Show li 0 fart A adv L B the stored up sunshine of other ages Is handed down as a heritage to modern civilization told in eight sketches by JOHN RAYMOND no VI prehistoric SUNSHINE coal may well be described as prehistoric huns sunshine hint ages before the dawn of our own era vast forests covered large portion of the earth carth s surface in this ancnik bugs were stored up the cs od af nature arld and after the lipec il 0 0 L o it becane ix cane tin tile heritage of for centeri centuri aft efti r it came into use coal was loo li I 1 birin 14 i ule able only as fuel ln I 1 tir r LU aul a ii 0 nin ft from it then sulphur and lin in black ind and finally gas far fir burp i f ilav that seemed to be the limit of it possibilities ties a fcc few years aio bat today it would be doicu t to lo ci all the articles of comac commerce cc strutted front from its products byproducts by coal cont ns a li lile te or of everything that goes to make up tip trees but it I 1 would be a mistily misti lr o I 1 I 1 that everything that come out ont of co col coal l tar is within n I 1 civile aile there are arc only about a eo I 1 0 n iury icis acts extracted from coal tar front from these tile the chemist is alle able to develop hundreds of thousands of new substances tins is synthetic chern chemistry itry or the ahr process of building up intricate compounds step by step raw material for the development of these coal tar byproducts by products war materials fertilizers colors drugs and a host of other things exists in ill abundance in this country brt wc must be sufficiently insufficiently interested in our future I 1 in n d c p indence to save it we can a not go on indeli bately wasting billions of dollars I 1 1 11 worth of this invaluable substance if in future years we hope to stand on oil an even footing with those nations that long have recognized its value the development of these products and compounds goes back to the color industry i n d this i is s not a large lin business siness in ill itself but it certainly is a 1 I strategic one olle Arneri american cLin industries dus tries borc than million workers ana p odin ui binately threca 1 iiii dollars kurtli burth of f plo product duct every ea nr ar acut upon yes L take tor ii instance tance textiles cai aerl pa p 1 C r an and d 1 p 1 i t naw ion fers are arc constantly be I 1 n in coal t bently K french scientist t produs 1 ir irk several amali but bill p i and synthetic rubies havi bi b i n on oil jhc thc market for borne annc line instead ol 01 sending trader on oil perilous qu td alic ill four cognets cornets s oi ot the world fo things a mail may no nov ny a al 1 biome iome and trust to the che altini I 1 leists ta to in produce every necessity and aloit ast of if th lax luxuries uries no longer need we be d dei pendent upon the potash deposits deposit al germany if we make our own fertil far off rubber trees are not so important if we manufacture our owari owa rubber in the laboratory j brigadier general anios amos A fries chief of the chemical warfare sen vice U S A in a recent paper said what a thrill it must have given riven thi th german himself when he realized tin ill almost limitless power the con control arol 0 the dye industry would give hi him whew he waging war he felt that w with lit that ha control he could win in a war ar against the whole world and few in indeed ce at ara they who know just how close geri many came to winning winn that war the lesson which that bit of history teaches us is to make ourselves masters of the chemical industry in all its ramifications resting secure in the knowledge that if we do so no power on earth can call overcome us for lack of war material materials 6 r I 1 by tit the of ct american business new york J |