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Owes Big Debt
to Chemistry

ndexed by an immediate investment
of $750,O0O00O
The mercerizing Of cotton has add
ed to the delight and wealth Of the
world. Recent Improvements in the
ncandescent lamp has meant saving
of S300O0,00O a year in the cost Of
lighting You may reach for match
as you read this. If so, remember its
chemical history, and pause to CON
slider its place in modern civilization.
Foundation Of Many industries.
Chemistry is the soul of the pack
ing industry where by-products such
aS digestive ferments, soap. glycerine,
fertilizers. etc, have become as i'm
portant as main products, Chemis-
try is the foundation of the rubber in
dustry, giving cheaper and better
processes of purifying, vulcanizing,
and recovering. Steel Is not native
product but is a chemically modified
product. 1t is stated that the Bes-
semer steel process adds S20,000,O00
to the worlds wealth annually. Chem
| ISITN udS XIV eli Us tHS btNJ lamp NV
mine gas indicator, the gas mask and
the standardized explosive. Chemis-
try has given us most of our rharma-
ceuticals. and chemo-therapy is just
in its infancy. Ehrlich made over 900
arsenical compounds before he struck
upon those particular combinations
known as "sansalvarsan" and "neo-
salvarsan." Chemistry has given US
photography, moving-pcture films, IL
Eliminating gas. fire extinguishers. ar
tificial gasoline. metallurgical proc
p, esses. Understanding and purifying
agents, synthetic fertilizers. insecti-
cides. paints, explosives, glass, paper,
the gas mantle, the storage battery,
the arc light and has stabilized many
an industry by working up into useful
products every trace of raw material.
Chemistry has standardized food
products and multiplied the sources
of supply. 1t has attacked and par
TALLY solved the population problem of
sewerage and waste disposal, and wa
ter supply.
Saving Big Problem.
There are 33,S0O tons of nitrogen
pressing down upon every acre of the
earth's surface, and yet our fields are
starving for fixed nitrogen, and in
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
RUMORS WHITE SOX PLAYERS GAMBLED ON
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES CROP OUT AGAIN

Chicago stock the
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times of war our present source OF
supply Of nitrate for explosives is, 10
say the least. precarious.
Chemistry is today solving the prob
lem OF fixed nitrogen.
TO further elaborate chemistrys
contribution to human life would be
To write a technical history of indus
trial development. The OTHER great
contributing factors have been the or
ganizing ability Of business men and
the technical skill of the engineers.
70 improve American chemistry, TO
apply it more and more as an efil-
cheney measure in American industry,
is better national protection than pro-
tertive tariffs, battIeShips or coast de-
fenses. The highest chemical eft
dcncy will make us iuvincible in COM
MERGE and in war.
rs population increases and con-
Servation becomes matter OF vital
Importance, it follows that chemistry
must assume a more ami more tllgnifi-
cant place in the weh-oeing Of man
kind. Chemistry belongs peculiarly to
The age of intensive utilization OF
country's resources. The cream-skim-
ming period has passed; this is the
age of by-products.
Still Much to Be Done.
There is a danger that great indus
trial organizations who owe their very
existence to the science of chemistry,
in the fullness of their present pros
perity may forget their debt to the
past and their obligation to the future.
There is still much to be done in the
Improvement of old processes and the
discovery of new. To haI-tcap the
chemical laboratories of our educa-
ti0nal institutions. whence comes the
streara of technically trained men, ana
the unselfish contributions of pure
science, is effectual to kill the erst-
while goose that laid the golden egg.
The universities cannot carry the
burden without the aid of enlightened
industriaIism. They cannot raise the
price of their product to meet the ever
increasing cost of laboratories, scien-
tific equipment, high-grade instruction
and pure research. Nc thinking man
can fail to recognize that the ranks OF
the teaching profession, present ana
prospective, are becoming seriously de-
pleted through the inability of our ed
ucational institutions to bear unaided
the problem of ever-increasing costs.
1t is short-sighted policy for big
business to attract from the UNIVERSE
ties our best chemists, to pick before
they are ripe our young men in course
of training, or by lack of sympathet-
ic support to jeOpardize the future out
put of scientific research.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
WALTER JOHNSON Is
CREDIT TO BASEBALL
Content With His Present Berth
With Washington.
Stove League Fans Make Many Trades
and Among Others Shift Sensa-
tionai Pitcher to Comiskeys
White Sox

When the stove league fans got in
to full swing last winter, all kinds of
trades and sales were made of all
the leading players in both major
leagues. and, as usual, Walter John
son, sensational pitcher Of the Wash
ington Americans, was tagged for
shipment to several of the teams in
the Ban Johnson circuit.
One report had it that Sir Walter
in 1920 was to do the hurting act for
the Chicago White Sox. The signifi-
cant thing about this proposed deal,
however, was that neither Manager
Clark Griffith or Johnson himself had
been consulted in the matter.
Walter JohnsOn's contentnent as
member of the trailing Capital city
club seems to bother those daring fans
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
Much of Industrial Wealth Can
Be Traced to Effort Of
Some Scientist.
MOST FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE
Has to Do With Food We Eat, Water
We Drink, Clothing We Near, and
in Varying Degree With Every
Article in Commerce.
By w. LEE LEWIS.

BY w. LEE LEWIS.
(Head of the Department of chennis-
try, Northwestern University and
the Dscoverer of "Lewsite," the
Most Deadly Gas Ever Produced by
Man.)
Render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesars.
Beneath simple grave in Northum-
berland. Pa, lies the dust of a num-
BILE English clergyman. He was
driven from his native land by re-
ligious intolerance, and sought and
found in America intellectual freedom.
This man, Priestly, never earned over
ESQ a year. yet he discovered oxygen
and laid the foundation of modern
chemistry.
The great steel industries of our
country, the vast rubber business, the
tremendous packing interests would
deem it rare privilege were this man
living, to contribute to his comfort.
and give him the scientific tools that
would gladden. his heart, and to ac-
knowledge their unreasonable debt to
him. But for the man, Priestly, they
can only lay wreath on his last rest
ing place.
Much Of the great industrial wealth
of this country can be traced to the
effort Of some obscure chemist, some
Jealous devotee to pure science. who
thought little of self and who never
shared in the fruits of his researches.
Fundamental Science.
From the standpoint of material re-
sources chemistry is the most funda-
mental science 1t has to do with the
air we breathe, the water we drink.
the food we eat, the clothing we wear
and. in varying degree, with every ar
ticIe that enters into commerce. Chem
istry is the science of the composition
of matter. and matter is that upon
which energy. human and otherwise,
Is expended The science embraces
the star dust of outermost space. the
swirling volcanoes of sun gases. ana
the bacteria that nibble our food.
Consider the value of single dis
covery in abstract chemistry. kirch-
off. over hundred years ago. dis
covered that starch could be CON
verified into sugar by dilute acids.
The United States alone is richer
by S4O.GOOOO0 a year because of That
discovery. Perkin discovered mauVe
In the coal tar dyes. Its value was
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22


n members of the Chicago White Sox
bet on the world series last fall. Col
Inns does not believe Ray Schalk ever
made the statement accredited TO him.
He says a close friend of Schalk's
lost heavily on the series. but the IA
nous catcher is not the type Of
athlete who would be making serious
accusations against his teammates.
After the White SoX had dropped
couple of games in the worlds Sc
ries, Manager Gleason, at confer
ence of the players, spoke to them
about the reports which had gone all
over the country to the effect that
some members Of the Chicago team
were betting on Cincinnati to win and
were not doing their best in the series.
The Chicago manager told the players
he did not think there was any foun-
dation to the runOrs and regretted
that any such impression should be
created.
Johnny Evers was a big factor
in the defeat of the White SOX," de-
CldTpu ADllllS- vi NtthS Ilt icii'N
ed our team around and sized up the
style of play, also the weaknesses of
the various members of the club.
Evers instructed the Reds in the art
Of riding a team the way the Braves
did when they went through the Ath-
letics in 1914. Substitutes on the Gin
cinnati team as soon as the series
opened, managed to hurl remarks at
star players which greatly disturbed
them"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
Aged Man Writes Cards.

Elizabeth, Ky.-Charles Friend Of
Glendale, who is eighty years Old and
never would be taken to be over sew
enty, was in town the other day. He
still writes visiting cards for the
young people and 50 steady his hand
and 50 perfect his ewes that they al
most looN IKE they were engraved.
Whenever he takes notion that he
wants TO 30 70 TIodgenvinp he walks
there and hack, distance Of ten
miles each way.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
Locks Whiskey i'm a Safe

in liberal supply before constitu-
tional prohibition went into effect.
Prof. Allyn is working overtime try
ing TO keep pace with the demand for
One small bottle of home made
wine, which the owner assured him
possessed real kick, proved to be 2S
per cent alcohol. or from two TO three
times the alcoholic content of wines
formerly offered for sale ETHYL alcO-
hol may have been added to the con-
coction, Prof. Allyn thinks. At any
rate, it is the most remarkable Of the
hundreds of harmless home made
drinks" he has yet Analysed
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
LEFT-HANDED PLAYERS

In baseball in all positions
left-hauders have held their own
with the best of them.
Ruth and Cobb, the two great
est batsmen in the American
league, bat left-handed.
Left-handed pitchers like
Kerr of the White Sox and
Sallee of the Cincinnati Reds,
carried off leading honors in the
baseball blue ribbon of last year.
In the oiden days Waddell,
Plank, Marquard and other left
handed pitchers led all others
in baseball and held their own
near the top for years.
Tyler of the Cubs and VIII
Iiams and Kerr of the White
sox are only = few Of the left
handlers who ape expected TO do
great thingsy in the major
leagues this year.
While Cobb and Ruth. both
left handlers, were leading bats
men in the American leagHe last
year. in 1918 Wheat Of brook
lvn Roush and Southwark Of
Cincinnati. all left handlers.
were the three top men in the
National league list. that proves
3
how effective left-handed bats
men are and shows the adyan-
tage they have over rigia-hand-
eli players when 1t comes TO
reaching first base en- q hit.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
BIG STEEL PAY BUYING HOMES
Workers Are Not Wasting High Wages,
Records In Pittsburgh Dis
trict Show

Pittsburgh.-IIighly paid steel work
erS and coal miners in Pittsburgh and
Allegheny county are not spending all
their money but are using consider
able part of II to buy homes. according
to John d. Graham. recorder Of deeds.
whose renort for 1910 has just been
made public.
During the year the number of deeds
and mortgages filed was go. 1874, rs com
nared with 1895 in 1915. For the
first quarter of this year The number
WAS 1G3S3, as compared with 1850 in
the first quarter Of 1918.
The majority of The properties are
small houses.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
KILBANE DEAN OF FIGHTERS
Oldest Champion in Ring in Point of
TituIar Service-Has Held This
Eight Years.

When Johnny Kilbane squared of
against Benny Valger in their bout at
the Newark Sportmen's club boxing
fans saw the oldest champion in the
ring today-oldest in point of titular
service.
1t was just eight years ago that the
clever Clevelander won the feather
weight title, outpointing Abe Attell
in 2O-round fight at Vernon, Cal. Kill
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
Professor Knows Friends Are Honest,
but Isn't Taking Any
Chances.

Westfield. Mass.-Twenty quarts or
bottled-in-bOnd whisky, owned ny
Prof. Lewis 3. Allyn, the noted pure
food expert has been kept in his safe
since Jan. 16.
Il know my friends are honest,
he says, "but | am taking no chances.
The whisky is required from time
to time in the professors research
and experimental work, and he laid
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22
BASEBALL NOTES


OF Harry Lunte.
The New York Nationals have re-
leased Shortstop Jimmy Cooney to the
Milwaukee club.
Joe Ronowitz, st. Joseph catcher,
has quit the team and will play with
shop team at Flint, Mich.
The name Of Eddie Cicotte will be
the only one listed by the Chicago
White Sox as a spitball pitcher.
In a practice stunt at Jacksonville
Babe Ruth hit ball 1913 feet. Looks
like a pennant for the Yankees.
Lefty Grimm has won the first base
job with the Pirates, which leaves
George Whitfield free to play third.
Manager Ed Barrow plans to use
Tim Hendryx in center field, with
Hooper in right and Menosky in left.
Jeff Tesreau, former pitcher for the
New York Giants, will manage an in
dependent team in Brooklyn this year.
Heinie Zimmerman the Giants for
mer third baseman, intends to play
semi-professional baseball this season.
Johnny (Red) Corridor, who has
quit the ST. Paul team. will manage
shop team at Logansport, Ind, this
year.
Larry Cheney, who is now In the
automobile business at Jacksonville,
Fla, says he is done with baseball for
good.
Herb Kelly, the little southpaw
who has been in the Southern league
for several years. will not play ball
this year.
Kansas City has signed a pitcher
whose name will take up lot of room
in the scores. He is William DeCOn-
naucourt.
George Payne, who finished up with
Des Mones last year, is one new pitch
err who will make good with the Chi
cagO White SOx.
There are but two left-handed hit
ters on the Brooklyn team-Wheat
and Mitchell-and Mitchell is not
regular in the lineup.
Bob Clark, rookie pitcher with the
Cleveland Indians is said to have an
under-hand ball that is dead ring
err" for Carl Mays delivery.
ling Johnson, former pitcher for the
Athletics, recently waived out of the
majors. has been signed to play with
the Bethlehem steel mill team.
Pitcher George Cunningham. who
refused to accept a transfer from De-
! troit to Portland, has been sold by
| the Detroit club to Chattanooga.
Herb Moran's decision to manage n
! sIrop team in the Pittsburgh steel dis
| trict means the Sioux City club must
| select some one else TO manage the
| Sioux.
So well pleased is the Louisville
management with training conditions
at Mobile that it already has arranged
for the Colonies to return to the Gulf
! City next spring.
They are calling the Brooklyn Dodg-
ers the "BridegrOomsf again. Among
the newly-weds are Rowdy Elliott,
| Sherrod Smith. Barney Neis, George
| MOZART aid Joe Conan.
Pop Anson is not such an unregene
rate that he can see no good in any
thing modern. He says he doesn't
know whether Rusie or Johnson had
the more speed, but that Johnson does
| his work more easily.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22

LITTLE pI(KUp5.
OF Sport =.
Hal 3. Jr., p, 2:02A, sixteen years
old, is to be prepared for another CAM
paign.
Jimmy Kane, New York feather
weight is after Johnny Kilbane for
the title.
The Spanish government will pro-
vide $4,000 for the training of its
athletes for the Olympic games.
Plainfield, N. j., will revive its ia
nous 25-mile handicap bicycle road
race on Memorial day this year.
The Antwerp stadium where the
worlds athletes will gather in August
covers an area of ten square acres.
Rumors that Akron will make ap-
plication for membership to the Grand
circuit next season are now being
heard.
The Harvard Club Of Boston has a
Linton squash league. Sir Thomas
/ must be interested in squash as well
as tea.
National Association of Amateur
Oars,nen will hold their annual rowing
regatta at Worcester, Mass, July -
and "a.
Grayesend race track, near Coney
Island has been sold at auction to
ron, estate firm and will be broken up
into lots.
Russell Bailey, all-American foot
ball center in 1917, has been appoint
cd assistant football coach at the UNI
versity of Cincinnati.
The United States Football associ-
ation the governing body OF soccer
football will hold ifs annual meeting
IN Sc Louis May 20 and Il.
Mariondale. 2:05%4, raced last sea-
SON on the Grand circuit by Tommy
Murphy. will be campaigned thls sea-
son by Roy Thomas, his first trainer.
The University Of Toronto Rowing
club recently formed. plans an active
campaign in Canadian and perhaps
American regattas for the first time
yince 1893.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22

Manager Ed Barrow plans to use
Tim Hendrix in center field, with
Hooper in right and Menosky in left.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22

Pop Anson is not such an unregene
rate that he can see no good in any
thing modern. He says he doesn't
know whether Rusie or Johnson had
the more speed, but that Johnson does
his work more easily.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-05-22

who delight to shift the players of the
majors about to suit their own ideas.
Johnson Is perfectly satisfied with his
berth at Washington and as far as is
known, Clark Griffith is quite content
to shoulder JohnSon's big contract for
at least another season.
Although the fans may not general
Iy know it, Johnson had a chance to
20 70 Cleveland year ago, and he
turned the offer down because he did
not want to leave Griffith. At that
time, Magnate Dunn of the Cleveland
team was in the quest of pitching ma
terial to bolster an otherwise classy
club. He made Griffith an offer for
Johnson-said to be S6O,OOO-and
Griffith took the matter up with his
pitching ace. Griffith did not want to
lose Johnson, but he felt that Walter
had been such a faithful worker he
did not care to stand in his way of
getting substantial boost in pay, II
the pitcher really cared to make the
change.
When Johnson was asked about it,
he promptly replied that he was per-
fectly satisfied with his job and did
not really care to make move. 1t is
said Johnson dislikes to change about.
He has come to know Griffith and
Washington fans, and as he puts IT
he is content to continue pitching for
that team, regardless of the fancy
amounts he could possibly obtain from
other club owners.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-23
TERRIBLY SWOLLEN
Suffering Described As Torture
Relieved by Black Draught.

Rossville, Ga.-Mrs. Kate Lee Able, Of
his place, writes: "My husband is an
engineer, and once while lifting, he in
Flred himself with piece of heavy ma
ehinery, across the abdomen. He was
30 sore he could not bear to press on
himself at all, on chest or abdomen. He
weighed l65 lbs, and fell off until he
weighed 10 lbs, in two weeks.
He became constipated and it looked
like he would die. We had three different
doctors, yet with all their medicine, his
bowels failed to act. He would turn up
ten-cent bottle of castor oil, and drink
II two or three days in succession. He
did this yet without result. We became
desperate, he suffered so. He was swol-
len terribly. He told me his suffering
could only be described as torture.
sent and bought Thedford'S Black
Draught. made him take big dose,
and when it began to act he tainted, he
was in such misery, but he got relief and
began to mend at once. He got well,
and we both feel he owes his life to
Thedford's Black Draught."
Thedford's Black-Draught will help you
10 keep fit, ready for the days work.
Try III NC-l5l
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-23
Fl. WORTH WOMAN
RECEIVERS HEALTH
BY use OF TANLAC
Mrs. Parks Was So Miserable and De-
spondent Over Her Condition She
DesPaired of Ever Getting Wen.

II actually believe Tanlac saved
my life, for it pulled me up when I
was nearly past going" said Mira.
Laura Parks, of 1892 N. Calhoun
street, Fort Worth, Texas.
"My condition was SUCH" she con-
tinued, that everything 1 would cat
caused gas to rise and press on my
heart till thought would smother to
death. After eating | would become
nauseated and would get so dizzy
was afraid of falling; my limbs would
become numb, then again they would
Jingle all over like thousands of nee
dies sticking in me- | was so mer-
vous that I could hardly sleep, had
sick headaches most I'll the time and
was so miserable and Respondent I
feared my end was near.
"Soon after taking Tanlac my APP
petite picked up, my digestion imprgF-
ed and / got to eating everything I
wanted. I am now strong enough TO
do all my homework and more, all
my troubles are over. | sleep like n
child and my husband tells me I ane
the very picture of health
All druggists sell TanIac. xHv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-23
Flintside Lynching
Story False Alarm

CORDELE, Jan. 23.-Late Wed
nesday there was rumor current on
the street that a white woman had
been shot by negro man just across
the Flint river in Sumter county and
had died Immediately. With the re-
port was a concurrent one that a mob
had formed and was securing the
swamps of the Flint on the Crisp side
in an effort to locate the negro and
that lynching bee was imminent.
Investigation, however, proved that
the whole story was false, the So
called shooting proving to be merely
the result of a scuffle between a ne
gro farm hand on the place of C. D.
Terrell, and negro woman at the
Flintside station. The woman ex-
pected to come to Cordele on the af-
ternoon train and the man who is said
to have been her sweetheart, in play
snatched her money and refused to
give it back when the train neared.
In the scuffle, resulting from the
woman's attempt to get her purse, a
revolver in the possession of the ne
gro man was discharged, inflicting
slight flesh wound in the woman's
leg. Sumter county officers were i'm
mediately notified and attempted to
locate the man but investigation
proved that both had gotten out of
the section.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-23
SIMPLE DRESS A
FOE OF H. c. |.
Also Enhances Facial
Beauty, Says Woman
Editor

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Women
were urged to lower the cost of
clothes by abandoning the world
old tradition that they must dress
to capture the feeting fancy of the
male or to Guido others of their sex,
IL an address by Helen Louise John
son, editor of the General Federation
Magazine, before the Columbia Uni
versity Institute of Arts and
Sciences. Lower prices could be
brought about, she added in her talk
on THE Ethics of Dress" by the
adoption of standardized costume.
Man, Miss Johnson said, "can
dress properly and becomingly on a
limited number of suits. His reason
ing seems to be that beauty unadorn-
ed is adorned the most. His clothes
are far from beautiful"
Women would become less con-
splcuous and more impressive by
wearing standard dress, she declared,
for ''the active, healthy women Gre
ates a spiritual impression by simpli-
flying her dress and thus enhancing
her facial beauty, while her less ad-
vanced sister clings to the older dress
forms"
Simplifed dress would be more
than an economy, Miss Johnson add
ed, it would be ''the essence of moral
progress"