The sun., 1918-07-28
Chemical Industry Now at Crucial Stage
Chemca
Engineers Growing

1ak-Opportun1tles II
ont Of the question for the present. Mean
whie he is exhorting the big manufac-
tursr and the graduate of large means
who IN many cases nowadays are one and
the same man. Prof. johnson has a
plethoric card index of the Sons of Eli
Yale who are nlso captains of chemical
industries.
He is himself Yale man, class OF '9S,
and none more loyal OF course, he would
like to see Yale in the lead, through Shelf
field and his own department. But his
vision and his appeal are nationwide. 1t
is the whole of American industrial chem
istry for which this man is pleading.
He has full title to hearing. He is
Jne of the few first rate specialists pre-
viously referred to. His personal share is
large in the credit due them for both the
chemical theory and the practical applica
ton which have risen to the war situation
so amazingly. And il is interesting. if not
essential to his authority ON this topic, that
he is one of the War Departments lead
ing consultants on gus warfare, and his
laSara;ury Ihls summer is a Government
field station, where men under his d!rec
ton are putting in full time during the
regular vacation period.
Savant Who Is Most Youthful
No eminent savant, met face to face,
was ever a bigger surprise. He seems
so young. His college year should put
him in his early 40s; he has been at Shelf
field ever since graduation and Is known
10 have turned down lucrative offers from
chemical manufacturing plants with whose
staffs he has cooperated. He would
rather be where he is combining research
with the making of more competent
organic chemists for America.
He had farm boyhood near Bethany,
Conn, and probably has the farm TO thank
for n physique that with very little Null
booming to counteract the wears of con-
filming mental work would qualify
wrestler of the Dr. Roller type He still
gets back TO the soil for recreation when
he can.
There is absolutely nothing IF the fra
dltional professor about him OF the way
he talks. Eschewing technicalities he
drives every plain word straight at the
point, and when he pauses with Isn't
that true?" or "Dont You think so your
self" the conviction is irresistible. If
every scientist could state a case like
this one it wouldn't have taken war TO
get American science and American in
dustry together.
You know how many of our grammar
school graduates don't &c on TO high
schools. Did you know that of those
who do just ! per cent, go on from high
school 10 collcge7 One per cent!
"Then think of the small fraction of
that ! per cent. which is naturally suited
for the advanced professional courses and
the fraction of this fraction which can
pay its way through 'em, as things are
going now. Don't Won see that these boys
represent our supply of intellect in
science7 Don't You think it's our business
to conserve the supply and increase If, and
see that every one has every oppor-
tunityT
Gets Myriad of Appeals.
He exhibited stack of letters he had
received; from manufacturers asking for
chemical engineers; from educational in
situations hard up for instructors m chem
istry. Send us good bright youngster;
send lis ten of them 7. ID. Q. He smiled
and threw up his hands.
"If we stripped our staff bare and shut
up shop we couldn't supply this demand
he sand "And we can't do it, Schools
like ours have got to carry on the work
Otherwise where are they going to find
their chemists in the futuref
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