfection.
Almost everyone in the United States deplores the
possibility of war and hopes sincerely that it will never occur, yet millions
of persons in this country are devoting their entire energies to the production
of the means to wage it effectively and devastatingly.
We are doing this, we say, only in self defense. Our
official attitude toward the government of the Soviet Union is that the latter
came into being through force; it exists and expands by force; it understands
and respects only force, therefore the only way in which we can hope to protect
ourselves from 'the danger (to our way of life) which it represents, is by the
use or the threat of force. Unfortunately, under the present conditions, this
is probably true, but it is a sad commentary upon the state of development of our
social and spiritual science, when we are forced to admit that we have no
adequate means by which we can cope with brute force except to meet it with
brute force.
In our frantic search for more and more powerful weapons,
we have almost entirely overlooked the most potent of all and the only one
which we can use to its fullest extent without destroying ourselves in the
process.
Some of the historians who have chronicled the lives and
careers of great conquerors, have marveled at the fact that none of them ever
succeeded in their attempt to subjugate the entire human race. In many cases,
as the great warrior went from victory to victory, from conquest to conquest,
it had seemed inevitable that he should ultimately succeed in subduing all
opposition. Then, at the very pinnacle of success, at the moment when it
appeared that no power on earth could stand against him, a pattern of
perversity would begin to manifest itself. For the first time in his life, the
great strategist would begin to make errors in his military planning and gross
errors of judgment. Men who had been loyal to him for years would begin to draw
away, and in some cases to betray him. His career, from that moment, would
become a succession of failures leading to ultimate death and degradation.
This is a typical pattern of the career of all those who
have attempted to dominate the peoples of the earth by force, yet the would-be
conqueror of today always prefers to ignore the plain lessons of the past.
Perhaps he does not realize that this pattern is the result of immutable law.
When any man begins a program of unlimited conquest, he begins to invoke
against himself
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the most powerful weapon in the world, the force of human
will.
If we examine the life pattern of the would-be world
conquerors, we usually find that his career was begun upon the pretext of
righting a great wrong, of correcting some injustice in human relationship. For
a time he has the approval of the majority of that part of the world which is
aware of his action. The use of force inevitably results in the production of
enemies, but for a time his very success will swing the balance of opinion in
his favor. As time goes on however, the conflict grows constantly greater,
while the pretext shrinks into insignificance. Eventually, the true purpose of
the conqueror becomes obvious to his friends as it is to his enemies, and an
ever increasing force of human opinion will be directed against the success of
his efforts. Anyone who may doubt the efficacy of the force has only to read
history to be convinced.
During all of the great wars of history, the dissemination
of propaganda, for the purpose of breeding hate, has been a recognized part of
the military strategy, but this has been done principally for the purpose of
increasing the physical effort of the individual rather than through any
recognition of the power of thought itself.
Unfortunately there is undeniable evidence that those
leaders who control the policies of the Soviet Union have, from the beginning,
had a much clearer realization of this power of opinion than have the leaders
of the free nations.
In its drive for world domination, the Soviet government
has always devoted a very large proportion of its total effort to the moulding
of public opinion, particularly the opinion of those nations which had not yet
become involved in the struggle. They have been willing to go to any length,
short of abandoning their ultimate objective, to maintain among the total
population of the earth, a balance of approval, or at least of acquiescence in
their policies. They have, to date, almost succeeded in maintaining this
balance, in spite of the fact that their avowed objective is world domination;
in spite of the fact that all of the nations which have come under this
domination have immediately lost all political self-determination and
individual liberties; in spite of the fact that there is no evidence that any
of these nations have profited in any way by this domination, and in spite of
the fact that most of the arguments and promises through which the approval or
acquiescence has been obtained have been proven false.
Consider how much more powerful a weapon this force of
world opinion,
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this power of collective will could be in the hands of the
free nations, who have upon their side the overwhelming preponderance of truth
and justice. Yet how slowly are they awaking to the realization that the
ultimate weapon is the collective force of human will, and that when wielded by
true understanding, it becomes the world's only irresistible force.
♦
The word Karma, as used in the philosophy of India and
many other parts of the world, is defined as being the manifestation of the
workings of the laws of cause and effect. Particularly as they are related to
the life pat tern of the individual. Karma, as an entity, has three basic
components, Destiny, Fate, and Free Will. The last named is usually given too
little attention in articles written upon the subject of Karma, with the result
that a certain degree of misunderstanding has developed concerning the nature
of the two remaining components.
Many persons find it difficult to distinguish between
Destiny and Fate. I have even known some who believed that the two were
identical. This might be a comforting belief to those who wish to escape all
responsibility for their own actions, since, if Destiny and Fate were
identical, then there could be no such thing as Free Will, and no one could be
held responsible for any of his actions. The truth of the matter is that Free
Will is a powerful factor which stands between Destiny and Fate constantly
shaping and modifying the latter.
We can illustrate this by a simple example, in which two
men find themselves alone in the middle of the desert at midday. Their camels and all their supplies have been stolen, and they are afoot in the burning sand.
One man reasons thus: "Whatever the causes which brought me to this place
and condition, whether faults of my own or of others, I am here, and I cannot
alter that fact. It is Destiny. I cannot prevent the sun from shining nor can I
by any effort of will cool the sands. It is Destiny, I must accept my
Fate." He remains in the sun, and soon dies of heat and thirst.
The other man says to himself: "It is true that I
cannot help being here, nor can I prevent the sun from shining or the sand from
being hot, these are Destiny; but I perceive, in the distance, what appears to
be a grove of palm
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trees. If I can reach them they may afford me some
protection from the results of these conditions which I cannot
change." With a determined effort, he struggles forward through the
burning sand until he reaches the oasis, where he finds both shade and water.
He survives until he is rescued by a passing caravan.
The Destiny of these two men was identical. Their Fate was
very different. The force that made the difference was the Free Will and
determination of the individual. Thus it is demonstrated that, while no man can
alter Destiny, every man is, to a large degree, the master of his Fate.
♦
We see that Lin Yutang has predicted that there will be
two more world wars during the next fifty years. It's reassuring to know that
there will be another fifty years.
♦
H. C. Urey, the nuclear wiz, says he thinks life is
possible on other planets. We think that with a little more understanding, it
might become possible on this one.
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(THE POET'S FORUM)
This page will henceforth be devoted to the publication of
the offerings of any of our contributors who may feel the urge to express
themselves in verse.
The following lines were penned by your editor, after an
unsuccessful attempt to digest an unusually abstruse batch of modern verse, and
should not be construed as a reflection upon all of our modern poetry, much of
which is as valuable as anything which has been written in the past.
MODERN VERSE
Muddled thoughts, disjointed phrases,
Meterless, rhymeless,
Bringing vague fleeting visions,
Which the reeling mind struggles vainly,
To bring into focus.
Shards of reason, mental discords,
Artistic cacophony,
Bearing profound messages,
In a garbled tongue which defies
Literal translation.
Brain in neutral, pen idling along,
Some modern poets
Turn out trash like this which the critics laud,
Not daring to admit,
They cannot understand it.
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'Understanding' has just received a very interesting and
informative letter from Mr. Wilbert B. Smith, erstwhile head of 'Project
Magnet,' the official Canadian Flying Saucer study, and who is still eagerly,
if unofficially observing the space craft picture as it continues to unfold. He
included in his letter, the following statement which he has prepared for
publication in 'Understanding.'
THE CANADIAN FLYING SAUCER STUDY
Project Magnet was authorized in December, 1950, following
a request made to the Canadian Department of Transport by W. B. Smith, for
permission to make use of the department's laboratory and field facilities in a
study of unidentified flying objects and physical principles which might appear
to be involved.
The program consisted of two parts. The first part was the
collecting of as much high quality data as possible, analysing it, and where
possible drawing conclusions from it. The second part consisted of a systematic
questioning of all our basic concepts in the hopes of turning up a discrepancy
which might prove to be the key to a new technology.
Unfortunately, the program was plagued by well meaning but
misguided journalists who were looking for spectacular copy, or copy which
could be turned to political account, to such an extent that both those who
were working on the project and the Department of Transport found themselves in
an embarrassed position. Consequently, when the Project Magnet Report was made
and permission sought to extend the scope of the investigation through Federal
financial support, the decision was finally made in 1954 that this would not be
advisable in the face of the publicity from which the whole project had
suffered.
Project Magnet was officially dropped by the Department of
Transport in October, 1954, although the Department indicated its willingness
to permit the continued use of laboratory facilities, provided this could be
done at no cost to the public treasury. The project has been continuing under
these conditions, and to this extent may be said to have gone underground. The
government of Canada is not a participant in the project and not in any way
responsible for its conclusions.
The conclusions reached by Project Magnet and contained in
the official report were based on a rigid statistical analysis of sighting
reports and were
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as follows: There is a 91% probability that at least some
of the sightings are of real objects of unknown origin. There is about 60%
probability that these objects are alien vehicles. (Alien meaning not of
earthly fabrication).
The conclusions based on studies of the basic physical
concepts were as follows: Many of our fundamental concepts are inherently
ambiguous and quite a different philosophy can be built up on the alternatives.
Several of these alternatives lead to much simpler arithmetic and presentations
which do not have to resort to patchwork corrections to make them all
embracing. Furthermore, some of our ideas with respect to fields and their
behavior are wrong.
Recent Project Magnet activities have dealt with following
up any and all leads. Many of these leads were dead ends, but a few were quite
significant and well worth the overall effort. At the present time a definite
pattern is emerging, and the groundwork is being laid for a new technology
which may literally lead us to the stars.
W. B. SMITH
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(Because of the large number of requests, and in spite of
a few misgivings, the editor has decided to publish in each issue of
Understanding a portion of his forthcoming book, 'Steps to the Stars.'
The misgivings are due to the fact that the book is
essentially a text book, and in spite of the author's effort to make it as
understandable as is humanly possible, some portions of the book may require a
greater effort, than many of our readers may care to make. It is our hope,
however, that within a few months, we will have enough subscribers to enable us
to enlarge the magazine, so that the 'Steps to the Stars' will not be taking
any space away from other essential aspects of understanding.)
♦
Most of those persons who have, in one way or another,
established a contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, or to put it in the
usual way, with beings from other worlds, have, as a result of this contact,
received, among other things, certain somewhat advanced concepts of the
physical science. Too often, however, the recipient of these advanced concepts
is almost or totally unfamiliar with our present position and beliefs in the
scientific field. The result is that when he attempts to make public these
advanced thoughts, they are usually rejected by our scientists on the ground
that there is no apparent connection between them and our present concepts.
In the physical science of today, the algebraic formula or
equation is the dominant factor. Our greatest scientists are the first to admit
that we have but little actual understanding of the ultimate laws or facts of
the Universe. We do have a great mass of mathematical formulae, by the use of
which we can, with a fair degree of accuracy, predict the results of certain
physical conditions. In recent years, however, there have been comparatively
few attempts to reduce these formulae to simple concepts which can readily be
grasped by the mind. There has been a growing tendency among our scientists to
adopt the attitude that: "if we know what happens, and how it happens,
then there is no need for us to concern ourselves with why it happens." In
other words, we have a great deal of knowledge but very little understanding.
This book is being written with the hope that it may bring
a little of the light of simple understanding to bear upon a few of our more
puzzling mathematical `laws,' and to demonstrate that a pathway can be laid
from our present,
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rather confused position, to the firmer ground of the new
age of science.
For thousands of years man has dreamed of the day when, at
last, he will break the bonds of his terrestrial prison and soar freely out
into space, to explore at will, the utmost reaches of a boundless universe. The
time has come when man is about to realize this ambition of the ages. Men now
living will stand upon the surface of Mars and Venus, and a few will observe at
close range the fourteen major planets which orbit about those next nearest
luminaries known to us as Alpha and Proxima Centauri.
Man's attempt to escape from the irksome confines of his
tiny planet has always been hampered by his lack of understanding of four of
the basic factors of the universe: gravity, space, time and energy. It has
always seemed that there was too much of gravity and space, and not enough of
energy or time. About the year nineteen hundred and five, however, it was
brought to man's attention that these factors were not the absolute and
independent entities that he had always considered them, but that they were
variable factors, the value of each of which depended upon the value o£ the
others. Thus the first faint light of understanding began to struggle through
the dense screen of absolute determinism which had been erected about the
physical or material science.
Unfortunately, our men of science, instead of pursuing
this bright gleam of truth, attempted, from force of habit, to shape it into
the common pattern of knowledge, by reducing it to a mathematical formula which
could be used without the necessity of understanding it. We are nearing the
limit of the progress which can be made through blind knowledge. If we are to
reach the stars we must forget for a time many of the things which we think we
know, and strive to learn instead what we can understand.
Those who open this book with the hope of finding herein a
blueprint for the construction of a space ship may be disappointed, for no such
blueprint will be found within these pages. While I am convinced that such a
craft will be built within the next ten years, I have no desire to accept the
responsibility which will devolve upon the individual who first builds one. It
is interesting, however, and perhaps helpful to consider and discuss the basic
physical concepts necessary for the construction and operation of a true space
vehicle.
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It might be wise, first to devote a little time to the
consideration of what we will call the 'nonlinearity of physical law.’
A few years ago, our physical laws were considered to be
linear. That is: we had, by trial and error, by observation and test, developed
a set of laws which apparently held true for all of the small segment of
nature, which we were able to observe at the time. We assumed, therefore, that
these laws would hold true in any segment of nature, no matter how far removed
from our point of observation. When, however, the study of physics moved into
the microcosm, that is, when we began to examine the interior of the atom, we
found there a set of laws which did not agree with those to which we had been
accustomed. They too appeared to be linear, but operated at an angle to our
established laws. The same disturbing situation was discovered in the
macrocosm. When our astronomers developed the giant telescope capable of
peering many millions of light years into space, they found there, still
another set of laws operating apparently at an angle to both of the others. For
a time, we attempted to accustom ourselves to the existence of three sets of
physical laws, each set linear within its own range of observation, but each
set operating angularly with respect to the others. Then, with the development
of the principals of relativity, we began to realize, or at least we should
have realized that these different sets of linear laws were not actually
linear, nor were they different sets of laws, but that they were simply three
segments of the one great curve of natural law. As long as we were dealing with
quantities which could be observed with the unaided eye or with simple
instruments, we were unable to detect the curvature, because the segment which
we were observing constituted such a tiny portion of the curve that its
deviation from linearity was too slight to be detected. For most practical
purposes connected with the ordinary mechanics of our daily lives, these laws
are still considered to be linear. Calculations are simpler when they are so
considered, and the resulting error is negligible. For the same reason, a
surveyor who is surveying a small residence lot does not find it necessary to take
into consideration the curvature of the earth, because the error resulting from
this neglect is not detectable even by the most sensitive of his instruments.
If, however, the surveyor is to make accurate measurements of large areas such
as a State or a Continent, it does become imperative to consider the curvature
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of the earth's surface, and to do this, of course, it is
necessary to have a reasonably accurate knowledge of the radius of that
curvature.
The necessity of an accurate determination of the radius
of curvature of the natural laws was first realized perhaps, by the late Dr.
Einstein, who devoted a large part of his life's work to this problem. The
results which he obtained have filled a number of text books, and have been of
inestimable value in the progress of the physical science. They proved to be
the key which opened the door to the utilization of nuclear energy, and as soon
as a successful effort is made to reduce these mathematical formulae to simple
concepts easily grasped by the mind, these concepts, together with the
additional truths which will then become self evident, will open the door to
space travel with a surety and ease which we would now find hardly possible
even to imagine.
The difficulty with our present mathematical approach to
the problems of relativity lies not in any error of the mathematics themselves,
but in the fact that the methods and terms used in the attempt to explain them,
often lead to incorrect thinking and assumptions.
For example: the best known formula perhaps, which has
emerged from the study of relativity, is the expression E=MC2, which
simply states that the quantity of energy (in ergs) which is inherent in any
mass, is equal to the number of grams of that mass, multiplied by the square of
the quantity C. The quantity C is considered to be a constant, in fact the only
constant which has survived in a relativistic world.
In almost every text book on physics in the world today
the statement is made that the quantity C represents the velocity of light (in
centimeters per second), yet every student in the world who has studied the
subject, knows that the velocity of light is not a constant. That its velocity,
in fact, varies slightly with each different medium through which it is
propagated. Any student who has ever passed a beam of sunlight through a prism
to produce a spectrum of color, has demonstrated that not only does the
velocity of light vary in different media, but that the change in velocity
varies somewhat with the frequency of the light when propagated in material
media. This of course is the principal upon which all of our spectroscopes are
designed, although most text books state merely that the light is refracted or
`bent' in passing from one medium to another. There are many who will dispute
the statement that the change in velocity varies with the frequency, but when
sufficiently
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precise tests are made, entirely within a single medium,
the results indicate convincingly that this is true.
At this point most students will remark that the quantity
C refers to the velocity of light in a perfect vacuum, but where in the
universe can we find a perfect vacuum in which to test this assertion?
Astronomers and physicists have estimated that even in the remotest depths of
intergalactic space there will probably be found, from three to seven nuclear
or atomic particles per cubic centimeter. A beam of light traveling at
approximately 3x1010 centimeters per second would still encounter a
rather large number of such particles during each second of its journey. While
it is true that the proportionate decrease in velocity which would be produced
by this minute concentration of matter is so small that it might be negligible
for all practical purposes of measurement, nevertheless it demonstrates the
fact that we have chosen as our sole remaining 'constant,' a quantity which
actually can never be a perfect constant anywhere in the known universe.
Fortunately there is a value to which the quantity C can
be assigned which is a constant. Moreover the assignment of the quantity C to
this factor makes possible a much better understanding of the natural laws
involved in the propagation of energy.
The quantity C is actually the kinetic energy equivalent
of the mass energy of matter. In other words, if we were to take a gram (or any
other quantity of matter: Newtonian mass) and convert that matter gradually
into energy according to the formula E=MC2, and if the resultant
energy, as it appeared, were constantly applied to the remaining matter in such
a way as to accelerate it uniformly in a given direction, when all of the
matter had been so converted we would find that we had zero newtonian mass,
infinite inertial mass, and a resultant velocity equal to the quantity C, or
approximately 3x1010 centimeters per second, (with respect to the
given reference or starting point). The maximum velocity attained would always
be the same regardless of the quantity of matter with which we started. This is
a fact which can easily be verified by anyone who is mathematically inclined,
and who is familiar with the laws of acceleration. The energy required to
accelerate each gram of mass to the velocity C through energy conversion is
exactly equal to the total energy inherent in any matter having that mass.
This fact forms the true basis of the statement in our
present day physics that the velocity C is a maximum or limiting velocity,
since it represents the
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greatest kinetic energy differential which can exist
between two given reference points. Since a good understanding of this concept
is of great importance, it will be referred to again, and discussed more fully
in the chapters on energy and matter.
We must always remember that our ordinary physical laws,
as they are usually expressed, do not hold true when carried to an extent which
permits the error to be measured, because they do not follow a straight line
reaching to infinity, but a curve of finite radii. In a timeless universe, this
curve would be represented by a circle, but since the laws operate through time
as well as space, the curve is more readily understood if depicted as a 'sine
wave.' In this case the base line of the wave represents zero, and the portions
above and below the line represent the positive and negative aspects of the
law.
Thus we see that there are points and conditions in which
the natural laws reach zero value with respect to a given reference point, and
that beyond these points the laws become negative, reversing their effect with
respect to the observer.
The constant repetition of the terms 'reference point' or
'observer' is necessary to emphasize the frequently unrecognized fact that none
of the basic factors of nature have any reality or significance except when
considered from a specified position or condition.
(To be continued)
(The chapter entitled `Gravity' will appear in the April
issue)
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(Reprint from the editorial page of the Washington Post and
Times Herald
of January 15, 1956)
It will take more explanation than anyone in the
Administration has yet offered to reassure world opinion about the new series
of American nuclear weapons tests to be held this spring. The announcement that
a major purpose of the tests will be to obtain information for defense against
nuclear attack introduces a new and significant factor. But if the tests are
intended primarily to yield scientific data for defensive measures or devices,
it is difficult to understand why they could not be held under international
auspices.
The disclosure of the new test plans came on the heels of
Secretary Dulles rejection of a moratorium on thermonuclear weapons
experiments. Fears about the cumulative effects of radioactivity from such
tests have by no means been dispelled. The Indians and others have long
proposed a ban on new tests, and recently the Russian leaders voiced willingness
to enter into an agreement on this point. The effect of the blunt American
refusal, along with the announcement of new test plans, is to make it look as
if the United States is flouting a move toward peace.
Certainly this is not the Administration's intention. The
rationale behind much of the emphasis on nuclear weapons is that prowess in
this field is a potent factor in deterring war. Apart from the defensive
considerations mentioned in the announcement, there have been contentions that
additional tests are necessary to enable this country to keep abreast in
weapons development. Undoubtedly these figured in the rejection of the test
ban. There is also the possibility that Britain would reject such a ban until
she has tested her own hydrogen weapons. Beyond this, there is the widely
voiced suspicion that the Russian offer to ban further tests is phony.
These are unquestionably important considerations. But are
they compelling enough to rule out all thought of a ban on tests of large
weapons, or at least an effort to internationalize further tests? Scientists
are divided over whether more thermonuclear tests actually are necessary for
developmental purposes. Some are convinced that we have all the essential
information we require about large weapons; and Rep. W. Sterling Cole, former
chairman of
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the joint Committee on Atomic Energy, has spoken in favor
of a test ban. When both Russia and the United States already have weapons
sufficient to destroy each other, it is questionable how much net advantage is
gained by additional tests. If the British are unwilling to enter into a test
ban; this is something they ought to say for themselves. A more sensible policy
of sharing information undoubtedly would obviate many of their objections.
The question of Soviet sincerity is more complex. Here,
however, would not the shrewd thing be to let them prove their intentions to
the world? There is every reason to think that the monitoring system which has
enabled the United States to detect Soviet nuclear tests would be able to
detect a violation of any agreement. This would speak more eloquently and
convincingly than any number of unilateral American suspicions or protests; and
since a test ban alone would not mean disarmament, there would be no weakening
of American defense.
World fears about American nuclear tests have been
adroitly whetted by Communist propaganda, despite Russia's braggadocio about
her own tests. Irrational or not, these fears are a fact, and the United States
will be bucking them. Possibly there are reasons not now apparent why it would
be feasible to make some effort to ban new tests or to hold necessary tests
under international auspices. But if there are such reasons, the Administration
has been unusually quiet about them. America's position in the eyes of other
people is very much at stake in the new tests. Certainly a sympathetic
recognition of the world interest, through a more complete explanation, is the
very least that is required by what the Declaration of Independence called a
decent respect for the opinions of mankind.
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George Van Tassel has informed us that the building fund
for the College of Universal Wisdom has been subscribed and that construction
will begin at once. It should be well under way when the Third Annual Spacecraft
Convention opens at Giant Rock on April 28.
George has also been presented with a ten inch reflecting
telescope complete with turret and photographic equipment. The telescope will
be mounted at Giant Rock and will be an added attraction to this year's
convention. Giant Rock is an ideal site for the telescope since it is a spot
where the `seeing' is good almost every night.
♦
The members of Understanding might be interested in
knowing that the organization is purchasing a house trailer to be stationed
permanently at Giant Rock. It will be headquarters for the organization at the
Spacecraft Convention in April and later will be available for the use of
members and friends who wish to stay overnight at the Rock. We will be happy to
hear from anyone wishing to have a share in this project and from those who
would like to make reservations for the use of the trailer. There will be no
charge for the use of the trailer but please get your reservation in early.
Beginning next month, we plan to print a series of
articles on Spacecraft in Oriental History and Literature. It is not widely
known that there has been much information concerning spacecraft and space
travel in the ancient Oriental literature. This series will be written by
Winona Cromwell who is well versed not only in the field of Eastern Literature
and History, but in Oriental Philosophy as well.
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