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Show aril deeping Up MfeSciene ctncrz- x i . lOQ Science Service. WNU Service. J ofallace Asks ' ore Liberty t r Research r llv "swls Principal Duty of Apartment, He Says .jJvASHINGTON. Scientific jearch needs greater freedom, regimentation into sepa-Fjde sepa-Fjde water-tight compartments, "tis to produce the maximum ictical benefits. PSThis idea is laid down as c doctrine for his department (Secretary of Agriculture H. A. ,lace, In his annual report. 'rhe principal function of this VlYjVrtment Is scientific research," $4'etary Wallace declares. "All itrii:ther activities, such as weather crop reporting, the eradication Jjw control of plant and animal dls-and dls-and pests, the administration rpgtilatorv laws, highway con-Iction, con-Iction, and economic guidance, the practical expression of re-n re-n ch results. Research Is the prl-7 prl-7 thing, the keystone of the en-structure en-structure of the department's Kcds,'.:tlons and services. edlatis! t Gas: Depend on Science. '"N'aturally the department does it or rely exclusively on the findings iforra-t9 own investigators; on the trary, It draws upon the gen-! gen-! cul fund of scientific knowledge ' It Increases throughout the utah'li. But this Is one of the tests lis scientific efficiency and value. l-e the department not engaged If In creative scientific -work, it -Jj not use creatively the find-TELRf find-TELRf of otner Institutions. Only sci- .; can assimilate science." ly ali illustrations of the way scl-lontiL scl-lontiL overflows artificial depart-talizing, depart-talizing, Secretary Wallace cites dependence of aviation, farming the shipping Industries on the !her bureau, which Itself must ;f;;jt: e the aid of physics, geology, Ji-Jt trapby and other sciences. He ?l;if calls attention to the far-reach-! !s effects of the food-preserving p; . bstries on changing types of 1 Use Special Fund. jit In the past, appropriations Jlhe support of research In the Jffirtment of Agriculture have al-" al-" pd funds, "Item by Item, on a 3Q in basis, for objects sharply , h. polarized." nin.o, get away from this difficulty, to push ahead faster toward oicTuflcally "sable results, the de- LD jment is making use of a spe-fund spe-fund for basic research appro- 3 stop led by congress. J zzTiiy Home, Young Man ! r-jFlanders' Advice outh of America HE old physical frontiers ' , of the nation which immor--5 .ied Horace Greeley for his ' j.se "Go west, young man, - est," are ended and new social ' , j '.tiers must be built up to take Jt place, recently declared Ralph quite -landera of Springfield, Vt., In cells. 1933 presidential address before es on American Society of Mechan-fan;1 Mechan-fan;1 Engineers. lood- . . . ti,0 'chanlzed Industry and tecn- XCCp. ileal advances have made It d-rcd Me to establish the new fron- r two la the province of better llv- s. Co. standards, said Mr. Flanders be- the engineers whose achievers achieve-rs have been criticized by some 'ffi-fo ff cause of depression under term, technological unemploy- t, ' the nation does not wish to :Hze for the future In a world ;e social, political and Indus-yJutT0 Indus-yJutT0 opportunity are greatly 11m-: 11m-: ; - an Increased standard of llv-: llv-: - i (it ever Increasing levels Is the ' h "olutlon. But the way to reach Mgher standard does not nec- . ' '!y mean higher wages." i |