Science: Peaceful Arts

Many U. S. leaders in scientific applications to human needs were last week studying their affairs so that they might leave in the near future for a study of arts and crafts museums in Europe. These men will travel and study to fulfill the last wishes of the late Henry R. Towne, engineer, head of the Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. (locks and hardware), who was the personal friend of most of them.

Engineer Towne bequeathed $1,000,000 to establish in Manhattan a Museum of the Peaceful Arts....

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