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Pilchik, Ely E., March 14, 1947.
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MAR 24 RECD
Temple Israel 1602 So. Rockford Avenue Tulsa 5, Oklahoma
Mar. 14, 1947
My dear Professor Einstein: Humbly, I join with a grateful world in congratulating you on your sixty-eighth birthday. Reverently, I pray to God that He may grant you many more healthful years of creative endeavor so that you who gave us the formula e = mc^2 enabling us to pierce the ultimate mystery of energy in the universe, may yet give us another formula such as man + intellect + God = universal peace. I write you to enlist in that noble band of your disciples who in this early hour of the atomic age seek so earnestly to awaken mankind to its meaning. I am not a scientist, and just as Greek and Latin were difficult for you in your early days, so mathematics and physics are difficult for me in these days. I am a teacher from the pulpit and from the lecture platform in this rather primitive part of America. With the heep of Smyth and the available government documents I have been trying to introduce my people - of all faiths - to the elements of the atomic age. I want to do more? What can I do? I served in this war, in the Pacific, as a chaplain. I know what war means - I have seen its face and its back. I think I can grasp what a atomic war would mean. I want to prevent it. As you and your colleagues searched for the