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doubt the demand will continue to increase at a very rapid 
rate. Industry is awaking to the fact that a most successful 
product or method today may be obsolete tomorrow because 
science finds something better. The great corporations recog- 
nize this fact and therefore maintain their own research lab- 
oratories in which thousands of trained scientists are giving 
all their time to developing new machines, new methods, new 
materials. A 1927 automobile would not run a mile if made 
from the best steels available when the first automobile was 
constructed. A phonograph dealer could not sell the best 
phonograph made ten years ago. The reader would not buy a 
car painted with the best paint available five years ago. The 
facts are that while demanding and profiting by the fruits of 
science, we have become so accustomed to change, develop- 
ment, progress, discoveries, that we do not realize the immen- 
sity, the grandeur, the significance of it all, and we fail utterly 
to appreciate the fact that all of it is the direct result of scien- 
tific study and research. There is not a middle-aged person in 
Indiana who has not had the opportunity of witnessing more 
scientific progress than took place in all the previous history 
of the world. 
The industries of Indiana are absolutely dependent on their 
ability to compete successfully with those of other states and 
other countries. To do so they must enlist the aid of trained 
research scientists. If the industry cannot afford to maintain 
its own corps of investigators with a well-equipped laboratory 
and library, its only hope of survival lies in enlisting the aid 
of the University in solving its problems. The cost to the 
state of maintaining an adequately manned and equipped lab- 
oratory to which its citizens may go for science service is neg- 
ligible compared to the benefit which would be derived. Does 
anyone think that big business would spend more than one 
hundred million dollars a year in maintaining private research 
laboratories if the benefits were not greater than the cost? 
As a matter of fact, the Geology Department of the Uni- 
versity in Alunmi News-Letter , Vol. 1, No. 2, published Jan- 
uary 15, 1913, shows that the work of that department alone 
had at that date saved the state of Indiana more than fifty- 
seven million dollars in excess of the cost of maintaining the 
department. It is not so easy to estimate the value of the work 
of the departments of Chemistry and Physics. Certain it is, 
