The Importance of Science in Government

Government laboratories must do much routine work, but in getting it done they only too often fail to make any distinction of persons. Many governmental scientific workers are directly controlled by persons who have at most a mere smattering of scientific knowledge. The subject of everyday science is being removed from the higher civil service entrance examinations. A great many processes depending on such research are sought for with complete secrecy until the stage at which patents can be taken out.