Show fee Keeping p in g Up i 4 0 Sc n erv e eQ 0 Q Selene S r lea Wallace Asks More l Liberty for Research Its It's Principal Duty of or Department He Says W WASHINGTON VAS VAS- Scientific Ii IG 0 Scientific research needs greater freedom less regimentation into separate separate sepa Sep rate water tight compartments if it Is to produce the maximum practical benefits This idea is laid down as basic baste doctrine for tor his department deportment by bl Secretary of ot Agriculture II U. A. A Wallace In la his annual report The principal function of ot this department Is scientific research Secretary Wallace declares declare All Its other activities such as weather and crop reporting the eradication or control of ot plant and animal diseases diseases dis dl eases and pests the administration 1 of regulatory laws highway construction construction con con- and economic guidance are are the practical expression of ot research research re re- search learch results Research Is the primary primary primary mary thing the keystone of ot the entire en en- tire the structure of ot the departments department's functions and add services Depend on Science Naturally the department does docs not rely rell exclusively o on the findings of ot Its own Investigators on the contrary Jt lt draws upon the general general general gen gen- eral fund of at scientific knowledge as It Increases throughout the world But this is one of ot the tests of Its scientific efficiency and value Were the department not engaged Itself In creative scientific work It could not use creatively the findIngs findings find find- Ings of at other othet Institutions Institution Only scienCe science aci- aci ence can assimilate science As Illustrations of the way wal act science ence overflows artificial depart departmentalizing Secretary Wallace cites the dependence of at aviation farming and the shipping Industries on the weather bureau which Itself must Invoke the aid of ot physics geology geography and other sciences lie He also calls attention to the reach far ing lag effects of ot the preserving food Industries on changing types of ot farming U. U Use Special Fund Yet In to the past appropriations for tor the support of ot research In the Department of ot Agriculture have allocated al located funds Item by bl Item on a bureau basis for tor objects sharply particularized To get away awal from tram this difficulty and to push ahead faster taster toward practically usable results the department department department de de- Is making use of a special apel cial dal fund for basic research appropriated by congress |