New-York tribune., 1918-09-24
u. S. Throws. OFF
Chemistry Yoke of
Hun, Exhibit Shows
Americas Achievements
Displayed at Grand
Central Palace
Effort Caused by War
Display of Gas Masks and
Chemical Warfare a Feat
ure of Annual Exposition

This is the slogan Of the fourth ma
tiona! exposition of the chemical in
dustrics, which opened yesterday at
the Grand Central Palace. That is the
last exhibition which will be held in
that building until after the war, for
the United States government has
taken it over for a hospital. However,
so important is the part being played
by the chemists of the country in max
ing products necessary for the war
that the government delayed the open
ing OF the hospital in order that the
exposition might proceed as planned.
The main attraction for the layman
IS the exhibit of gas masks on the sec
ond floor Under the direction of Ma
jor f. e. Breithut, of the United States
army. chemical warfare service, living
models IN khaki demonstrate the wear
ing Of the gas mask and adjust it in
six seconds, while the visitors hold
their watches. Every kind Of gas mask
is on exhibition from the first one that
was made by the chemists of Paris and
distributed in the trenches two days
after the first phone call, "The Ger
mans are throwing chlorine gasW
Other appliances important in the
war, such as the trench fan and the
system of blowing gas from dugouts.
are shown, as we'll as gas shells, hand
~renades and aerial bombs used b. the
Allies, and some relics captured from
The Germans. No gas or high explosive
IS allowed in the building, SO it's use is
shown by motion pictures.
$4,000 Chemists Attend
Twenty-Five thousand chemists and
scientists are in New York to attend
this exhibition and the conferences
connected with it of the American
Chemical Society, the American Elec-
troChemical Society and the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers. Meet
ings are held in the conference room
every afternoon and evening, illustrat-
ed with moving pictures. In addition
to the war chemicals and exhibits of
, dyestuffs of general interest. there are
many highly technical displays of great
Importance to manufacturers and sci
entists.
1t is this department which has for
it's slogan "Deutschland Ucber Mix"
In the four years since the German
market was closed American manufact-
one of the great industrial processes
which were monopolized by Germany
before the war The exhibit is dotted
everywhere with little black and white
bull's-eye stickers, the sign that this
/ article had never been made in the
United States before the war Among
there is an enormous nitrator. used on
the making Of INT for shells. which
is more powerful than any ever used
al haf no
there was no such machine in the
! United States.
4 War Between Industries
This has been a war not only be-
; tween armies and navies, but between
/ Tone, president of the American Elec-
tro-Chemical Society, in his opening
address last night. "America has long
! enjoyed supremacy in electro-chem-
! istry, but before the war no one would
| have dared to predict the expansion
which the war would demand of us. 1t
has called for chlorine cyanide, air nj
trates and phosphorus in vast quanti-
ties. 1t has required the ferro alloy in
dustry the clectrode industry, the
abrasive industry to quadruple their
outputs.
Electro chemistry and electro
! metlllurSy contribute enormously to
the aircraft programme The airplane
motor is dependent upon these indus
tries, and so are the tracer bullets and
the high explosive bombs. with which
we maintain our supremacy in the air.
Then there is gas warfare, the very
basis of which is chlorine. Germany
has long been nation of chemists, and
when she planned war of frightful-
ness it followed as a matter of course
that she would seek to make it d war
Of chemical frlghtfulness. Much as we
deplore. ii, therefore, we have been
forced to throw our best energies to
the solution of the problems of gas
warfare"
Mr.. Herty attacked as German propa-
ganda the practice of mercantile es-
adjustments placarding goods with
tags saying THE color of these goods
cannot be guaranteed'
What a sweet morsel Of comfor,
these placards are to the enemy" he
said. "They are, in effect, an effort tc
preserve the market for him by oul
own people, if such they are. Was il
ever the practice to guarantee al
colors? Certainly not; for before the
war nine-tenths of the dyes used were
not fast, and never intended to be
Public sentiment can, and | believe
will, make an end of the disloyal pla.
cards