The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-01

put with the very vitality. of nations" What pure and applied chemistry,
 working together, have wrought for the modern man and woman makes an almost endless list. yet their work has ! but just begun. The drug trade de- manded quinine that should be devoid of the bitter taste which made that valuable remedy so dificult to admin | ister sometimes but should retain all
 Its anti-malarial properties, and the
 chemist made quinine tasteless. Thor l ium oxide was known for half a cen- 1 tury before 1t was utilized as the basis , for Welsbach mantels that have given new Illuminating powers to our gas- , lights; the waste material from pitch ] blenje was thrown away after most l of the uranium had been removed until 1 suddenly 1t was discovered that radium
 could be extracted from 1t; 25 years
 ago Professor Ira Remsen, as a result
 of strictly scientific Investigations. dis
 covered benzoic sulphimide. which un- der it's more familiar name of sacchar- | inc has been boon to thousands of
 sufferers from i'll health who could
 not with safety use sugar: and in sev-
 eral branches of industry what was once considered a waste by-product
 has become the main material of fac- ] tories.
 | The chemist has his share in practi- | cally all forms of productive activity.
 The department of agriculture, while ] it is testing foods, is at the same time experimenting with methods of treat | ing soils. In the cotton industry. for | instance, the chemist begins his work l with the cultivation of the ground in | which the seed is to be planted and does not finish 1t until the tinted fabric | Is wound and bundled to be put on sale | in the store; he begins with the dig ging of ore from the mine and follows the crude material through its mani fold changes till 1t becomes one of the great engines that distribute our com -IuJ dvos sul psmBIq sLsuBeto Ieo sql | puB psInfuI 6IsnoIIss useq pBq 1uIsd l pue usIuIuA u,oq leul psAoId uoIlBS -I'seAuI uv 'SuiursIo uI psInfuI ussq | SIluedBddB pau Iuo eQ1 lyul psonou | IeIowo uv 'sLsuesIo Lso su1 moLJ sWoo l asuf pgu pBoIIIed vIupAtHsuusd sul l uo uoeoo dsSusssgd U usuM 'o5B sIss6 | oWoS 'peqPBoI sul 10 HOS 6I5A Sul | SuIpuIou pue 'seuIIlsmos sIIpI sul ueul | Iedsep 5uIoS usAs luIed Ieo slJ ol sIyeI l Issls s1I moIJ 'pBoI eql Hq p5sn sIgJ
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 nished by the company The soap was sent to the chemical laboratory, declar-
 ed guilty and the car cleaners cleared
 of all responsibility. The chemist.
 with his expert and minute knowledge of the action of one substance upon an- other. had thus verified the statement of even so humble a person as the car cleaner and incidentally saved the com pany thousands of dollars in its future purchases of so humble a commodity as soap.
 In the larger sense this same chemist safeguards the entire travelling public. His delicate apparatus not only deter mines the working value of the raw material that makes the locomotives and trucks and couples the cars to- gether but keeps this material up to the standard. When new sections of track are built the soil Is often chemi- cally analysed to see how 1t will stand the weight of the structure and on this analysis depends the depth to which piles must be driven or rock ballast laid to make the track permanently level.
 In building the typical American city, as well as in managing its public
 works, the chemist Is equally impor-
 tant. Chemical investigation has made
 all steel and iron construction possible and is still working out the question of . the sky-scraper as the characteristic , structure of the coming century To protect steel and iron from the chemi- , cal action of air is the great problem , of the goth century constructions and it . is here also that the pure science r seeking solely for Knowledge, is al- B ways likely to find the new combina- | tion: such a discovery. for example as
 would lead to new kind of steel and ! iron absolutely immune to atmospheric 9 conditions The chemist is final au-