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PAGE 12—THE BULLETIN, June 27, 1959 Warren Gardner's FINE MEN’S CLOTHES US WEST MAIN AND AKERS CENTER GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA BEST WISHES i: r i J: ’ i R. J. KELLY & SONS, FUEL OIL KEROSENE t :: i t DISTRIBUTOR TEXACO, Inc." PHONE UN. 4-2644 GASTONIA. N. C, 1 BEST WISHES FROM r. n «j wa 1 Pu blishei ■s,l Inc. Post Office 1 f GASTONIA, NORTH \ S' ?j; T- ". > p -- 1 Sox 269 CAROLINA Theologian Says Exclusive Diet Of Science In School Won’t lake Good Scientists (N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE) MILWAUKEE,—A theologian warned here that “if all we feed the candidates for a science de gree is science exclusively, we shall not get good scientists.” “A scientist is a human being before he is a scientist, and he should develop his humanity no less than his scientific bents,” declared Father Gustave Weigel, S. J., of Woodstock (Md.) Col lege. Father Weigel stated that schools of science should make it a point to provide for their students courses in language, history, philosophy and reli gion, the “capstone of a hu manistic training.” He made the suggestion in an address delivered during a con ference on “The Education of the Scientist in a Free Society,” sponsored by Marguette Uni versity here. The conference commemorated the 50th anni versary of the founding of the university’s engineering college. While “science as such does not render the scientist a foe of religion,” declared Father Weigel, “yet it must be recog nized that the man of science, pure or applied, is often con temptuous of religion.” He said this is because scien tific training leaves a student unequipped to handle religious questions, and accustomed to “steer away from” religious. “The result can easily be a cold ness to the religious or a super ficiality in his practice of reli gion,” he said. . Schools of science should not “champion r e 1 i g i o n,” Father Weigel continued, but they should aid their students “to meet the religious issue respon sibility.” To do this, he said, technical schools must include humanistic studies, including religion, in their curricula. Father Weigel conceded that the crowded schedules of science students and their indifference to humanistic studies are an obstacle to the plan he en visioned. A partial solution, he said, lies in keeping religious instruction “minimal rather than maximal.” He pointed out that “the engi neering school does not turn out theologians, though it does wish to turn out cultured scholars.” Futher, he said, emphasis should be put on the “humanis tic relevance” of religion to scientific questions. “The ration ale and structure of theology in a school of divinity is out of place in the engineering col lege,” he commented. Father Weigel suggested that religion courses in technical schools place special stress on “the notion of creativity, where by the scientist shares in the action of God the Creator.” This is the aspect of religion most likely to appeal to the scientist, he said, and the one most rele vant to his work. The speaker called attention to the “paradox” that ‘there is no more religious man in the world than a convinced Marxist.” He continued: “He is fighting not against religion, but for it, but the religion he wants is energetically hostile to all reli gions but its own. The Marxist is a man of intense faith, but he has called this faith science.” 38 Schools Without Religion WARSAW, (NC) — The num ber of schools in Warsaw which have no religion classes has risen to 38 — about 13 per cent of the total — according to the so- called Secular Schools Society. In a communique issued at its meeting here, the society said it hopes the figure will double within a year. For the whole of Poland, one per cent of the 25,000 schools now have no religious instruc tion, according to the society. It said that whereas last year there were only 64 schools, with a to tal enrollment of 27,000, there are now 250 with a total enroll ment of 80,000. GARRISON’S INC, 38 MAIN ST. BELMONT, N. C. Best Wishes from CROSS ROUS CAFE — Home of Tasty Food — BELMONT, NORTH CAROLINA CARTER ELECTRIC COiPANY • ■ ' ' j .. •' . y • ; \ Phone TA. 5-5761 P. O. Box 786 BELMONTy NORTH CAROLINA