Article July 24, 1943 Issue

Signs of the Times

Eternal Truth

with contributions from Henry Noble MacCracken, A Correspondent

Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken,
President, Vassar College
Pathfinder
Washington, District of Columbia

In the Bureau of Standards which is maintained by our government at Washington, there is a platinum rod the exact length of a meter. From this all other measurements derive, and to this existing measurements are referred. In the innumerable measure adjustments of our factories and enterprises this remains constant. Though it is no longer than a man's arm, yet by it one can measure the universe.

Men and women have standards of measurement no less constant than this rod in the Bureau of Standards. First among them is truth. It is not susceptible of physical measurement. It cannot be described by numbers, or comparisons, and yet we know it is with us as a spiritual measure, a measure not only of existence but of energy.

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