Cornell Alumni News Volume 4J', Number 19 April 1, 1945 Price 20 Cents London ;:i; :.V WHY A BATTLE WAGON WEARS 4,000 SAPPHIRES THE DELICATE PRECISION instruments so essential to the by industry to combat wear in precision gauges, cutting navigation of ships of the sea —and ships of the air —are tools, thread guides for textile mills, barometers, com- dependent for accuracy on jewel bearings. There are passes, and watches. Phonograph needles that last in- 4,000 of them in a battleship. definitely are another interesting use. Before the war, synthetic sapphire for these bearings American synthetic sapphire production indeed is a came from abroad. Today, because of concentrated ef- tribute to American ingenuity, and promises much for forts over the past 36 months by THE LINDE AIR PROD- the Nation's postwar progress. 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Nan Holdings of United States Government obligations Address- have increased to $1,568,317,000, representing policy- City and State_ *A Mutual Company Incorporated under the Laws of New York State PRIVATE ENTERPRISE—(continued) New York's First Bank Personal Trusts Established 1784 Since 1830 "Only by inattention or blindness..." "If we all work for the state, if the only real avenue to satisfaction and advancement is polit- ical, there can be no real control over those in power. "The most fruitful economy that the world has ever seen has not lost the springs of vitality, nor is it ready for the paralyzing blueprint of the official. We Americans do not love monopoly, and only by inattention or blindness would we turn over our beloved country into the greatest of all monopolies—the super-state.55 -ARTHUR A. BALLANTINE, former Undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury. From a letter printed in The New York Times Feb. 25, 1945. BANK OF NEW YORK 48 Wall Street—New York I5 UPTOWN OFFICE: MADISON AVENUE AT 63RD STREET Commercial Banking Executor and Trustee Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Volume 47, Number 19 April 1, 1945 Price, 20 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N.Y. Published the first and fifteenth of every month. and burn it down, lice and all." Later, CornelΓs Educational Pioneers Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey added his inspirational examples. Rice never James E. Rice '90 forgot how Bailey was so interested in his teaching that he often walked into BY EARL W. BENJAMIN Ίl the classroom starting his lecture be- fore he could close the door. This continues our series on the cooperation is the greatest force in pioneers who have blazed new Itrails When Professor Bailey became the material world." A few years ago, Dean of the College of Agriculture in in education at Cornell. Articles have I asked him to autograph his photo- 1903, he asked Rice to come back to appeared on President Andrew D. graph for my office. What did he White, Robert H. Thurston, Liberty Cornell as assistant professor of Poul- write? "The ability to cooperate is Hyde Bailey, James Law, and Edward try Husbandry, the first position of our best measuring stick, James E. L. Nichols '92. Others will be pub- that title to be established anywhere. Rice." lished in forthcoming issues. Rice accepted, and later being pro- Earl W. Benjamin was a student and colleague of Professor Rice for fifteen First Poultry Teacher moted to full professorship, remained years. Since 1922 when he resigned as While still an undergraduate, Rice until he became professor emeritus, professor of Poultry Husbandry at Cor- started writing for several agricul- July 1, 1934. During these three dec- nell, he has been successfully putting tural papers in the course of which he ades, members of the poultry staff to business use the principles and prac- reported the proceedings of the first were increased from two to more than tices in which Rice has been a leader. Farmers' Institute ever held in New thirty, with a corresponding increase Benjamin received the BSA in 1911 York State. During this time he made in the number of students taught and and stayed in the Graduate School and his first address, a talk on "The De- activities carried on. A $90,000 build- as instructor in Poultry Husbandry, re- velopment of the Egg" before the ceiving the MS in 1912 and the PhD in ing (later named Rice Hall), and aux- 1914. He was appointed assistant pro- Agricultural Association of which he iliary buildings were erected for the fessor in 1914, professor in 1920. For was president. At his own expense, he Poultry Department. thirteen years, his office has been in carried on the first poultry feeding It is significant that of men and wo- New York City, first as general man- experiments in any American college, men studying under Professor Rice's ager and treasurer of Pacific Egg Pro- in the third story of the old Red Barn. direction, at least twenty-eight have ducers* Cooperative, Inc., a marketing Upon graduation, Rice accepted Dean become heads of poultry departments agency for eggs from West Coast poul- Roberts's offer to remain one year as of colleges and experiment stations in trymen's cooperatives, and latterly as his assistant.