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Dion i^roblems as fuel and smoke a})atenient. Improved working con- 

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

 good examples of cooperative work which the industries can undertake. 

 The industries need to increase the number of unrestricted fellowships, 

 and those industries that have profited through research should take 

 steps to repay tlie debt tliey owe educational institutions. I do not 

 believe in doing that sim])ly })y adding more fellowsliips, but the indus- 

 tries ought to make an allowance for their supervision. 



We find that our Government laboratories are losing their best 

 people on account of the inability to pay tliem 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 liis time can be spent on tliis work. Research 

 should ])e fostered in educational institutions and the spirit of research 

 encouraged by tlie estal)lishment of research professorships and more 

 fellowships. 



The direct lielp of tlie industries to the government laboratories 

 has been stressed. Adequate appropriations have not been secured for 

 the Forest Products I.a))oratory. The establishment of Advisory 

 Committees M'ho can consider prol)lems from the viewpoint of the man 

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

 ered should be encouraged. 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 ])ays directly to the sunport of well 

 establislied researcli, it has more interest and is far more liable to apply 

 the results obtained. Industry should be })rought to realize its obliga- 

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

 of i)rofits for the support of fundamental research. There are indus- 

 tries where people are still living on tlie ])rofits u])on 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 



