Nazi Article Contrasting Jewish and Aryan Physics Proved Starting Point of Lincoln's Day Democracy Demonstration

When Massachusetts educators and scientists meet Sunday night in Sanders Theatre to emphasize "the American legacy of intellectual freedom," it will not only be part of a nation-wide demonstration but the direct result of an article written several months ago by a German scientist which contrasted a "pragmatic Aryan physics" with a "Jewish physics, which is theoretical and dogmatic."

The American reaction to this article, written by Dr. J. Stark, was a manifesto signed by 1,284 scientists, calling upon their colleagues to participate actively in the defense of democracy "to the end that there shall never be an un-American physics."

Presiding at the Harvard meeting will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of M. I. T. Others headlined on the program are Dr. Mildred H. McAfee, president of Wellesley, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law.

Additional Harvard men who will speak include Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; and Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and president of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers.

Wallace to Speak in New York

The Lincoln's Birthday national demonstration will center in New York, where Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, will address a meeting at the Waldorf Astoria on "Racial Theories and the Genetic Basis of Democracy."

Other meetings will be held in Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and at Connecticut State College, Dartmouth, Syracuse University, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), and the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Northwestern, Purdue, Fisk, Stanford, Claremont, Duke, North Dakota, and California.