Judge — June 23, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Ausociate Editors, Richard J. Walsh, Editor, Norman Anthosy Research SN business, as in diet and parlor games, we are prone to snatch at fads. A few years ago it was Efficiency. Today it is Research. And a whole lot of those who fall for the selling talk « never quite know what they are buyin yout research An old story that is always good was recalled in a recent interview by Mr. C. E. Skinner, the Westing house engineer. Michael Faraday was showing to a distinguished statesman the result of his « ments in magnetic induction. y is it?” the statesman asked. “Some day,” said Faraday, “you will be able to tax it.” So-called practical minds have to be reached by that sort of appeal. peri at use As an example of what often comes out of purely theoretical research, Mr. Skinner the oh. This photographs electric waves, which sounds pretty remote from daily life. But the aph is helping deaf persons to talk, by making the voice waves visible so that the pupil can match his own to those of his teacher, With this in strument pianos can be tuned by sight, inaccuracies in high speed gears can be detected, the power value of engines tested, the action of the hur studied. It now even measuring i timing the reactions to various stimuli. Much of what passes by the advertising for ins' cites oscillo devices oscillog ame of research, in ce, is spurious. Starting a conclusion and piling up data with a pretense of supporting it, is not researc arting with a fact, linking more facts to it, letting them come to life, articulate themselves and drag you along with them regardless of where they take you, is the only kind of research worth the time of any honest person. A purist might say that a good simple way of telling which kind a man is talking about is by his pronun- ciation. If he calls it research, it’s the real article. If he calls it research, it's the bunk. But this perhaps a risky rule, because there are large sections of the country in which accents are loosely d tributed. At a meeting of the National Research Council itself Edwin E. Slosson kept a record of pro- nunciation of the word for one day and found that ctly half of the experts put the accent—incor rectly—on the first syllable. The safest procedure is to pay no heed to the man who tells you in advance what he expects to prove, but to sit at the feet of him whose guiding principle is “First let’s get the facts.” Phi I Rom. Jock Shuttleworth I s adding another two million dollars to the Julius Rosenwald Fund which is given to forward con structive “for the welfare of mankind,” Mr. Rosenwald stipulates that the trustees must spend the whole fund, principal as well as income twenty-five years after his death. Trust funds and bequests ought always to be made in’ this Generosity is too often vitiated by a certain arr or egotism in the donor who is so sure that thing ought to be done, and will forever need to be done, that he sets up a fund for it in perpetuity. No one is wise cnough to foresee the future for more than reat Franklin the of an exceptionally shrewd man who money for purposes now wholly futile. Furthe as Mr. Rosenwald says, “a formal or perfunctory atti tude toward the work almost inevitably develops in organizations which their definitely. provide hands crushing the many billions of dollars. AN E work » within form, nee A certain exampl mn. Benjamin classic left more, prolong existence in Coming generations can be relicd upon to Dead vitality out of entirely for their own needs as they are too * * * wlish clergyman recently tried the experiment of asking his regation to heekle him if they liked. It started t one of his agnostic friends promised to come to church if permitted to answer back. ‘The first Sunday the in progress only five minutes when a local schoolmaster got up and Said he believed the preacher was “¢ wrong.” After that it was a free-for-all debate. further news has come as to whether the practic If anybody wants to make church exciting and more stimulating, this is one way to do it. But the vast majority seem to want the church to be a place of ritual and peace. use serme being continued. Younger Generation Notes. No. 25 artment house in Brooklyn was swept by fire. Lisenbergs lived on the third floor. Morris, A, nincteen years old, escaped only to learn that his fam- ily was still danger. He went up the fire esc and in through a window and found five of them: father, mother, sister and two younger brothers lying unconscious. One by oi F and down to Morris E one of the ni pe all ed them out alien race, is ‘ ROIW, comicbooks.com