The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-21
ORGANIZE BRAIN
TRUST, GERMAN
PHYSICIANSPLAN
Zoo Much Being Unearthed to
Store in Average Mind,
He Declares
INFORM SCIENTISTS
OF OTHERS DOINGS
Munich Provides Institute That
Stands as Monument
to First Step

Herr Professor wilhelm OSWALD
he famous chemist OF Leipsig, Ger
hany. wants to do In the realm or
. cience what has been done in indus
ry. and he is asking his fellow scien-
lists to help regulate and standardize
heir output.
Professor Ostwold thinks science
as been unearthing more useful facts
han the average mans brain can
Comfortably store. Discovery has piled
pom discovery in such rapid success
ion that he believes the people are
uffering from mental indigestion
brought on by a too liberal diet of
knowledge.
AT the present day a great deal Is
icing done by science" writes the
rofessor IN ne Scientific American.
Indeed, at times. II almost appears
10 TX too much We're being done. for
has become practically impossible
or an indiy idual scientist to follow
he total pro luction OF science In his
)wn field
1T will easily be seen that modern
IL energy. IN chemistry every paper
published Is distracted Independently
1t least ten times. the result OF lack
II organization. What have said
iom personal knowledge in chemical
)cience Is seen In other sciences.
Now " happens at the present time,
IN the field OF finance. a process IL 60
ng on which may be regarded as a
Model for the organization OF science
md intellectual work.
The recognition OF the fact that
competitive struggle Is the most en-
Prgy destroying and impractical OF all
Methods in gaining stronger foothold.
IN place OF bitter competitive strife
kmong related industries and CONNER
Fial undertakings. we see everywhere
koing on the process OF combination
or Joint collaboration and rational
distribution.
"The process which we thus see go.
ng on In the world OF economics must
Necessarily, therefore, unfold itself In
he field OF intellectual labor.
THE need has become urgent that
he total work be 30 organized and
brought into harmonious union that
DO energy Is wasted"
Which Is about all the need for a
brain trust" Professor OSWALD thinks
Is necessary to show. He believes
he organization should so fix 1t that
he scientists throughout the world
will be placed In a position TO know
What other men are doing, so that they
won't waste time going over the same
toute He admits, however. that the
highest creative productions, such as
the big things that have been develop
I'd by Newton, Darwin, Pasteur. Bell.
Nine. Curie and Dr. Carrel. will still
have to be left to what he calls the
Individual highly gifted heads"
A step has been made in the direction
bf the new trust through the estab-
Iishment IN Munich, Bavaria, OF an
Institution called Die Brucke (The
Bridge), which plans to follow the
work of science everywhere In the
world and publish books and pamph-
cts setting forth what is going on.
80 far the organization has con-
Rented itself with the establishment OF
b standard style and size for the issu-
hnce OF it's books and has gotten out
several numbers. Professor OSWALD
believes II Will extend its activities
gradually to carry out his idea OF
trust.