New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-07
Chemists Meet
Here TODAY
$3.50 Strong
Leaders From All Over
World to Discuss Plans
for Cheaper and Better
Way to Feed Nations
Hoover Invited to Speak
Scientific Feeding of Hens
and Strict Sugar Diet
TO Be Among Topics

Chemistry's part IN advancing civil
ization by showing how eggs can b.
made more nutritious by the scientific
feeding of hens. how person might
live on $34.3S worth of food year if
he subsisted on sugar exclusively, how
the adsuki bean if introduced in this
country from Japan would give Amer
leans a new and cheap food and how
the 'warble f1y," the pest of cattle. must
be stamped out if the leather industry
is to prosper, will be discussed by emf
nent chemists from all parts of the
world, who will convene to-day at Co.
lumbia University.
The chemists, incluing so from Great
Britain, about $500 from the United
States and 500 from other countries,
are delegates to q special session of
the American Chemical Society, which
will discuss means of increasing the
worlds productivity to make up for
losses during the war. The registra-
ton at the Chemists Club, so East
Forty-frst Street, yesterday indicated
that it will be the largest gathering
OF chemists ever held.
Sir William Pope Coming
Sir William J. Pope, the English sci
enlist, who made important discoveries
concerning mustard gas for war pur
poses, will head the British delegation,
which will arrive to-day with 400 chem
lists from Canada. The Atlantic coast,
described at the most active field for
industrial chemistry in the world, will
seEd the largest representation.
The convention, which will continue
until Saturday night, will be opened
to-day by DR.. Edgar F. Smith, presi-
dent of the society, and John F. Teeple,
chairman of the New York section.
The speakers will be Francis P. Garvin,
formerly Alien Property Custodian,
who is credited with giving the Chem
ical Foundation German dye secrets;
Sir William Pope and Professor R. F.
Ruttan, of the Canadian Chemical So
ciety, who will tell of his efforts to or
ganize industrial research.
Tomorrow the sessions will be held
at the College of the City of New York.
DR.. Smith will open the discussion of
the relation of chemistry to food and
industry with paper on "Chemistry
and Civilization"
1t was learned yesterday that num-
Der of the delegates who are professors
Of chemistry in leading universities
have been conducting experiments with
the food value of eggs as affected by
the feeding of hens and the possibility
of living on a diet composed largely
of sugar, which is said to be so cheap
in proportion to it's value that S34.38
worth of sugar contains enough calores
to maintain person for year.
To Discuss Oil Saving
Means of saving millions of dollars
yearly through the recovery of petro-
leum which has been mixed with water
in the wells, the creation of artificial
camphor by new process and Great
Britain's fight on the 'warble fly" led
by Alfred Seymour-Jones; dyestuffs,
anthrax, sorghum syrup, mineral rub
Der and the influence of insects on
human life are subjects of some of the
200 scientific papers to be read.
Herbert Hoover, Secretary of the De-
partment of Commerce, has been in
vited to address an international con-
ference on chemistry to be held to-
morrow afternoon.
Never has chemistry been as i'm
portant to the world as at present"
said John W. Harrington, technical d.
rector. Every chemist is trying to
do his part to help reconstruct the
world and to make life more healthful
for the average person. That is why
chemists are devoting their energies
to specialized subjects"
The executive council at the Chem
lists Club yesterday decided to hold
the 1922 convention in April at Birm-
ipgham, Ala, and the fall meeting in
Pittsburgh in September. DR.. A. B.
Lamp, of Boston, was elected editor
lists Society" and Dr. Charles H. Herty,
of New York, was selected as editor
of "The Journal Of Industrial and En-
pineerinp Chemistry"