Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-29
SCIENTISTS LAUNCH
VIGOROUS DRIVE TO
EDUCATE LAYMAN
Committee of 100 Named to
Push Research and Popu-
Iarize Findings.
SESSION OPENING TODAY
GREATEST IN HISTORY
Experts of All Fields of Exact
knowledge Gather in Sec
tional Meetings.

A definite program for the greatest
campaign of scientific education and
research in the history of the world
is to be completed during the seven
ty-ninth convocation o. the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science. which began to get under
way here today in several score OF
sectional meetings of affiliated So
cieties
AS the hosts of science in America
convened what possibly may prove to
be the largest and most important
meeting of its kind ever held on this
continent the executive committee of
the American Association revealed
for the first time plans to revive the
program for education and research
that was contemplated before the
war.
Now, however, 1t became known.
sciences fight to discover new fields
of knowledge and distribute and
popularize the facts 1t has learned is
to be waEed on an even broader scale
than had heretofore been considered.
committee composed of 100 of the
most prominent scientists in the
United States has been appointed.
War Curtafled Plans.
Similar plans were inaugurated be-
fore the war, but when America was
called into the world conflict part of
the program was Indefinitely post
poned and the remainder of IT was
merged with the general war plans
of the Government. proving of indis-
pensable value to America in its
successful campaign for victorious
peace.
At that time a like committee of 100
prominent scientists was appointed and
79 of these have been recalled To IL
personnel. Twenty-one vacancies were
to be filed today, and when the MEM
bership Of the committee is announced
it is expected that it will contain the
names of a large number of Washing
ton scientists.
The executive committee went into
session in the Willard Hotel. which
is headquarters for the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science during the present convocaton,
at 10 o'clock this morning. DR.. j. Nc
Keen Cattell of New York, president
of the association, explained the pur-
poses of the program as far as it has
gone in the following words:
Explains Objects.
The program of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science has two phases. They are the
discovery of new knowledge and the
distribution and popularization of what
we have. This new committee of 100
will aim to encourage in every way at
our command all forms of scientific
research"
In addition to the general commit
tee. a number of subcommittee. COW
cring widely varied phases OF re-
search, are to be selected. During
the convention. which Will continue
through New Year day, detailed plans
for Inauguration of the program i'm
mediately will be taken up by the
executive committee ana other aSSo-
citation boards.
Much of this morning was occupied
with the task of registration. The
hotel corridor was packed during this
necessary preliminary task. Just
across the street lobby, in the grid
iron room. a publicity bureau, in
charge of DR.. Austin II. Clark of the
National Museum, has been estab-
lished or the dissemination of he
news of the scattered meetings.
Meeting Scattered.
1t was along toward noon before most
of the affiliated societies convened their
own conventions in conjunction with the
general convocation. While physicists
convened in the Bureau of Standards
and specialists in geology and geography
held forth in the library of the National
Geographic Society, students of the ZOO
logical and botanical sciences gathered
in Central High School.
Other sciences that were under dis
cussion, and the places where their So
cieties met. included psychology, at
George Washington University; social
and economic, George Washington Uni
versity and the Robert Brookings
Graduate School of Economics and
Government; medical Central High
School; agriculture, Central High
School, and science in general, which
occupied the attention of the American
Association of University Professors,
at the National Research Council.
Many Papers Rend.
Several score societies were rep
resented at these meetings and the
morning program was mostly con-
fined to the reading of papers. A
large majority of the papers were
highly technical and so specialized
as to be of immediate interest only
to those who fully understood the
subjects under discussion This aft
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