Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-06

eralogist has never found.
though it existed before his
doorstep. He has been
able 10 DO in his laboratory in day what required
millions Of years In natures workshop. with me
knowledge he has gained and applied he has affect
ed directly indirectly the life every
an and child in II c world. =
The chemist has revealed ten thousand mysteries
Of nature, learned the lesson that afforded
and then has applied those lessons to humanity
science underles every other science in the category
Whether man is physician newspaper man,
farmer, astronomer an electrician, or what not
back to the chemist he many fundamen-
tai features Of his work. Without knowledge
chemistry medicines could be produced and conf
pounded. The manufacture of this. newspaper and
the ink with which it is printed required cherhici
knowledge. The farmer could have the advanta;s
of fertilizers but for chemistry The electriciap
could never furnish light for cav current for
telephone but for the knowledge /, or some one bs-
fore him had of chemistry. The astronomer the
geologist, the men who give discoveries
of life, chemistry, the men who release humanity
from the thralldom of epidemic disease, all build
upon foundation of chemistry without it the mt
croscope which reveals the mysteries of the unseen
world could not be made. and the telescope. with
which explore the infinite reaches the uni
would never have been called into wtz1
the housewife uses yeast cake to make bread
when the medical laboratory grows germs to develop
toxns they borrow their principal operations from
the chemist He can make lightning flash. and :
hundred times over he has made two blades of grass
grow where one grew before a ,.,',5
The meeting of the congress Washington arc
New York and its subsequent short and long swings
around, the circle in the United States. promises
claim the attention of the whole country. glance
the program of the congress shows that there viii
not be subject under the sup with which, they.
not more less direct interest during the
sessions of the congress.
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Pure food can known as such only by chemical
analysis rule and the congress is laborng in tbs
direction Of the adoption of uniform method
food analysis be the world over. Some Il
the methods Of analysing foods simple that a
housewife them, and other processes
involved. that only the laboratory expert carry
them The adoption of standard methods of fooI
analysis for the whole world will the manu-
facturer in country know just what is necessary
as standard for his product to make it. tlle
analyses Of all other countries -..7..,.
100 81. ..
Another problem which the congress viii attack IS
that Of obtaining word-standard of tests for the
stability of explosives. In these days when wold
trade intercourse is large and distances
small, there is large international trade in
s1ves Unless there is substantial harmony in stale
ment to the degree Of heat the of
sion. etc, which is required produce exploses.
accidents are certain happen. The chemists
things to be expressed in language that
dersood by every person, Of whatever country, who
handles explosives.
In the study of explosives, the congress will co.-
slider their composition. methods processes
manufacture their properties and uses and methods
testing them. borrowing page from the dyn.-
mite ourages of the McNamaras and their associa5es
the congress Will study outrages that
CURED throughput the world, and will try propose
means for the suppression of such troubles -
The congress will devote considerable attention rs
metallurgy and mining, discussing furnace practice
smelling dozens Of related subjects Perh9i,7-
threefourths the worlds gold and silver suppiy
from that could not have been proft.a-
bly, worked but for the improved and cheaper methoi
OF extracting the precious metals z .a
--ses
Perfumes favoring extracts cleaning fluids. tau
ming and feathers will their share at
tention. Some of the finest perfumes in the world
made from of the foulest odoss BIN exist.
ence, and when the perfume manufacturers get =
through telling about the modern processes
be for many a human interest story from the
perfumery factory.
The congress has section that almost dupi.-
work done in the international Congress OF
Hygiene and Demography 1t win consider h.
giene of water. sewage and air. the contanination
and decomposition of food products disinfectans
and methods of testing them Another section call
cd the subsection Of broma tology. t deals WITH
foods-of what they composed, they
analysed chemically, physically, mcroscTOpicaIy,
with the FERNS that in Bronlit-
toIogy word that chemists when they taig
with the misbranding and adulteraton foods when
they nutrition and Diet and all allied
jects -.
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