SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



65 per cent of the nation's manufactured wares are 

 produced in the territory east of the Mississippi and 

 north of the Ohio, where 78.2 per cent of the patents 

 are issued and 89.2 per cent of the research personnel 

 work against 8.7 per cent of the manufactured pro- 

 duction, 2.9 per cent of the patents, and 2.2 per cent of 

 the research workers in the Southeastern states. Fewer 

 patents and only a few more researchers have been in 

 these nine states than in Connecticut alone, which 

 stands fifth on the national roll. 



After sketching graphically the opportunities of co- 

 operative research, he concluded: "We should feel 

 some satisfaction that we who represent private enter- 

 prise have willingly joined in this effort under the man- 

 agement of men of business whose sole return must be 

 the conscious feeling that they are doing something for 

 the region, that they are doing it in the spirit of enter- 

 prise and initiative, recognizing that as the region pros- 

 pers, so will all business arid industry." 



That justly proud statement is more than an expres- 

 sion of the vivifying conception of self-help for the 

 South. It comprehends a fundamental truth in applied 

 research. American industry dare not leave research to 

 the Government. 



This plain fact has been dangerously camouflaged. 

 Quite aside from any qualms over control or regimen- 

 tation, ignoring the "dead hand of bureaucracy" which 

 is so throttling to the spirit of scientific inquiry, Govern- 



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