164- The Forest Pkoducts Larokatoky 



for better trained men ratlier tlian merely for more men who can work 

 along scientific lines. This is another very hopeful sign. More and 

 more fellowships have been established and the policy of establishing 

 fellowships can be encouraged particularly where fundamental re- 

 search in educational institutions is concerned. 



The associations I have mentioned number something like twenty 

 at the present time. The National Canners' Association today is 

 spending as much on one problem as the whole laboratory cost at the 

 start. They have found industrial research a very wxll-paying in- 

 vestment. 



There have been a number of new associations founded for coop- 

 erative research. A Plant Protection Institute has been formed to 

 further the study of methods for controlling injurious insects and 

 plant diseases. 



The Petroleum Institute is another good example of the trend of 

 the times, and I might also, in this connection, mention the support 

 of scientific endeavor along fundamental lines by individuals who have 

 heretofore directed their attention more toward commercial lines. 



However, if you had not come here I might have better evidence 

 that you need conversion to the cause of research. The fact that you 

 are here to attend the celebration of the laboratory's great decade of 

 industrial research should answer for you, for if you needed any argu- 

 ment to convert you to research, you would not be attending the birth- 

 day party. 



Let us turn for a moment to a consideration of what we might do 

 to strengthen our position as a world power in industrial research. I 

 think first and foremost we need more fundamentally trained men 

 and women who will step into and carry on industrial research. By 

 fundamentally trained men and women, I mean those who really know 

 the various sciences involved and Avho can fit into any need as do the 

 white corpuscles of the body. As you know white corpuscles can be- 

 come brain, tissue, bone, etc. — whatever the need may he at the time. 



If industry is to get the most benefit from industrial research, I 

 believe it to be essential that the laboratory be made just as important 

 as the advertising or production department. I think such a depart- 

 ment rightfully becomes a part of the organization, but that does not 

 mean that such firms can not join in the cooperative solution of the 

 fundamental questions of science. They can cooperate on such com- 



