The Washington times., 1918-04-03
Feeds Plants, Kills Men
Something About Nitrogen and Mt. Pleasant
Congregational Church.

Congregational Church.
The Mt. Pleasant Congregational church-Fourteenth
street and Columbia roadearned interesting things last
night about the and nitrogen
L. s. Kebler, president of the Mems Club talked on
Monday his extremely intelligent audience about Atmos
pheric Nitrogen the Nations Salvation"
From Mr. Keber's talk gathered the satisfactory
information that is educating the United States and
causing human beings to do In hurry work that Will be
important for all time.
Moliere's amusing gentleman, suddenly enriched, de-
poetry and prose- He amazed to find that he had
been writing prose all his life "A my life, said he, land
without knowing it.
Many human beings surprised when they learn that
they have been breathing in nitrogen all their lives
Others surprised to learn that nitrogen the most
important element in ferng the soil absolutely necessary
to the feeding of the human race is In the air all around US
Every lungfu of air contains much nitrogen as by
the way every paiu of water contains much gold
Some have made dishonest fortunes pretending that
they could extract the gold from sea water.
The Government of the United States and the govern
ens of other countries making huge fortunes for their
populations adding unlimited value to the SOIL by extracting
the nitrogen from the air around US.
According to Mr. Keber who is of the Governments
good workers in the field of science there in the air that
surrounds planet about four hundred TRILLlON tons OF
nitrogen ,,u,.,.,- ~. .ou .u.,
lion tons by hundred dollars which would be cheap price
for ton and you that much wealth is floating around in
the air.
Nitrogen is extracted from the air by the of electric
ity and all intelligent at work getting out
There plenty for all You cannot exhaust the supply
Of nitrogen in the aas you might exhaust coal In the
beds or oil in the wells
After the nitrogen used by human beings animals
plants it released and goes back into the atmosphere again
And you cannot exhaust either the power that produces
the electricity that takes nitrogen out of the air and gives
it back to man for his fertilizing servant.
The electric power is supplied by waterfalls After they
have gone and created their
trio force the lifts them into the air again clouds
from the ocean, and they fall down and do the work
again
could care to have.
Scientists will tell you that gradually the earth will
perfectly round with 'atrton that there will be
no hills mountains waterfalls
But that is long OH, and by that time shall be
using the of the and the power of the tdeand
perhaps living such ethereal life make very little
heterogeneous food necessary
may interest you to know that the German nation
would have been absolutely and hopeey beaten long
incapable of continuing the had not been foremost
in the important work of getting nitrogen from the air
Without nitrogen you cannot make explosives The first
year of the the Germans used than hundred
and fifty thousand tons of nitrogen They have been using
each year. You imagine how important for
German science should have solved completely this prob
lem of taking from the air the element that ferzes fields
and murders men.
prise apart from their government big nitrogen produc
ing plant in Norway This they sold when the broke
out The French government bought it, and getting
from the waterfalls of Norway the nitrogen that is used
and in other explosives to send the scientific
highly efficient and highly murderous Prussan gentlemen
to region considerably above below the nitrogen bear
ing air
ALI this and many interesting things Mr. Kebler
pointed out to the young of the Mt Pleasant Congreg
ona Church-which show that pays to join the young
mems club in your church