FIRE IN THEATRE
40 KILLED, 80 INJURED TRAGEDY IN GREEK CINEMA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 11 A message from Athens says that 40.. persons were killed and over 80 injured when a picture theatre on the island of Lemnos caught fire.
Representative Government In the course of a public address in Auckland last night, the eminent American physicist, and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. R. A. Millikan, said that the most, important social question facing the world was whether free representative government could survive in face of the reaction which was pushing it back toward the despotisms of 800 years ago, when scientific methods had begun fo liberate man from the authoritarianisms which governed his thoughts and actions. These forces, which bore many names, couid be fought successfully if the democratic peoples were educated for rational, objective and intelligent living through familiarity with the way in which scientific knowledge had grown up. Eternal vigilance was indeed the price of liberty.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20908, 13 September 1939, Page 6
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162FIRE IN THEATRE Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20908, 13 September 1939, Page 6
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