The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-09-23
Large Number
At End Annual
Miners Picnic
Excellent Address Delivered
by DR.. Wilson of State
School of Mines.
DISCUSS MINE TO
MARKET ROADS

4sAAAANAAA4 ANO4AD1
About SO Libby men and guests
gathered at the mine of the Uni
versal Insulation Company last
Thursday night in the second annual
miners picnic of the Libby Com
mercial Club. The picnic was held
in the big pit that has been opened
at the mine in the removal of raw
vermiculite. There dutch lunch
was served to the assembled men,
with Charley Young the efficient
chef in charge of the serving. He
was assisted by l.. Ludvikson and
members of the mining committee,
II. G. Bolyard, Joe Kujawa and ].
L. REILLY, these men being the COM
mittee in charge of the picnic.
After the serving of the lunch,
the meeting was called to order
by X. A. Klehm, president of the
club. In few pertient remarks
President Klehm said the Libby
Commercial Club had always been
interested in mining development
and that the furthering of that in
dustry here would be one of the
major projects of the club this year.
Harry Bolyard gave short but
Informative talk and told how the
big deposit of vermiculite had been
laid down here by nature in the
ages past.
Elmer Switzer, Sr., chairman of
the Lincoln county planning board,
told what had been done locally to
obtain the building of mine to mar
ket roads. He reported that while
definite plans had been submitted
for building of mine to market
roads in the county, SO far they had
been unable to secure any money
for that purpose. He asked that the
club adopt resolution petitioning
congress for an appropriation for
the building of such roads. Such a
resolution was later adopted by the
club.
Delivers Fine Address
The guest speaker of the evening
was DR. G. L. Wilson, metallurgist
of the Meptana School of Mines at
Butte. DR. Wilson is a talented
speaker and gave what all his hear
ers pronounced was one of the best
addresses ever delivered to Libby
people He expertly mixed humor
and comedy with sound information
and thus held the interested atten-
ton of his audience.
DIR. Wilson explained the part re-
search has to do in mining and
stressed the value of the adequate
testing of ores before the installing
of expensive machinery He said
there were two very important
phases Of research. One he de-
scribed as pure research in which
the scientist labors wholly for the
JOY he gets out of solving natures
mysteries and for the knowledge OBJ
tanned thereby. The other phase is
industrial research in which men
delve into the secrets of nature and
solve them for industrial purposes
to convert the knowledge thus OBJ
tanned into use by the human race.
He said the local vermiculite indus
try is a fine example of industrial
research, a great industry that is
being built thereby from hitherto
unused mineral by men experiment
ing in laboratories
At this point DR. Wilson paused
in his address to say that while he
did not want to get into politics. yet
he wished to emphasize something
that is always true. There will
always be men who will devote their
lives to pure research. said DR.
Wilson. They do it for no Other
reason than that they are driven
forward by an a1l-powerful urge to
study the laws of nature and for the
great Joy and satisfaction they get
out of solving natures mysteries
Such men we will always have with
us. But the other kind of research
industrial research, dies under regl-
mentation," said DR.. Wilson, In
effect.
Progress Dies Under RECOMMENDATION
DR.. Wilson then compared condi-
tons in Germany today with can
ditions existing there before the Hit
Ter. the fascist government regi
mented all industry in that grea
nation. The man who is devotinf
his life to industrial research. so tina
great industries can grow out of nj:
labors and from which he and thu
men who are associated with hin
reap ample rewards will not con
tinue those labors under regimenta
ton. What is the use of me puz
cling my head over these problem
when the government will take thu
benefits away from me after | hav'
solved the problems?" says such
man. The result is that he lie
down on the job, ceases his labor
and initiative dies, said DR.. Wilson
That very thing is taking place to
day in Germany, he said. Formerl
German scientists led the world 1
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