A Decennial Record 101 



TKAXSTvATIXG KXOWI.KDGE INTO POWER 



K. A. Bir(/(\ President of the l'')iirers-iti/ of Wiseousiu 



Mr. Weiss and Members of this Convention: 



I suppose that I have been asked to speak here in two capacities. 

 In tlie first place, I address you as a representative of tlie University, 

 whose guests you are in some sense today, since you are meeting with 

 us in the University College of Agriculture. We meet to celebrate 

 the completion of the first ten years of the life of an institution which 

 was established by the government of the United States in coopera- 

 tion with the State and the University of "Wisconsin. It is an insti- 

 tution to whose prosperity and work this State has continued to make 

 contributions, small, indeed almost negligible, in comparison to the 

 total budget of the institution, negligible in comparison to that con- 

 tribution of the United States government. Xevertheless. they have 

 been contributions which carried wath them the hearty good w ill of the 

 State and of the University. And we hope that we have also contrib- 

 uted something of the spiritual aid nnd fellowship which a university 

 can give to an institution of research. We, ourselves, have received 

 much from the presence of the laboratory with us, and we hope that 

 we have been able, in our turn, to give something to it. So I welcome 

 you, as representing an institution of the type which ought to gather 

 about universities, carrying on work of a kind which is represented 

 within the university as well as in its as-vociatcd institutions. I wel- 

 come you witli especial warmth as you are present here to celel^rate 

 a decade of distinguished success in services and investigations so 

 fundamental to the advance of the science and art of forestry. 



In the second place I am here to speak on the subject assigned to 

 me by ^Ir. Weiss and ^Ir. Winslow — Trausldtiur/ Knoxdedc/e Info 

 Power. You have just had a most vivid sketch of the liistory of the 

 lumber resources of the country and of their present situation from 

 Governor Philipp, who speaks to you not only from the point of view 

 of a statesman, but also from the point of view of one who has spent 

 years in tlie industry that you represent. You will hear, after I have 

 talked to you, a vivid presentation of the Forest Products Laboratorj^ 



