SCIENCE AND WORDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 594, 21 December 1920, Page 2

SCIENCE AND WORDS.

I EINSTEIN THEORY.. ' M t __i_. ) -m : - ■:\ -A ' A report from Berlin tellssus the savants discussed the Einstein theory, at a conference of natural \ scientists at""Naujhehn, without' thel j \ least the upholder*" " or the denounce/ was a Jew or Gen»l ' tile. A packed audience of mathema-1» ticians, astronomers and others, whenj j came to cheer their favoured jfneM'A protagonists were "disappointed," we ; are told, but remained to hear analy* j \ ses of crude science. Yet cerK;. ' tein that their estimate of thfevalue \ of "relativity" as. a ' sition, depends much upon "wfytnei i its discoverer is an Aryan \ \ ite." At this time o'dayl^Wiat^l -.;> j motley world it is, after ■ even scientific*nien proclaim opinion* in accordance with their racial pre-* I I dilections or antipathies. One ma*i ' well wonder what hope there can be' !I of the emergence of lesser mortals % 'J from the thraldom of . cbvious errors sanctioned by usage or^ even customs which preclude pro<: gress and perpetuate - absurdities. '! Overseas' Britons who have never ' • seen a "Lord Mayor's Show" cannot ' conceive what colossal buffoonery,'?. ) ; what tawdy rubbish the whole thing U. Much less can they understand after seeing it why this annual torn-:.' foolery is do dear to the heart of-g 1 th-3 average Londoner. Of course, the S explanation may be that he likes to it see other people—he refrains himself I "playing the giddy goat/' as one New * Zealander put it last .year, so that ihe may laugh at them/ But not only > scientists ride unscientific hobbyhorses. Behold the Jove-like editor • of the London Mercury lecturing the. : • editor of: the Journal, the official, organ of the In-ftitute of Journalists, ; because, v,ih an article recommending greater:*ccsr>|cy of language, in the _§ j British press, ;he a prefer- ; once-jdjjchje .do jjfl% happen to - rather than ' matter? ?M has probably been tooAhosy --putting feeble i thought intoJßttter >fthmic frames ' ia have readjftws Essay oh Critic- _,-> ism. or he ujttMrfave fcept his blunt 1 shafts of attire ?for th| scribe who ! offers us threeJtt? fout 'Alternatives," I whose bounty'intends to - a third "moiety," oh "different to," who is always" "informative". wherfHb»-4riaMßvto be TOfQnmE&'/t' I and so thTriii3iffiTTr~titTin'r gmmitjßf 'jl things which ofght not to go the newspapers, . The ' phrase defence might be set J the scribe who recently announcer that, "the- new hfares have burst on ?: London.*' Some" of us wish they had and that we could travel on the frag- , ments. But. what of toe tip-top . paper which sonorously intimated that certain politicians it disapproved \■'.- of must be "purged from the sttj.ma" \" of something they are said to have \ done? Perhaps there is a phase of \ Einstein's "relativity" notion hidden \ away In this,.for physicians assert..that there are marks on human be-' ings. removable by purging medicine..