The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-26
SACRIFICES $52S,OOO TO
AID CAUSE OF GERMANY
Dr.. Hugo Schweitzer Tells About His Contracts With
Edison Company for Carbolic Acid-Moderate
in His Views With Regard to War.

ceasing TO furnish any country with the
weapons of war"
Then you 10 not entirely agree with
those German-Americans who clamor
continually for an embargo on arms"
NO. said the chemist. but he added
with his rosy smile: However, 1 do
not blame them. I think you have to go
10 extremes in this country to make
yourself heard or gain a moderate
point"
But as for Americans who sail on
English ships, DR.. Schweitzer has no in
diligence for them.
Il do all L can TO aid Germany with
out inturing America" he said earnestly.
Il do not think the loss OF the lives
OF a few foo Americans who insist on
travelling on enemy ships IL any eason
for bringing this country into the war.
In a morning paper Ia an interview with
{. NJ. s. Mcclellan. h tells at great
length what a horrible thing 1t would be
If he had to delay sailing in order to
cross on a neutral boat and the produce
ton of his latest PM Lady were de-
layed a week. Terrible! 1t would be
almost an act OF war.
Il was doubly pleased when the
chance came to buy the surplus car
bolic acid from Edison's plant. because
II meant at one stroke taking away from
the ammunition makers n big supply OF
material and the supplying OF much
needed medicines to America. l am as
ISOLATED with a manufacturer Of sail
cylic acid and he takes the carbolic and
returns the salicylic TO me. Then we
make the medicines from that ourselves.
SO I know what becomes of the origina
carbolic acid. No, zone OF II IL going
into picric acid we receive back the
salicylic for the carbolic pound for
pound"
says Germany Has Won.
That there might be no doubt as to
the quality Of MIR. Schweitzer's pro-
Germanism. he was catechised as to
"who began the war" WHO VIII
win? sc"
Germany was attacked he replied.
that rosy smile merely enforcing the em-
, phasis of what he said. Russia mobi-
lized and was standing at the German
frontier. Who will win? Germany has
won already. | do not see what remains
except to make peace. Territory Tor
Germany? ] have no idea about that"
The chemist feels bitterly about the
American press. especially the New YORK
newspapers. Yet he asserts that he sees
the force Of some of the arguments
against Germany.
II have no trouble in discussing the
war with an E~nglishman.' he smiled.
II can talk with him. yes. But not
with Americans. They ~out-English the
English. They are extremists.
II think the submarine. "A new war
weapon. has made obsolete much OF
international law. If Americans were
warned TO remain on their W Or neutral
ships and did SO everything would be
all right. Then at the end of the war
let there be "A meeting at The Hague
at which an agreement can be reached
as to exactly what submarines may and
may not do in future wars
i Mr.. Schweitzer is "a years old and
came to America at ~. 4. native of a
Sileslan town near Breslau. Germany.
he is now an American citizen. He is
chairman of the finance committee Of
the Friends of Peace, under whose aus
pieces William Jennings Bryan spoke in
New York shortly after quitting the
Cabinet. lie is also interested with
Henry Weismann in the project To found
a newspaper in English in New York
city to support the German view Of
the war. lie IL "A past president of the
Chemists Club OF this city. and was for
many years secretary OF the New York
section of the Society of Chemical In
dustry of Great Britain. Before the
war his most intimate friends We're
Englishmen. He is ex-chairman OF the
Nerein Deutscher Chemiker or New
FORK and a member of the American
Chemical Society.
Mr.. SchweitZer's writings on the war
include Can Germany BE Starved Into
Subm, ssion % Military Strategy and the
Enemy's Industry" industrial Ger
many in Wartime" (part). The Chem
lists side of the War in the Reriep
Of RcrieUs for August, and German
Mllitarism and Its Influence Upon the
Industries in the Popular Science
Monthly for December. 1914.
MY allegiance is to .hIperc ca. but /
do all | can to help Germany without
hurting the United States" repeated
the smiling chemist as he said
gooi-by.