Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1934 — Page 7

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It SeemioMe HEYWOOD M I' n#“\T have br**n asked to deliver an address before any Chamber of Commerce, but Ls an invitation cam** I ,think I would like to say something about as follows - Mr •.’r. I am touched but also embart *"ci by vour eloquent eulogy. You credit me with m and tCBWB than I possess. Concem:g mam public problems I have been grossly mis- •- yen b a use of a disposition to generalize too freeir r difficult to acquire a scientific attitude to-

ward facts without a scientific training. I wish I had taken chemistry in college. ’But American business prides itself upon the precision which animates its large scale enterprises. Save in one very vital and probably tragic blind spot American industry has a ’o boast of its achievements. Several years ago I worked for the General Electric Company as a radio broadcaster and in the course of my ■ob I went to G E. factories and G E. laboratories. In Schenectady were gathered a little group of famous professors, a ’brain trust’ in

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fa'\ ho were employed not only to furnish the with iU existing information about electnntv but to pre.v on and find new knowledge even in i when ■ rt .• .ten to have no immediate rommerciai utility. In the mechanical departmnt m advertising, in financing, indeed all along t e i:ne the organization bristled with highly competent experts. a a a They Confrln'l Qualify “OUT not once did I meet in the entire organiza- ** tion a single individual who by training, study and pre-occupation justly could qualify as an expert on labor relations. There were one or two theorists, to be ure. but their qualifications were not those set for the head men in the laboratories. They may have been talented amateurs but they played by ear. I will run the risk of generalizing and making a blanket indictment I have yet to meet a single A mertcan business executive who is well informed o*l the labor trends of the world or of America. lam p ;<king at all of a liberal or an illiberal attiifie toward employes. An extremely well-informed • npitalist entrepeneur might arrive at the point of that an uncompromising attitude toward demands was good business. Index'd many radicals a time that the .strategy of business is deeply and diabolically clever and concerted. This I doubt. I would not contend, of course, that certain silly things said bv certain spokesmen of industry were not uttered with the tongue in the cheek. But I do believe that big business in the attempt to kid the general public has succeeded to a great extent in kidding itself. It has endeavored to solve current labor problems by the use of easy and wholly misleading labels. It has looked upon recent labor disturbances as constituting a sort of melodrama in v. hich a homespun hero known as ‘conservative labor leader has done battle with a foreign gentlem. n werring bushy whiskers and known as ‘alien Communis* agitator!’ For instance the leading edi- ' w York Times of last Sunday represents superbly this over-simplified interpretation of the general strike in San Francisco. an u "Moppiny I p" Aceded DOUETLESS.’ says this editorial, then* must be some "mopping up' - in other cities before trouble- are over. But what already has been acrom-n'l'-heri is a sufficient demonstration that Americans will not harbor anarchists, nor tolerate revolutionist.. and still are able, as Abraham Lincoln said, to “keep house.” ’ "You have interpreted the collapse of the San Francisco general strike as the end of an epoch instead of seeing the clear indications that it is much more probably the beginning of a chapter. You feel that the momentary victory can b? solidified by a reign of terror against all effective labor leadership which will, of course, for the purpose of this mopping up. be called ‘communistic’ or, even going back to a more archaic vocabulary, ‘anarchistic.’ May I poiht out that nobdy in the labor ranks thought es the general strike as a revolution or even referred to it in that way. It was the business men who used thi> terminology. Don’t you think that there may be :• certain danger in putting ideas into people’s heads? On account of your frequent interruptions of applause my ..me is drawing to an end. May I call vour attention to a ‘loyalty pledge’ which the Retail Drv Goods Association of San Francisco has decided :*> : •quire from all cierks. It will be enough to quote • .<’ last line —This I do of my own free will.’ Gentem -n. yog mav know your onions and '* <s bir you don’t know your workers.” 'Prolonged applause. CoT>vii*tU. 1934. >v The Times'

Your Hoalth —BV l>R. MORRIS FISHBELV —

IE cii.id vho Lvcs in the home of the grownup I v: h tuberrulO'is :s undergoing a terrific risk rs -citing this disease. There: ce. your dutv to your child, if there is rvihe mildest case cf tuberculosis in your home, e; hor to find some other home for the youngster • ge* tie uftcc -'d person into some sanatorium. * In he prevention of tuberculosis for the future, • tv* none the source of most of the cases will be :'i~ , e:v t of interest bv public health officials. For 's p.■>.:.! out that most of the tuberculosis ocr -.nr among children is due to infection directly ; om vt( vnup-s having ihat disease in the same Usually the adult with tuberculosis suffers for a Prs time with what is supposed to be a cold or - ep;c bronchitis before medical aid is sought. You • t suspect that person of anything more serious, probably, o there is plenty of opportunity for you ’ i \r*i. children to become infected before proper hygienic precautions ere established. e * n MOST of the adults m a home might have had mild infections of tuberculosis in childhood and arc protected, to some extent, against the dis- < s*-. Bu' not so among children. The average child w inch usually resists a small infection may, if his hoc'v receives a large dose of organisms, come down . enously with the disease. So widespread is tuberculosis that 30 per cent of hoys and girls examined in Philadelphia, by the time hev reached 5 years of age. gave a positive reaction. indicating that at some time they had alr itdy been infected, although mildly, with tuberculosis. In childhood, tuberculosis must be diagnosed by •u. special nature of the infection. This is usually r. involvment of 'he glands at the roots of the lungs. u u m IF the disease remains confined' to these glands until healing has occurred, the child is not seriously sick If. however, the germs get out of these glands and into the lungs, or if they get into the blood vessels and are thereby carried to the bones or yi nts, or to the spinal cord and brain, an exceedingly serious illness is produced. Whenever a child has a constant cough, whenever he has a low daily fever and loses weight, v henever there seems to be a continually tired feeling and a tendency to sweat excessively, medical on should be brought in. wrh a view to determining whether tuberculosis is present. A '•ationary weight in a child who should be growing is a sign of some significance, slthought it is not conclusive. In addition to these symptoms and signs, however a more certain diagnosis can be made by the t berrulin test and bv the use of the X-ray picture of the child's chest The'r facts should be kept in mind in regard to all eh’ldren. but particularly in regard to children who live m homes where there is a grownup who has tuberculosis.

ANNA DALL—THINKS FOR HERSELF

President's Daughter Spends Young Life Shattering Precedents

A daughter preetdent and brave* headline* by *e*kinc a divarre while a* a member of the nation* flrvt family. *be t* in the publie eve. Typical is this of the independenee of aetion which ha* characterized the yauni life of Anna Roosevelt Hail sine* girlhood—an interesting, colorful life which Mary Margaret MrRrtde deteribes in a *erte* of three articles. Here ia the first. BY MARY MARGARET M BRIDE NLA Service Staff Writer \ S far off the beaten track as *- she could get’ remote from reporters and news cameras. Anna Roosevelt Dali has spent the last few weeks alone with her two children m a Nevada woods cabin, establishing residence preparatory to seeking a divorce at Reno. No President's daughter ever did such a thing before. Here is precedent-shattering on a mammoth scale. But it's nothing new to Anna. Shattering precedents is something she has been doing all her life. Hardly ever in her twenty-eight years has this typical Roosevelt woman done the expected. And now. a nation waits to see what she will do next! Perhaps the most difficult decision the 'high-spirited, quickthinking girl ever had to make and the one over which she hesitated longest, according to close friends, was rhis which concerned the legal end to her marriage with Curtis Dali, New York broker. a a a \ NNA'S affection for her faaV ther and her great loyalty to him were at the root of her indecision. She realized fully that upon her as daughter of the President of the United States would be turned the eyes of the world the instant she made a move toward Reno. She knew, too, that some citizens inevitably would disapprove. And so, while she personally was convinced of the rightness of her step, she waited because she couldn’t bear to have her father criticised for her act. At the time of her brother Elliott's divorce and quick remarriage, Anna's intimates were aware that she was unhappy on the President’s account and that with customary candor, she said

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alien

WASHINGTON. July 23.—The President is having some private labor troubles of his own. During his absence the White House is being painted oy nonunion labor and at a wage rate lower than that prevailing in the District of Columbia. This is in violation of the Davis-Bacon act which provides that work on government jobs must be done at local wage levels. The painters and decorators local under A. F. of L. has sent Roosevelt a telegram of protest. Apparently he knew’ nothing about it. referred the matter back to White House attaches. The work is being done under contract by a local decorating firm.

V/VIU>I OVU I*l Union rates for painters here are per hour. The local union claims that White House painters arc getting only 80 cents. If this can be established the decorating firm can be fined SSOO for each offense—and each day s work is an offrnse. So the White House may be whiter when the President returns, but a local decorating company may be in the red. tt a GETTING the new’ securities exchange commission organized is not the only trouble furrowing the freckled brow of Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy. Nineteen-year-old Joe Jr., his oldest son. has him worried. The young man is in Europe. In the course of his wanderings he encountered Professor Felix Frankfurter, lecturing at an English college, instantly became a devoted admirer. Joe has been writing his father about it. and the latter is a bit uneasy about their reunion. "I can see I'm going to have trouble when I have my next dinner with that boy,” Kennedy said. "He is going to stump me with a lot of questions. "I've just got to find time to learn the difference between Fascism. Communism, regimentation, socialism, and all that. What a job! I guess I'll be losing that boy to Frankfurter. Maybe he'll become a brain truster.” Note —Friends of Professor Frankfurter were among those who protested most vigorously at Kcnnedvs appointment to the exrhance commission. They purported to speak also for the Professor n a a ''l''HE Nazi complaint to Cordell Hull about General Johnsons anti-Hitlerism proved a bad boomerang. It destroyed some of the good will which the German embassy has cultivated so studiously for years. Despite a natural anti-German prejudice after the war, the German embassy gradually had become one of the most popular m Washington. The beer abends of Baron Von Maltzen. Ambassador Von Prittwitz and more latterly Hans Luther, were famous. But the Nazi dash to the state department to protest against the biting words of General Johnson against Hitler's “wholesale executions,” did not go down well. The diplomatic but pointed rebuff given the Germans by Secretary Hull got universal acclaim in the capital. AID PLEDGED STUDENTS Jobs Available for 13.7 at Butler Under FERA. Federal emergency relief administration funds for 133 students are available at Butler university for the fall term. C. W. Wilson, university secretary, announced today. Assignment of jobs will be made by Professor George F. Leonard, director of the student welfare agencies, shortly before the semester opens Sept. 17.

so to Elliott, favorite brother though he always had been. Nevertheless, she went west and saw him through his second marriage. standing by staunchly as she always had. In the family these two are known as a team and anything is likely to happen when they get together. Not long ago at a White House party, an entire roomful of guests stopped dancing to watch the brother and sister execute an intricate whirl together. Their steps match perfectly and so do their minds. Both are independent, quick to make decisions, full of energy and life. a a a \ NNA never has let the tact that she had been born the only girl in the family keep her out of any fun that was going on. In fact, if the stories that the family and friends tell are accurate, she generally was ring leader in pranks and mischief. Because she never could take a date and was acutely miserable if one of the boys or their playmates had done anything she had not tried, she spent most of her childhood nursing scratches, cuts and sprains, on one occasion even a broken ankle, acquired by trying to climb higher than the coachman's boy. In short, she was a tomboy and has grown up into a sturdy athletic young woman who wins ribbons with her riding, swims, skis and plays tennis expertly. Some of the escapades of her youth the blue-eyed, golden-hair-ed Anna gleefully relates herself. One of her best stories is about the time she waylaid Louis Howe, her father's confidential secretary and her great friend, on the stairs and, seizing him by the feet, bounced him all the way down the steps. She just had overheard him virtuously reporting one of her misdemeanors to her mother and this was for revenge. Another time —and this, too, is her own tale—she led her brothers in a vendetta against the family butler because of a real or fancied wrong. uaa AS a crowning piece of revenge, the terrible tribe one night stole the butler's shoes and filled them with mince meat from the cook's holiday store. History. does not record what

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN PLAN BASKET PICNIC Dance and Cards to Feature Annual Outing Saturday. The annual basket picnic of the Marion County Women's Democratic Club will be held at Municipal gardens next Saturday. Festivities will begin in the afternoon and continue through the evening with cards, dancing and other entertainment, according to Mrs. Mary F. Shackelford, chairman. Mrs. George Werbe is president of the organization and Mrs. Anna Owen is co-chairman. HEART DISEASE LEADS STATE DEATHS IN MAY 735 Die of Cardiac Ailments, Health Board Reports. Heart disease caused 735 deaths in Indiana during May, according to statistics in the monthly public health bulletin, issued today by the state health department. Next highest mortality cause was apoplexy with 333 victims; cancer, 313; accidental, 219; pneumonia. 201; Bright's disease, 188, and tuberculosis. 174. One cause of infantile paralysis was reported during the month.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Yeah, they’re supposed to be intelligent, but I’ve seen them do some pretty dumb things.”

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the butler did in reprisal but Cook, for whom the children had a wholesome awe. discovered the theft of the mince meat and chased Anna all around the garden to administer punishment. It was a happy life that the little Roosevelts led, though it must not be supposed that their many naughtinesses went unpunished. Their mother was the family disciplinarian. When her children were little, she spanked them sometimes to emphasize her reprimands. When

BUTLER RENEWS 2-YEAR COURSE Kindergarten, Elementary Classes tor Teachers Resumed. Courses for kindergarten and elementary public school teachers, of two years duration, will be reinstated by the Butler university college of education when yie institution opens its fall semester. The courses were abandoned in 1933. Renewal of the teaching courses will mean that state licenses in kindergarten, primary, and grammar grade work can be secured at Butler university. Eight faculty members will be in charge of instruction. They are J. H. Peeling. I. T. Shultz, A. B. Carlile, Miss Emma Colbert, Mrs. Maria Woollen Hyde, Miss Ruth Patterson, Miss Elizabeth Downhour, and Miss Elizabeth Bettcher. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PLANS 3-DAY CARNIVAL The Rev. T. J. Simpson, Pastor, Directs Organization. The annual carnival and fish fry of the Washington Street Presbyter rian church will be held the nights of July 26, 27 and 28 at Belle Vieu place and West Washington street. Organization of the carnival nas been directed by the Rev. T. J. Simpson, church pastor, assisted by Frank Dungan, advertising committee chairman; Thomas Baldwin tickets and finance committee chairman; Mrs. J. W. Carter, food and refreshments committee chairman; George Ingling, prizes committee chairman, and Maurice Connor, grounds committee chairman.

they grew older, she substituted moral suasion. One principle always was stressed in their training, however —that each must learn to think for himself. And so today while the senior Roosevelts always are ready with advice when it is asked for, they refuse to make up their children’s minds for them. Perhaps that very fact intensified Anna's problem when shg came to think of divorce. All her life she had been allowed unusual

John R. Welch Succumbs at 78; 111 for Two Years

Gas Company President and Banker Dies in St. Vincent's. John R. Welch, 78, president of the Citizens Gas Company and the Celtic Savings and Loan Association, died last night in St. Vincent's hospital after a tw'o years’ illness. Funeral arrangements have not been made yet. He had been a member of the board of directors of the Citizens Gas Company thirty years and had served in official capacities in the Celtic Savings and Loan Association about fifty years. He formed the real estate firm of John R. Welch and Sons in 1888. Mr. Welch was a charter member and past president of the Indianapolis Real Estate board, charter member of the Knights of Columbus, and a. member of SS. Peter and Paul cathedral parish. Surviving him are three sons, Leo F., Lawrence J. and John A. Welch; a daughter. Mrs. Anne Kenney; a brother, Thomas R. Welch, all of Indianapolis, and a sister, Sister Catherine, a nun, Chicago. Last Rites for Miss Meyer Funeral services for Miss Fanny Meyer, 72, who died Saturday at her home. 4122 North Meridian street, will be held tomorrow morning at the home. Burial will be in the Hebrew Congregational cemetery. Miss Meyer was born at Ft. Recovery. 0., and was the sister of Sol and Leslie Meyer of Indianapolis. She was a member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation and had been prominent in the work of many charitable organizations. Mrs. Nellie B. Heirs Dead Funeral services for Mrs. Nellie B. Heirs, 69, Marott, who died yesterday following a six weeks’ illness, will be held at Clayton Wednesday. The body will remain at Shirley Brothers’ funeral home until tomorrow morning. Mrs. Heirs was the wife of J. w. Heirs, associate editor of the Typographical Journal. Surviving her are Mr. Heirs and a daughter, Mrs. H. J. Bromschwig, St. Louis.

Kessener Funeral Tomorrow Last rites for Harman Kessener. 61. of 318 North Fulton street who died Saturday at his home, will be held tomorrow morning at the home. Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery. Mr. Kessener had been in the barber supply business. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is survived by the widow. Mrs. Emma Miller kessener; a daughter, Mrs. Dallas Arvln, both of Indianapolis, and two brothers and three sisters, all of Lafayette. Councilman's Wife Dead Funeral services for Mrs. Maggie Houck, 72, of 1416 North New Jersey street, wife of James A. Houck, city councilman, were to be held at 2 today at the residence with burial in Crown Hill. Mrs. Houck died last night following a long illness. PARACHUTE JUMPS TO FEATURE MARDI GRAS Civic League Plans Events for Each Night. Special events have been planned for each night of the ShermanEmerson Civic League Mardi Gras festival, which opens Wednesday night and continues through Saturday. in addition to speakers and music, O. E. Ruth will make parachute jumps each night, Claude A. Rochford. program chairman, has announced.

freedom of thought and decision. Now the mother of two children, she is experienced and mature enough to realize what she owes to her parents for that precious privilege. And the wish to pay her debt fairly may have kept her own inclinations in check. The same sense of loyalty and gratitude undoubtedly will influence her whatever her next move may be. Next Anna Roosevelt . . . farmerette-politician.

HIGH POSTS IN CITY, STATE ARE STUDIED Research Group Is Working With Official Sanction. A study of the careers of higher administrative and technical officials of the city and state has been started by Norman N. Gill, Chicago university research staff member and a field worker of the inquiry commission on public service personnel, which is undertaking the study. The commission, which i.f conducting the research with the approval of President Roosevelt, was named by the National Social Science Research council and is being financed by the Rockefeller Spellman fund. The commission is considering policy and method in the recruiting, selection, compensation, promotion and tenure of the administrative and technical personnel of national, state and local governments, with a view to determining what can be done in a constructive way to improve the public service. POLICE CONTINUE TO QUIZ MRS^PEARSON Slain Farmer's Widow Can Tell More, Say Cops. Detectives today continued to question Mrs. Ethel May Pearson, 41, widow of Alfred (Dan) Pearson, of Beech Grove, who on Saturday admitted intimacy with a missing hired hand, William Williams, 25. after blaming him for the murder of her husband. Police believe that Mrs. Pearson has not told the entire story of the slaying, which occurred last Monday. OHIO LECTURER LISTED FOR ROTARY ADDRESS "Back of the Headlines” to Be Topic of Speech. Charles Milton Newcomb, lecturer, Delaware, 0., will address the Indianapolis Rotary Club on ‘‘Back of the Headlines” at the club 'uncheon tomorrow in the Claypool. TAXI DRIVER INJURED Cab Wrecks Barbershop After Collision With Auto. George Young, 1943 Hillside avenue, taxicab driver, was injured seriously today when his car smashed into another at Ohio and Alabama streets and then crashed into a barber shop at 139 North Alabama street. The other car was driven by Okla Sluder. 28, of 1014 Eugene street, who was not injured. The brick foundation of the barber shop was wrecked. OPPOSE STATE PRINTING T.vpothetae Members Adopt Protest Resolution. Printers of the state protested operation of the "printing and duplicating” department of Indiana in a resolution Saturday at the convention of the Indiana State Tvpothetae in the Lincoln. Arthur J. Randall was re-elected president of; the body.

Edit Enough HHlEli YORK. N. Y.. July 23.—A friend of Will H. -LN Hays points out that Mr Hays never has had the title of czar of the moving pxturcs or the absolute powers which that title would imply. Mr. Hays was hired to perform certain offices for the movie industry at a salary which suggested that hts political influence was being hired in the bargain. But he did not set himself up as czar and, in fact, has endeavored to disown the title. It imputes to Mr. Hays an authority which he does not possess

and people, thinking of him as czar, hold him responsible for all the faults of the moving pictures. This makes Mr. Hays unhappy. Judge K. M. Landis, the business-umpire of the baseball industry, doubtless has felt sorry for himself in the same way. He, too. is an employe of an industry’, beholden to his bosses. Like Mr. Hays, he moved into his job at a time when his employers were receiving a severe tossing-round in press and pulpit and. again like Mr. Hays, he was selected for qualities which could not

be defined in the articles of agreement. The judge has a reputation. He had fined the Standard Oil 529.000.000. whereir he subsequently was reversed; he had a spectacular mane or plume of white hair which cartooned well and he had developed a distinctive, go-to-hell manner of independence and rugged honesty. Mr. Hays’ public manner was one of church-going, right-thinking piety and he. also, had a distinctive physical feature which made him a convenient subject for the cartoonists, a .9 a He Didn't Act llic Pari OUT, as to both of them, the title of czar was a El newspaper convenience, Mr. Hays, it appears only can coerce or admonish his employers. Tha old judge, though he resolutely outlawed one ball player on the mere charge (never proved) that he had participated in the theft of an automobile, was unable to take any such action against a club owner who was indicted on a much more serious accusation. Then, though the judge was czar only in the papers, he was dhided in the papers for not proceeding against the indicted club owner in the absolute manner of a czar. A man can't fire own bo§s or order his boss around. This is the boss's prerogative. Still, the more the judge didn’t act the czar the more the journalists scolded him for not being something which he insisted he was not. So newspaper titles, though loosely descriptive, are misleading and embarrassing to the persons so honored. We had an unfortunate lady in the papers once who had called at the bachelor quarters of a prominent roue on the same night on which he was inconsiderate enough to be shot through the head by a person or persons to this day unknown. The detectives rummaging through his effects, including his wine-cellar, next day, came upon a pair of pink pajamas w’hich obviously were not the property of the deceased. The lady presently was prevailed upon to acknowledge them as hers and for a long time she figured in the press and in the public mind as the pink-pajama-woman. It wasn't fair, but that just happens to be the way it goes. nan Interviews for Pay THERE was ar old woman living in a tar-paper shack on the outskirts of New Brunswick, N. J., at the time of the Hall-Mills murders. She hoed a little garden, rode a mule instead of the conventional flivver and raised chickens. She also had some pigs. Her home was Jane Gibson and, long* before Mahatma Gandhi or Mahatma Louie Howe, of President Roosevelt's secretariat, ever thought of the idea, she ,eold interviews. To explain, Mahatma Gandhi recently sold an interview to some of the newspaper boys in India and Mahatma Louie Howe has been selling his interviews on the air for some time. Mrs. Jane Gibson had heard voices and shots at the hour of the murder and when the journalists went to interview her, she said, “How much is there in it for me?” Thereafter, when Mrs. Gibson needed a few dollars, she frequently remembered further details about the voices and shots which she heard on the night of the murders. Mrs. Gibson became famous as the pig woman of the Hall-Mills case, although she often explained that she kept dozens of chickens and would prefer to be called the chicken-woman if such title was absolutely necessary. It seemed more tasteful to her. This ought to teach people to be careful. Hereafter when I happen along Broadway, I am going to look as miserable as possible. I don't want to be caught smiling and be pegged for a Broadway playboy. 'Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE United States government has shown a l&mentable lack of vision in the past in failing to devote more of its resources to scientific research. That is the opinion of Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and chairman of President Roosevelt’s scientific advisory board. Dr. Compton believes that any adequate schema of national planning must pay attention to the science of physics. Ho points out that the automobile, the airplane, the radio, and other wonders of electrical, mechanical and civil engineering are all based upon the discoveries of physicists. He believes that future developments will likewise depend upon their discoveries. The United States government today spends only one-half of 1 per cent of its budget on all of its scientific bureaus combined, Dr. Compton says. a a a “TN respect to future benefits to be reasonably exI. peeled from expenditures for scientific research,” Dr. Compton continues, "federal policy has been more like that of a fly-by-night promotion enterprise than of a stable business, building for its future.” Dr Compton points out that there are some persons who believe that science ought to be slowed up deliberately in order to let the rest of the world catch up to it. But he believes that such a policy “would surely create, in the future, an unemployment crisis which might very possibly wreck us completely ” It is possible lor the government to accelerate progress in those fields of investigation which are deemed most important. He calls this a policy of “selective acceleration.” “An example of this,” he says, "has been the marked growth of mathematical physics in this country as the result' of a policy of the national research fellowship board to favor this field, for a time, in order to overcome America's initial deficiency in this field. "Funds and encouragement, properly directed, will accomplish this purpose.” a tt a DISCUSSING the role played by physics Li present government bureaus. Dr. Compton point3 out that the work of the national bureau of standards is predominantly physics, pure and applied. This bureau, he says, “is essential to the successful operation of laboratories and manufacturing processes throughout the country. “In recent economics this bureau's budget has been cut about 45 per cent. However, the calls on it to test materials purchased by other government departments, for which It is not reimbursed and which work was not contemplated in the act which created the bureau, absorb such a large portion of its remaining funds that the funds for the fundamental work of the bureau are effectively cut to 30 per cent of the 1932 figure. “It is highly important that this should be increased."

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