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Show tho Japanned ware all over the world, still Japan will take off its hat to Dr. Uaekeland and welcome Paekellto as a new discovery of vast Importance. "I say this because the Japanese believe be-lieve In the spirit of fair play. Unfortunately Unfor-tunately we have not always neon treated with that spirit in tins country, as the recent legislation in California and Nevada seems to show. I do not think that U fair play." DISCOVERY OF A NEW CUICAL. SUBSTANCE IT IS VALUABLE FOR ELECTRICAL ELECTRI-CAL INSULATION. Dr. Baekeland's Baekelite May Be Serious Ser-ious Rival of Japanese Laquer Work. New York, Feb. 6 Dr. H. L. Baeke-land Baeke-land announced last night at a meeting meet-ing of the American Chemical society socie-ty that he had discovered a new chemical chem-ical eubetance, which tie says is valuable valu-able for electrical Insulation where a high voltage current is used. It is a coal tar product, with the combined ' properties of amber, celluloid and carbon car-bon and is less expensive than the tsubatance named, or hard rubber. For j the sake of euphony, Dr. Baekelancl ! calls the substance baekelite, althougn i froni a scientific standpoint it would i be known as oQbenzyl-methylenglyco-lanhydryde. Interestingly co-incidental is the fact that tho new substance may have an important bearing on the sale or Japanese lacquer ware In this country in that it produces a hard polished surface and can be forced into ordinarily ordi-narily soft wood making it hard and almost indestructible. As a further j co-incidence, Dr. Jokichl Takamino, I president of the Nippon club, who is greatly interested in chemical rc- search, was present when the dlscov-j dlscov-j ery was announced He rose and ar- ter complimenting the invontor. Bald: I "Although thia substance may prove ! to be the most serious rival of Japanese Jap-anese lacquer work, which hitherto has been exclusively a Japanese product, pro-duct, bo that- it has been known as |