The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-10-15
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Committee of the National Exposition
Of Chemical Industries at New York
City. To the man in the street as well as
| to the technician last years Exposition
marked an unprecedented development
in chemistry, but DR.. Herty declares that
this years, comprising some three hum
dred and fifty exhibits, "has excelled in
Importance and in the broad relation to
American National industrial life any ex-
position Of the kind ever held" The
speaker then particularized:
'The serious shortage in medicinals
and dyestuffs have been rapidly made
good; textiles have been improved, food
preservation put upon better basis, the
field of electrometallurgy enlarged, and
hitherto neglected wastes converted into
valuable National assets. The slow pro-
cesses of normal times would not have
met the present emergency"
The Exposition was opened by DR..
Herty, ex-president Of the American
Chemical Society, with an address in
which he announced that our government
has become the greatest manufacturer of
chemicals in the world. Again particu-
larizing, he said:
"We gave no thought to the efforts
which might be required of us in the mat
ter OF poiSOn-gas. production. But when
our authorities determined to
meet the Germans with their own wea-
pons i. it became necessary to make
use of every available means for manu-
featuring toxic material :. The
government turned to the young dye in
dustry for plants and trained organiza-
tions to augment its poison-gas output,
and splendidly has the young industry re-
spOnded. . In view of the adaptability
of the dyestuff industry to such serious
/ National needs, it is difficult to be pa
tent with many of our mercantile estab-
,lishments which still insist upon placard-
ing their counters with signs such as,
"The color of these goods cannot be guar
anteed." What sweet morsel of COM
fort these placards are to the enemy; in
effect, an effort to preserve the market
for him by our own people, if such they
are"
s AS the.dye industry has been definite
~ wrested from Germany, she has now
but one monopoly left-potash. Yet here
DR.. Herty held out substantial promise,
in saying: "The abundance of raw ma
iterial is just as favorable for domestic
potash industry as was the case in the
coal.tar chemical industry" (dyes and
medicines.)
/, Every sightseer was impressed by ev-
iidences of the indispensable aid given to
the government by the chemists; evil
dence shown in the gas mask exhibit, for
instance, as continually demonstrated by
four patient men; in the adaptation Of
fruit pits, as raw material for making the
absorbent charcoal used in the respirat-
Ors; in tile systems of blowing poison gas
from the dugouts and Of protecting our
men from liquid fire, form INT and 9TH
er high explosives; in the substances for
imparting better qualities to steel; in the
Browning machine gun; and especially in
the motion pictures which showed how
chemistry has increased the speed Of the
manufacturer of munitions. Up to the
present time in the war on the western
front two tons of ammunition have been
>used for each soldier killed, captured or
seriously wounded. A sufficient increase
of the rate at which we get ammunition
to the front would save one soldier for
every frty-two tons of ammunition.
The exposition covered the history of |
chemical science in exhibiting first the
raw material, then the requisite machin-
cry from simple appliances up to complete
plants for intricate operations, and, fin
ally, the finished product. The value of
a. tyro's trip through such bewildering
place was doubled by the eagerness of at
PENDANTS, who all seemed highly trained |
experts, to explain every process.-The
Outlook.