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Figure 17.' — Laboratories and Offices of the American Institute of Laundering, Joliet, Illinois 



National Emergency 



In any national emergencj- trade-association teclmical 

 researcli facilities can be converted to Government use 

 easily and immediately. Researcli committees, being 

 already organized and functioning, can render im- 

 mediate, competent service in making technical surveys 

 of the industry or in assisting in the conversion of non- 

 essential industries to the production of munitions and 

 war materials generally. The trained personnel of 

 laboratories in operation would be particularly valuable 

 in imdertaking special research along their speciaUzed 

 line, or along similar lines. The staff and facilities of 

 trade-association chemical laboratories, if necessary, 

 could easily be utilized in the small-scale production of 

 special chemical products or medical preparations 

 needed for war use. Engineering and other types of 

 laboratories could be used likewise along their special- 

 ized lines. Inasmuch as trade-association research 

 laboratories are, as a rule, not connected with any 

 particular factory or manufacturing enterprise, their 

 mobilization into emergency work would not have the 

 effect of reducing industrial production. 



Teclmical research by trade associations has become 

 a great national asset. It is as yet inadequately devel- 

 oped. Potentially, the research facilities of trade 

 associations are of major importance to national 

 mobilization. In the event of national emergencies, 

 facilities owned by production enterprises should be 

 interfered with as little as possible in order that maxi- 

 mum production and expansion may take place. In 

 trade-association laboratories may be found able 

 scientists with efficient, trained assistants whose im- 

 mediate work can, without permanent loss, be tempo- 

 rajily discontinued that their efforts may be devoted 



to the common cause. They may be made our first 

 aiLxiliary line of technical defense. 



In closing this discussion the author wishes to make 

 it altogether clear that in mentioning or describing as 

 examples the research work of a few associations, no 

 derogation of the fine work of many others is intended. 

 Only space limitations and lack of complete knowledge 

 are responsible. 



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