The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-21
THE GOVERNMENT
TAKES Good man
EXPERIMENT STATION LOSES DIR.
coPELANo-WiLL GO TO
THE ORIENT.

MoRGANToWN, March 21.-Dur-
ing the past few days DR.. Copeland,
recently connected with the govern.
ment botanical work in the Philip
pines, has been shaking hands with
old friends at the university here. He
has accepted position as plant ply.
siologist at the Experiment station.
TO help in the fight again peach vel.
lows" The doctor had hardly landed
when he was Informed ne could go
back into the government work at All
increase of $500 and every reason to
expect further promitions in the near
future.
He's gone.
This is not the first time The gov.
eminent has taken a good man away
from the Experiment. staEon. Dr..
Hopkins, so well known and liked
by everybody here. is snugly lodged
in the bureau of entomology, at a
salary that would look good to Ely.
pertinent station people. The de,
partmeat offered Corbett $500 more
than the top notch here and he is IN
the bureau OF plant industry. The
station people found 1t so hard to
fill his place that It was thought best
to offer him $500 more. The de,
partment people promptly put his
salary beyond the possibility of like
endeavors by the West Virginia sta.
ton.
DR.. Copeland is not the first, nor
indeed the second or the third gov.
eminent man to get raise of Is
or more per cent: on account of the
West Virginia stations estimate Of
his worth. -Nor is such regard for
this stations estimate. Of station
men limited to the department. Let
US recall few other names and places
The dates are well known.
Mr.. aiillspaugh left for more than
Doubt the salary than paid here.
His successor. DIR. F. VIM. Rane, is
doing much better. He was succeed.
ed by corbett, VINO has already been
mentioned.
Davis, WHIP succeeded Corbett, left
for 9. larger salary than is yet paid
by the West Virginia station. Fetch.
er went to Cornell. The endeavors
to get corbett back and to keep
Copeland, when he was back, have
been mentioned and that brings the
stations horticultural difficulties tip
TO date.
What became OF the first chemis.
is not known to the writer except
That ha left OF his own accord. HIS
successor. DR.. De Roode, left the sta.
tion at $3.50 for $500, with Frazer
& Co.. New York, and left them in a
year for $4,000 as chief chemist Of the
international Paper trust. The third
is here. The first associate chemist,
DIR. G, Vim. Gray, is with the Stand
ard Oil Company at much higher
salary than isHpatd here. The second.
Chas. D. Howard, left 81. 400 to accept
the position Of chief chemist of the
New Hampshire State board Of health
at $4,000. stalnaker, an assistant
chemist here, left $1,000 to accept
three or four times that amount with
the government, and so one might go
through the whole long list of Expe.
riment station employees to the last
student assistant, nor are surprises
at an end; as the not distant future
will show.
The above STRAIGHTFORWARD bits az
history, every bit Of it easy to prove
or disproye. should speak pretty
clearly in behalf Of the standard II
deficiency insisted upon by the sta.
ton management. It should tend
in some slight measure to put at
rest the fears in any quarter that