The New York herald., 1921-09-08
METZ IS ACCUSED AS
AGENT OF GERMANY
f. P. Garvan, President Of
American Chemical FOun-
dation, Makes Charge.
CITES WAR ACTIVITIES
Says Representative in
Washington Tried to Pre-
vent Dye Embargo.
PROTECTION IS NEEDED
Two Societies Call on Congress
to Prohibit Chemicals
From Germany.
PROTECTION IS NEEDED

i S NAaei 3V tiA1t LAGInidA "a NltlZ,
while serving as Representative in
Congress. had been acting as the chief
agent OF the greatest German chem
ical concerns in an attempt to restore
to that and other German companies
their domination Of the dye industry
Of the world, was made by Francis p.
Garvan yesterday in an address to the
| Society Of Chemical Industry and the
American Chemical Society at Colum-
bia University.
! Mr.. Garvan, who was formerly Alien
Property Custodian and who is presi-
dent of the Chemical Foundation,
which was organized during the war
to promote and aid American chemical
research and industry. declared that
Mr.. Metz was the American repre-
sentative Of the Unforeseen Gemein-
schaft, the most powerful monopoly
ever formed by man." and had led on
the floor of Congress the fight which
defeated An cican chemical manufac-
turers Of their hope that an embargo
would be placed on German dyes and
other chemicals until American pro-
ducers had chance to establish their
manufacture and gain a permanent
market.
He warned his audience that IL there
Is another great war, chemistry is
bound to play a decisive part in it, and
that the United States must not lose an
opportunity which 1t now has Of becon-
ing the leading chemical nation Of the
world
At the end OF his speech the two So
cieties adopted a resolution calling on
Congress to pass an embargo act which
will be fully protective, and calling on
the armament conference to give the
whole question of chemical industry the
fullest consideration.
Attacks Herman A. Mets.
Mr.. Garvan in the course OF his speech
said:
IF in the reaction Of war and in the
general distaste for discussing matters
pertaining to war we permit ourselves
again TO be lulled and nunbed by Ger
man propaganda. If we look on indiffer-
entity while few damagogeus in Con-
gress and a few short sighted, selfish
men in business life play the German
game. II we allow Germany to stifle
an American industry that would within
a very few years make the United States
absolutely safe, then, say 1t viii have
been through your neglect and temer-
ity and failure to realize that 1t is
your responsibility not only to search
the truth but to preach it.
Does 1t not bring to your minds the
lessons of the war when you saw Her
man A. Metz, the importing rcpresen-
tative Of the German II. c." stand on
the floor OF the House OF Representa-
o rav al k.v x.f ha
teen Congressman who voted against
the declaration OF war, leading the
cheering when the first great unsuccess-
full test came as to whether American
chemists should be given a chance to
catch up their neglect or forty years
and atone FOR it by leading this country
through tho development OF organic
chemistry into the realms of intensified
national industrial progress. sweet
security TO home and child and
were louder in their appealtaoingkqj
were louder in protest and more persist
ent in their appeal for Germany than
the voices of your fifteen thousand MEM
bers for Americas lessons OF the war?
Herman A. Metz stood upon the
floor OF the House az that vote was an
nounced and shouted to gallery of
American citizens, I've got you licked
And when he screamed in triumph he
meant i. the representa- tive OF the Inter.
essen Gemeinschaft. the TO-" the COM
bination of German Government and
German schemical industries. I've licked
the advice Of your Gen. Pershing; I've
licked the advice OF your Secretary or
War: I've licked the advice OF your
Secretary Of Navy; I've licked your
President: I've licked your Aaministra-
ton I've licked you th!rty-milion dollar
| investment in your colleges; I've licked
your chemistry In your high schools and
your public sch ools I've licked your re-
search institutions and the future devcl-
opment OF medicine in America.
How Chemistry May Help Peace.
After outlining the development of the
peace idea and the progress OF war
weapons up to the discovery OF war
gasses Mr.. Garvan said:
These things hit at the heart OF inn
agination. surveying wat creative chem
istry has already done in war in its
first few experimental steps. We arc
! bound by sheer intelligence to compre-
hend that chemical science has only be-
gun to fight 1t has learned how to
utilize. not very slilfully. few gases.
It has not done anything beyond small
scale experimenting with radioactive
/ forces But the lessons of the great
war were n tremendous impulse to the
1 research chemist who Is searching out
among rare elements, such as radiun.
arguments against warfare that can no
more be refuted than pygmy man can
oppose the tornado or the earthquake or
contend with Nesuvlus. The strange
stuff that Eliminates the diuls II our
watches may be the very medium that
will eventually produce the resistlcss
force that will make fighting intoler-
4 able"
NJ. Metz has been member OF the
American Chemical Society for num-
ber OF years and with his brother IL the
owner of one of the largest chemical
concerns in this country He left this
! city for business trip abroad last
Saturday on board the Olympic.