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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
BY ALBERT WHITING FOX.

HERE is n man working for a
modest government compensa-
ton who tomorrow could COM
mand n salary which would make the
earnings of q pop liar movie star look
like pin money. He could announce his
readiness to give his services exclu-
sively to one concern ana have the
directors OF American steel companies,
copper companies, zinc companies, &C.,
hurrying here ready to outbid each
other in big round, substantial figures.
DR.. Frederick G. Cottrell, chief
metallurgist of the Bureau OF Mines,
Is the man in question. The story OF
his career. the results he has achieved
and is achieving and the rapidly &C
cumulating benefits which the nation
fs getting from his work form a strils-
ing romance OF science.
A little more than ten years ago DR..
Cottrel was a poorly paid, struggling
assistant professor of chemistry in the
University OF California. Now he has
saved big plants in the country liter
ally millions OF dollars, has found a
means OF giving the United States a
potash supply independent OF Ger
many. has been responsible largely foy
the development OF the non-inflamma-
BILE gas helium OF inestimable military
and commercial value, and stands out
as such an undisputed leader in his
line that he was awarded the Perllin
medal for 1919 by tile Society OF Chem
ical Industry "in recognition of his
most original and valuable work in
applied chemistry
Diverts Golden Stream.
Only In the matter OF financial rec
ompense has DIR. Cottrell remained
backward. He has consistently refused
all offers to make fortune out of his
work, and when money began to pour
In upon him in spite of himself he
promptly got his friends together,
formed what Is known as the "re-
search corporation" turned the finan-
cial stream into the corporation with
the provision that the funds were to
be used to assist struggling scientists
whose hardships he already knew. An
ironclad agreement has been made that
ell profits from his work go to the
corporation and not to Mr.. Cottrell
himself
No one would imagine from his
manner or appearance that DR.. Cot
trel1 had already risen to the top rank
among the scientists OF the world.
There is nothing about him to suggest
the popular conception of the great
scientist. He looks like the typical
= wide awake American business man
of 40. who has no fads and believes in
the free and easy unconventional way
of meeting men with whom he comes
in contact.
After luncheon with him ut the club
one might say that his particular In
terest was in how to care properly for
an automobile or in billiards. At pres
ent DR.. Cottrell is making flying trip
to Europe in connection with hellum
developments.
The first big contribution Of DR.. Cot
trell to science was the electrical pre-
o'pitation Of particles of liquids and
solids, or. in popular terms, the cllmi-
nation of smoke and rescue OF smoke
constituents by a process Of electric
ity. Undertaken first TO eliminate
smoke as nuisance, the process
showed that the so-called smoke dust
precipitated at big plants was worth in
some cases more than the product be-
ing manufactured.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30

With a dozen brother officers I had
been ordered to a Lewis gun school
at Lumbres, near st. Omer. While there
apart from becoming almost chummy
with the feed ann actuating stud,'
learned the following noteworthy
.hinsa:s< ........
+ That one Pushes, rather than
blanches. when badly scared.
That the French peasant is amaz-
lngly adapted to living calmly under
shell fire.
That the English officer is too darn
reckless.
That Ireland wants. very much. her
freedom.
While there seems to- be little con-
nection between tho four propositions
one flows from the other as naturally
as a thin stream OF red wine from q
goatskin canteen to a ponu's mouth
1t happened in this way:
One Sunday afternoon-Sunday be-
ing a half holiday-IAeut. Charles
Greenwood and I induced young
British subaltern from an Irish reg!.
ment to take US, sub rosa, on a free
lancing trip to the front.
For twenty miles we hoped lorries
ambu!ances. steam tractors-anythins
that would stop at a. British officers
fattened palm. which was everything
mobile. AZ We proceeded on foot neal
the line at Mt. KENNEL a whizzbans
dropped tout Of the everywhere into
the hereto my thinking. altogether
too much into the here. About thirty
PAGES to the rear OF US earth geysereC
into the air and pebbles clink clinket
on our helmets.
First Taste OF Shell Fire.
1t was my first taste OF shell fire
How does 1t feel? Well. dropping int
| the vernacular and the ditch, It maker
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
WHAT DYE MEAN

WHAT DYE MEAN?
What dye mean you stayed too long in
Paris?
What dye mean you took an extra day?
Your little card told you what to do.
You know the one mean. that little
square OF blue.
What dye mean you stayed too long in
Garis"
What dye mean she wouldn't let YOU so
Three months fiat you get for that.
Just tuck that under your overseas hat
What dye mean you stayed too long In
Paris?
What do you mean that you missed your
train?
What dye mean by walking on the win
ter wheat?
What dye mean you don't obey COM
mands?
We strive to please the French authori.
tees,
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proximately 100 tons of dust per day.
His presence at the plant gave him an
opportunity to get acquainted with tile
men running the business. They found
him interesting and full of sugges-
tons designed to help them.
The mill had a capacity If 5000
barrels OF cement a day and business
was good. but DR. Cottrell told them
they might find it profitable to exam
inc the smoke dust, which was coming
in at the rate of 100 tons a day. He
figured that there might be profitable
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30

$1,000 an acre and then found It could
not stand the pace. More than 81, o0o,-
900 had already been spent by the COM
pany in litigation and still there was
no relief in sight. The directors were
desperate. In the course OF one meet
ing somebody repeated the story about
the "smoNe bug" at the university at d
the directors said, Bring him to us"
DR.. Cottrell went to the company's
plant and installed his process. IT
worked like charm. His process did
away with the smoke and collected ap-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30

First IN the Nosgcs. then on the VesIs.
Twelve days of hiking and Il couple moro
by rail-
Glcry he TO God AZ last we're in the asht,
And It's Jerry's turn TO take hike to-
night!
WE'RE A TOUGH YOUNG BUNCH,
Just gaze on us. we're a tough young
bunch,
We're artillery from New York.
You can tell we're army broken,
For we eat tho army pork.
We sailed across the ocean
To help them break tho line,
And then keep things in order
Along the River Rhine.
Our machine guns never Jam
And we do not give damn,
We fight like the devil on the roxGfa
or on the level.
And We fight for Uncle Sam.
And the girls, tho little dears,
Are in love up TO their ears;
They shout HI He for Battery n
And the good old Three-O -Four!
Our 75s they roar rs we 60 TO we1
Ana the enemy are aWful sore,
They shout HI lie for Battery n
They're the Red Leg Grenadlers!
THE DEAD HORSE BRIGADE.
(Tune: or all tunes, Chopins Bti-
neral MarchD
We are the men OF the Dead Horse
Brigade
We are the men OF the Dead Horse
RrlpDdp
Glory halleluiah, glory hal'"luiah.
We are the men of the Dead Horse
Brigade.
For We dig one horses grave each day
And We never get a cent more pay;
Let us hurry. let W. not delay,
For we have to dig another IN the
morning.
We are the men, &c.
THE MESS KIT RAG.
Come and get II,
Come and get e,
That's the time that VIC all shine,
Come and get Il.
Come and get it,
Then We all fall into litc.
Then the cook with look like a TN
horn sport
SAYS: no more seconds. we're rum
ming short"
Then YOU turn around and yell:
''Taka your meal and go to hell!'
No SGconds--that's tho mess kit raHt
WANT TO GO HOME.
I wan. to go home, want to 30 home:
Tie children and chickens get under
your feet,
Tho cows they go roaming ali over
the street
The mud IL almost IN n your knees
And the only bright spot is Louise
I'm too young TO drown in this hell
o. a town.
want to go home
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
ans Wizard of Metallurgy Refuses Fabulous Wealth
His Development of Helium and y. S.
Supply of Potash Marks Striking
Romance of Science

orange growers in the territory adj
jacent to the plant, because the mill
discharged large quantities of dust
that fell on the groves, installed o.
Cottrell electric precipitation with
the sole hope OF abating the null
sance.
WORD now reaches the Bureau of
Mines that tho factory of this
cement company on March 1 went
into full bla st operation for the pur-
pose OF making potash, with cement
as a by-product. The investigator
who reported many details OF this
operation of the plant to the bureau
says:
This is certainly a romantic
development of modern industry,
where an apparatus installed for
the purpose Of saving the life of
the factory turns out to be the GEN.
tire of operations, around which the
entire plant Is adjusted, the Incl
dental profits being sufficient, at
least during the continuance Of the
war. 10 make the former operation
OF the factory OF secondary impor-
tance.'"
But II one plant can make potash in
this way, why not other plants? the
Bureau OF Mines asked. How about
blast furnaces, the smelling plants
where the dust contains potash as it
does in most cases?
Promises Plenty OF Potash.
The United States Government now
feels assured that by means of DR..
Cottrell's discovery America will have
more than enough potash for Its own
needs without depending on Germany
or any other outside source. In a state
ment issued on October 3 last Secre-
tary OF the Interior Lane said defl-
nitcly:
THE United States does not need
German potash. America can in two
years become entirely independent Of
Germany in this regard by the devel-
opment of her own deposits and the
use of processes devised by DIR. Cot
| trell of this department"
Among the plants already using the
Cottrell processes are the American
| Smelling and Refining Companies at
Garfield, Utah; Maurer, y. j.; Omaha,
Neb; the American Steel and Wire
Company at Worcester, Mass; the An
aconda Copper Mining Company al
! Anaconda, Mont; tho Balbach Smelt-
! ing and Refining Company at Newark
\. j.; the Minnesota steel Company at
Duluth, Mimi; the Raritan Copper
| Works at Perth Amboy, ~ J.. the
Rome Brass and Copper Company OF
| Rome. y. Y; the Winchester Repeat
! ing Arms Company at New Haven
Conn, and others too numerous te
| mention.
The assets OF the research corpora
ton, OF which men like Charles d
| Walcott, secretary OF the Smithsonian
Institution. and Otto II. Kahn are direc
tors. jumped to s217 862.72 from royalties
on DR.. Cottrells invention as soon a.
1t got fairly started. More money 81
coming in than the corporation knows
what to do with. but DIR. Cottrell 4
convinced that new scientific discover
les can be helped along by financial as
sistance from discoveries already made
That is his slogan.
Development of Helium.
Other important work has been dom
| 1,,,t Tho Nu1,In n Nh
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
Development of Helium.

Other important work has been done
BY DR. Cottrell. but the value of the
right man in the right place has been
particularly emphasized by the devel-
opment Of the new non-infiammable
gas helium.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30

"1n the attempts Of tho United
States to find some methods of in
creasing the potash production for
fertilizers and other purposes TO on
set the stoppage of shipments from
Germany there has come to the at
tention of the Bureau OF Mines. De-
partment of the Interior, a highly
successful effort at the plant OF the
Riverdale Cement Company, River
dale, Cal.
This company. after a number OF
years of costly litigation with the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
First Taste OF Shell Fire.

1t was my first taste OF shell fire.
How does it feel? Well. dropping into
the vernacular and the ditch, It makes
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10
Restaurants in Other Lands
Serve Meals at Low Prices;
Show Coed Weekly Profits

American fried-egg financie"c and pie
plutocrats should take warning from
abroad, suggests Thrift Magazine. The
national restaurant of London, which
was established to expose the prof.
teerS, shows a profit of $3.50 a week,
or about 70 per cent Onsthe investment.
Lunches and suppers are sold for %
cents and tea and breakfast for 10
cents. There is a profit of about two
cents on each meal. The cooperative
restaurant idea also has taken root in
Paris. where ten publicly controlled
restaurants, each seating 1000 per-
sons, are selling good meals for about
80 cents each.
In the average American restaurant
today q man has to play a mean trick
on his appetite if he expects to have
much left out OF a dollar after main
tanning contact with full meal.
Statistics show that there are 9,000,-
900 persons who subsist in American
restaurants from day to day. Among
this vast army of bacon-and-egg ex-
perts there are many, no doubt, who
would be glad to see the daily menu
card speak in more conciliatory &C.
cents on the subject of hash and other
luxuries.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10
Topography of Our Country
Responsible for T0rnadoeS,
Explanation of Scientists.

Why do some portions of the United
States suffer from tornadoes, or cy-
clones, as they are generally but erro-
neously called, while others do not?
The question is answered, notes
writer i'm Peoples Home Journal.
by scientists of the United States
weather bureau, who point to the topog-
raphy of our country in explanation.
Tornadoes occur in the Mississippi
valley, anywhere from the Gulf OF
Mexico to the Canadian line. No por-
ton of this area is more apt to suffer
than another, the experts assert. This
valley opens to the warm waters OF
the gulf on the south and is closed in
on the west by the high wall of the
Rocky mountains. Warm, moisture
laden winds from the gulf move north
ward in the spring and early summer
and encounter the cold north ana
northwest winds that sweep down the
east wall of the Rockies. When the
opposing currents meet there is some
times formed one OF those rapidly re-
volving, funnel-shaped clouds so de-
structive of life and property.
TOrnadoes travel southwest to north
east, and, in addition to their terrific
whirling movement, which is too great
to be measured, have a forward We
locity of from 80 to 60 miles an hour.
Their path may be from few hundred
yards to a mile in width.
The word tornado" at first spelled
"ternado," probably was derived from
the Spanish tronada, which means
thunderstorps. Tornado" may have
grown out of an attempt to combine
this word with the Spanish word tor
mar, meaning to turn thus making it
descriptive of storm that turned or
twisted.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10
Farmers Borrow Large Sum
From Government Farm Loan
Banks Since Organization

Farmers have borrowed $139,378,000
from the twelve federal farm loan
banks since their organization in
March, 1917. In reporting this the
farm loan board announced that CAPT
tai stock of the banks, originally sub
scribed mainly by the government, has
increased from 100000 to $685.
900 through additional subscriptions
by farm loan associations, and that
bonds amounting to $140,122,O00 have
been issued.
The farmers are making their pay
ments promptly. The report shows
only $4,000 in loans was overdue, and
delinquencies occurred almost entirely
in sections where there had been crop
failures.
Three banks, Wichita, Spokane and
Houston, have an actual surplus, and
the Spokane and st. Paul banks will
begin shortly to repay the government
for the stock originally subscribed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10
Belief That You Are Tired,
. Not Work, Makes You Tired

"The thing that makes the tired
business man. tired is his belief that
he is tired. Believe the contrary.
There have been times when you
worked all day and all night on a
stretch. 1t did not kill you. Work it
self, says American Magazine, as the
modern business world is organ
lied, cannot possibly tire out the man
of average normal health. If it
could, Edison would have been dead
at the age of thirty-fve, Bell would
never have produced the telephone,
Henry Ford would not be now king
of the automobile business, Herbert
G. Hoover would not be controlling and
directing the nations food supply to-
day, Woodrow Wilson would be in a
san: ttarium, General Pershing would be
taking a rest cure instead of COM
handing American soldiers in France"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10
Damascus, Oldest City, Known
as "The Pearl of the East

Called by orientals "the Pearl of
the East" Damascus is the oldest city
in the world which is inhabited. 1t is
mentioned repeatedly in the Ole Tes-
lament, and documentary evidence
shows that the ancient city dates back
to 400 B. G.. Travellers refer to it as
''dear, dirty Damascus" for it's odors
are many and strong, and it's street
cleaners have long ceased to work.
One of the city's main features is "the
street which is called Straight" which
runs from east to west. Damascus has
been the scene of many conflicts since
David sent an expedition against it
and took it with a slaughter of $4,000
men. Egyptians, Crusaders and Turks
fought so repeatedly for it that it Eas
become the most captured as well as
the oldest city in the world.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10

through which we must pass before
the world accepts the lessons of the
Master. There shall be lack of raj
ment, food and coal, and every mans
hand shall be raised against his broth
err" As | often do, | expressed q
doubt whether our country could
make the transfer to another age in
diligently. mo nation" the garden
er said, lis Christian enough to avoid
the chaos that is to precede the bet
ter day. 1t is written" Then the
gardener and / went on with hoe and
spade, I wondering, he calm III the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10

to their homes through invasion and
shell fire for three long hard winters;
and now it seemed incredible that their
own people could turn them out. CeSt
la guerre.
A house near the railroad station
was procured for them and the next
morning they were speeded on their
way by a group of young American
girls who rose early to see them COM
fortably off.
Attraction for Riddles.
The children of the neighbOrhOOd
found the canteen fascinating place.
They were with us all day long, slip
ping in and out. being shooed out re-
morselessly when we were busy or
welcomed when we had time to play.
Very early in the morning little ten
year-old Pierre came up the drive with
our milk pail. Then, after a cupful
of hot chocolate and hunk of bread,
we watched him set off sturdily for
home eight long miles away. Pierre
was always our first visitor, but before
the day had ended, there were score
of others.
Not far from our canteen, the Smith
college unit was doing its splendid
work: The members of it dropped in
on us occasionally, but we heard far
more of their doings and sayings from
the children. 'The play teacher" was
special marvel and we watched with
| infinite pleasure her successful efforts
| to teach these small people, who bad
learned hard lessons in the school of
war, the joy of play.
The doctor, too, was a source of end
less comfort and amusement to the
children. To hear them talk, you
would gather that they preferred to
he sick rather than well, in order to
get her attention. Some OF those I'M
der her care, made unheard of jour
neys TO distant hospitals and dispen-
saries. After five whole weeks of alb
sence, Andrea. the prettiest, frailest
child in the village, returned from Doc
tor Baldwin's little Red Cross hospital
at Nesle minus tonsils and adenoids
and plus several pounds of soft pink
flesh. She had been entirely revolu-
| tioniZed by that institution and start
/ led her mother by demanding to be
bathed, bathed every day. When the
much harassed woman came to us for
| advice, ! am sure she went away mar
Yelling at the madness of Americans
who believed in soap and water for
babies, even in the winter time.
| SO from the canteen at Chateau
Thierry, our little group of American
women were privileged to see war in
all its aspects. Color and excitement,
comedy and tragedy, all of life we
watched as we worked.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10

high with the paraphernalia of camp
kitchens, or the Screech of a motor
horn or a madly whiZZing motorcycle.
Even when the road was clear of We
hicles and long lines of soldiers moved
over it. to the front or dumped drear-
lily back, there was no sound of COM
pact, marching feet. "Route march
ing was the way the Americans came,
while the French poilus, with queer
bundles strung about them at all sorts
Of unexpected places, seemed fairly
to stroll along. But they were going
up to the front, these men, and how
ever they might feel about it, it was
no circus for us.
Not that the outward appearance
of the moving troops was depressing.
Far from it. They went by, to quote
Ian Hay, scattering homely jests like
hail" Some came singing and | shall
never forget the first day that Amer
lean boys came into the village. 1.-THE
Americans are coming" sent us flying
out of doors; and "les Americans"
echoed the French about us. Around
the bend of the road by the church
they came. We could hear them sing
ing before we could distinguish the
words and then-"until my dreams all
come true" 1t was THE Long, Long
Trail" which brought back to some of
us wildly the first summer of the war
at home, when we had danced and
played and said good-by to the music
of that song.
Present From Headquarters.
One morning | looked out from the
canteen upon a new scene, a surprise.
Several groups of very feeble old men
and women were seated upon the lawn
of the chateau. A canteener dashed
in breathless at this moment. The old
people. according to her hurried ac-
count, were present to us from G. III.
@. They had been living up near the
front and some action was planned
that might prove dangerous to them.
So the French authorities. with charm
ing confidence. simply shipped them
back TO the American Red Cross can
teen TO De SHelteTeu anu leu Tor "a
hours, until they could be sent on by
train to their final destination. The
day before we had been eaten nearly
cut of house and home, by number of
hungry French infantrymen. Now, as
our canton had not arrived, we were
looking forward with dread to running
short of rations for the afternoon con-
tingent.
Every available canteener was rush
ed out into the byways and hedges.
and in an incredibly short time the viii
layers had contributed enough from
their own poor stores TO give the old
people a hearty meal. Pitifully dazed
were these old folk. They had clung
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-01-10

All litter, nest material and dropplngS
should be removed. Then spray or
paint thoroughly the entire surface OF
the house and literally flood all cracks
and inside of nests with a 5 per cent
solution of cresol. Use plenty OF
spray and do the work thoroughly.
Finally it should be remembered that
one application of either of these treat
ments is not sufficient. Where there
are lice and mites there are also eggs
or "nits'' of these same pests. A Sec
Ond treatment should be given about
one week after the first. By this time
the "nits'' will be Matched and the
treatment will affect them while it did
not kill the 'nits" at the first applica-
ton.
These suggestions followed out will
relieve the hen of the greater number
of parasites and will enable her to
make the best possible use of her feed
and time. 1t is not profitable to feed
a hen when lice or mites are sapping
all the nourishment and vitality from
her body.