Show tUlle Little Goes a Long Way Swedes on Lookout For Arsenic Buyers By Dy Frederick O. O Othman WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-If W WASHINGTON If It you ou have hav any good Ideas and no wisecracks please on what to do with a few hundred thousand tons of ot fine tine quality arsenic you ou might get in touch with th the Swedish government govern govern- ment All over the world Sweden is trying to peddle arsenic of which It produces tons of the pure stuff annually The demand is not what It used to be It do doesn't take much to commit a murder and hardly anybody uses arsenic any anymore anymore anymore more to tint wallpaper green or even even to dye dyo calico lavender Too dangerous What hat I mean Is that the supply of arsenic never was greater and demand lower My researches Into this Interesting subject began when the National Geographic society society so so- i Issued a bulletin on the world arsenic surplus One thing seemed to lead to another and now I think I can say without boasting that I Iam Iam Iam am an arsenic expert Metal Product By-Product Almost every gold silver and lead mine in the world produces arsenic as a by Most of em cm let it escape Into the air as a gas But more than 20 years ago they opened a silver mine at Vas- Vas near the arctic circle only to discover that it was one of the richest arsenic deposits there ever was So they established laboratories whose scientists ts were supposed to discover new uses for arsenic For two decades they have labored without making a dent In the arsenic arsenic arsenic ar ar- pile This Is 18 because a little goes a long way At the moment they have tons on hand and they are des des- They buried some of ot It and the farmers kicked because it killed the crops They mixed it with concrete and dumped it at sea only to have the fishermen howl that it murdered the herring Seek New Uses Now they're storing the stuff tuf in warehouses hoping against hope that somebody will figure out some someway someway someway way to use it or barring that some way to destroy it It wont won't burn Drat it The u uses es legal of arsenic are strictly limited Taxidermists use it to stuff owls A pinch of ot arsenic in the molten metal gives give a nice glisten to ornamental iron work It kills bugs all right but also people and is not is-not not recommended for vegetables The Swedish scientists ts did discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover that it was great stuff for doing away with termites but it doesn't take much arsenic to make the proper solution for soaking log-soaking purposes A heavy dose of ot arsenic will kill a weed but also a rose Patent medicines It used to be before the food and drug administration got busy that many a patent medicine house put out arsenic tablets which ladies Indie took to make their skin vel vel- vel- vel vety It did too but it frequently did away with the ladies ladles Some Austrians take arsenic as asa asa asa a kind of ot tonic They begin with small doses which they gradually increase Claim it sharpens the appetite This is questionable |