Show wallace asks more liberty for research its principal duty of department he says washington scientific research needs greater freedom less regimentation t into separate wa watertight water ter tight compartments if it is to produce the maximum practical benefits this idea is laid down as basic doctrine for his department by secretary of agriculture II 11 A wallace in his annual report the principal function of tills this department part ment Is scientific research secretary wallace declares all its other activities such as weather and crop reporting the eradication or control yf vf plant and animal diseases and pests the administration of regulatory laws highway construction and economic guidance are the practical expression of research results research Is the primary thing the keystone of the entire structure of the departments functions and services depends on science naturally the department does not rely exclusively on the findings of its own wn investigators on the contrary it draws draws upon the general fund of scientific knowledge as it increases throughout the world but this Is one of 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 of other institutions only science can assimilate science sc lenca As illustrations of the way science overflows artificial departmentalizing departmental izing secretary wallace cites the dependence of aviation farming and the shipping industries on the weather bureau which itself must invoke the aid of physics geology geography and other sciences he also calls attention to the far reaching effects of the food pre preserving servin industries on changing types of farming these industries being the product of joint effort on the part of chemists physicists and biologists examples might be multiplied without end use special fund yet tet in the post past appropriations for the support of research in ID the department of agriculture have allocated funds item by item on a bureau basis for objects sharply particular iced to get away from this difficulty and to push ahead faster toward practically usable results the department la 19 making use of a special fund for basic research appropriated by congress |