HIGHWAY TO THE HORIZON 



the directorship of Dr. Alonzo Bettis Cox, an interna- 

 tionally famous cotton economist, is a piece of factual 

 research of the first order and an exceedingly practical 

 tool for anyone doing business in the state. 



About the easiest idea to sell the president of any 

 state university is a scheme to use its scientific staff and 

 laboratories in any sort of cooperative project with the 

 industries of that state. Variations of this popular idea, 

 all enthusiastically launched and not all successfully 

 navigated, exist from Orono, Maine, to Berkeley, Cali- 

 fornia. South of the Mason and Dixon line both the 

 number and the success of such projects are higher than 

 the national average, and there are two quite different 

 setups at Gainesville, Florida, and Raleigh, North Caro- 

 lina, which will suffice as conspicuous examples. 



At the University of Florida the head of the Engineer- 

 ing Department has pumped new ideas, that square 

 with ideals of better technical education, into this well- 

 worn concept. Joseph Weil has a trained, three-dimen- 

 sion intellect made effective by a friendly, out-giving 

 personality with the courage to back his convictions. 

 In his neat, simple office he impresses you as a broad- 

 gauged educator, just the man to be called in by the 

 Manpower Commission and the U. S. Army to help 

 frame war training programs. In conference with the 

 State Board of Engineers you find him an exceedingly 

 capable professional with practical experience accumu- 

 lated at Westinghouse and as chief engineer of radio 



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