The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-26
The Scientists and the South.

The Manufacturers Record points
out that the chemist has a broad field
of opportunity in the South and it en-
phasizes the fact that the South has
unlimited need for the chemist. We
have long since realized that, and we
want to add that the South is a great
unexplOred field for the geologist. the
mineralOgist and the botanist. The
day that we have practical and applied
science in the South, it will begin the
dawn of new revelation. In all these
fields there is wide expanse of on.
portunity in every portion of the
South, and the Manufacturers Record
does we'll to especially elaborate the
subject of "The Chemist and His Rela-
tion to the Chemical Potentialities of
the South" That great publication
has constructive purpose in making
these interesting and timely re-
marks:
This is the age in which chemistry
Is supreme. 1t is an age in which we
are beginning to get a faint concep-
tion Of how little we yet know and
how little we have yet achieved.
"As we study what the chemist has
been doing in metallurgical develop
ment, in the saving of waste products
and turning them into profit; as we
note how all the resources of nature
are for the skill of the chemist be-
coming the raw material out of which
he creates products whose value to
mankind knows no limit. out of which
he produces wealth beyond the dreams
Of olden days, out Of which he fash
ions new worlds Of infinite activity, we
more and more realize that all that
has been done is merely the forerun-
ner of greater things to come.
"As the chemist in his laboratory
brings forth new and hitherto unsus-
pected sources of wealth and power,
he, too, more and more realizes that
he is but working in the infant stages
of his science and it's relation to all
the material activities Of mankind.
Back Of all human progress in
manufactures, in agriculture, stands
the chemist. He is the mighty power
which is opening up for the manufac-
turer, the capitalist, the agriculturist
and the physician new worlds of mar
velous and amazing results. But the
chemist knows that his work has
scarcely begun.
In all the broad world there is
probably mo field which offers wider
opportunities for the profitable de-
velopment of industries, for the ultili-
zation of raw materials in the creation
OF wealth. and for the development of
industries essential to the prosperity
Of the country in time of peace, and
to it's safety in time of war, than the
South.
!. .Gs;here is an empire which knows
no limit for the chemist. Here is
section which, OF all others, should be
the most active in enlisting the CO.
operation of the chemist, for the
chemist is the pioneer who precedes
the successful manufacturer and
farmer, and here is an empire Of op-
portunity where the chemist must be
the leader.
las important as is the chemist to
this field, the field is equally as i'm
portant to the chemist, for here he
finds combination Of resources that
cannot be duplicated in any other Sec
tion Of this or any other land.
''The South should become the
chemical producing section of the ma
ton and here the chemist should find
his largest opportunity of usefulness
and activity in the utilization of truly
marvellous resources"
The foregoing is not only a hint to
the South and her chemists, but it is
an invitation to the chemists of Amer
lea? The main purpose is to interest
the South in the chemist and chem
istry with view to urging Southern
representation at the second National
Exposition of Chemical Industries, to
be held in New York September 20
30. Whether or not each State will
be represented by it's chemists at the
exposition, the South will be repre-
sented there by a special edition of
the Manufacturers Record, devoted
to 1.-The Chemical Potentialities of
the South" In order to make known
as widely as possible the facts which
will be presented, a copy of that eSFi.
ton will be mailed to every one Of the
1000 members Of tho American
Chemical Society and tO manv load