The Washington herald., 1920-04-25

Plans for handling S5,ooo.ooo to
|, promote American science will be
determined when more than thirty
| eminent scientists, composing the
executive board Of the National Re-
I search Council. gather in Washing
ton today for the annual meeting.
Morning and afternoon sessions will
be held at the Offices, 1901 Sixteenth
street
Arrangements to erect a magnifi-
s-cent new building in Washington,
at a cost of nearly $1,000 900, will
be completed. This new home of
the council will be built near the
lincoln monument, between the
Navy Hospital and the Munitions
building.
washIngtonians to BE Present.
The National Research Council Is
"a part Of the National Academy Of
iSciences, which will hold separate
session here this week. The acad-
,-emy meetings are open to the pub
lie and will be held at the Smith
sonian Institution and the New Ma
zfional Museum Monday. Tuesday
rand Wednesday.
Dr. Charles D. walcott, OF the
Smithsonian Institution, is presi-
dent of the Academy Of Sciences.
Seventy of Americas leading sci
entists will assemble to discuss the
problems of science. They include
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and DR..
i-Robert s. Woodward, of Washing
. ton; Admiral D. W. Taylor, Maj.
Gen. George o. Squier and DR.. ST.
mon F1exner. of Rockefeller Instl-
tute.
The Research Council, on the 9TH
er hand. is the "one big co-opera-
tive union of the scientific men of
America 1t is arranged especially
along Democratic lines. More sci
ences are completely represented in
its central office than has ever be-
fore been attempted in this coun-
try
Reports to be presented at this
meeting, 1t is expected, will thor
oughly overhaul the present activi-
ties of the council. They include
a great cooperative investigation
OF food now under way. One OF the
discoveries of this special food COM
nittee of fourteen is this:
Dairy Cow EmcIent.
The COW is five times as efficient
as the beef steer as a food produce r
; taken over its whole life. Its milk
Is even more superior than the meat
OF the steer in containing the rnys-
.s<erious food elements called vita
mines" And these last are essen
FGiaI to the growth of men.
Because the high food value of
,9nilk makes it so much cheaper ts
produce than meat, the people are
wged to shift somewhat from meat
30 milk, to lessen the II. c. of l.
and to help American agriculture
Every farmer must choose between
having ten pounds of grain pro-
duce, three quarts of milk or one
kpound of meat.
This committee also would estab.
a1tsh a national food institute.
Seek Cheaper Bread.
The possibility of producing at &;
1ower price a tasty loaf of bread
equally nutritious, is another plar
OF the council.
This is to be done through the
new American Institute of Bakinl
in the baking industry. Many new
food products and better methods
of handling fours will be studied
"A center will be established to edu
cate expert bakers.
Much practical help for the bust
ness men Is planned. The council.
division of industrial relations ha!
initiated work for research in th'
great cotton industry with tn
World Cotton Conference.
The real research laboratories il
the industrial plants of the countr!
are described in a list soon to g
to press.
Help Pottery Industry.
To substitute something bette
than rule of thumb and so-callet
trade secrets. the council has a spe
cial committee in connection will
the ceramic industries.
They are working in the realm o
high temperature to aid brick an
tile. crockery and glass manufac
turers. They seek remedies TO
such jazz terms as ''blistery," spit
ting out" 'shivering" and Graz
ing" of glazed ware. for of color
or the appearance of such things al
white wash" and kiln white" OF
ware. They study the "chemistr!
of what takes place"
An association to study and i'm
prove metal alloys is also to be or