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Show AGRICULTURE HAS U BASIS i SCIENCE f Tardy Recognition by Great I Association, Charles W. I Eliot Gives Opinion "PHILADELPHIA Deo 0 AgT culture Hs ever lncreas ng importance ana Its ba sis In science ere recogn zed by mem hers of the Amer can Assoclat on for the Advancement of Science today when a separate section for the first time in the sixty six j ears of the associations history I began lta work of considering top cs re 1 Jated to that science. 1 Dr Char os W E lot president emeritus ! of Harvard the pres dent of tho asaocla tion In ntroducing Professor I H. Bai ey of Cornell as vice president for the nev, Iy created section decared that America ihae fallen far behind other countries in agricultural methods and results Iany reforms are needed in the teaching of ag Ticulture and more time should be de voted to the teacl ing of natural sclenoe in th schools he said. Our race cannot endure urban life, and the factory system Country life development develop-ment Is one of the greatest present day humanitarian movements. Dr Bailey said In part "Agriculture is our bottom industry" As we organise its affairs so to a great de gree shall we secure the results In society in general. Society lies between two dangers the danger of monopoly and the danger of beaurocracj On the one side is the con ' trol of the necessities of life by commer clal organization. On the other side is iie control of the necessities of life and . ev en of life Itself by Intrenched groups I that ostensibly represent the peop e and whom it may be impossible to d slodge Both are evil Of tl e two monopoly is the lesser it may be more easily brought nnfler control it is more progressive, it Is less hateful. I am convinced that there are people who will pride themselves on escape from monopoly wl o are ne erthe lees suffering from the most deadening and damaging bureaucracy Logan W Pa-e, director of the United States office of publio roads declared that it Is estimated that the American peop e lose annua ly at least $o0 000 000 because of their careless supervision of traffc facilities Mr Page spoke on Methods of eliminating Politics From Road Administration. The only effective measure to safe guard a state highway department from the destroying influence of graft he sa d Is to place it under the general control of a commiislon. This comm s s on should be nonpartisan nonpald and contributed partly by appointment and part ex off clo The educat on and sc ent fic institutions of the state shou d be rep esented on the commission, the appo ntlve members alone be ns lay men |