Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1934, Page 10

A—-10 - 916,000,000 GRANT § s - T0 SCIENGE URGED Appropriation Is Proposed to Roosevelt by His Advisory Board. ‘(Continued From First Page.) cleansing streams, lakes and beaches of pollution. Two lines of attack are urged—a survey to disclose important centers not now properly protected and research to develpp improved methods of dealing with pollutions. No estimate is giver of the cost. Studies of fog dissipation. “A method has been developed and tested . during the past two years,” the re- port states, “which is successful in dis- sipating fogs created artificially in the laboratory, and gives promise of being capable of development to produce clear patches or holes a few thousand feet square in areas of natural fog.” | This would make possible the sending of beacon lights above fog for the guid- | . ance of airplanes and opening landing ; lanes. An initial $20,000 project is proposed to test out the method under actual conditions, with further devel- | opment if it appears practical. Development of low temperature re- search, the significance of which is | stressed as follows: “By the principles of physical chemistry it is known that calculations of the yield and the rate 5 of reaction in chemical processes re- quires knowledge of the specific heats of reacting substances through the en- tire range of temperatures upward from absolute zero. This knowledge is ¢ of practical value in determining the most advantageous conditions of oper- ation in various industrial chemical processes, such as fixation of atmos- pheric nitrogen and the cracking and hydrogenation of hydrocarbons. Un- til recently the only places in the world where such work could be done were Leyden and Berlin.” It is proposed that the Government make grants to laboratories which already have made a beginning in this line—to the extent of about $300,000 for the first year and a diminishing amount there- after for the six years. Heavy Hydrogen Study. Study of heavy hydrogen and its compounds. This, it so happens, was discovered in connection with the low temperature work of the Bureau of Standards and is of such far-reaching importance that it is proposed the Government spend $100,000 a year for six years investigating its potentiali- ties. opens up the possibility,” the committee informs President Roose- “of forming an entire new group hundreds of thousands or organic chemicals with properties differing somewhat from those now known. It is practically certain to yleld chemical compounds with valuable new proper- ties, particularly in the fleld of drugs, medicines and dyes.” The discovery, made co-operatively by Dr. F. G. Brickwedde of the Bureau of Stand- ards and Prof. Ury of Columbia University, is described as an “Ameri- con scoop” and one of the greatest of all American contributions to natu- ral science, with the implied duty of the American Government to push its implications to the utmost. Long-distance transmission of elec- tric power, of special significance in view of the various electrification pro- grams now contemplated or in progress, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, It is proposed that the Government spend “several hundred thousand dollars” on this project, ex- plained as follows: “Present methods of transmitting electric power are limited by practical reasons of effi- ciency, complexity and cost to about 250 miles, but it is rare that great Tesources of water or fuel power are within 250 miles of regions of large power consumption. There has re- cently been suggested a radically new scheme for electric power transmis- sion, involving the use of electrostatic generators and motors operating in a vacuum with direct current at about port, is fundamental to the further development of household and indus. trial refrigeration and of air condi- tioning. A variety of special investigations of mineral resources, knowledge of which is essential for sound h::ng::l lanning. Ordinarily this n gm of the functions of the Geological Survey, but the appropriations of this bureau have been cut so seriously that the work has not kept up with the requirements. Geographical and geological surveys. These include the securing of basic data regarding the interior of the earth and the mapping or marginal areas to lessen agricultural risk. Investigation of the social problems arising from mechanization and the various proposals advanced for solv- ing these—such as reduction in work- ing hours when machinery is intro- duced to displace labor, a temporary tax on all new labor-saving machinery the proceeds to be applied for the benefit of the unemployed, or co- operation between industries to ab- sorb labor displaced by machinery. “The problems thus created,” says the report, “are of enormous social im- port. Much half-baked and sensa- tional discussion has centered about them in the past few years. There can be no Aoubt, however, that mech- anization of industry will continue and this presents a challenge to our best engineering and social talent.” Research Grants Urged. 1t also is proposed that the Federal Government make grants for various selected research projects outlined by engineering societies and universities, which promise to furnish fundamental | data toward national recovery. The members of the Science Ad- visory Board, in addition to Dr. Comp- ton are: Dr. W. W. Campbell, presi- dent of the National Academy of Sciences; Dr. Isaiah Bowman, chair- man of the National Research Council; Gano Dunn, president of the J. G. White Engineering Corp.; Frank B. Jewett, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Charles F. Kettering, vice president of the General Motors Corp.; C. K. Leith of the University of Wisconsin; John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Robert A. Millikan of the California Institute of Technology; Roger Adams, president- elect of the American Chemical So- clety; Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; Frank R. Lillie of the Uni- versity of Chicago, Milton J. Rosenau of Harvard University and Dr. Thomas Parran, State health commissioner of New York. Besides the six-year program several specific recommendations for the scientific work of Government bureaus are made. These include: Some decentralization of the Weather Bureau and establishment of more district forcast centers and de- velopment of research work looking toward long range forecasting. Institution of a cost accounting system at the Bureau of Standards and adoption of a policy which will make impossible obtaining of patents for personal profits by employes in the line of research to which they are assigned. New Bureau Proposed. Establishment of & new bureau of mineral economics and statistics, to take over some activities now dis- tributed between the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines, to be either under the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce. The committee refused to recommend & proposal that the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey be combined. The committee stresses that, be- cause of the crowding of the Interior Building, where it is housed, the Geo- logical Survey is working under ad- verse conditions intolerable for scien- tific work. “Nothing approaching such adverse conditions,” says the re- port, “can be found in any other re- search organization in the country, public or private.” It has begn actu- ally necessary to throw away much invaluable scientific material—the type rock specimens upon which geo- logical classics have been based—be- cause there was no room to store them. 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Wool, velvet, silk. 3675 to 33§ Selected values at special prices: All wool House Coats; plain shades; fastening with two silk frogs . 56.75 Handsome velour House Coats in brown, maroon and black and white combination ............ e R $0.7§ Imported velvet House Coats, in black and maroon, chavet silk lapels, and pure silk lined D. SMALL INCREASE IN AID FORECAST Hopkins Says November Figures to Show 1.5 Per Cent Gain. C.. FRIDAY, DE By the Assoclated Pre: An increase of only about 1.5 per cent for November over the 4,101,572 families on Federal relief rolls in Oc- CEMBER 14, 1934, tober was forecast today by Harry L. Hopkins, the relief administrator. He attributed the small increase ex- pected in the November relief load to three factors: The cotton-picking season in the Southern States; re- moval of ineligibles from relief rolls and improved business conditions. Hopkins' acknowledged there were fewer on relief rolls in these months last year, but termed significant the fact that the relief graph curve was atter,” as compared with the sky- rocket angle of last Winter's chart. For instance, he said, October, 1933, had 3,010,516 families on relief, com- pared with 2,984,975 the preceding month, while November showed a 350,000-family increase. He estimated the Relief Adminis- tration on juary 1 would have about $200,000,000, eyclusive of drought al- lotments, This, at an average rate of | | expenditure of $125,000,000 or $130,- 000,000 a month, meant funds would be exhausted in February, he said. Drought funds are expected to last until the middle of March. Relief officials computed that from May 23, 1933, when the Rellef Ad- ministration was organiezd, to the present, a total of $2,405,573,303 had been spent, including money for the discontinued Civil Works Administra- tion, i Thief Breaks Into Jail. 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