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Show NO LONGER A CURIOSITY. Scientists Are Not Now Regarded as Lions by Captains of " ' Industry. Exit tho traditional scientific man with tho traditional 'Yankee- of tbt stage! Prof. Darlow, president of tht American Association for the Ad J vnncemcnt ot Science, writes that scl entitle leaders now sit with the., cap tains of Industry, not, as Hons to b stared at but as representatives of scl-enco scl-enco not only applied but pure. Tht conception of a scientific man as a captain of Industry means simply tU acknowledgment that science has a practical relation with the world and that fortunately tho public has ad-vanced ad-vanced far enough to see that pure science sooner of later develops Into upplled science. Tho leaders of science are to be v placed In tho class of organizers,' man-ngcra man-ngcra of a sort of scientific trust. This Is sclenco to date. Whllo sclonco is organization Its bnsl- Is the power ot Investigating. An organizer Is ot no "B uso until there Is something to or-ganlze. or-ganlze. And the materials on which the organizdr In sclenco must-'work are not made by machinery, but by the brains of Individual workers. |