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The action taken by a large majority of the 
shareholders of British Dyes (Limited) at Hud- 
dersfield practically involves determining the ex- 
istence of the government company as a separate 
business and placing the technical management in 
the hands of Dr, Levinstein. 
Not a moment should be lost in the necessary 
reconstruction. Mr. Norton stated at the meeting 
that it was proposed ‘‘there should be three direct- 
ors appointed by the shareholders of each com- 
pany and three by the government, so that it would 
always be possible for the state to stop any 
abuse.’’ The number is too large, and to give the 
government control of a scientific enterprise is 
simply to ask for disaster—the four years of fail- 
ure of the company under such control should at 
Jeast have taught us this much. 
_In the next place, it must be recognized that sci- 
enee must be of and at the works. All laboratory 
operations should at once be transferred to the 
factory. One of the main functions of the re- 
search department in German works—that to 
which more than to any other they owe their pe- 
culiar efficiency—has been that of a training 
school for the works. One of the chief reasons of 
the government company’s lack of success has 
been the absence of sympathy between the works 
and those who were carrying on scientific inquiry 
for the company outside the works, as well as the 
failure to develop an efficient works staff. There 
has been much loose talk during the past four 
years with regard to cooperation between the uni- 
versity and industry; the real function of the 
university must be to serve as the training ground 
for industrial workers, and the sooner the pro- 
fessoriate learn to apply themselves wholly and 
solely to this form of industry the greater will be 
our progress as a country. 
Thus far, in their attempt to nurse the dye-stuff 
industry into existence, government has made use 
of entirely unskilled agents—and, as was to be ex- 
pected, the failure has been complete. If any 
further effort is to be made by the state, let it be 
a rational one. Unless and until the Board of 
Trade and the so-called Controller of Dyestuffs be 
aided by a scientific advisory board, injury rather 
than advantage must result from further state in- 
terferertce. 
HEALTH MISSION TO ITALY UNDER RED 
CROSS AUSPICES 
Tur War Council of the American Red 
Cross has announced the personnel of the med- 
ical unit to conduct a health campaign in 
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Italy with the stamping out of tuberculosis as 
its particular objective. The Italian tubereu- 
losis unit of the American Red Cross, as the 
organization will be known, will be under the 
supervision of Colonel Robert Perkins, Red 
Cross commissioner for Italy. 
Included in the personnel of the unit, which 
numbers 60 persons, are many of this coun- 
try’s best known tubercular specialists, as well 
as physicians who have been successful in the 
lines of work which they will be called upon to 
perform. The director of the unit is Dr. 
William Charles White, of Pittsburgh. Others 
are: Dr. John H. Lowman, professor of clinical 
medicine at Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland, chief of the medical division; Dr. 
Louis I. Dublin, of New York, statistician of 
the Metropolitan Life Insurance ©o., chief of 
the division of medical statistics; Dr. Richard 
A. Bolt, of Cleveland, connected with the 
health department of that city, chief of child- 
welfare division; Dr. E. A. Paterson, of Cleve- 
land, chief of division of medical inspection of 
public schools; Dr. Robert G. Paterson, of 
Columbus, Ohio, head of the tuberculosis 
branch of the state health department, chief 
of the division of education and organization; 
Miss Mary S. Gardner, head of the bureau of 
public-health nursing of the American Red 
Cross, chief of division of public-health nurs- 
ing. The executive manager of the organi- 
zation is Lewis D. Bement, of Framingham, 
Mass. 
_ Dr. White, who was director of the Red 
Cross tuberculosis unit in France for ten 
months, made the following statement concern- 
ing the situation in Italy: 
It must not be thought that the United States is 
sending this delegation because Italy is backward 
in this respect. As examples of Italian work one 
may cite the situation in the city of Genoa, which 
for many years, probably over twenty, has had a 
museum showing the various phases of tubercular 
diseases, as well as modern methods of combating 
them. Campaign and educational literature are 
there for distribution among the people. Attached 
to the museum are a dispensary and visiting 
nurses’ school not surpassed in any of the Ameri- 
can cities. 
- In Genoa also is an attractive open-air school. 
