The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-25

for advancement in wellLbeing. Most of us are familiar with large indus trial establishments. the processes of which are based on chemical reac- tiOns, and these corporations are op- erated from the standpoint of sales
 manship, banking and law. The com pany's legal adviser sits in council to | pass upon contracts and procedure in | dealings with men, but the chemical ! adviser who understands materials.
 and who, therefore, is responsible for l the cOmpany's products and its good i repute, is generally left out in the ! cold.
 l American industry at large, with ! only a moderate number of exccp- l tions, is still deficient in its calls upon | the man of science to its councils. Response to Calls.
 1 Whenever such calls are made the 1 American chemist has responded, 1 and has set himself to work with diI- ! lgence. That so many of his efforts l has been crowned with success is | pleasant to contemplate-but the way l of progress dare not lie in contem- | platiOn alone. We are in the race with | the wide, wide world. In some re- | spects we are ahead, and in others
 we are behind. We cannot lean back | and fold our arms in the belief that
 a high protective tariff will assure us l success. We must maintain the CO., | ordination between pure science ana | that which is applied. We must hold l up the hands of our great teachers | and encourage them in their arduous i task. We must increase the homo j | and distinction of their offices. and l make the post of teacher as desirable as possible. We must do what we can | to discover the exceptional man, and | to create opportunity for him, because often the exceptionally gifted in re- search lack the gift of finding places for themselves. We must preach the gospel of chemistry, and bear its | evangel to spots where its light is l still unknown. And we must, in one | way or another, conjure up the voice
 of authority so that it may speak for | us!
 | Let us borrow an example from Ar
 thur D. Little to show how the voice
 of authority might aid us. The water ' flowing necessarily over Niagara Falls represents the same power, the same
 energy, as would be obtained by tht
 burning of a prodigious amount of
 coal Except for the cost or install
 lation, and the slight charges of main i tenance, it would be possible to use
 the power of that water falling in ex-
 change for a. colossal coal bonfire, de
 veloping the same energy expressed in terms of heat, for the edification
 of visiting brides and grooms. Let us imagine this done, with miners
 working, and trains rushing con-
 constar fly, day and night, to feed this
 Unheard-of bonfire. Suppose the voice 1 of r7{o
 ture to the public so that all could
 visualize the thousands of men al work, and the immense capital rep | resented in the cost of the coal and
 its transpOrtation-and all of it going up in smoke! Suppose it were made i clear that none of that coal is being used to propel ships to and from ! Europe and transocean markets, no' 1 to give us warmth nor to drive the wheels of industry. but that it is be. ing spent simply to keep our huge in l ternaional bonfire forever burning 2 | and that the people are paying fg-
 this spectacle in the increased cos : of living, while the tremendous funC
 of power goes to waste. With thi . fact made clear-that that fallinl
 water represents an equivalent in mil . lions of tons of coal which are charg
 ed to the people of this generation
 these same people would soon declar, , themselves in favor of taking prof
 from that inexhausIble power for the I benefit of the two countries 1t lie!
 between-for the benefit of ourselve!
 and Canada
 We need the voice of authority t , | put a stop to waste of power, waste ot fuel, waste of food, waste of materi als, waste of labor-and waste o men! We need this voice to poin out the way of progress.
 I believe that We can conjure 1 up, not as the utterance of one indi . viduaI, nor in the shouts of thousand of voices, crying in unison. It wil
 come, but rather in the benediction O things done. I believe we can accom- plish it if as chemists, We interes ourselves intensely in public affairs struggling with all our might, botf individually and collectively, for thi . public veal; by doing this daily. anC without thought of personal reward If we dig into public affairs with dil 3 igence, preaching the gospel of chem :, istry with all the ardor of insistenc, s shown by the Ancient Mariner in tel l ling his wierd tale, then, in time, oui 9 message is bound to be heard, and
 needed. Indeed, then, with God'i 9 help, We may advance toward a great 3 CT enlightenment, with a better ar - of living. and in a better ordered 9 world, where justice and peace abide