A Decennial Record 101 



TRAXSLATIXCx KXOWI.KDGE INTO POAVER 



E. A. Birf/c, President of the Vniversitii of Wiseousiu 



Mr. Weiss and ^lenibers 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 the 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 estabhshed 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 tliis 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. Nevertheless, they have 

 been contributions which carried with them the hearty good will of the 

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

 uted something of the spiritual aid and fellowship MJiich 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 associated institutions. I wel- 

 come you witli especial warmth as you are present here to celebrate 

 a decade of distinguished success in services and investigations so 

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



In the second ])lace I am here to speak on the subject assigned to 

 me by ]Mr. Weiss and ^Ir. Winslow — Trauslatinc/ Knoxcledge Into 

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

 lumber resources of the country and of their ])resent situation from 

 Governor Philipp, mIio 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 the industry that you represent. You will hear, after I have 

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



