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of the culture, brecdins;-, history, nomenclature, etc., of the Jaj)- 

 anese varieties. 



Dependence of Research on Public Support 



Everyone benefits from scientific research ; the pu1)lic should, 

 therefore, support it. States have recognized this res])onsibility 

 more generally and more generously than have niunicipalities. In 

 particular, our cities are dependent upon research which yields 

 results applicable to the raising- of cro])s. The total annual saving 

 effected by diminished loss and increased yield through a better 

 knowledge of ])lant diseases, plant breeding, and agronomy 

 amounts to millions of dollars annually. Alunicipalities and 

 dwellers in cities benefit most from this saving because they do 

 the bulk of the buying. General John J. Carty, vice-president of 

 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in referring to 

 the economic benefits of scientific research, has recently written 

 as follows : 



" American business and commerce and industry and the Amcricai: public 

 should be urged to .give to scientific research in our universities and else- 

 where that support which it so greatly needs. The progress of scientific 

 research in our country depends in the last analysis upon the support which 

 it receives from the public. There is no lack of problems to be solved, 

 all of which in one way or another affect the welfare of the nation, and 

 there will be no lack of competent scientific investigators wdio will solve 

 them if the necessary financial support is provided." 



A statement of additional funds needed for research may be 

 found on pages 50-53 following. Tn our preceding animal re- 

 port, we pointed out in some detail how adequate the resources 

 of Brooklyn are to finance all those cultural agencies (schools, 

 botanic gardens, museums) which minister to the city's most 

 fundamental need. All that is necessary is to arouse a pul:)lic sense 

 of this need. Hiis has been nowhere more efTectively stated than 

 by Graham AVallas. 



"The main hope for the future of American creative thought 

 lies in an extension of the American sense of need. We do not 

 despise the intellectual creator who gives us something that we 

 ourselves reall}^ desire ; and to an increasing extent the desires 

 of the great average ])opulation of America, may turn towards 

 values that cannot be expressed in terms of money. No one now 

 makes money by looking at the glorious marble buildings of Wash- 

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