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Research Work by Engineers Agencies Co-operate in Effort to Salvage the Knowledge Gained in World War. CONDUCT INDUSTRIAL STUDY Special Committee* Ar* Formed to Collect and Disseminate Informa tion—Hundred* of Big Plant* Fostering Research Work. New York.—America is entering on an era of industrial research In which corporations, large and small, are linked with government agencies, en gineering organizations and universi ties, in a systematic effort to salvage the knowledge gained in war and to awaken the nation’s latent Industrial and economic power. Hundreds of plants are fostering these researches, for which a permanent national sys tem is being worked out by Engineer ing Foundation, an instrumentality of the United Engineering society to ad vance the rapidly developing science of engineering. It is only recently, however, that research has become a really national undertaking. Activity in Industrial research must be co-ordinated and expanded, said Robert M. Raymond, professor of min ing in the schools of mines, engineer ing and chemistry of Columbia. The university, said Professor Raymond, is now conducting industrial research which will be of great value to the nation. Prof. Arthur M. Greene of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., chairman of the research com mittee of the American Society of Me chanical Engineers, took the same view. For Specific Research. This committee, Professor Greene explained, is accomplishing Its work by organizing special committees for specific research and by collecting and publishing research Information. The American Society of Mechanical En gineers Is one of the four founder so cieties for which the United Engineer ing society holds certain endowments. Engineering Foundation, devoted to re search, under the headship of Charles F. Rand of this city, past president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Is a de partment of United Engineering soci ety, the other organizations which It comprises being the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American In stitute of Mining and Metallurgical En gineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. "The life of every American citi zen and the destiny of the republic will be vitally affected by the work in industrial research now going on," said Professor Raymond, who Is a member of the Engineering Founda tion board, representing, with Prof. Joseph W. Richards of Lehigh uni- verslty, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. "Researches already conducted at Columbia and on which work is now progressing," Professor Raymond add ed, "enabled prof. William Campbell, professor of metallury In the schools of mines, engineering and chemis- istry, to ascertain within a few hours just what was the mechanical detect in the shafts of the German - ships which were overhauled In New York harbor. As a result of the experi ments he Is making in testing the con struction of metals. Professor Camp bell can Immediately tell, for exam ple, In what process the defect In a piece of steel arose, and can Inform the manufacturer how to correct the fault. "Columbia has recently equipped an ore-dressing laboratory, in which Prof. Arthur T. Taggart Is conduct ing experiment* in the filtration of ores. The laboratory is so equipped that both large and small quantities or ore can be studied. Another Co lumbia professor, Edward F. Kern, as sistant professor of metallurgy. Is con ducting experiments In the treatment of ores. Industrial reasearch is also being carried on in several other im portant fields at Columbia, notable ex amples of this being the work of Michael E. Pupln, professor of elec tro-mechanics at Columbia, and Wal ter I. Slichter, professor of electrical engineering. "The assertion by government ex perts that this nation's supply of crude oil cannot last for more than 20 years makes Increasingly Important experiments conducted at Columbia a number of years ngo to determine the amount of gasoline which can be drawn from crude oil and the by- products of the oil. Research work of enormons value to the nation should be done Immediately to ascer tain if a larger percentage of the crude oil could not he used for gasoline. It would be possible to continue this Owes Wife $2,000 for Unpaid Profanity Bill * American Woman Runs Constantinople Canteen John Saleeby, wealthy Syrian lace importer of New York city, owes bi* wife $2,000 for cursing, according to testimony she of fered when she had her hus band arrested for disorderly conduct. Mrs. Saleeby said she had an agreement with her husband whereby he was to pay ber $10 every time he swore but that he had “cussed" 200 times without paying up. The arrest followed an alleged attempt of Saleeby to strike his wife. Saleeby de nied the charge, but was placed on probation for six months. .. - .....—.... ===== work at Columbia, the logical place for It, if sufficient fund* were available. Dally scene at Mrs. Bristol’s American canteen for Russian refugees at the Sirkedji railroad station In StambouL "Conservation of the nation's re Thousand* of Russian* were furnished daily with warm drink and food at this canteen. In this crisis, the work of sources, which, It is commonly agreed, the American Red Cross in Constantinople is a signal achievement Mrs. Bristol is the wire of Admiral Mark — we have been using with too lavish a Bristol, American high commissioner In Constantinople. hand, is the direct result of a large amount of research work now being done. Big industrial corporations are taking cognizance of this and introduc ing new methods for the handling of materials. The United States Steel corporation, which mines the coal from which they make coke to be used In the manufacture of steel, is one of the enterprises which has changed Its methods as the result of research." document to Bismarck, and asked marck observes, “the things said about Prophecy and Bitter Attack on the him were really very nasty.” his opinion. William’s Vanity Wounded. William II in Suppressed “May I respectfully ask your royal The chancellor derived great pleas highness to throw the draft you have Volume of Memoirs. so kindly sent me into the Are with ure from the Incident, but William out delay I" was Bismarck’s answer. wag very hurt and angry, both at the When the prince came Into author czar and at Bismarck, because of the ity Bismarck was retained as Imperial situation in which he had found him- chancellor, but now found that he had self placed and the wound to his van a group of opponents to deal with in ity. Shortly after this, while hl* rage ------------------ 411------------------------------------------------------ Statesman Said Terrible Catastrophe the new government. The grand duke was still hot, he beard of some Ill- of Baden, Waldersee and Bötticher all founded report by an obscure German Would Hit All ths Nations of projects have been held back because conspired against him both at court consul In Russia which told of an al Europe — Attempts Made to Pre- of the feeling that building costs would and in parliament Bismarck in the leged mobilization of the Russian vent Publication of Book. recede later. However, experience memoirs scores these men and the new army. Bismarck had not thought It has shown that those who waited have worth calling to the kaiser’s attention, London.—“I see great peril* arising circle of friends that the kaiser had as there were slight grounds for be gained nothing, while those who went gathered about him. He speaks, for ahead with their plans have no cause in Germany, and, Indeed, for the whole example, of Heyden, “of whom poli lieving the report. But the kaiser be for regret. During the last year the of Europe. The longer the catastrophe ticians say that he is a painter, and lieved every word of It, and wrote a amount of work projected was about is in coming the more terrible it will painters say that be is a politician.” discourteous note to the chancellor twice as much as the amount of actual be.” Bötticher, who owed his place to Bis- asking why such Important Informa The prophecy comes from the long operations. marck, won great Influence over the tion had been withheld from him. He “The uncertainty as to future price suppressed third volume of Prince kaiser at Bismarck’s expense, and the declared that the empire was threat tendencies constitutes one of the most Bismarck’s memori*, which have Just young monarch gave less heed to the ened and that counter measures must unfavorable factors In the situation been made public In Germany, despite older man's counsel. The time was be taken at once against the threat the opposition of the kaiser and his today. slowly approaching for the “dropping ened Russian menace. “The feeling is being fostered by the friends. Bismarck wrote the story of of the pilot” who had stood so long at Bismarck’s policy had been tradi slump in prices in many commodities. his life in three volumes, entitled, the helm of Prussia and the empire. tionally pro-Russian for 30 years, and “ Thoughts and Reflections, ” the first It should be borne In mind, however, Many of the kaiser’s policies at this he knew that there was ne ground for that conditions incorporated in the two volumes being the story of his period show a creditable amount of alarm. Action on the part of the Ger general range of commodities and rise to power and the third the story enlightenment, although Bismarck did man empire would have caused un those In the housing situation are not of the Iron Chancellor’s dismissal by not believe them practicable. William necessary complications and might analogous. The processes of liquida William IL a boy monarch, whom he H at this time expressed sympathy for have ended in real trouble. Bismarck tion such as we have witnessed lately characterizes as "dreamy and vain.” the working classes and dreamed of won his point, but at the cost of great The first two volumes were pub better labor laws and class reconcilia ly strained relations with the throne. with regard to general merchandise cannot include the building commod lished, but the third volume, although tion. Bismarck,. « n the other hand, This quarrel soon merged into an ity. Merchants can move their stocks in print, was never released to the thought that the workers ought to be other, for Bismarck, who felt that he of merchandise from their shelves German people because the men who kept down. The kaiser had his own was being supplanted by others In the by cutting prices, and there always Is surrounded the kaiser feared a scan way and better labor laws were confidence of the kaiser, suddenly in- more or less fluctuation In these lines. dal would result. It ha* at last ap passed, despite Bismarck’s opposition. sisted on a constitutional clause, 40 Housing space, however. Is generally peared, after a legal battle for its sup Such defeats weakened the chancel years old, which forbade the ministers leased on a basis of one year or more. pression, and a summary and extract* lor's power and he even wondered to converse officially with the sov During periods of retrenchment, such of the book have been printed in the whether be ought to send in his res- ereign except through the medium of as we have witnessed In this country Vossische Post. Articles summarizing ignation. the premier. Bismarck was both during the last six months, housing, the volume also have appeared in the Prussian premier and imperial chan Bismarck Consider* Resigning. therefore, is affected less than any English press. cellor, and was determined to let no Thus the storm gathered in January one but himself exercise a direct per other commodity. People can quickly Called William II Vain and Weak. adjust themselves to economies in Bismarck, In his analysis of William and February, 1890, and was marked sonal Influence on the monarch. The clothing, food and other requirements H, depicts him as having Frederick by a scene in the imperial palace at kaiser, who liked to talk personally of their dally Ilves, while business con pg craving for show ; Frederick Wil Berlin. Tempers had risen on both with bls minister* and who favored a cerns can reduce quickly operating liam H’s love for “tall soldier fel sides over the matter in dispute, and direct government policy, demanded costs by putting Into effect general lows Frederick the Great’s thirst for at last the chancellor put the direct the abolition of the clause. Bismarck economies. But In neither instance glory ; Frederick William IV* dreami question : refused, but offered to resign. “It appears, then, that I am In your Is It generally possible or advisable ness and weakness, and Frederick III * The offer was a mere gesture. Bis majesty’s way!” to curtail expenditures for housing vanity and sensitiveness. marck had tendered his resignation “The kaiser," adds Bismarck, "said many times before when he wished to space. “Only from one of his ancestors did No Benefit In Delay. he inherit nothing—from his grand- nothing and therefore assented.” gain a point, and had always won. At After this Bismarck again consid one time the kaiser had returned a "Some of the abnormal prices and father, William I,” says the Iron bonuses which have existed in the con Chancellor, who served both monarchs. ered offering his resignation, but he written offer with the word “Never” struction business will not continue to Such uncomplimentary sketches, to did not do so. In fact, he became ob scribbled across it But now he sent be paid, but general fundamental con gether with personal letters from the stinate and ultimately decided to make the chief of the civil cabinet to call ditions at this time do not Indicate kaiser which he did not wish to have it as difficult as possible for the kaiser for the offer of resignation at Bis that there is wisdom In withholding made public, caused the imperial ban to dismiss him. Meanwhile, however, marck’s house. The chancellor refused the kaiser was growing stronger in the to be hurried. Carefully and slowly building operations. on the book. "The basic influences which may be The first chapter of the volume tells government. The ministers in the he began the wording of the resigna expected to exert their force against of the admiration which the young cabinet turned against Bismarck and tion. An afternoon and evening passed, lower building cost* may be summar Prince William at first felt for the vet he felt his grip weakening. Once he and the next morning the kaiser lost ized as follows: eran statesman, who was then im asked for an explanation of why the patience and sent an adjutant with “Unprecedented demand throughout perial chancellor. He spoke of Bis ministers favored the kaiser against the message: the country for housing facilities of marck’s “magnificent work,” of his him, and one replied confidentially: “HI* majesty will wait until two all kinds. love of the fatherland and his building “We must do something to please o'clock for the document." “Shortage of highly paid skilled up of the empire, and uttered the him" (meaning the kaiser). Bismarck Bismarck told the adjutant that he laborers in many of the essential hope that Bismarck would continue to answered ironically that he was glad was “ready to sign his own resigna to see the monarchy so firmly estab- tion at any moment," but that he building trades. guard and protect his country. lished—the monarchy that was so needed time to write out bls offer if “Tremendous Increases In business Here Worship Short-Lived. shaken when he became chancellor. with a corresponding Increase in nec the tone was to befit the dignity of his This attitude of hero worship on the Chancellor Defies Kaiser. essary building equipment, after the office. But the kaiser did not waiver part of the prince did not last long, present period of readjustment and however. The men were basically dif Matters came to a crisis toward the in his decision. Bismarck was dis- liquidation. ferent, and these differences were soon end of March. Bismarck had received missed. In an effort to conciliate him "General tendency toward readjust manifested. A clergyman named Windthorst, the leader of the Center William conferred upon the outgoing ment to higher level* of income from Stocker had made himself conspicuous party, at his home, and the kaiser re chancellor the title of duke, but the property. as an anti-Semitic, and Bismarck and sented this act Bismarck claimed the honor was not accepted. “Export demand for American build William quarreled over him. William right to receive distinguished poli General Caprivi was at once named ing materials as conditions Improve defended the man. while the chan ticians whenever and wherever he as hi* successor and as soon as hi* abroad. resignation had been received Bis- cellor declared him doubly dangerous, pleased. The kaiser asked : “Insistence of public on constantly for “he is a political clergyman and a “Even if L your sovereign, forbid marck was hurried out of the chan improved standards of living, with cor you to?” cellor’s palace with unseemly haste. clerical politician.” responding demand for more costly “Yes, even then,” Bismarck an He says that while bls servant* were The breach widened, and it I* evi equipment." still packing up bls possessions the dent that Prince William’s admiration swered. William then talked about the new lackeys of his successor "occupied the for Bismarck, If ever sincere, soon AUTO TOO RISKY FOR AIR ACE cooled. Even in the year before Wil reichstag and about Insurance, both stairs, doors and passages of the pal liam I died the prince drew up a proc subjects on which he knew the chan- ace,” and part of the palace was al Charles Nungesser, French War Hero, lamation laying down the attitude cellor’s views were opposed to his own. ready taken possession of by General Gives Up Car After It Kills which he Intended to pursue once he He spoke of his great wish to visit the Caprivi before Bismarck left In the third volume Bismarck, hav Bicyclist. became kaiser. It said that he should czar a* soon as possible. deliberate with his own “colleagues," Bismarck did not approve of this ing brought the story of his own po Paris.—Charles Nungesser, the the higher German ruler* and princes, and the kaiser knew It The chancel litical career to an end. adds a mali French “acs” who ranked second to before he gave them their orders, and lor’s answer to the suggestion was to cious chapter of criticism of the Fonck a* a successful military avia that these “colleagues" must not be take a document from his portfolio kaiser. He also attacks Caprivi for tor during the war, and who has bees allowed to grow too overbearing. A* and. warn the kaiser against the visit exchanging Zanzibar for Heligoland prominent at aerial meetings since president of the German bund the saying that Prince Hatzfeld, the Ger and for not renewing the treaty with the armistice, has decided to give up kaiser was only the first among equals, man ambassador at London, had made Russia. He closes with the prophecy driving hl* automobile, saying It is and had no ground for adopting this notes of some very unpleasant things of ruin and catastrophe for th* na too dangerous and expensive. egoistic and dominant attitude. He the czar had said of the kaiser. These tions of Europe. Nungesser was racing through Neu insisted, however, that this decree notes were contained In the document illy recently when he knocked down should be sealed np and sent to the which Bismarck exhibited, but would Bars Pickle and Pretzel Lunch. and killed a bicyclist, a* a result of various Prussian embassies and lega not show to William. The kaiser in Harrisburg, Pa.—Eating of pickles which the court ordered him to pay tions throughout the empire, there to sisted that he read them, but Bis ■nd pretzel* as a school recess lunch the widow of his victim 30,000 franc* be promulgated on hl* coronation day marck said that such distressing state was banned by public health nurses (normally $6,000) for damages. so that all might know hi* wishes and ments could not very well be read of the central part of the state at the “I think I'll stick to my airplans be advised of what be proposed to do, aloud. The kaiser snatched the docu first of their conferences, and resolu- hereafter," he told the judge. "If any even before he began to command. ment from Bismarck’s hands and be tions were adopted that nurses should thing breaks, then TU be the only one Burn Document, Bays Bismarck. gan to read for himself. His face urge parents to provide good, whole- to suffer.” Before doing so, however, he sent grew pale with anger, for, as Bis some, old-fashioned bread and butter. Germany’s Ruin Was Predicted by Bismarck House Shortage Growing Worse CALLS KAISER VAIN ANO WEAK Latest Statistics Show Amount of Building So Far This Year Less Than Year Ago. LARGE CITIES OVERCROWDED Lack of Price Stabilization One of the Chief Causes of Slowing Up of Construction Work — Little Hope for Drop In Price*. New York.—“As we advance into the new year it becomes constantly more apparent that no problem is in more urgent need of an early and wise solution than that which Is involved in the nation's housing situation,” says S. W. Straus. "From the most reliable statistics ob tainable at this time the actual amount of building accommodations through- out the country are considerably less than they were a year ago. While the figures indicate an Increased cost of new building contracts awarded dur ing the year 1920 of about 5 per cent, ns compared with 1919, this was more than discounted by the added cost of building construction nnd the loss of available space through fires at.d de- terioration. In brief, the country is going backward In its housing equip ment. "Overcrowding In the large cities has reached such a serious state that health authorities are sounding an alarm. These unwholesome conditions also develop social unrest and lawless ness, and It Is apparent that every possible agency should lend Itself to the work of helping In the practical solution of this grave problem. Building Project* Held Back. "It is to be hoped that a large build ing movement will start this spring and summer, but no one can tell what developments may arise meanwhile. Lack of price stabilization has been one of the chief causes of the slowing up of construction work since the ar mistice. Vast amounts of building Where Mr. Coolidge May Reside ett The high cost of Washington rentals which confronted Vice President- elect Coolidge, ha* been solved by President-elect Harding. The Harding home at 2314 Wyoming avenue, has been offered the Coolidges Friends of Mr. Coolidge say he will probably accept th* offer. The house la unpre- tentious but spacious, and well salted for entertaining.
