Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-17
FUND TOFURTHER
RESEARCH URGED
.
tional Academy of Science
Names Board to Direct
/, Money Campaign.

.tndorsed by a number of prominent
men, the National Academy of
Sciences today announced an appeal
Tor funds 'in an endeavor to secure
larger resources for research in pure
science" The acadmy hopes that an
annual income of at least S2.OO0.0O0
can be obtained 10 establish national
research professorships and TO CO.
operate in other ways with unlver-
stiles and institutions throughout the
country which will take part In the
encouragement and support of funda-
mental restarch in the mathematical,
physical and biological sciences.
Board Is Named.
A special board of trustees for the
funds, headed by Secretary Hoover,
Va also include the following:
DR.. Albert A. Nicholson. president
of the National Academy of Sciences
and Nobel prize winner; Gano Dunn.
chairman of the National Research
Council: Dr. Vernon Kellogg, perma-
rent secretary of the National
Research Council: Eiihu Root
Herbert Hoover. Andrew w.
Mellon, Charles l.. Hughes,
John w. Davis, Col. Edward NJ
House. Cameron Forbes. Felix War
-.
A. Millillan. foreign secretary of the
National Academy of Sciences and
Nobel prize winner: DR.. John G.
Merriam, president of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington; Owen D..
Young and Henry NJ. Robinson; DR..
Simon FleXner, director of the Rookie
Teller Institute for Medical Research;
DIR. John ]. Carly. vice president of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Co.; DR.. William II. WEIGH, di-
rector of the School of Hygiene and
Public Health of Johns Hopkins Uni
Nersity: DIR. James II. Breasted, dt
lector of the Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago; Prof. l.. r.
Jones of the University of Wiscon
sin. Prof. a. L. Lamb of Harvard
University, Prof. Oswald Veblen OF
princeton University, DR.. Thomas H.
Morgan of Columbia University, and
DIR. George +. Hale of the Mount
Wilson Observatory.
Officials of the academy explained
that there is no conflict between the
purpose of the National Academy of
Sciences and the Smithsonian InSti-
tuition, which is seeking an endow-
ment fund. These two scientific or
Plantations enjoy most cordial rela-
TONS" the statement said.
Judging from our progress in other
fields, we do not lack competent men
for research. Too often, with the com
fort of their families al heart, such
men reluctantly accept we'll paid in
dustrial positions instead of poorly
paid academic posts.
Problem Is Difficult.
The problem is TO make these posts
so attractive that the ablest men will
seek and hold them permanently be-
cause of the opportunities they offer
TO advance knowledge by fundamental
research.
This can he done by prov iding ade-
Quate salaries. freedom from too
much teaching or administration. nee
esSary instruments and apparatus,
and skilled assistants to perform the
extensive routine operations that sci
entific research involves. In short.
able Investigators should be given
some such comfort in life, freedom
of action and opportunity for con-
structive thought that industrial and
administrative officers in this country
certainly of no larger Caliber, habitu
oily enjoy. One way to accomplish
this IS by establishing national re-
search professorships, or similar po-
sitions, in cooperation with univer-
stiles vitality interested in TIE ad-
vancement of science.