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Burlington Atomic Energy Week, 1947

Des Moines Register Article: ""Burlington Residents Facing Facts in Atom Energy Week""

Burlington Marks Atomic Energy Week 

[photo - some words hard to read]
LEARN THE FACTS of the ATOMIC AGE
LITERATURE
FILMS
RECORDINGS
*NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC INFORMATION
[illegible]
Atomic energy is as much a topic of discussion at Burlington as squash and baking powder during Atomic Energy week. First Iowa community to try out such a project, Burlington is pushing a study of atomic energy and world peace through a series of meetings and displays, Mrs. Robert Eckhouse is posting a notice in the window of Grocer Sam Scull - Staff Photo by Bob Long. 

Burlington Residents Facing Facts in Atom Energy Week 
By Louis Cook, jr. 
(Register Staff Writer)

BURLINGTON, IA- More plain people are learning more about atomic energy here than in any other community in Iowa. 
Twenty five thousand residents here this morning start the second day of facing the facts of atomic life. Atomic Energy week started Saturday. 
The first day was tough mentally, but the rest of the week promises to be even more grueling. Whole families are attempting to understand the Atomic Age. 
Going to and from work Saturday stenographers, brick layers and bank presidents trod on diagrams of the atomic structure of helium whitewashed on downtown sidewalks by high school students. 
Housewives reaching for their milk bottles found the delivery men also had left atomic information leaflets on their door steps. 
Family heads opening their electric light bills faced enclosures informing them that atomic energy must be man's servant not his master. 
What's Your S.Q?
School children have been bringing home quizzes whereby they have been measuring their S.Q - Survival Quotient. 
People who haven't caught up with the atom have a low S.Q. the children related, and have no more likelihood of survival than a fish on dry land. 
Department store windows feature tattered worlds made of steel wires and cardboard: dizzying models of atoms. 
From many church pulpits this morning will come a call to forget daily routine for a moment and ponder the latest and most dread creation of mortal ingenuity - the harnessing of the sun's power. 
Seldom in Iowa has so much effort been expended to get across so few basic facts. But sponsors of the project believe if they can get across a few fundamental ideas it will all have been worthwhile.
The ideas:
One day of atomic warfare could destroy our bug cities and kill 40 millions of people. There is no 100 percent defense against atomic attack. 
ATOM - 
Continued on Page Eight.

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Burlington Marks Atomic Energy Week [photo - some words hard to read] LEARN THE FACTS of the ATOMIC AGE LITERATURE FILMS RECORDINGS *NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC INFORMATION [illegible] Atomic energy is as much a topic of discussion at Burlington as squash and baking powder during Atomic Energy week. First Iowa community to try out such a project, Burlington is pushing a study of atomic energy and world peace through a series of meetings and displays, Mrs. Robert Eckhouse is posting a notice in the window of Grocer Sam Scull - Staff Photo by Bob Long. Burlington Residents Facing Facts in Atom Energy Week By Louis Cook, jr. (Register Staff Writer) BURLINGTON, IA- More plain people are learning more about atomic energy here than in any other community in Iowa. Twenty five thousand residents here this morning start the second day of facing the facts of atomic life. Atomic Energy week started Saturday. The first day was tough mentally, but the rest of the week promises to be even more grueling. Whole families are attempting to understand the Atomic Age. Going to and from work Saturday stenographers, brick layers and bank presidents trod on diagrams of the atomic structure of helium whitewashed on downtown sidewalks by high school students. Housewives reaching for their milk bottles found the delivery men also had left atomic information leaflets on their door steps. Family heads opening their electric light bills faced enclosures informing them that atomic energy must be man's servant not his master. What's Your S.Q? School children have been bringing home quizzes whereby they have been measuring their S.Q - Survival Quotient. People who haven't caught up with the atom have a low S.Q. the children related, and have no more likelihood of survival than a fish on dry land. Department store windows feature tattered worlds made of steel wires and cardboard: dizzying models of atoms. From many church pulpits this morning will come a call to forget daily routine for a moment and ponder the latest and most dread creation of mortal ingenuity - the harnessing of the sun's power. Seldom in Iowa has so much effort been expended to get across so few basic facts. But sponsors of the project believe if they can get across a few fundamental ideas it will all have been worthwhile. The ideas: One day of atomic warfare could destroy our bug cities and kill 40 millions of people. There is no 100 percent defense against atomic attack. ATOM - Continued on Page Eight.