TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 2 May 1933, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH

Fur various reasons industrial research is not undertaken in Great Britain to anything like the extent that it is in competitor countries such as the Unted States of America and Conn any, state Professor X. E. Gibbs and Mr A. .1. V. Underwood, of the. London University in a letter to “The Times." In some instances this neglect * of' research has been due to an excessive individualism on the

part of manufacturers engaged in the same industry. A further facto:' lias

been the failure of some vseaidi organisations to justify the expectation of those who established liiem. Generally they failed either because they were badly conceived or because they were entrusted to workers who, either by temperament or train-

ing, were not suitable for the work*. A manufacturer lias been known to establish a research laboratory much in the spirit of the man who mounts a beautiful mascot on the radiator of his car: It looks well, and might bring him luck! Another has regarded his laboratory primarily as a special show place with which to impress visitors or prospective customers. In many, eases the fa’birc of a research laboratory to be of real service to industry has been due to luck of industrial training and outlook in the members of the research staff. a is IS B WORDS OE WISDOM Xo work is worth doing badly, and lie who puts Ills best into every task will outstrip the man who waPs v 'or a great opportunity. —Joseph Chamberlain. a a m ii TALE OP THE DAY. “Uncle, yon aren’t married, are von ?’ ’

“No, Robbie.” “Then who tells you what yon ought not to do?”