The Washington herald., 1918-04-29

Needed for War Service.
The establishment of a school OF
finance and commerce. although less
pressing, likewise will be recommend
ed, and the necessity OF increasing
the number of courses in international
law will be pointed out. DIR. Collier
also will urge the importance of erect
ing a building to house the university
library and assembly hall. but in all
probability this matter will not be
pressed until after the war.
Our university unquestionably needs
science hall before it does a hall
of fine arts says DR.. Collier, be
cause the demands made upon us by
the government for instruction in the
applied sciences are so great and so
imperative and so urgent that the fac
ulty is overburdened and the faoili-
ties are overtaxed. In chemistry, for
example, the number OF students is
so large that by actual count and ac-
tual measurement We need just eight
times the laboratory space that we
nave; and unless some patriot who
really wants to win the war and win
1t quickly sees that one of the best
ways to do 1t is to give George Wash
SAlNCioIg SCleilC6 ndll ana
more equipment, we may next year
be obliged to limit the courses in chem,
istry to medical and dental students
and those in the arts and science de-
partment who show special aptitude
in this science. Such a limitation
would be a real loss to the nation in
its war preparation. and although gen.
orally would not further a building
program at this time, the science hall
that I mention is almost as essential
to national defense as any cantonment
or shipyard or government building
that now is being constructed.
Chemistry Important.
ut can easily be appreciated how
intimately the university's chemistry
instruction is connected with the ma
tional defense when it is considered
that DIR. Charles Edward Munroe, head
of the chemistry department, is one of
the nations foremost authorities on
explosives and now is engaged in i'm
portant research work for the War De-
partment. No one is more entitled
to credit for the invention or perfec-
ton of that great material Of war
fare, smokeless powder.
"A very important need is the i'm
mediate re-establishment of the
School of Political Science, which, as
the old School Of Comparative JIris-
prudence and Diplomacy, once shed
such luster on the university in those
days when Justice Harlan and Justice
Brewer and ex-Secretary of State
John w. Foster and David Jayne Hill
were all of them at the same time
on the faculty. Washington is the
most suitable place in the world for
great School of Political Science.
Now, at this very instant. is the timo
to start 1t, and to establish it firmly.
IL ought to be started as a war
measure, Instruction in 1t would be
more effective upon public opinon and
legislation than much of the propa-
ganda that is being made today at
far greater expense.
In view OF the fact that trade now
Is worldwide, that methods are new,
that commerce and finance today are
sciences, It is important that a School
Of Finance and Commerce be sstab-
lished at the university. The Ma
tonal Capital is the proper scat for
| such school. for in the future busi-
ness Is going to be, IL not a 20 yern-
mental function, at least a matter of
governmental regulation. World COM
petition apparently is to be carried
on by bigger corporations or syndi-
Gates. Each industry is likely to be-
come virtually unit in this respect
II so, the government in the inter
est OF the people probably will con-
troll 1t. Foreign languages, foreign
customs, foreign needs and resourc ccs,
foreign tariffs. as well as complicated
methods of international exchange,
have become subjects necessitatipg