TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1944
THE BATTALION
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Scientists Should
Express Thoughts
Says Physics Expert
In addition to the scientific
courses which they are given, it is
important that students preparing
for a carrer in science should be
taught to express themselves, says
Dr. Saul Dushmannn, assistant di
rector of the General Electric Re
search Laboratory in the Ameri
can Journal of Physics.
Writing on the subject of “Post-
was Training of Physicists for In
dustry, M Dr. Dushman says it is
often forgotten in connection with
the training of physicists, and of
scientists in general, that “pro
gress in science as well as other
brannches of human endeavor de
pends ultimately upon the ability
to communicate ideas to others
by means of language. Whether
it be the exposition of an idea by
word' of mouth, or the description
of experimental observations in
a paper for publication, clarity of
expression and logical presentation
of data and conclusions are prime
requisites. It is not required of the
scientist that he be either an ora
tor or a clever wielder of $64
words, only that he express him
self clearly in evryday language
and use this language correctly.”
The role of the physicist in war
time developments has shown that
he can be very practical, Dr. Dush
man declares.
“Industry has learned through
the experience of the past few
years/ he writs, “the fact that
physicists are capable of contri
buting to, and initiating, fairly
complex engineering developments.
The design and operation of a
cyclotron requires a technical
skill such as compares very well
with that required to design and
operate a high-voltage generating
equipment. The physicist has in
deed demonstrated by his activities
in the war. effort that he is not
the theoretical recluse intent only
upon some abstract objective, that,
in fact, he can become under pro
per conditions just as practical and
just as hardboiled as any industrial
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engineer. In view of these con
ditions, it would seem reasonable
to suppose that in the postwar
world there will be a much greater
demand for physicists in industry
than in the past.”
Such industrial physicists must
know other subjects besides their
basic physics and mathematics.
“The physicist in industry,” Dr.
Dusman continues, “must be ver
satile and adaptable. In view of
the increasing complexity of ma
terials and operations used in in
dustry the physicist should also
know considerably more chemistry
that he has been the sace in the
past. Indeed, I would like to sug
gest that the proper course of
training for an industrial physicist
should be one that would comprise
almost as much chemistry as phy
sics.”
Comparison of 1944 with 1914
may help us to appreciate some of
the coming changes in our world.
“In 1914 the tungsten vacuum
lamp was the best source of illu
mination available,” he says. “Duc-
tle tungsten filaments had been in
troduced to replace the brittle fila
ments used in the earlier lamps.
The cost of electric power to the
householder was high. In 1944
even the gas-filled tungsten lamy,
operating at twice the efficiency
of the old vacuum lamp, is gradual
ly receding before the flourescent
lamp, which operates at an effi
ciency four to six times that of
the latter. The cost of power has
decreased considerably.
“Electric refrigerators, washing
machines, dishwashers and similar
devices were available only to the
wealthiest. The vacuum cleaner was
an imperfect device. Radio broad
casting was not even dreamed of.
Movies were emerging from the
nickelodeon stage and talking
movies seemed quite remote.
“Is it not highly probable” he
asks, “that the industrial progress
made during this period which has
just ended will be duplicated and
even exceeded during the next thir
ty-year period?”
Among these new developments
he foresees television as a com
plementary industry to radio; air-
conditioning of homes and the more
general use of electrical appli
ances for the elimination of house
hold drudgery; new developments
and applications in the field of
plastics and light metals which
will be realized more fully when
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“All students who wish part-
time employment during the
coming term are urged to file
either an application renewal or
an application with the Place
ment Office between now and
the end of the term. Renewals
will be accepted beginning, Mon
day, September 4th.”
conditions permit; ust of the air
plane so extensively for commer
cial and pleasure purposes that
it will rival the automobile and
truck in popularity; and new
achievements in medicine and sur
gery, which are bound to affect
profoundly our health and length
of life.
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Government Aids
Pasture Improvement
Control of noxious shrubs in
Texas grasslands is the foremost
pasture problem on many millions
o facres. This says Robert R. Lan
caster, pasture specialist for the
A. and M. College Extension Serv
ice, is second only to lower rate of
stocking on many other millions.
Still other millions, located along
streams and branches and covered
by brush, shrubs and trees of low
value, are the most potentially
productive land available for fu
ture pastures.
Shrub removal and other im
provements for Victory pastures
are eligible for government pay
ment through the Agricultural Ad
justment Agency of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, Lancas
ter says. Other improvement prac
tices within the AAA program are
controlling gullies, rodents, poison
ous plants and other weeds; apply
ing manures and commercial fer
tilizers, lime and seed; harvesting
grass and clover seed; deferred
grazing; and digging of tanks for
stock water and drilling wells.
Lancaster explains that as many
as 25,000 Texas stockmen in one
year have benefited through the
program and the area affected has
been about 87,000,000 acres, or 87
per cent of all pasture land.
Nearly 8,000,000 acres of prick
ly pear, or cactus, have been grub
bed under AAA payments in the
past seven years. In the same pe
riod 3,000,000 acres of cedar were
cleared and a quarter of a million
acres of mesquite killed. Removal
of the cedar did not represent the
destruction of a potential cedar
forest because the bushy Mexican
and Pinchot species which infest
Texas ranges are less valuable as
timber than the Virginia red cedar,
Lancaster explains.
Clearing other kinds of under
brush has been doubled and trabled
from 10,000 acres yearly before
1941, to 20,000, then 30,000 and
39,000 acres annually for the past
three years. Payments vary ac
cording to the necessary costs.
Permanent cutting depends upon
sprouting control. New methods of
treatment, including sprays not
poisonous to livestock, to prevent
stumps sprouting are being ex
plored and tested by the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station.
Branches on small stock farms still
Cotton Labor Will
Be Sufficient
Cotton picking in southernmost
Texas at mid-August had reached
its peak with about two-thirds of
the crop in the Lower Valley and
the Corpus Christi area gathered.
About 20,000 bales had been ginned
in Nueces County.
According to C. Hohn, Extension
Service farm labor supervisor, the
labor supply was adequate to som-
plete the worft unless a tropical
storm interferred. However, no un
favorable weather was forecast. A
steady dribble of migratory labor
through the quarantine state gave
the situation a further favorable
aspect.
Meanwhile, labor was beginning
to drift slowly eastward where
picking was beginning in Victoria,
Jackson, Calhoun, Matagorda, Fort
Bend, Wharton and Brazoria coun
ties. The yields in Calhoun and
Fort Bend counties are expected
to be large, while in some of the
other couties the crop is late and
not as good as ususal. Picking in
Bee, Karnes, Live Oak and Goliad
counties also was stepping up. The
current labor supply in all of this
area appeared to be adequate for
present needs, Hohn said, except in
Karnes where there was some de
mand for pickers.
The migratory field assistants
placed 5,303 pickers from August
7to August 13, inclusive. Their
total placements to date are 16,693.
are being cleared by hand. But
large scale shrub eradication is
most commonly done by power ma
chinery which uproots trees and
large shrubs.
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Elsewhere over the state there
was an indicated need for labor
for a variety of purposes. Castro
County, for instance, was seeking
help for shocking sudan grass,
plowing and year-round work. Plow
hands and year-round workers
wer needed in Gray, Hansford,
Hartley, Hutchinson, Ochiltree,
and Parmer counties. Hoe hands
and help for the vegetable harvest
were in demand in Bailey County,
and Travis County was in need of
dairy, farm and ranch hands.
On the other hand, there is no
marked farm activity in the low
rolling plains excepting the grain
sorghum harvest. In east Texas
farmers whose harvests have been
completed temporarily were seek
ing employment in defense plants
or the cotton fields in the southern
part of the state.
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