To the Editor of the "Normu-Cinxa Dany News"
Sin—My interest was caught by the: exchange of correspondence in your paper over the question of "Precision" and it really surprises how lightly people bring to the lime light of public opinion the reputation of a Selentife authority and just as easily try {o'retire in obscurity as soon as they gol a fitting reply to the blunder committed.
MMs. Srevexs tries now to accenivate his letter of June 3 on the point Precision of Agures cited in the review of Farnen Gutxz's brochure on Sour paper some time ago, childishly shifting now the whole weight to the variation of or—$3 in hun-fired milliards! 1 ti really were his point in the first letter. then itis up to him to answer why on earth did he ise the question at all? But the real point in question in Ma, Stevens's first letter appeared to be why Faruen Gurmay, with his scien-tile authority, gave a support to those figures and It seems to me that only this questioning of an authority through publication called for Janswer from Farner Guenzt, lengthy because of a charitable desire to en-Tighten. an innocent mind of whys and wherefores, The letter of MR.
Havenwour, who presumably is of a less charitable disposition, gave a slight. chastisement for "leaping. before thinking" and should not be taken as a desire to abuse, but rather as a lesson in ethics, simply because, noting Ma, Srevexs, "any elementary student of: physical science knows that" an action calls for a reaction, Phecise, Shanghai. June 10, Another Lie:
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