Show scientists AIDING IN WAR experts have ave found a new work in which they are materially assisting the government secretary of the interior lane in his recent annual report portrays the transition of a peaceful democracy into a nation organized for war possession of resources alone he warns the country does not win wars and recounting the enormous progress made on every hand declares the physical resources of the united states are almost completely at the command of the worlds needs what can you do to serve me quotes the secretary replying tho the answer of this department Is that it has put every agency and activity which it has at the service of those those departments more directly concerned with war making our men of scientific knowledge metallurgists chemists engineers typographers have found new work at their hands the patent office his has been searched for new devices that could be brought int into oase use to kill the submarine or limit its destructiveness for the plans of heretofore unused lethal weapons and for the formulae of improved or unknown sources of power the scientific bureau of the government found themselves converted overnight into adjuncts and auxiliaries in the great international contest men who had regarded themselves as modestly useful only 1 in the discovering and revealing of new sources of material strength found that their years of experience in the mountains and on the desert in laboratories ora and in mines called them at once into the thick of the european struggle |