Connecticut western news., 1916-10-12
SCIENTISTS AID
 PREPAREDNESS
Income of S2OO, GOO Fund
 Now al Their Disposal.
WORK FOR WAR AND PEACE

National Research Council Already
 Busy on Plans to Make United States
 Independent of Europe In Many Inn
 portant Necessities - Many Noted
 Men Are Joining Council.
 Assurance that the National Research council, recently appointed by the Ma tional Academy of Sciences at the re- quest of President Wilson to coOrdi- nate scientific research in the United States. will have funds to proceed with the plans which it's leaders have for putting this country in the lead ill the application of science to industry or warfare has been received.
 It was announced that the funds of the Engineering foundation. heavily endowed organization of the four prin- cipal engineering societies in the Unit ed States, will be placed at the dis pOsal of the research council.
 Gano Dunn. chairman of the Engi' neering foundation, who made this an nOuncement. said the financial re. sources amounted to the income of a p-oO.ODO 0llNON lu6llls lb-oAitl " ili $500 additional yearly. both of which represent gifts by Ambrose Swasey. telescope manufacturer and engineer. of Cleveland. In addition. Cleveland H. Dodge has headed a movement tO raise other funds to further the work of the council.
 Science After War.
 Enthusiastic over the work which the research council has begun. Dr. George Ellery Hale. chairman of the council. an Dr. William H. Welch, president of the National Academy of Sciences. have recently returned from q visit to England and France to learn at first hand what has been the recent organi- zation of. scientific resources in those countries.
 "In our brief visit to England and France" pr. Hale said. "Dr. Welch and I were afforded every opportunity to learn what these two countries un der pressure of war conditions were doing to enlist the services of their scientists. In England all of the well known scientific men are at work not only to make up for the deficiencies that are felt on account of the war, but looking to the laying of permanent foundation for cooperation between science and industry and their respec- tive governments. They are beginning. in fact, at the very root of the matte. by revising their school curriculumS.
 Tn England. Professor Ja"kSon Oi KiIg's college, of London. has been conducting a long series of researches to learn how to produce optical glasSes for telest opes, horoscopes. field glasses. etc, the best of which. prior to the war, came exclusively from Ger many
 Time For United States to Act.
 we also advised, among others. Sir, Robert Rad cid. president of the Hal field Steel company of Sheffield. who discovered what is .inown as mangan csc steel and another product known as low hysteresis steel.
 Tt is realized tha. now is the tim fer this country to act. If if cannot !" said that we have enlisted in the Na tional Research council every man thai is leader i'll science we ale alprU%:- nlatirg that. for @ arc adding He" men every day. We have q leader al. ready in every chi hran~I of ciru. c
 'The first thing on our program is {" undertake at once q national reGis'er of research, which will include an in ventory of equipment for research iE all the general educational. govern mental and privately endowed institu- tiors.
 "Arother im2t tant problem which we lave already taken up is the deter imitation of the best process for tn ! production of nitric acid.
 Another item will be an exhaustive study into the proce' 'es or the manu- l facture of optical and chemical glass2+. which heretofore have come almost ell tirely from Germany