(Editor’s Note: This is the
last of 20 essays by leading men
in the world’s academic com-
munity. The writer of this essay
is vice chancellor for academic
affairs and professor of biology
at the ‘University of California,
San Diego. Herein he discusses
human >. social values as re-
lated t(@Wie future of man.)
by Paul D. Saltman
Since the beginnings of civili-
zation, man has attempted to
predict his future. He has
from the intricate patterns of
the star-filled heavens, the en-
trails of sacrificed chickens, the
residue of tea leaves in cups, the
turn of tarot cards, and thou-
sands of other signs, symbols
and omens. i
Wise men, shamans, gurus,
oracles, and yes...even priests,
professors and politicians...are
looked to for their visions and
foresight. Indeed, the series of
articles ‘‘America and the
Future of Man’’ is one manifest -
ation of this concern with our in-
dividual and collective future.
How do we divine the future?
What forces shape our behavior
and thus, in effect, create the
future reality? 1 see today, as
never before, an intense and
polarizing struggle for man’s
mind between the forces of faith
and mysticism and science and
Recéttly at a dinner party, a
highly educated and intelligent
person leaned over and asked,
“What's your number?’ I was
taken aback. I did not know
whether it was a telephone
number that was wanted or per-
haps a Social Security number.
Or "who knows; there are so
many numbers in our society
today. In fact, she was asking
for my numerological number.
She put great faith not only in
these magic numbers bul in
signs of the horoscepe as well as
predictors of human personality
Look about us. We live in a
bumper sticker world. In the
few letters that can be scrawled
and pasted upon‘the outer limits
of automobiles, we see calls for
religious dogma and for radical-
politicagiction, statements for
and i guns, demands for
wilderness areas and at the
same time for more ski lifts.
Our lives and times are moti-
vated hy. slogans, 30-second
cornell headlines and the
instant mass culture of super-
ficiality.
Most people are strongly at-
tracted to accepting a course of
action or direction for their
lives imposed from an external
source. Such a relationship ab-
solves the individual from the
personal decision-making pro-
cess.
He wraps himself in the
security blanket of ‘‘inevita-
bility" of dogma, and he need
not vest the enormous
amounts of time, effort and,
above all, thought, required in
making creative decisions, and
meaningfully participating in
the governance of his life and
the lives of others.
We are faced with modern
“Luddites," the English hand-
weavers of the 19th Century,
who out}
the power looms that threaten-
¢d their livelihood. Now, we
hear from every quarter cries
to slow down or stop the scien-
tific quest for new knowledge
and its application through
technology.
Leading - writers and philo-
sophers, including Lewis Mum-
ford, Herbert Marcuse, Theo-
dore Roszak and William Irwin
Thompson, accusingly point to
science and technology as the
fundamental cause of the crisis
of man today.
Archibald MacLeish has call-
ed for a moratorium on new
science and research until we
can cope with the enormity of
the information that we now
have and use so ineffectively.
And yet, this is the very
moment when the fundamental
problems of man have a base in
science and technology and
cannot be solved without them.
On the other hand, how long
have we been lulled into a sense
of false security by our scien-
tists and technologists? They
continually reach out for more
moneys for their research pro-
jects, holding forth promises of
everlasting health and life,
smog-free cities, supersonic
transportation and Elysian
fields of a labor-free life—none
of which are delivered.
There is a great similarity
between the primitive tribes of
New Guinea who practice the
“cargo cults’’ and our econ-
temporary American society.
Those primitive natives once
experienced the windfall of
crashing bombers in World War
II, which would bring them un-
believable riches; now they
build elaborate airplane-shaped
totems hoping that planes will
crash there again. Similarly, we
in more ‘civilized’ cultures
continually are reminded that
the building of atomic bombs
and putting men on the moon
symbolize the ability of science
and technology to solve all of
our problems.
One of the major factors con-
tributing to our ‘schizoid’ dilem=
nia between mysticism and rea-
face in handling the enormous
amount of information which is
generated, transmitted and re-
ceived throughout the world.
Each of us continually feels in-
adequate to come to grips with
this superabundance of infor-
mation—to understand it, to
digest it and to utilize it. We
must have a “fluency’’ with lan-
guage which enables us to ex-
press our complex ideas both in
quantitative and qualitative
terms.
We must also develop concep-
tual structures within which the
language, both verbal and
numerical, can be utilized.
Scientists have too often neg-
lected their social responsibility
to communicate and explain
their ideas and discoveries in
language and in concepts which
can be understood by interested
citizens. Those of us who work
in the areas of science and tech-
must recognize “the
necessity not only tor share our
knowledge, but also to point out
the diverse social consequences
of applying
Scientists and technologists
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must always recognize and
identify where their ‘knowing’
is scientific and where it is a
function of personal value judg-
ments.
I believe that our feeling of in-
tellectual impotence may be
built in to our approach to edu-
cation. We have long been gear-
ed to the notion that education
should impart facts and data,
literally to fill'up the biological
data banks of our brains.
Rarely do we come to grips
with developing the skills of
mathematics and language, the
ability to see fundamental re-
Jations and explanations within
the data and the facts, and
above all, the methods by which
to seek and find new knowledge
and new relationships. At a time
when computers can store far
more information for instant re-
call than can the human brain,
iL seems a shame not to use the
intricacies of the human brain
in a more creative and function-
al fashion. T
Furthermore, within the pro-
cess of education at all levels
from preschool through post-
graduate, we readily succumb
to the fragmentation of know-
ledge as described in C.P.
Snow's “The Two Cultures.” We
fail to commit ourselves to the
notion of an education for one
culture in which the disciplines
of science, the social sciences,
the humanities and the arts
interrelate and integrate.
Mysticism and reason need
In all of our thoughts and
actions these modes of percept-
ion are functioning together.
How few scientists and
technologists recognize and are
willing to admit the acts of faith
that underlie the very scientific
methods that they employ. Con-
versely, some of the most basic
contextual aspects of art,
poelry, philosophy and music
are closely related to concepts
that are operational in science.
There are three underlying
assumptions of faith that every
scientist must hold whether he
Knows it or not. These are: (1)
There is order in the universe.
(2) Man can understand that
order. (3) It is good to under-
stand that order. Indeed, it is
the quest to understand mean-
ingful relationships in the uni-
verse that drives all of us who
practice science to continue
searching.
Elizabeth Sewell, a creative
poet and teacher, was educated
as a mathematician, and she
pointed out clearly that all great
art and poetry have reason,
form, simplicity and grand-
cur—the very elements of which
great science is built. Miss
Sewell went on to describe
poetry in terms of understand-
ing self and relationships to
others, the foundations of many
of our social sciences and the
problems that they seek to
understand. (
My concern as a scientist, as
a teacher, as a citizen and per-
haps above all as a human being
is lo live and act in accord with
the notion of the one culture of
man. Science is only one way of
perceiving the universe through
its questioning, proposing
hypotheses, experimenting and
verifying the hypotheses, and
ultimately extrapolating from
present understanding to new
questions and new ideas and
new relationships. >
I think we should bring this
same sort of perception into
everything we think about and
do.
At the same time, we must
see that the fundamental issues
of the future of man are not
solely based on facts or data,
bul rather lie in the human and
our these
facts.
Jacques Monod, the French
Nobel Prize winner and bioche-
mist, spoke most eloquently
when he said, ‘‘Man finally
interpretations of
different immensity of the uni-
verse. No more than his destiny
1s his duty anywhere preordain-
ed. It is up to him to choose bet-
ween the kingdom and the
shadows.’' What is to be man's
choice? On what rational or
mystical individual and collec-
tive premises shall it be made?
For me. the answer lies in our
commitment to knowing and
understanding, our concern for
self and others, our sensitivities
to our own and our society's
needs, and our belief in in-
dividual and collective man’s
ability to change and evolve.
Many years ago, I appeared
on a panel program with a de-
lightful and brilliant Canadian
author, June Callwood. At that
\
value judgments and concerns,
and I referred to the biblical
which has influenced
greatly some aspects of my own
Jife, I am my brother’s
keeper.”
On reflection, June Callwood
asked me to reconsider that
motto, slightly changed but far
more powerful, “I am my
brother.” If each of us can re-
cognize the reality of this para-
doxical and dynamic inter-
action of existential self and
societal others, and at the same
time bring into dynamic
equilibrium the forces of faith
and reason, I believe that the
future of man and the societies
and nations of this earth will be
better. We can and must make
it So.
Conservation Director
Attends Farm Meeting
Ernest S. Young, director of
Luzerne County Conservation
District, attended the annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania
izations Jan. 30 at the Embers
Quality Motel,
Milton J. Shapp and Secretary
of Agriculture James McHale
addressed the group.
low
334. Nays 4. Passed, Feb. 4.
Nays 0. Agreed to, Feb. 5.
Previous question not ordered.
Passed, Feb. 6.
jected, Feb. 6.
Feb. 7.
Dallas Township
There were four accidents re-
ported in Dallas Township last
week: The first occurred Feb. 4
on Eddinger’s Hill Road at 11:32
one of the vehicles had to be
taken to the Nesbitt Hospital in
the Dallas Community am-
bulance.
According to the report,
James M. Carey Jr., 96 Sharpe
St., Kingston, was traveling
west when, at approximately
250 feet east of the intersection
with Demunds Road, the car
crossed over into the eastbound
lane and struck a car driven by
Carla Knecht, RD 1, Pittston,
who was traveling east. From
the force of the impact, both ve-
hicles were forced into the berm’
on the opposite side of the road.
The Carey car came to rest in
the eastbound lane and the
Knecht car stopped in a ditch,
- Patrolman Douglas Lamor-
eaux investigated and estimat-
ed damages at $1,500 to the
Carey vehicle and $1,000 to the
Knecht car.
An accident on Rt. 309 and the
intersection of Grandview
Avenue, was reported Feb. 6 at
5:20 a.m. by Patrolman John
Appel. Donald W. Schaefer,
Fenwood Park, Dallas, was tra-
veling south on Rt. 309 when
the power steering in his 1972
Mercury locked, and the car
went into the northbound lane,
hitting some guard rails.
On Feb. 8, at 9:05 p.m, a sin-
gle car accident was reported
on the Kunkle-Alderson Road.
Lamont 'Haldsworth, Harveys
Lake, was traveling west on the
road, one mile west of the inter-
section with Route 309, when he
lost control and veered to the
right off the west-bound berm,
striking a guard rail. The ve-
hicle continued in a westerly
direction, crossing the roadway
into the eastbound lane to a
road culvert, and turned over
on its roof, facing east.
Patrolman Russell Banta
estimated damages at $600.
Slippery roads were cited as
the cause of an accident Feb. 11
on Rt. 415 at about 9 a.m.
William Harry, Plymouth, was
traveling south with a passen-
ger, Ann Mowry, when his car
fishtailed and spun out of con-
trol, hitting a pole.
Chief of Police Carl Miers and
Dallas Borough Chief Ray Titus
conducted the investigation.
Mr. Harry did not have snow
tires om his vehicle. Damages
were estimated at $650.
C. Besteder, owner of Beste-
der’s Service Station, Kunkle,
reported the theft of 20 cartons
of cigarettes from his station,
Feb. 10. Patrolman James Gre
ver is investigating.
Granddaddy’s Park, Ryman
Road, Dallas, was the scene of a
theft, Feb. 6. The owner report-
ed that copper tubing was taken
from his refrigeration system
and the gas tank of his stove.
'A second report of a
theft on the same day came
from UGI. It was noted
that copper wire amount-
ing to $750, had been taken from
a maintenance shed-on the
Alderson Road. Chief Miers, to-
gether with State Policeman
the investigation.
Kingston Township
Two accidents were reported
Feb. 7 in Kingston Township.
One happened at 9:20 a.m. when
Eleanor Gregory, 189 Lewis St.,
Trucksville, who was traveling
south on Route 309, started to
slide, crossed the divider, and
struck two post office vans. The
first van was driven by Ray-
mond Krakosky, 190 Hughes St.,
Swoyersville, and the second by
Leonard Gryskewicz, 221
Phillips St., Lynwood.
Chief Paul Sabol investigated
and estimated damages to the
car at $200; to one van, $700, and
to the other, $100.
Loran Laskowski, 92 S. Pio-
neer Ave., Trucksville, was tra-
veling on Pioneer Avenue at 6
a.m. and lost control on the icy
road, struck a guard rail, and
crossed the road, hitting the
steps and iron railing at the
Shavertown United Methodist
Church.
Chief Sabol also investigated
this accident. He estimated
damages to the vehicle at $500
and about $100 to the steps.
Dallas Borough
Three larcenies and three
accidents, combined with the
juvenile-consumption-of-
alcohol incident (see related
story) kept borough patrolmen
busy last week.
The larcenies all happened
the same night on the same
thief, or one group of thieves,
the robberies occurred in the
early morning hours of Feb. 11.
A radio was removed from
the car of Mrs. Kenneth Hunter,
"21 Davenport St., Dallas. Her
husband found that parts were
also taken from the radio in his
car.
Just up the road at the home
of Wesley Cave, the Cave car
was missing the microphone
from a radio.
Chief Ray Titus, who is in-
vestigating, told the Post that
although Mrs: Cave reported
she had heard some strange
noises that night.
There were three traffic acci-
dents in the borough during the
past week. No injuries were re-
ported. ™
The first occurred Sunday at
aoout 4:20 a.m. at the intersec-
tion of Lower Main Street and
Pioneer Avenue. Joanne Nolan,
296 Coal St., Wilkes-Barre, was
driving a car owned by Albert
Phillips, 91 W. Mt. Airy Road,
Shavertown, a passenger in the
auto.
Headed toward the intersec-
tion, along Main Street, the car
hit the retaining wall, spun
around, hit it again with the
back end, careened across
lower Main and through a fence
on the opposite side of the road.
The driver had no identifica-
tion or driver’s license with her.
An estimated $750 damage
was done to the auto.
Patrolman Harry Wesley in-
vestigated.
Patrolman Tupper was at the
scene of the day’s second mis-
hap at 6 p.m. near the Crown
Imperial Bowling Lanes, where
the officer found the two par-
ties. He was told two different
stories regarding how it took
place.
Janet Miller, Elmcrest Drive,
as she was heading north on Rt.
415, a pickup truck was tail-
gating her. She said she put her
turn signal on for a right turn
yinto Elmcrest, when the truck
swung quickly into the center
lane, but hit the rear end of her
auto nonetheless.
The truck driver, Dale Lee,
RD 3, Dallas, told the officer he
was not tailgating, that the
Miller auto moved into the
passing lane in front of him, and
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Forty Years Ago
1934
L. A. MacHenry presented
plans to Dallas Borough Council
for a community athletic field,
advising location in Goss
Manor.
Andrew Dymond, Tunkhan-
nock, was rescued from Har-
veys Lake by two fishermen
when his truck broke through
the ice and sank to the bottom.
Dymond was on his way to pick
up a load of ice blocks near the
Sordoni Estate when the mishap
happened.
An annex to the Dallas Town-
ship School was discussed by
the school board.
The ice crop at Upper Bow-
man’s Creek was reported a
bumper one this season.
Andrew Sordoni was host to a
committee interested in a new
Luzerne bypass to expedite
{raffic from Kingston to the
Back Mountain.
Justice Department brought
an abrupt end fo plans of Kings-
ton Township to construct a new
$100,000 school building.
Virginia Harding, Trucks-
ville, proposed a setter tower to
link missing persons with their
families.
John Neuer, last of Noxen's
Civil War Veterans, died three
days before his 92nd birthday.
Laketon took top place in the
«basketball league.
G. R. Splitt, Jackson Town-
ship, fractured his left hip and
leg, while teaching his son to
skate on a pond near his home.
Thirty Years Ago
1944
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire
Company organized its own
band on the suggestion of Dr.
Budd Schooley.
Twenty Army transports fly-
ing over the area brought a bit
of excitement to the region.
Ira Lamoreaux, Jackson
Township, died. His grand-
father was the early pioneer in
the community.
Dallas Township was seeking
funds to. redecorate its honor
roll.
George Stolarick, Lehman,
returned from Iowa where he
purchased 50 horses, preferring
the Iowa breeds to those of the
wilder Dakota strain.
Robins, flickers and bluebirds
made an early appearance,
bringing welcome tidings of
spring.
Don Shaver, played host to all
who bought war bonds, doing
his part for the nation’s Civil
Defense program.
Servicemen heard from: Cpl.
Harry Edwards, Texas; Char-
les Metzger, Ala.; Pvt. Roy
Schultz, La.; T. Sgt. Emory
Kitchen, Ky.; Pvt. Warren
Johnson, N.C.; Pvt. John
Owens, S.D.; Stanley Hout,
Alaskan Highway; Fred Wil-
cox, Ireland; Harry A. Long,
Italy; Robert Girvan, N.Y.; Lt.
Hal Thompson, Calif.; Pfc. Vic-
tor Neinous, England.
Died: Phillip Rineman, 68,
Trucksville; Andrew Kovach,
62, Chase.
Twenty Years Ago
1954
Frances Dorrance, beloved
citizen, was awarded the Distin-
guished Service Citation by
Black Diamond Post, American
Legion.
Rafeal Rodroquez, Trucks-
ville, won three prizes in the
Student Agricultural Project,
bringing honors to Lehman,
Jackson and Ross.
Mrs. Ralph Brown was
honored at a “This Is You
Life” party at the Dallas
Methodist Church. i
Carl Bries won a vocational
agricultural medal for Dallas-
Franklin.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ohlmon |
and Atty. and Mrs. Roscoe
Potentate George E. Stringfel-
Waldorf Astoria.
Theodore MacHenry, Center-
moreland, watchman at Fern-
beaten by a prowler, while
checking temperatures at the
plant early Sunday morning.
The assailant escaped.
Arthur Ellum was elected
head of the Natona Credit
Union.
Marilyn Mosier represented
Dallas-Franklin High School for
the third year at the Music Fes-
tival at Bloomsburg.
Findings of the Anthracite In-
Westmoreland High School, by
Dr. Robert Bodycomb, Dr. L. E.
Jordan and Thomas Shelburne.
Tommy Andrew became state
leader in the rabbit industry
when he was named president
of the Keystone State Rabbit
Breeders Association.
sweetheart of the Blue
Chapter
America.
Died: Mary Blizzard, 50,
Noxen; Rose Gromada, 70,
Sweet Valley; Alexander
Ballantino, Pikes Creek, and
Casper Wall, 90, Dallas. ~~
Future Farmers of
Ten Years Ago
1964
New Harveys Lake Post
Office location chosen at Lake-
ton. /
George Bednar picked by St.
Louis Car dinals to play pro foot-
ball.
Teaching of German at Dallas,
High School held vital.
Léhman Township held $4,280
Ploughing of Booth Hill,
Dallas, was
monial by Shavertown firemen.
Joseph Sekera was appointed
plant manager of
wealth Telephone Company.
Ross Township heating prob-
lem solved by use of larger coal.
strikes, ‘increasing employ-
ment, rise in trade, and upward
swing in living costs.
C. Wesley Lewis announced
his candidacy for represen-
tative of the newly- -for med Fifth
District.
Born: Kathy Lee, Huger of
Mr. and Mrs. Laing Coolbaugh,
Dallas, and Susan Ann, daugh-
ter-of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Boothe,
Shavertown.
Died:
Trucksville; Arthur
83; Josephine Miller, 74, Dallas;
Esther Long, 72, Dallas; James
Hill Sr.,
Ralph Cease, 73, Muhlenberg.
pork loins, 33 cents a pound;
ham, 59 cents a pound; rib
roast, 65 cents a pound; jumbo
shrimp, five pounds for $4.89;
lobster tail, $1.69 a pound; tuna,
three cans for 73 cents and a
for 39 cents.
Brown.
Brown.
blood.
Art Wagner and Paul Wheat.
Stenger.
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