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few in England, while in positions bearing a salary of less than 

 S2500 most have risen from the ranks. 



"Given men of equal qualifications," says the director of this 

 firm, "the man of technical training is bound to rise to the higher 

 position because of his greater value to his employer. As a rule, 

 also, men who have been technically trained are, by virtue of their 

 education, men who are endowed with a professional feeling which 

 does not to the same extent exist among those men who have risen 

 from the rank and file. They are therefore more trustworthy, and 

 especially in mining work, where premium for dishonesty exists, 

 for this qualification alone they are bound to have precedence. 

 We do not by any means wish to disparage the qualifications of many 

 men who have risen from the ranks to eminent positions, but our 

 opinion may be concentrated in the statement that even these 

 men would be better men had they received a thorough technical 

 training." 



The progress of chemical engineering is parallel with that in other 

 departments of technology. Yet frhe appreciation of the value of 

 theoretical training is somewhat less marked, and in this regard 

 our manufacturers seem distinctly behind those of Germany. 



'The development of chemical industries in the past history of 

 the United States," says a correspondent, "was seriously delayed 

 by the usually superficial and narrow training of the chemist in 

 the colleges. Thus managers and proprietors came to undervalue 

 the importance of chemical knowledge. The greatest need at present 

 in the development of chemical industries is an adequate supply 

 of chemists of thorough training to teach manufacturers the impor- 

 tance in their business of adequate chemical knowledge. Epoch- 

 making advances in chemical industry will spring from the brain 

 of great chemists, and to insure the production of a few of these, 

 the country must expect to seed lavishly and to fertilize gener- 

 ously the soil from which they spring. Germany has learned the 

 lesson well: other nations cannot long delay." 



Agriculture 



In the vast range of the applications of science to agriculture, the 

 same general statements hold good. There is, however, no such 

 general appreciation of the value of training as appears in relation 

 to the various branches of training, and the men of scientific 

 education are mostly absorbed in the many ramifications of the 

 Department of Agriculture and in the state agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations. There are few illustrations of the power of 

 national cooperation more striking than those shown in the achieve- 

 ments of the Department of Agriculture. I have no time to touch 



