668  Address  of  Francis  P.  Garvan        \ Am'o™*imarm' 
and  their  application,"  was  pointed  out  by  Francis  P.  Garvan,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chemical  Foundation,  who  appealed  to  the  chemists  of 
this  country  to  accept  the  responsibility  for  teaching  the  people  of 
this  country  this  truth  as  applied  to  the  critical  chemical  situation  of 
the  nation. 
"The  people  of  the  United  States  are  ninety-nine  per  cent,  right 
at  heart  and  appreciative,"  he  declared.  "So  are  the  people  of  Eng- 
land and  of  Canada.  Their  appreciation  of  chemistry  must  no1 
longer  be  deferred  in  the  terminology  of  the  propaganda  of  foreign 
hostile  interests,  seeking  only  their  destruction.  Your  work  must 
never  again  be  allowed  to  cease  in  the  laboratory." 
After  describing  the  discovery  by  the  English  chemist,  Perkin, 
of  the  basis  for  the  subsequent  development  of  the  coal-tar  indus- 
try and  practically  all  organic  chemistry,  Mr.  Garvan  told  how  "the 
German,  Hoffman,  put  this  discovery  in  his  bag  and  took  it  back 
to  Germany,"  where  "almost  instantly  he  was  able  to  make  German 
industry,  German  universities  and  the  German  Government  realize 
the  importance  of  that  bag." 
"Immediate  success  led  to  a  greater  appreciation  of  an  ever  closer 
alliance  of  science  and  industry  and  an  ever  closer  alliance  between 
science,  industry  and  the  militaristic  state,"  he  declared.  "This 
triple  alliance  changed  Germany  from  an  agricultural  nation  into  the 
second  industrial  nation  of  the  world,  but  in  that  change,  it  brought} 
about  a  succession  of  periods  of  over-production,  each  one  in  turn 
overcome  by  greater  consolidation,  by  ever  increasing  corruption  in 
methods  of  bribery,  espionage,  dumping,  et  cetera,  and  by  ever 
intensified  state  aid  and  direction.  In  19 14,  we  find  the  German 
people  demanding  the  control  of  the  markets  of  the  world.  We 
find  their  hearts  corrupted  by  the  methods  which  they  had  felt  it 
necessary  to  adopt  to  overcome  their  successive  periods  of  over- 
production. We  find  them  swollen  with  pride  at  ther  successes 
and  ready  to  inspire  or  acquiesce  in  the  hazard  of  battle.  This 
triple  alliance  of  industry,  science  and  the  militaristic  state — and 
the  evidence  is  overwhelming  that  each  was  equally  guilty — consid- 
ered that  it  would  be  quicker  and  cheaper  to  attempt  to  gain  this 
end  by  victory  on  the  field  of  battle,  rather  than  to  find  increased 
markets  for  a  surplus  production  by  further  intensified  methods  of 
peaceful  penetration. 
"The  same  chemical  research  with  its  well-served  industry  had 
