The Place of Research inBuilding Oklahoma

Following is a radio talk delivered by Dr .Homer L. Dodge, dean of the Graduate School,over radio station WKY at the invitation of R.T. Stuart, president of the Mid-Continent LifeInsurance Company, who conducts a weeklyradio program devoted to business and industrialdevelopment of Oklahoma .

WE are told that the King of Eng-land once asked the great scientist, MichaelFaraday, "What is the use of your experiments?" to which Faraday replied, "YourMajesty, of what use is a baby?" Again,when the Prime Minister visited his labora-tory and asked the same question, Faradayreplied, "My Lord, some day you can taxthese things ." How true this last remarkhas turned out to be can be amply testifiedto by any officer of a public utility company,for the principles of electromagnetism, dis-covered a little over a hundred years ago byFaraday, are the basis of the electrical powerindustry .Why is it that the commercial applica-

tions of these experiments were delayed halfa century so that many of us can rememberthe first electric lights, the first street rail-ways and telephones? Most of us, in fact,can remember when there were no radios,no talking pictures and no television . Howdoes it happen that the pace at which scien-tific experimentation finds expression inuseful applications has been so greatly ac-celerated in the last quarter of a century?The answer was, I believe, first given by Dr .Frank P. Jewett, President of the Bell Tele-phone Research Laboratories, who ex-plained that the most important inventionof all time has been the invention of the pro-cess of invention through organized, plan-ned, scientific research and the systematicapplication of the results of research tohuman needs . At any rate, the applicationof this principle has nowhere been moresuccessfully carried out than in the BellLaboratories where it has resulted in epochmaking developments in radio, long dis-tance telephone, television and sound pic-tures, and in valuable by-products such asthe instrument for enabling persons tospeak whose vocal cords have been destroy-ed by disease . Similar methods of organizedresearch applied by such men as Charles F.Kettering, President of the General MotorsResearch Corporation, have been respons-ible for the perfection of the modern auto-mobile and airplane.Perhaps you are wondering what this has

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By HOMER L. DODGE

to do with building Oklahoma and makingit a better place for you and me to live in .It is this . The methods of organized re-search which have been so fruitful in thesegreat industries can be applied to a state asan industrial, economic, and social unit . Allthat is needed is a systematic plan to bringthe research talent in the state to bear uponits problems . Especially must research bemade available to smaller industries and ap-plied to the problem of creating new indus-tries .

Research, which is just another name fororganized inquiry into the unknown, hasits place in all fields of endeavor . Out of re-search in physics came the methods for thedetection of probable oil bearing structureswhich have revealed new Oklahoma oilfields and will reveal more . Biological Re-search at the University of Wisconsin re-vealed methods of irradiating foods byultra-violet light which are of incalculablebenefit to humanity and have brought tothat University large sums for the supportof its research program . At Ohio State Uni-versity, extensive research in many fieldsis being carried on, including studies inceramics, an important Ohio industry, rang-ing from fire tests of tile walls to the manu-facture of artificial teeth . At Purdue Uni-versity, engineering research is emphasizedand has resulted in outstanding contribu-tions in the fields of communication andtelevision .

In Oklahoma, although much has alreadybeen accomplished by various organizations-notably the leading educational institu-tions and the Geological Survey-the pos-sibilities in the situation have scarcely beentouched.At the institution with which I am con-

nected, there has been a conscious attemptto direct the research program toward stateneeds, and valuable results have alreadybeen attained in the fields of business, biol-ogy, chemistry, engineering, geology, homeeconomics, physics, and the social sciences .At the present time we are organizing aResearch Institute for the purpose of mak-ing our research facilities immediately avail-able to the citizens of the state. Throughthis and other means there must be furtherstudies of the raw materials available in thestate and especially of the ways by whichOklahoma raw materials may be fabricatedby Oklahoma industry not only for homeconsumption but also for shipment else-where. At present Oklahoma's raw ma-

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Oklahomans are beginning to be Okla-homa conscious . We are realizing that thetime has come when we should not be con-tent to remain a colony of the industrializedEast but must develop our own economy .But we must compete with outsiders not by

In Public ServiceIn All Parts of Oklahoma, Sooner Graduates AreServing Their Communities as Elected Officials

UNIVERSITY graduates andformer students are playing a large partin administration of county governmentsover the state . A survey of the roster Ofcounty officials reveals that in more thanone half of the State's seventy-seven coun-ties one or two or more of the principalelective offices are held by Universityalumni .

County attorneys, county judges andcounty superintendents of education arefound to be O. U. alumni in a greatmany cases .

Following are elective county officialsand district judges who, according to re-sponses to Alumni Office queries sent toeach county, are University graduates orformer students :Adair-George M. Hagan, '30, county super-

intendent, Stilwell .Alfalfa-Floyd L . Croxton, '35law, county

judge, Cherokee ; Finis O . Stewart, '35law,county attorney, Cherokee.

Beaver-Keith Drum, '386a, '40law, countyattorney, Beaver ; Lee Hulse, '33ed, county sup-erintendent, Beaver .Blaine-B . D . Gambel, '38, county superin-

tendent, Watonga .

Carter-John E . McCain, '25law, county judge,Ardmore .Choctaw-Norman Horton, '34, county at-torney, Hugo; Ray Blakely, '39, county clerk,Hugo.Cimarron-J . A . McMahan, '376a, '39law,

county attorney, Boise City .Cleveland-Aubrey C . Moses, '26ba, '28law,county judge, Norman ; Otis Blankenship, '33ba,'39law, county attorney, Norman ; Virgil Young,'22, county clerk, Norman ; R . W . Hamilton,'32ba, county superintendent, Norman .Coal-Dale Brown, '36bus, county attorney,

Coalgate ; Arthur Pope, '25, county treasurer,Coalgate .ComancheW.

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'32law,county attorney, Lawton ; Clarence Scott, '37,county superintendent, Lawton .

Creek-Birney Herrin, '21ba, county super-intendent, Sapulpa .

any form of tariff but by the excellence ofour products . In developing our productsfrom our own raw materials we must usethe most powerful device which modernindustry has found-and this is research .Any investment of individuals, or of indus-tries, or of the State itself in programs ofresearch will be an investment in the futureof Oklahoma and will bear a high return .

Custer-Donald B . Darrah, '22, county judge,Arapaho ; G . C . Loving, '31law, county at-torney, Arapaho .

Garfield-Paul Edwards, '31, county judge,Enid ; Hugh Conway, '23, county attorney, Enid .Garvin-R . B . Garvin, '29law, county judge,

Pauls Valley ; M . J . Ewert, '38law, county at-torney, Pauls Valley ; George Phelps, '39bus,county treasurer, Pauls Valley ; Earnest Wall, '38,county superintendent, Pauls Valley ; Ben T . Wil-liams, '31ba, '33law, Pauls Valley, district judge,District No . 19 .Grady-L . A . Wood, '28law, county judge,

Chickasha ; T. H. Williams, '26law, county at-torney, Chickasha ; Sam P . White, '32, countysurveyor, Chickasha ; Robert W. Osborn, '39,county superintendent, Chickasha .Grant-J . C . Stevenson, '24, county judge, Med-

ford ; R . L . Cooper, '33, county attorney, Med-ford .Greer-Percy Powers, '05, county judge, Man-gum ; H . K . Ross, '25, court clerk, Mangum ;Roy Brigs, '16, county, clerk, Mangum .Haskell-Graham Holmes, '35, county judge,

Stigler ; J. B . Pennington, '40law, county at-torney, Stigler .Hughes-Bob Howell, '266a, '28law, Holden-

ville, district judge, District No . 14 .Jackson-Carrol Womack, '28law, county

judge, Altus ; Weldon Ferris, '296a, '31law, coun-ty attorney, Altus ; J . M . Maddox, '26, county

ty judge, Hobart; Gerald Watts, '38law, countyattorney, Hobart,

LeFlore-Poster Windham, '301aw, county at-torney, Poteau .

Lincoln--Frank McVey, '366a, '36law, countyattorney, Chandler .Logan-H . J . Adams, '33law, county attorney,

Guthrie ; Blanche Farley, '40ed .m, county super-intendent, Guthrie.

Love-lohn Tippit, '386a, '40law, county at-torney, Marietta ; W . B . Looney, '29, county treas-urer, Marietta ; J . I . Goins, '28law, Marietta, dis-trict judge, district No . 19 .McClain-E . Snuth Hester, '33law, county at-

torney, Purcell .McCurtain-Walter Scott, '31law, county

judge, ](label (resigned to become secretary of StateBar) ; F(I Shipp, '38law, county attorney, Idabel.Major-Harold Gasaway, '36law, county at-

torney, Fairview .

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Southern FloralBryan-Bill Steger, '366a, '36law, county at-

torney, Durant .superintendent, Altus .Johnston-C . E . Draper, '35, county attorney,

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Kay--Roy R. Carver, '23law, county judge,Newkirk ; Roy E . Grantham, '346a, '34law, '40ed . m ., county attorney, Newkirk .

317 W . Boyd Phone 1000 Norman county judge, El Reno ; W . L . Funk, '35law, Kingfisher-Roy H. Mead, '34, county judge,county attorney, El Reno ; Lucius Babcock, '31 Kingfisher .law, El Reno ; district judge, District No . 13 . Kiowa-Clifford E . Huff, '25ba, '27law, coun-