SCIENTISTS SAVE THE EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 46, 19 November 1918, Page 5

SCIENTISTS SAVE THE EMPIRE

"I think we may fairly say that there is no aingle branch of the industries of war in which we cauiiot beat the Germans," said Lord Sydenham recently when opening the British Scientific Products Exhibition in London.

Eew people I ,.realised that our scientists had uaved the Empire from destruction. Ho hoped that, the Education Bill would add largely to tho number of our science workers, and give to scienco position it must hold if we were to reouild our industrial and economic fabric after tho war. "I mado a vaiu effort to get the word introduced into that Bill, but the official objection was that "it would be inappropriate to specify any particular item in the . BUL Imagine science regarded as an item in an Education Bill in the twentieth century I That shows the obscurantism we have etill to combat if we are to hold, our own in tho scientific progress of the future."

Sir William Tilden said that an increasing number of women were hiking' part in scientific investigation and discovery. He considered that in scientific research there was a career open to <iu.y well-educated girl with a little elementary mathematics and a taste for experiments. Ho hoped that public opinion would compel the great schools to revise their curriculum, for at present about 25 hours weekly were given up to literature and about two hours tjo "science. Wo must change the study of words for the study of things.