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the opposite of our method. Which is right? If Germany is right, 

 then she is acquiring from us one of our most precious metals on 

 terms very advantageous to her and very disadvantageous to us. 



Duty of Science Toward the Public. Twenty-five or thirty-five 

 years ago, before science and invention had perfected electrical 

 intercommunication, such arrangements as these did not and could 

 not exist. But today they can and do. Not only this, but in the 

 judgment of all thoughtful men they are but in their infancy, for 

 science and invention are making stupendous strides in perfecting 

 instantaneous intercommunication of thought and the more rapid 

 transportation of our bodies and commodities from point to point. 

 When this war shall have finished, the conquest of the air will have 

 been accomplished. The wireless will be a practical, everyday 

 instrument. The submarine telephone will doubtless be in opera- 

 tion, and international lines will then mean about as little as state 

 lines mean now, all because of what science has accomplished. 



Surely, you men of science have vast accomplishments to your 

 credit. You have reason to be exceedingly proud of a great record 

 of achievement ; but is it not high time that you " did your bit " 

 by making it plainer to the people as a whole what your accomplish- 

 ments mean to them in their work-day lives, making them under- 

 stand that while you have destroyed an old order of things you 

 have created a new and better order of things. Would it not be 

 highly beneficial to our country if some of your meetings and dis- 

 cussions were given over almost wholly to the task of enlightening 

 the people as to why it is that old methods must be discarded for 

 new methods ? Will you not give your splendid talents to plain 

 talks with the multitude, for a great crisis confronts the world? 



It is the crisis of changing in a night, as it were, from the age 

 of the ox team to the age of the flying machine. Certainly no such 

 stupendous revolution has- confronted the world in all its history, 

 and unless our people can comprehend it all, can understand it all, 

 they will not be qualified to deal with it in their homes, in their 

 business, and above all, at the polls where representatives are 

 selected bv them to make new laws and discard old ones. 



