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for a year or two, the state has now taken it up and has furnished funds to 

 continue the work. You may know of the fund that was provided by 

 New York last year for the investigation of bean diseases. A few bean 

 growers had worked on the problem for two or three years, and finding so 

 many were affected and the prospect for results was so good, they took it 

 to the legislature and got a foundation established to keep the work going. 

 There is no reason why any group of industries with large problems of pol- 

 lution on their hands should not avail themselves of outside help in this 

 way, in case the men on their staff are not equipped for the study of those 

 problems. 



I have a friend here in the city who got up a course in the chemistry 

 of paper making in the University of Maine a few years ago, a four years' 

 course with all of the aspects of paper making treated which did not have 

 anything in it about the disposal of the wastes from the paper mills to make 

 them innocuous to the life of the streams. 



Coming from an educational institution, I am greatly pleased to hear 

 the educational aspects of this matter emphasized today, and I want to 

 say that besides research, which is. of course, our large function, is a good 

 deal of assistance that perhaps we can lend in this very thing. We have at 

 Cornell one of the most complete arrangements for utilizing the enthusiasm 

 of the youngsters in the schools that can be found anywhere. The school 

 leaflets that are issued there cover all sorts of subjects of interest to child- 

 ren in the schools. There is no reason why we should not devote an early 

 one of these to clean water and I will go back with the suggestions made 

 here today and see that we do it at once. If we get the youngsters interested 

 in keeping the streams clean, so they can fish and swim and have places of 

 rest and recreation and where the beauties of nature can be enjoyed, we 

 have gone a long way toward the solution of our problems. We love to call 

 this country of ours "God's country," but it is not God's country any longer 

 when it gets to be a place where you have to hold your nose. 



