TAYLOR MODEL BASIN—-HOWARD 249 
Taylor Model Basin reports throughout this country and abroad as 
well as by the various agencies of the Navy itself. 
At present every effort of the Taylor Model Basin staff and its facili- 
ties is being applied to the one end which is to contribute to the 
maximum of their abilities to the early winning of the war. Pure 
research must take a secondary place, but it is only through the pure 
research carried on in peacetime and the skill so developed in the 
solving of similar problems that quick and correct answers can be 
found now for the urgent problems of the war. 
The interest of the country in research has increased greatly in these 
most recent years. It is greatly to be hoped that when peace comes 
again this interest will not lag but will continue so strongly that this 
establishment may continue to operate at its full capacity, so that 
through the more extensive pure research then possible, technical 
improvements in the design and construction of our ships and naval 
weapons may increase. Thus, should war ever again be forced upon us, 
we may feel that we have kept ourselves prepared to meet the technical 
problems of that day. 
