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Canadian Forestry Journal, February, 1915. 



greatly increase the supply of paper-making 

 raw material in Canada. It is to such 

 problems that officers of the Dominion Gov- 

 ermnent Forest ProcJucts Laboratories at 

 Montreal are addressing themselves, urged 

 on by the needs and the requests of wood- 

 users in all parts of the country. The 

 Canadian Forestry Association welcomes 

 support for this work, and a most encour- 

 aging speech, showiug full appreciation of 

 the situation, was made by Mr. A. Claude 

 Macdonell, the progressive Member of Par- 

 liament for South Toronto, in the House 

 of Commons on February 23. In this part 

 of his speech Mr. Macdonell said: 



Mr. Macdonell' s Speech. 



*I am going to refer for a moment, and 

 this time with approval, to my friend The 

 Glote. I see that The Glohe has been ad- 

 vocating that the country be engaged in a 

 propaganda of industrial research. That is 

 not a new idea; in fact, it is an old idea 

 in Canada, and it is older still in other 

 countries. The idea is to invoke the aid and 

 assistance of our universities and great seats 

 of learning and knowledge and to send out 

 to the world practical scientific men equip- 

 ped with expert knowledge, to secure in- 

 formation in regard to manufacturing pro- 

 cesses and to ascertain the location of 

 markets, etc., with reference particularly to 

 those products the supply of which hither- 

 to has been in the hands of Germany and 

 which is now available to any one who may 

 be able to capture it. The Globe has been 

 advocating that. Let me point out that in 

 the University of Toronto they are now 

 making anti-toxin for the relief of persons 

 afflicted by diphtheria. It is a purely phil- 

 anthropic work that is being done by uni- 

 versity graduates, and is the beginning of 

 what I trust will be a very large public 

 enterprise in the near future. They are 

 also manufacturing tetanus, an anti-toxin 

 for the use of the Eed Cross Society for 

 the treatment of lock-jaw and things of 

 that kind. The University, on the first small 

 order, saved the Eed Cross Society no less 

 than $3,000. We have many opportunities 

 of securing the business that has been 

 thrown open by the dislocation of the trade 

 which Germany formerly did with Canada 

 and the rest of the world. All of which 

 means that Canada will have either to sup- 

 ply herself from abroad with what she has 

 heretofore purchased from enemy countries 

 or make it herself, which is the preferable 

 course to adopt. 



' We must ascertain the entire quality and 

 quantity of the products that we will re- 

 quire under the new conditions, so that we 

 may supply ourselves with all these goods 

 from this time forward, which means ag- 

 gressive industrial research, so as to submit 



to cajjital and moneyed men the means of 

 manufacturing what we need. 



' Our universities turn out each year a 

 large number of engineers, chemical engi- 

 neers, doctors, doctors of philosophy, chem- 

 ists, and highly trained men in the var- 

 ious arts and sciences. These are ' pure 

 science men,' and should be devoted to 

 ' applied science. ' They should be turned 

 to jiractical problems and their solution, for 

 the benefit of the people. These men have 

 been taught to believe that their objective 

 in life was to be teachers, professors, etc. 

 This should apply to some of them, but 

 many of the abler men should go out into 

 the world to investigate and direct for the 

 betterment of human kind and thereby in- 

 crease the amount of useful knowledge. 

 This method of research is practical. 



' There should be an established relation- 

 ship between learning and industry. Labor- 

 atories of industrial research should be es- 

 tablished at all great seats of learning and 

 at our universities. 



'We have precedence for that splendid 

 work in many of the large institutions and 

 foundations in the United States. I might 

 refer to the Carnegie Institute at Washing- 

 ton, the General Education Board, the Car- 

 negie Foundation, and the Eockefeller 

 Foundation, all of which are performing a 

 great public service by educating men scien- 

 tifically and eqiupping them to take part in 

 the industrial enterprises of the country. 

 These institutions are endowed with hun- 

 dreds of millions of dollars. I commend to 

 the Government some such action as that 

 which has been taken in many other coun- 

 tries in regard to the encouragement of 

 scientific men to aid and assist in the tech- 

 nical application of the scientific knowledge 

 Avhich they have acquired at the universi- 

 ties in order to help to build up the 

 manufacturing enterprises of the country. ' 



AT THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



Among those in attendance at the an- 

 nual meeting were: 



Mr. George Burn, General Manager, 

 Bank of Ottawa; Mr. C. Jackson Booth; 

 Dr. George Bryce, Winnipeg; Dr. J. S. 

 Bates, Montreal; Mr. W. J. Boyd. 



Mr. E. H. Campbell, Director of Fores- 

 try; Dr. Jokn M. Clark, Albany, New 

 York; Mr. A. C. Campbell; Mr. Eoy L. 

 Campbell, Montreal. 



Mr. T. W. D wight; Mr. C. B. Dougherty; 

 Mr. John Dixon. 



Hon. Sydney Fisher; Dr. B. E. Fernow, 

 Toronto; Mr. Thomas Fawcett. 



Mr. A. S. Goodeve; Mr. G. S. Gutches, 

 Prince Albert, Sask.; Mr. Arthur H. 

 Graham. 



