The Penn's Grove record., 1919-08-01

country TO IOfn tHe CHeIulcdl Elk
ebange, by which all available phenol
SIMPLY in America was turned away
from the manufacture of picric acid
for explosives for the Allies, with a
profit. out of Americas pocket, to
Germany of $1,650,000.
Listen to Alberts' praise:
"The breadth of high-mindedness
with which you at that time immedi-
ltely entered into the plan has borne
,ruit as follows: One and a half mil
lion pounds of carbolic acid have been
kept from the Allies. Out of this n
and a half million pounds of carbolic
acid four and one-half million pounds
of picric acid can be produced. This
tremendous quantity of explosive
stuffs has been withheld from the AL
lies by your contract. In order to
give one an idea of this enormous
quantity the following figures are of
interest:
"4,500,000 pounds equal 2,25O tons
of explosives. A railroad car is load
ed with 20 tons of explosives. The
$3.50 tons would, therefore, fill 112
railway freight cars, so that the
1900, 900 pounds of explosives would
fill 3 railroad trains with 40 cars each.
Nov one should picture to himself
what a military coup would be accom-
plished by an army leader if he should
succeed in destroying three railroad
trains of forty cars, containing four
and a half million pounds of explo-
siveS.
"Of still greater and more beneficial
effect is the support which you have
afforded to the purchase of bromine.
We have a well-founded hope that.
with the exclusion of perhaps small
quantities, we shall be in a position to
buy up the total production of the
country. Bromine, together with
choral, is used in making nitric gases,
which are of such great Importance in
trench warfare. Without bromine
these nitric gases are of slight effect:
in connection with bromine, they are of
terrible effect. Bromine is produced
only in the United States and Ger
many. While, therefore, the material
is on hand in satisfactory quantities
for the Germans, the Allies are en-
tirely dependent upon the importation
from America"
Gentlemen, did you intend by your
support of the German dye industry
to leave the Allies defenseless against
the poison gas made by that German
dye industry?
But that is not the worst. At b.
gotta, New Jersey, in the New Jersey
Agricultural Chemical Company, DR..
Schweitzer employed DR.. Walter
Seheele, who was the inventor, in that
little town of New Jersey, in 1913, of
mustard gas, the formula of which he
transmitted through Captain Won Pa
pen to Germany as soon as the war
broke out. This is the mustard gas
which laid low your brothers on the
plain of France. And for Scheele DR..
Schweitzer laid out the plans for the
preparation of the bombs which de-
stroyed your ships in your harbors.
Untold millions were spent by this
man in propaganda and espionage in
the United States. In the two years
before we entered the war, the Bayer
Company drew 100000 from the
profits of its Orient and South Amer
lea houses, which money was spent
imagine. Practically all the dye sales
men you saw were only nominally in
the employ of the branches here; all
had secret and personal contracts with
the home office.
All that l have said of Schweitzer is
typical of practically all representa-
tives of German dye houses in this
country. Wherever we have found
espionage or propaganda activity,
there you will find those names so
familiar to you in the days of your
slavery. You will find the same gang
returning, decrying our dyes, selling
apparently Swiss or unmarked dyes,
telling you tales of German distress,
serving as ever their Fatherland. Be
on your guard.
C%oincident with the development of
Germany's dye industry came the gen.
eral development of her chemical
strength. 1t offered great incentives
to young men. 1t developed a large
body of trained scientists. 1t encour-
aged and fostered the spirit of re-
search in all lines, and added to the
effectiveness of practically every in
dustry in the empire. Nowhere is this
more striking than in the supremacy
Germany was attaining in chemical
medicine.
One other thought l want to have
in mind is this: For four years now
the chemical science developed by the
dye industry of Germany has focused
its mind largely upon substitutes for
the raw material she has hitherto re-
ceived from the outside world. The
leader of her chemical industry in this
country, DR.. Hugo Schweitzer, OF
whom will have more to say later on,
wrote to his Government:
"All these endeavors to substitute
cotton may appear ridiculous to us
who have been brought up with the
idea that Cotton is King and that
America has been designed by fate to
supply this fibre to the civilized world.
The farmers who cultivated the mad
der root, and the planters who raised
indigo, were also inclined to jest when
they were appraised of the fact that
German chemists had succeeded in re-
producing in the laboratories the dyes
which their crops furnished; but when
the manufactured materials drove the
natural products from the market, and
left the farmers and planters without
a job, hilarity ceased. History may
repeat itself, and willow-bark and net
tie, or some other substitute, raised