The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-04-30
10 SAVE OUR LINEN.
LAUNDRY Fellowship Founded In
University of Kansas.
WASHING buds IS A SCIENCE.

te%rofeeeeF FaFapher VIII STUDY ana
Experiment TO the End That Meme
Shirts and Women'a Waists May Not
BE Ruined by the Chemicals ussd.
Twenty million dollars a week for
1aunderingi That sum approximately
IDS spent every seven days to wash the
shirts and collars and the shirt waists
II and many other things worn and soil
cd by the S0O00.000 people who make
mp the population Of the United States.
II that ended the matter the $1.26
paid by every family Of Ave persons
wouldn't be 30 excessive a charge, but
when the process OF laundering ruins
che fabrics in double quick time 1t be-
comes a very serious question indeed.
1t has worried the world for many
years. Men who make the things used
IN washing are worried, too, but not 80
much as the men who pay for the
ruined clothing.
Robert Kennedy Duncan, professor
: Of Industrial chemistry In the Univer-
d @1ty OF Kansas, declared In an article
IN Harper's Magazine year ago that
che chemistry Of laundering IL vile
The result was q food OF letters Of In
quiry from every part Of the country.
In particular one concern wrote that
Its mechanical processes for launder-
ang were approximately perfect, but
Z that the chemical processes were con-
Quoted on q basis Of almost medieval
ignorance, says the Kansas City Star.
Tho outcome Of the correspondence
was the establishing In the university
Of temporary fellowship to solve the
DrOhiom. II n to be known 40 the AL,
Gen Bpsare industrial fellowship. The
Alden Speare's Sons company Ia to
/ pay $500 year for two years 10 Fred
Earagher, A. b., who has been chosen
by the university to make the re.
searches.
In addition to the $500 year the
@enth Of the value OF whatever he may
~ discover and agrees to employ him on
Germs mutually agreeable when his
work has been finished. Moreover, the
fellow Ia TO write comprehensive
I monograph containing everything he or
y others may have discovered to the
minuteat detail This monograph ls to
aie In the archives Of the university for
p Ahree years, when It In TO be published
by the University Of Kansas 80 that
che whole world may benefit thereby.
Ihls means that the improved chem
.:lstry, II the fellowship DO successful.
win go into every laundry and every
aaundry supply manufacturing concern
On the country.
'This Fellowship" Professor Duncan
emaya. establishes q new relation be-
tween the state and the university, a
: wnlationahlp which will benefit the peo-
/ pie. The university. the company which
: eatabllshea tho Fellowship and the
young man appointed to the task. II It
results In cheapenlng the cost Of laun-
fderlng only the fraction Of cent the
country win be benefited and the fell
bow win reap a rich reward"
The founding Of the Alden Speare
Reilowahlp. Professor Duncan says, Ia
only the beginning OF the new relation.
awhip.
ny October says Professor Dun.
ran. 'there win be dozen fellow
2inaalpA. This opens a way for the small
manufacturer to solve many of the diff
Acuitiea that have harassed his busl-
: ness 1t is,a chance to use the newest
knowledge. the latest discoveries OF
ssraAnce. 1t Is chance for the people
!. TO yet concrete return from the uni
Trversifies. Almost any manufacturer
gan AFFORD the cost of the fellowship
needed In his particular industry, cost
( no small that II science did not prac-
Ideally insure success would be no at. |
: fraction to a chemist"