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Burlington Atomic Energy Week, 1947

1947-10-27 Atomic Energy Program Page 3

ATOMIC ENERGY PGM -3 

The first thing you will want to do to prepare yourself to meet that creeping danger is learn more about atomic energy. That is why Burlington is having an Atomic Energy week. 
Burlington is one of the first cities in America to have an Atomic Energy Week, but before the winter is over, the people of many communities will take the time for self education about a subject which is not just an important event of our lifetime, but a significant date in all the history of man's life upon this earth. 
We can't wait for atomic energy to come gradually into our lives as did the airplane, radio,radar, television, ether, sulfa drugs, penicillin, and all the great advances in healing. The splitting of the atom's nucleus and the release of the energy which holds matter together means things are going to be different from not on. This is not the world of your childhood, it is new in fightening ways. It is also new in thrilling opportunities for human progress, if we are smart enough to grasp them. Are we going to be frightened or smart? [hand written (5)]
It will do some good to make the choice between these alternatives singly, as individuals. But we must also do it as a community... as a nation...as a world. For the people of Burlington, tonight is the time to start. Burlington Atomic Energy Week opens with a mass meeting at the Memorial Auditorium at eight o'clock tonight. Go! You will get help towards your answers if you hear Rea Admiral Lewis Strauss, member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and Forrest Seymour, editor of the Des Moines Register. 
As the street lights come on again, they will light your way to the Mass Meeting at the Auditorium. It is due to begin in fifty five minutes. It's late ...but not TOO late. Go! [hand written (6)]

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ATOMIC ENERGY PGM -3 The first thing you will want to do to prepare yourself to meet that creeping danger is learn more about atomic energy. That is why Burlington is having an Atomic Energy week. Burlington is one of the first cities in America to have an Atomic Energy Week, but before the winter is over, the people of many communities will take the time for self education about a subject which is not just an important event of our lifetime, but a significant date in all the history of man's life upon this earth. We can't wait for atomic energy to come gradually into our lives as did the airplane, radio,radar, television, ether, sulfa drugs, penicillin, and all the great advances in healing. The splitting of the atom's nucleus and the release of the energy which holds matter together means things are going to be different from not on. This is not the world of your childhood, it is new in fightening ways. It is also new in thrilling opportunities for human progress, if we are smart enough to grasp them. Are we going to be frightened or smart? [hand written (5)] It will do some good to make the choice between these alternatives singly, as individuals. But we must also do it as a community... as a nation...as a world. For the people of Burlington, tonight is the time to start. Burlington Atomic Energy Week opens with a mass meeting at the Memorial Auditorium at eight o'clock tonight. Go! You will get help towards your answers if you hear Rea Admiral Lewis Strauss, member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and Forrest Seymour, editor of the Des Moines Register. As the street lights come on again, they will light your way to the Mass Meeting at the Auditorium. It is due to begin in fifty five minutes. It's late ...but not TOO late. Go! [hand written (6)]