At Geneva

On a bench in the lobby of the League of Nations building at Geneva last week sat Albert Einstein, pulling on his unlit pipe, deep in conversation with his long-time friend Maris Sklodowska Curie, discoverer of radium. Elsewhere in the lobby and round about the town was many another famed savant: Paul Painleve, several times French Prime Minister; Nicolas Titulescu, Rumanian Minister to London; Professor Alfredo Rocco, Italy's Minister of Justice; Sir Jagadis -Chandra Bose, Indian biophysicist; Professor Akitu Tanakadate of Tokyo's Imperial University, foremost advocate of exchanging the 53,000 Chinese dialect characters used in Japan for the simpler Roman alphabet; Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford, famed Greek scholar; Vernon Lyman Kellogg, secretary of the National Research Council of the U. S.; Kristine Elisabeth Bonnevie, professor of zoology at Oslo University. Professor Bonnevie was the only woman besides Mme Curie to attend as a delegate the conference for which the savants had all come to Geneva, re-organization meeting of the League's Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. Secondary purpose of the committee was to consider means of improving elementary schools throughout the world. Foremost in urging investigations was Professor Einstein. Children, said he, must be taught the community of all phases of life. Savants, too, he added. It was surprising to him how far apart wise men's work can lead them. He, Albert Einstein, for example, may be a mathematician and a physicist, but he knows pitifully little about chemistry. "The intellectuals always have microscopes before their eyes." he said, with a laugh. He declined to talk about his own latest theory. 'T think," said he, "it is more interesting [than his previous work]. But maybe people will think I am a fool when they read it."

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