let us say, in a soap and candle factory; then let him arrange to work for a month in a clock factory, then in a glass works, in an oil-cloth factory, a gas plant, a piano factory, a paper mill, a pyrotechnic factory, on pottery and earthen ware, on musical instruments, on cash registers, on automobiles, etc.; it is not necessary to extend the list further for purposes of illustration. It is true that he could not go from one plant to another and draw the same pay he had been drawing as a result of competency and efficiency, but in the long run he would not be out very much, and if, for the sake of argument, he went to a dozen different factories in a year, counting the matter of reduced wages and railroad fare, he would get a practical working type of education cheap and a stimulus that could not be compared with the expenditure. And this matter of travel would not necessarily be formidable, for in a city like Philadelphia, New York, or Chicago, he would find perhaps all the variety requisite for the awakening of his inventive powers, and the knocking out of his conceit, if this were a part of his kit. Now why don't we produce more geniuses from the classes with better educations?

De Tocqueville wrote in 1840 concerning America in this connection:

It must be admitted that, among the civilized peoples of our time, there are few in which the higher sciences have made less progress than in the United States."

And continuing he adds:

66 I consider the people of the United States as that portion of the English people which is charged with the exploitation of the forests of the new world, while the rest of the nation, enjoying more leisure and less preoccupied with the material needs of life, may devote itself to thought and to the development of the human mind in every field."

It is true that this statement of De Tocqueville was written many years ago, but he points out a truth still more or less applicable to conditions today in the pursuit of wealth, with its strenuous preoccupation.

Tyndall wrote in this connection as follows:

"If great scientific results are not achieved in America, it is not to the small agitations of society that I should be disposed to ascribe the defect; but to the fact that the men among you who possess the endowments necessary for profound scientific enquiry, are laden with duties of administration, so heavy as to be utterly incompatible with the conditions and tranquil meditation which original investigation demands."

This criticism of Tyndall still holds in full force today, and is undoubtedly one of the prime

CHARLES EDWARD MUNROE

Chemist, Inventor of Smokeless Powder

Born at Cambridge, Mass., May 24th, 1849. S.B. Harvard, 1871, Ph.D. Columbian (now George Washington University), 1894, Assistant in Chemistry, Harvard, 1871 to 1874; Professor of Chemistry United States Naval Academy, 1874 to 1886; Chemist to Torpedo Corps, United States Naval Torpedo Station and War College, 1886 to 1892; Head Professor of Chemistry, 1892 Dean Corcoran Scientific School, 1892 to 1898, Dean Faculty of Graduate Studies, 1893George Washington University.

Consulting Expert of Engineer's Board on Defense of Washington, 1898; Expert Special Agent in Charge Chemical Industries of the U. S. for Censuses of 1900, 1905, and 1910; Consulting expert United States Geological Survey, United States Bureau of Mines, and Civil Service Commission; Chairman Advisory Committee American Railroad Association for Drafting of Regulations Governing Transportation of Explosives, 1905.

Appointed by Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1900, to nominate candidate for Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.

Inventor of Smokeless Powder and authority on explosives; Chairman Committee on Explosives Investigations, Council of National Defense; author of over 100 books and papers on chemistry and explosives.

Commandant Order of Medjidieh, Turkey, 1901. Fellow Chemical Society, London, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society of Chemical Industry England; President American Chemical Society, 1898 to 1899; Chairman Committee on Explosives American Society for Testing Materials.