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in the modern home, in fact to nearly all occupations of life 
must to greater or lesser extent stagnate. To the research 
worker in physics we must ever look for inspiration and for the 
further mastery of the physical forces which makes progress 
along many lines of life’s activities possible. All honor to the 
research worker in physics and his co-workers in allied sciences 
for the knowledge of the physical world and physical forces 
which is making possible the engineering achievements in the 
great world conflict which is upon us. If the United States and 
her allies shall finally triumph in this greatest of all human 
struggles, that of democracy in resisting the tyranny of autoc- 
racy, and we all believe that we will so triumph, the victory . 
will largely be due to the achievements of research and the 
inventive genius of the Anglo Saxon in utilizing those discovy- 
eries in our defense. And if at the end of this gigantic strug- 
gle this war-wrecked earth shall be able again to gather its 
wasted power and forces together and again become a peaceful 
aud comfortable abiding place for mankind, with humming 
industries and thriving commerce, with food in abundance, with 
the common comforts of life and a reasonable measure of life’s 
pleasures available to the masses, the achievement will largely 
be due to man’s mastery over the physical forces about him. We 
shall ever look to the research worker and his revelations for 
the knowledge which gives man an ever increasing supremacy 
over his environment. 
It seems certain, however, that the field of research in physics 
is in little or no danger of neglect. Capital and gigantic indus- 
trial organizations hold forth mighty inducements for research 
work in physics. Moreover, our great universities, many of 
which are liberally supported from state treasuries, gather 
together many of our best prepared research workers and place 
at their disposal abundant means for the prosecution of their 
work. Even though I thought it desirable, but which I think 
is quite unnecessary, yet no word I could utter would in the 
slightest degree stimulate or accelerate research in physics. 
It is, therefore, not to the problem of research in physics but 
to the problem of the dissemination of the fruits of research 
among the masses to which I wish to call your attention. This, 
it seems to me, is the great need of the hour. If the value and 
