SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vou. 2.] APRIL, 1920. [No. 4. 
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More Facilities Needed for Industrial Research. 
HOULD an Institute of Science and Industry be established 
in addition to the universities and technical schools that 
already exist, to say nothing of Federal and State laboratories 
where the work might be carried out? In any case, ought: 
not all such work to be provided for by the industries themselves? 
The best way to answer “such questions is to consider, first, 
what is the work that should be done, and then what facilities for 
undertaking such work there are in existing institutions. 
Our industries must become a substantial part of the foundation 
of our national life, their products must be of the best quality, obtained 
at the lowest legitimate cost; and to this end our own natural resources 
must be utilized as fully as possible, all waste being eliminated, the 
methods employed must be as reliable, as cheap, and as efficient as 
scientific knowledge, commercial information, and enterprising applica- 
tion can make them. 
This requires, amongst other things, facilities for— 
1. The Development of Industries, either by the improvement of 
existing processes, by increasing yields, lowering costs, improving quality 
of products, &c., or by the establishment of new industries to replace 
imported goods, to utilize resources or raw materials peculiar to our 
country, to prevent or utilize the waste products of existing industries, 
to meet new demands, or to substitute cheaper for more expensive. 
materials. : 
€.5690.—2 193 
