What is the most obvious world problem to be solved? Is it something to do with national boundaries or racial rivalries or trade or political labels? Professor Einstein thinks not, Recently at the New York World's Fair the management, for a publicity. "stunt" buried a copper capsule containing various informative articles and books to be dug by the inhabit ants of the year 6000 AD. It was perhaps a rather silly performance. but in some. way the Fair management induced Prof. Einstein to write brief message, to be placed in the capsule, to the world of 6000 AD. describing our present-day world and its problems, Unfortunately T have been unable to find the text of the message which Tread in the New York "Times" some weeks ago. and consequently I shall have to summarize it from memory: In his message he managed with remarkable detachment to divorce himself from his environment and project his ideas in abstract but fund: mentally simple fashion in order to bridge the unknown years to speak to the people of 6000 AD.
He said that we have in 1929 lieved some degree of merit. We an eross the seas in ships which are driven by engines and we have learn ed to fly. We have contrived many, machines which dea number of! things #0 that we are not so dependent upon human hand labour as in the past, A part of oUF population has. been freed from physical effort Our greatest unsolved problem, however, is the unequal distribution of the world's resources. We have not yet Learned how to make the' earth's products available to its! people and consequently only a min Fily' have euMelent for their needs while the rest are living in poverty, although the world contains and pro-@uces more than enough for all More Pleasant Theme 'Turning to the second and more pleasant commencement' themes I fear 1 have little to advise for' the benefit of your personal careers: which you have not already learned and observed, You need not be reminded that education Is usually a prime factor in material success. 'The great American publication "Who's. Who tu America" which hi-annually. prints the names and biographies of more' than 30,000 leading Americans In all lines of endeavor, points out in the foreword of the book that 86 per cent, of those included in the list are college trained, and complacently adds that education appears to. increase a person's earnings.
ICT were asked to give in a few words the essentials for personal suc ess and happiness in fe, I should say: "Character, education and pos session of a sense of values" That is all you need. Cultivate by all means a sense of values, learn to weigh. to judge and to discern what important and what is not import ant, Learn what to expend your vitality upon and what to minimize or ignore, There is, of course, no substitute for character and nothing the world can offer is worth exchange for it. That is perhaps the first lesson in acquiring a sense of values. Never mind losing face but be sure you do not lose your honour.
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