INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE—SARNOFF 191 
To assure the full attainment of these results, private industry and 
the Government must play their parts with the utmost honesty of 
purpose, encouraging individual and collective initiative. The na- 
tional growth of the United States and its contributions through 
research and invention, are historic proof that traditional American 
cooperation between industry and government promotes the best 
public interest. 
The role of government in its relationship to labor and industry 
should be that of an umpire. A wise government does not seek to 
favor either management or labor. It must be impartial, not partisan. 
When the war ends, and we enter the immediate period of transi- 
tion, the Government in fairness to both labor and industry must 
readjust its rigid wartime controls. The emergency regulations nec- 
essary in wartime, but not necessary in peacetime, should be reduced 
as speedily as practicable. Elimination of wartime restrictions will 
enable manufacturers to produce and supply the goods needed by the 
Nation, to maintain employment, and to adapt new developments in 
industrial science for the benefit of all people. 
America must be practical. Science and industry must have 
American independence if they are to succeed in the gigantic task of 
reconversion, re-employment, and world rehabilitation. 
Never again can the United States be isolated and secure within 
its own shores. In the fact that no spot on the globe is farther than 
60 hours’ flying time from any local airport, is seen the truth that 
nations must live together as good neighbors. Shriveled by radio 
and aviation, the new world is a single neighborhood. That is not a 
theoretical concept. It is a fact. 
Today man can travel by train from Chicago to New York in 17 
hours; he can fly in 5 hours. He saves 12 hours, but it is of no avail 
if he does not use that time constructively. If people achieve more 
leisure, what are they to do with the newly found hours of freedom ? 
This is one of the paramount problems that faces the postwar world. 
Recreation and entertainment are vital to a happy life. But to be 
content man must also work. Mere idleness does not produce hap- 
piness or progress. Life is measured by time; it is too fleeting and 
precious to waste. 
Entertainment can be as refreshing as sleep. The brain to gain 
new ideas and to think clearly also must have diversion. In leisure 
some of the greatest dreams of all time have been born and have 
grown into revolutionary ideas and inventions. The complete con- 
ception of the telegraph flashed into the mind of Morse while on an 
ocean voyage. The idea of wireless flashed into Marconi’s mind 
while vacationing in the Alps. Great ideas in science, art, and litera- 
ture seldom come directly to the workbench; they are released at 
