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Doctor Stratton Leaves Bureau of Standards His Election as President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Deprives Bureau of Its Founder and Directing Genius D'l. SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON is leaving the Bureau of Standards for good. Probably no other governmental change except a vacancy in the White House would create a greater stir in Washington than knowledge of this fact. The man who will take up his duties as President of M. 1. T. in January in a sense is the Bureau of Standards. Called from a professorship in physics at the University of Chicago in 1901, he engineered through Congress a bill creating the Bureau, of which he promptly became the head. The expansion of services and facilities from that time up to the present, until the Bureau of Standards has become renowned the world over, has been directly due to Doctor Stratton's organizing and scientific genius. To touch on the Bureau's war work alone would be to record a list of discoveries covering almost every physical function of the army, the navy, and the chemical plants. The thought of the losses in efficiency of equipment which our military forces would have undergone had not the Bureau of Standards been in existence is terrifying to any one who has read the Bureau's report of work conducted during the war. Dr. Stratton has always been an enthusiastic supporter of amateur radio. Last February he acted as Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Radio Conference which made recommendations for a national radio policy. It is hoped that Dr. Stratton's successor will be a man whose interest in other branches of science will not overshadow his realization of the necessity of intelligent radio regulation. Secretary Hoover, while congratulating Technology on obtaining Doctor Stratton as its head, is evidently exceedingly sorry to have him leave. "The loss of Doctor Stratton as head of the Bureau of Standards," he says, "is a real national loss. He has built up that service from Harris & Fwing DR. S. W. STRATTON a bureau devoted to scientific determination of weights and measurements to a great physical laboratory cooperating with American industry and commerce in the solution of any problems of enormous value to industry which the commercial laboratories of the country, from lack of equipment and personnel, have been unable to undertake. "While the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to be congratulated on securing Doctor Stratton, one cannot overlook the fact that the desperately poor pay which our Government gives to great experts makes it impossible for us to retain men capable of performing the great responsibility which is placed upon them "