SCIENCE REMAKING 

 THE WORLD 



ACHIEVEMENTS AND OBLIGATIONS 

 OF MODERN SCIENCE 



BY OTIS W. CALDWELL, PH.D. 



Teachers College, Columbia University 



A FEW years ago at a New York City luncheon, a 

 business acquaintance expressed a keen desire 

 to have a conference with a Chicago scientific 

 friend of one of the luncheon guests. He said: "Will 

 you not telephone him and see if he will meet me in 

 New York to-morrow ? " Thus, at 1 2 : oo noon, the tele- 

 phone connection with Chicago was made, a conversa- 

 tion held with the friend, and at 12:45 P - M - tne Chicago 

 scientist took his train. At 10 o'clock next day the 

 conference was held in New York, and at 2:45 P.M. 

 the man of science was on his return journey which 

 placed him in Chicago next morning, ready for his 

 regular day's work. What an age in which to live! 

 A science man, almost a thousand miles away, is needed 

 for a conference. The telephone permits a brief con- 

 versation with words so clear that the peculiarities of 

 friends' voices are heard almost as in the speaker's 



