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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.  1919. 
there  is  one  highly  trained  specialist  in  chemistry  for  every  forty- 
five  employees  in  any  category  right  throughout  the  whole  range  of 
industry." 
In  answer  to  the  query  he  propounds,  What  are  the  reasons  we 
do  not  trust  in  science  sufficiently  to  put  our  money  into  making  the 
necessary  experiments?  he  advances  as  rejoinders:  "The  first  is: 
the  average  business  man  knows  so  little  about  science  that  he  is 
totally  unable  to  value  its  certitudes.  Therefore  he  must  have  a 
better  and  more  serious  education  in  it.  The  second  is :  our  national 
weakness  in  believing  that  when  the  crisis  comes  in  business  or  any- 
thing else  our  forceful  character  will  ensure  our  winning  through. 
Fortunately,  English  phlegm  and  courage,  and  the  gift  of  doing  best 
when  things  are  at  the  worst,  have  availed  once  more  to-  avert  a 
catastrophe.  Nevertheless,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  we  shall  not  again 
handicap  ourselves  by  indulging  in  such  a  magnanimous  conceit. 
There  is,  I  venture  to  think,  also  a  third  very  important  reason  for 
our  want  of  confidence  in  science  as  a  daily  tool.  Our  science  stu- 
dents have  not  been  consistently  taught  that  the  flower  of  the  tree  of 
knowledge,  of  all  true  science,  is  research.  In  other  words,  for  the 
non-experimentalist,  science  without  research  is  a  jargon,  and  for 
the  experimentalist  a  treadmill.  The  very  kernel  of  all  experimental 
and  practical  science  is  to  learn  how  to  solve  the  problems  of  nature 
and  of  art.  No  science  student  should  be  allowed  to  bear  away  any 
diploma  or  any  degree  from  institution  or  university  who  has  not 
spent  a  useful  period  in  research  work  in  some  branch  of  science." 
From  the  above  we  are  justified  in  drawing  certain  conclusions. 
The  American  business  man  is  evidently  the  possessor  of  the  same 
general  characteristics  as  are  depicted  for  the  English  man  of  trade. 
The  English  tenacity,  courage  and  "  magnanimous  conceit "  are 
paralleled  by  Yankee  ingenuity,  daring  and  brag  and  both  are  in  line 
for  the  same  educational  corrections,  to  avoid  the  same  pitfalls.  We 
are  indeed  glad  to  note  the  awakening  in  this  respect  that  is  apparent 
on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic  Ocean.  Many  of  the  colleges  in  the 
United  States  have  recognized  the  necessity  for  the  training  of  their 
students  in  the  methods  of  scientific  investigation  and  research  and 
it  is  anticipated  that  the  time  is  not  far  distant  when  every  university 
course  will  require  that  the  graduation  thesis  of  each  student  shall  be 
an  accurate  description  of  some  original  research  engaged  in  by  the 
student. 
