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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLV. No. 1172 



It has become so evident in this war that 

 the intelligent and scientific criminal is a 

 terrible menace, and dislodging him at 

 times such a weary and fatal task, that we 

 must find some way of preventing our lead- 

 ers and groups or classes, whether govern- 

 mental or industrial, from becoming this 

 kind of danger. 



Have we not reached the time when we 

 are willing to turn to the One who ordained 

 civil government for our good, acknowledge 

 that He ordained it and not we ourselves, 

 and make our leaders or rulers ' ' whom God 

 and this people shall choose" — "men fear- 

 ing God and hating covetousness " ? 



James R. Withrow 

 Industrial Chemistkt Laboratokt, 

 The Ohio State Univebsity 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL 

 ASSOCIATION 



According to the animal report of the trus- 

 tees of the American Medical Association the 

 principal expense in the publication of The 

 Journal is that of paper, this expense being one 

 third of the total expenses. The price of paper 

 began to go up rapidly in the spring of last 

 year. About June and July, book paper was 

 almost unobtainable and commanded a price 

 three or four times what was being paid, the 

 low rate prevailing for the entire year 1915, 

 the cost of paper being approximately $116,000. 

 In 1916 the cost of paper was approximately 

 $134,000 — an increase of about $18,000 over 

 the preceding year. It is estimated that for 

 the present year, 1917, the paper will cost about 

 $170,000. This means an increase in 1917 over 

 last year of $37,000, and of $54,000 over 1915. 



These new conditions presented problems to 

 the board that had to be met. It was necessary 

 to increase the annual subscription price, de- 

 crease the size of The Journal, or get along with 

 decreased income. Increasing the subscription 

 price was not possible. But the size of The 

 Journal, it is said, can be reduced without 

 seriously lessening its value or its usefulness to 



its readers. The number of fellows of the as- 

 sociation receiving The Journal has been as 

 follows : 



1900 8,445 



1901 9,841 



1902 11,107 



1903 12,553 



1904 13,899 



1905 17,570 



1906 20,826 



1907 26,255 



1908 29,382 



1909 31,999 



1910 33,032 



1911 33,540 



1912 33,250 



1913 36,082 



1914 39,518 



1915 41,254 ■ 



1916 41,938 



1917 42,744 



The above figures do not include honorary 

 fellows, nor those fellows who have substituted 

 The Archives or the Children's Journal for 

 Th e Journal of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion. 



APPROPRIATIONS FOR CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



Governor Whitman, of New York state, has 

 signed the annual appropriation bill which pro- 

 vides for the expenses of the two state colleges 

 at Cornell University during the coming fiscal 

 year, from July 1, 1917, to June 30, 1918. 



We learn from the Cornell Alumni Weehly 

 that the bill carries for the State College of 

 Agriculture $779,401. Of this amount $35,750 

 is to provide for specific deficiencies in appro- 

 priations made by the two preceding legisla- 

 tures. The present legislature had already 

 passed, some six weeks ago, an emergency item 

 of $55,910 for the College of Agriculture to 

 enable it to carry on its work during the cur- 

 rent year in view of the reduction in the gen- 

 eral appropriation bill a year ago. When this 

 emergency item is added to the general appro- 

 priation bill just passed it makes a gross ap- 

 propriation provided by the present legislature 

 of $835,311 as against a gross appropriation of 

 $518,325.66 made by the 1916 legislature, or an 

 increase of $316,985.34. When, however, the 



