Show CARRIES WEIGHT ALMOST EQUAL TO ITS OWN 0 1 av I 1 c N I 1 1 I a g view of tile the thomas afore maill plane which recently accomplices a fe feat I 1 long the dream of a pl plon wre M when with ill a useful weight eight almot almost equal to lt it onn can it g gracefully carefully hill lt t the snow and slush nt ithaca 11 Y till the chilt 11 1 id a biplane evolved and produced by the thomas mome aircraft I 1 mention it its weight 11 empty lg 2 2890 pon coundi ad lie ita weight loaded to la 5 WO pounds th thua lla its useful load la Is 2 pounds or only pounds pound less hem the than the weight weigh ol at the th craft many planes carry less than halt their beighl owes big debt toChe to chemistry ye much of industrial wealth can be traced to effort of some scientist mo MOST ST fundamental SCIENCE has haa to do with food we eat water we drink clothing we near and in varying dogma degree with every article in Cone commerce meme by W LEE LEWIS afy head cd of I 1 the b department of chem chemia try northwestern university and the discoverer of the most deadly gas ga ever ile produced by man A render unto onto caesar the things eliat gre am camara beneath a simple grave la in Nort northum burn borland beeland pa lies the dust of a hum horn lit ble english clergyman be was driven from his native lead land by religious 1191 1 intolerance toler e and it sought and found in america intellectual freedom this man priestly never earned over a year let he divell discovered ed oxygen and laid the foundation of modern zhe chemistry tit the great steel industries of conr or country the vast rubber business the tremendous parking interests would world der deem it a rare rale privilege were sere this man living t to a I 1 contribute t to his comfort and it 9 give 1 him the scientific 0 tools feel that would biall d gladden his heart and to acknowledge katin ledge the their 1 r immeasurable debt to him but for or uee the man priestly they can only lay a wreath on an his bis last resting meting in place much of the great industrial wealth of this country ran can be traced friend to the effort of some obscure then chemist dat som borne zealous devotee to pure pum science clence wh who thought little of self and who never neer hd in the fruits of his researches fund fundamental mental science from the standpoint of material re bourgea chemistry 1 Is the most at funda food mental science it has 5 to it do a with ith the to ss air we breathe the water we d drink ik the food we ml eat the clothing we wear and in varying degree with ele every IT a article that enters into cime commerce merce ch chem I 1 terry Is the science of um the coap composition at of matter and ad matter Is that upon which energy hu human an and at otherwise I 1 ceric lse Is expended the science embraces the star dust of outermost space the su shirling irling volcanoes of if sun go gases and ad the bacteria that nibble our food consider I 1 r the value in of a single ingle discovery disi in abstract chemistry harch off IT I 1 over IT a hundred years ago ill dla covered red list torch starch coald d be e converted coul into sugar by it dilute ute acids acid anto the U tied states alone la Is richer by a III 5 ear r becom because m of if that disco discovery lery perkin dia discovered cred mauve mauie in the coal tar dyes its value was om amic indexed d br nn immediate investment vestment iD baz or oam the e m mercerizing mercer izing of cotton aton lies liaa add ed ed to I 1 tile the delight delig I 1 and wealth of the world od street recent I 1 improvements in pe in the incandescent nean descent lamp he has meant at a ag saving of lt a year in the east cost of lighting you may reach for a match me as you read call this if so remember it its chemical hestor hi hl stor t r and ad pa pause to con alder its place 1 in modern civilization civilisation I 1 I 1 foundation u it at ion of if M many y industries A antl chemistry 1 la tile the 1 I of the park pack I 1 lug industry where hem byproducts such much as di digestive cestive ferments fer menta arap glycerine fertilizers etc hove have bea become as 1 am as am main I 1 products chorale chemis try is the foundation of the rubber in giving cheaper ind ad better processes e nf f vulcanizing vulcan izing ame and d mcm recovering tin steel Is not a native P product r but Is a chemically modified prod product net it la Is stated that the 13 bea somer steel process s adds 20 to the world rid a wealth c t h annus annually ily abe chem left istre has given us ns the davy lamp the mine gas indicator the gas mah k end and the standardized explosive chemistry has given gian A us most meet of our liberals Teut leal i and ad chento chemo therapy 1 Is just 1 its infancy ehrlich made do over oar mr arsenical leal mn compounds before he struck up upon those them particular combinations know n a as ll and no chemistry has bum given ua photography moving picture film allma it il gas fire et extinguishers ingul s h are artificial gasoline metallurgical proc pease es ases water softening lening and em age agents ra fertilizers insects aides points paints glass paper the gna gas mantle ninn tle the storage battery the are arc light and has stabilized many an industry bv bc working up into useful products product every trace team of rus raw material ebrada chemistry try has standardized food products and multiplied the dumet of supply it has attacked and par tin 1 solved tile the population problem of se sewerage serge and ad nasle costs dk disposal imel and wa re ter supply salving big arold problem s there them are 33 too tons of nitrogen pressing down upon every acre of the earth a surface and yet our fields tire are starving for fixed nitrogen aud and in 10 on times 9 of war our present auto source of of supply apply of nitrate tor fm explosives I 1 Is to say my the least precarious Che chemistry chemists y 1 Is today solving ing the peb lem of dixe fixed it nitrogen tr to feet further h c elaborate 1 chemistry s A contri lm then to III human life would be to write cite a technical history of indus andua i trial development the other the great at ramt contributing r but 1 og factors have been the or gani gan lying 7 9 ability of business baldness men I 1 and oil the technical skill mill of the engineers engelm T to 1 ind improve 11 american i chemistry to apply ap pp IY it more a and d more as an A III clency measure megumi in A american industry Is better national protection than it pro fe tariffs battleships or I 1 coast t it de from tenses the blab highest t chemical effi fil chency will make us ua invincible in corn core meke merce and d in A war or A As population at ion incise increases and conservation becomes a matter of vital IP I importance P ames it foll tol lotts that chemistry must assume a more and more mine chmill cout place in the well being of man kind che chemistry ads try belongs peculiarly to the age so of if int intensive ire utilization of a country s resources the I 1 cream skim allot alig period he has paz passed red this to Is the age of if by bv pr products ducts still much to 0 be done there Is adan a danger r that gre great industrial un organizations rg who b A owe a their cir very IM existence to the set science 1 I of chemistry Imi patt in A the fullness of their present pros pres verity rim may target forget I 1 their heir debt to the past and their obligation a ties to the future thare there Is still much to be done in the Impre improvement clement of old processes and the illse discovery of new to handicap the chemical laboratories of our educational flon I institutions whency comes the stream of technically trained men and the unselfish selfish contributions of puts pure science A Is effectual to kill bill the erstwhile goose geese that laid the golden dolden egg the universities can cannot 1 of carry the burden without I 1 phout the aid d of f lightened enlightened industrialism they cann cannot 1 raise the 71 e price of their product to meet the I 1 ever e increasing cost of laboratories a scientific I 1 Is equipment high grade instruction et and PA pure re research no thinking man can an fal tall to a recognize that the ranks of the teaching profession present and prospective are becoming ser seriously londy ch depleted d th through gh the inability of our ed mt aai to bear unaided the problem of ever increasing costs it is short shortsighted policy for far big bu business sines to attract from r the averal universities our or inal best chemists om to tm pick before they hey are ripe our young men in course of training or by a lack of sympathetic support to jeopardize the future output of S scientific I 1 lenti fic ie seah |