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Dion problems as fuel and smoke al)atement. Improved working eon- 

 ditions and the use of the abnormal individual in industry are otlier 

 good examples of cooperative work which the industries can vnidertake. 

 The industries need to increase the number of unrestricted fellowships, 

 and those industries that have profited through research sliould take 

 steps to repay the debt they owe educational institutions. I do not 

 believe in doing tliat simply by adding more fellowships. ])ut tlie indus- 

 tries ought to make an allowance for their supervision. 



We find that our Government laboratories are losing their ])est 

 people on account of the inability to pay them what is necessary to 

 relieve them of financial worry and to keep them in their employ. To 

 discuss it further is useless; as ]Mark Twain said of the weather. "We 

 talk about it a great deal, but nothing is done". It becomes very dis- 

 couraging in many universities that steps are not taken to properly 

 increase the remuneration of the teachers. This is one of the largest 

 and greatest outstanding needs. Xot all teachers can conduct re- 

 search, but wherever one is found, he should be relieved of teaching 

 and endowed so that his time can be spent on this work. Research 

 should be fostered in educational institutions and the spirit of research 

 encouraged by the establishment of research professorships and more 

 fellowships. 



The direct help of the industries to the government laboratories 

 has been stressed. Adequate appropriations have not been secured for 

 the Forest Products Laboratory. The establishment of Advisory 

 Committees who can consider problems from the viewpoint of the man 

 who must eventually make the proper application of the data discov- 

 ered should be encom-aged. I believe funds for the direct support of 

 the types of research in which each industry is concerned should come 

 from the groups to be benefited and not from the Government alone. 

 I am confident when industry pays directly to the sunport of well 

 established research, it has more interest and is far more liable to apply 

 the results obtained. Industry should be brought to realize its obliga- 

 tion to pay its debt to science by subscribing regularly a percentage 

 of profits for the support of fundamental research. There are indus- 

 tries where people are still living on the profits upon investments in 

 brains made by their ancestors, and they do not care to make any con- 

 tributions themselves to industrial research for their descendants to 

 utilize. I am sure that manv of the industries have no intention of 



