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Apropos, our institutional and industrial lab- 
oratories must foster the genuine American 
spirit of utilizing and encouraging domestic 
“ Made-in-U. S.” chemicals and scientific appa- 
ratus from precision instruments to filter 
paper. 
A word in regard to a seemingly neglected 
corps in the service of chemistry—women. 
Prejudice must be overcome. They have 
proven to be competent workers. Chemistry is 
a most fitting field for women. Her natural 
concentration on matters of minor import, her 
soundness of judgment, her sense of practical 
realities are invaluable qualities in a labora- 
tory worker. We must induce more women 
into the field. 
Teachers of chemistry must be gifted with 
that pedagogic approach and method that will 
instill and stimulate the scientific spirit. Suc- 
cessful professors of chemistry must profess to 
be pedagogues as well as chemists. They are 
indispensable in the successful training of 
spirited chemists and teachers of chemistry. 
We must have more chemists of pedagogical 
training to turn out more successful teachers 
of chemistry. In preliminary scientific train- 
ing we must concentrate as much on the meth- 
ods of teaching, the logical development of the 
principles from the student’s viewpoint, with 
broad-minded intensification of the far reach- 
ing applications of the principles, with greater 
emphasis on exact scientific expression as on 
the science itself. Teachers of science must 
stop scaring beginners away from it because 
of their hackneyed paraphrased modes of ex- 
pression far from the student’s comprehension. 
Science is simple clean-cut truth. We prac- 
tise it daily. Every student can and will 
understand it if you will appeal to him on his 
level. Science is a living subject. Let not 
your language deaden it. Remember that sci- 
ence was not made for language but language 
for science. Live up to it. 
Teachers of chemistry have an equally im- 
portant task—the man of science is intended 
for research, all will admit in the light of the 
modern age; but in whose time and with whose 
money? A college or university must dis- 
seminate knowledge through research as well 
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as through teaching. The double task upon 
the professor entitles him to be relieved of 
worry regarding “financial modus vivendi.” 
He is the most important person in the “ post- 
bellum” community in emergencies, In peace 
and in war. To-day, no fact stands more 
clearly demonstrated. A soldier and an army 
can be made in a year, if necessary, but it takes 
twenty to twenty-five years to make a scien- 
tist. His salary should be commensurate with 
his specialization. 
In a word—the great task and responsibility 
of the college and university to-day is to speed 
up our intellectual potential. 
INDUSTRY IN CHEMICAL ADVANCEMENT 
Industry has a most important bearing upon 
chemical advancement. In the first place, ex- 
ploitation of chemists must cease. Manufac- 
turers must learn to cooperate with their chem- 
ists whose skilled service reaps wealth and wel- 
fare to both nation and industry. Productive 
chemists should benefit from the fruits of their 
success. 
Then, too, greater cooperation should be ex- 
tended the investigator, the elaborator of 
the content of the science and its farther co- 
ordination. One means is by offering gradu- 
ate industrial fellowships as in the Mellon In- 
stitute at Pittsburgh, where school, laboratory 
and practise are in harmonious heterogeneity. 
Another is to have an advisory staff of pro- 
fessors of chemistry in different specialties 
bearing upon the industry directly or indi- 
rectly. A third is to have each industrial cor- 
‘poration establish specialized research labora- 
tories in their own plants or contribute to the 
organization of central institutes devoted to 
practical technical problems. A further urgent 
task upon the manufacturer is to concentrate 
more on and invest more capital in promot- 
ing industries essential for daily needs. 
There are innumerable industries whose 
processes are chemical yet these manufacturers 
are still delving in “ cook-book” procedures, 
ever groping in the dark. The dawn of the 
brighter chemistry has not struck them as yet. 
They are still under the false impression that 
science is a happy family of mutually admir- 
