Show e- e b b rw I f L t B I I I i in he Message less je io to I Wom n Asks i Them f io Eo je Recognise e t Its Ifs Importance t 1 In the Hie home hornet I This This' Is perhaps the nub 5 of a me ln e to the women worn wom en of ot tile the United States i In the form of a widely i circulated plea pien that they it assess anew the tho olne a ri of If the tho intimate and anel unending un tin ending service of ot chi m i. i I try to home hOUlt nit nail country The TheR R plea plen Is 1st In the Inter Interests of the Industry as RI n a whole holl And where v where litre Is h c chemistry of ot more morn value thanIn thou than hr In Intile lie tile house pct t n Pho rc of ot I the he lending leading women of the United States e ha endorsed this mese message message mes- mes e sage to the American women They f ore lire i Mrs MM Herbert v Hoover er wife of ot Unit Unit- rd Ill s Secretary pt f t Commerce I I tr Iho national president of the Girl j Scouts and u n college rolle graduate In mm 1 lag Ing engineering j b. b Mrs lr Thomas G fI O. O Winter president 11 of ot th the nN General reiteration of ot Wo Women's i clubs which tins lIns n wide nation num- num Iff of club women l Il Miss Maude Wl of the womans woman's department Nation Nation- nl f federation l Il Miss s Ada L. L Com Comstock tock president of ot c college and president of ot the American Association of or University Women I Mrs George Georgo Maynard Minor post president dent general of the lie Daughters of the American Amerlan devolution He Jle lle like mother used to make Is Isa a phrase to warm the cockles of ot a n mans manes heart But Dut mother didn't nl nl- nl ways OS make good pie And apparently the ithe present generation of potential mothers Is not paying much attention attention- to pie-making pie or of any other home bome cooking There lies been a shocking lack of cold cooking In III American homes bomes And good cooking is a foundation of or the home j just st as the home Is tf a foundation of ot society The saying saving that a n French rench family will hive well on what on-what what an on American American family tarn fam ily wastes Is f far r from being a joke And how can a hous housewife Intelligent ily dy handle the them m many ny things Indispensable Indispensable sable to the 11 Ing of ot the tile family without with with- out tout a n working e of the the why and nud wherefore of ot those things These e tine leading lent American women have bore signed a n statement of ot approval which Includes the following Moth the plea and the statements upon u which the me message rests we WP have carefully considered and endorsed unanimously We ask the women omen of America to give a n thoughtful reading rends rend rend- s h ing lag to these pages to make snake them the 1 subject of at Individual and organization discussion to form forum careful judgment on the hearing bearing of the subject upon J their Individual or organization Inter luler ests I This nation has bas fallen behind In Inthe inthe the promotion of ot research In that 1 branch bronch of ot chemistry upon which rests I the preservation of health the practice practice tice of ot medicine the mho elimination of or waste from the homo and Industry by byl bythe l the tIle conversion con of that waste Into humanly hu r manly usable tumble products that branch of or chemistry upon which r re rats Js s tile the Improvement Im ira t provement and Increase In fu our tool food supplies J the conservation of our resources resources re re- sources through a wider find anti more effective effective ef ef- ef r l utilization of ot materials In Ina wh a I wort word we e have hn fallen short in the It domain known as II organic chemical re re- I search hearth within which lie nn an number of ot the strategic places over oven overlooking E looking the strongholds of ot nature te Much Is to lI be gained by riveting HOME IAN i 1 A o A a A J Cal c I the lie attention of ot American women I upon the tho fuel fact lIt heretofore stated that thatto I to be In organic chemistry iry Is ts to tobe tobo be Le weak ns nR a u nation In the lie very heart I of scientific and that such weakness Is II Itself a n challenge to the American Amerlan public Obviously Ob the re er reverse e of this tact fact Is that lint the nation notion which belittles or orI I Ignores ors or's the importance of ot persistent sId skillful 11 fill pursuit of knowledge the na nay nation nation tion thou which withholds from soun sound research research re re- re- re search the material resources 4 and om- om Ial recognition essential to Its sup sup- port that Port that nation will be bo outdistanced and find outclassed by the nations which grasp the astounding present day significance significance sig sig- of ot the ancient doctrine Knowledge Is Power The nation that allows Itself thus to be outclassed out out- out cJ classed and outdistanced In a t type pc of research lying at nt the very heart henrt of scientific research hot only writes It Itself it self down a laggard In the time worlds world's principal harvest hanst fields of ot knowledge and forfeits Its claim to respect ns os an equal bearer as w well ell as an un equal shar shar- sharer er In such harvest pst yields Ields It Imperils Its national Independence If It not Its Its' national existence For It Is nt at the mercy mery of other nations for th the skill needed to vv wrest rest from Its own resources resources essentials of life h health alth and wealth essentials often too of or a actual protection pro pro- protection In time of conflict on lct Until a n few few years jears ago ngo there has been In this country no c corresponding correspond ing log supporting structure for the organic or ganic chemists no chemists no Industries whose constant demands for tor skilled research assured the chemist a n living while he searched archEd out from natures nature's compounds their secrets of ot life lire health aile and human welfare Support for such research was to be foun found only llly In o overseas coun coun- tries Upon overseas o chemists we had hall to depend for an on amazing t number of ot absolute essentials of life The story of how our few organic chemists under the forced draft of the tho war secured from our own soft coal and other natural resources the drugs dyes des und and other essentials of life lite as asell well ell as os In the conduct con cou duct durt of ot war ar has hns lust Its novelty no but hut not Its significance Organic I tl try underlies these Industries built up as us n II result of ot the conflict ns as the ho en entire entire entire tire science of chemistry underlies the development of our natural resources Cup Cnn the Ilse women whose hose activities center upon making this nation secure In Its peaceful liE development be lIe wise or effect effective e he In their decisions and ond aa uc- uc thins tints and Ignore the needs and anti achieve achievements meats ments of ot chemical research The women women wom wom- en who v ore arc working for the nations nation's peaceful s security will find no more Illuminating or enthralling subject of f study than the tho bearing of chemistry upon national defense I The growth tb trod and fruitage of ot chemical research In America hard been retarded by th tb the lack of pUbliC appreciation This is le an Indictment of the Intelligence of American women as well as of American men Manly Mani Manifestly featly It Is la through the great women's women organizations that women will do their most effective work In remedying this grievous nations national fault What are ore the obvious ob first steps First of or all alt get the educators and scientists In your four own communities In touch with the objective of your organization activity Find Ind out what bearing the development of ot chemical research has upon that objective objective- whether it be national defense promotion promotion promotion promo promo- tion of ot agriculture development of ot national na na- national resources promotion of ot public health or other civic or educational activity Second Second Find Find out what research equipment and personnel In your community community com corn and state and In the nation are aro devoted to the subjects in which you jou 1 0 are interested Third Look Third Look Into the educational systems of your own community and e t WL z r i 1 I I I i rJ o I I state to learn what place Is assigned In the curricula to chemistry organic and inorganic and how bow much human interest characterizes Its lis teaching F See Fourth Fourth Sec what your local li libraries Ii 11 have havo In the way way of ot authoritative the tive and Interesting literature on organic organic organic or or- ganic chemistry Fifth Study Fifth Study carefully and decide for tor yourselves whether the organic chemical Industries the Industries the manufacture of ot dyes drugs drugg and th the finer filler chemicals are are necessary ns as ns' ns nn an assurance assurance of support of the American young oung men and women who may be Induced to choose a career in the field of organic c chemistry as os a result of your jour our enliven i Ing lag activities Sixth When Sixth When you have o gathered this Information through group study be be It remembered along the line Une of at your group Interests and activities activities- take counsel el with u a other groups of ot women who have been studying the I sane Sa subject from their own angles of approach b the men who are concerned cone con con- and ontI active In the development of ot organic chemistry and an organic chemical personnel In m America Sev With Seventh With this Information and ond with this counsel formulate your yourl j own Ideas as to what national and ond state policies should be he put Into effect I for the tho surest devel development and maintenance main tEnane of oton an American organic chemical diem chem I ical teal personnel adequate to our national nation al needs I Act Eighth 1 Act In accordance with I Ithe the Judgment you have ha thus formed and d demand of ot those opposing your our course couo of or action a 0 clear explanation of ot the motive and grounds grounts of ot their opposition |