The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-07
PAPER MAKING AND
 GAS WARFARE ARE TOPICS AT BANQUET
Delightful Affair Given Last Night to Visiting Chem iStS and Lady
 Visitors

Members of the American Chemical society and the ladies accompanying them were guests at banquet at the Tutwiler last night over which pr. B. B. Ross, head of the chemistry department at Auburn presided as ! toastmaster.
 The principal addresses were made by E. w. Barrett, editor of The Age Herald, who spoke on "The Manufac- ture of Print Paper From Alabama | Spruce;" pr. Edgar F. smith of the | University of Pennsylvania who is president of the American Chemical society, and Gen. Amos A. Fries, head of the chemical Iarfare service | of the United States army. Before the close of the dinner Dr. Ross called upon number of the visitors for short talks and the stories | and incidents they related contrib uted to make the evenings event de- lightful.
 Mir. Barrett gave in a general way a history of the work he did in prov ing that news print paper could be made from Alabama spruce pine and in publishing a complete issue of | The Age-Herald on paper made from | this material. The att-actively bound menu cards for the dinner were were printed some of 'the plper which had been made from the Ala bama spruce by MT Barrett and l aroused much interested comment
 You are chemist, but you don't know it." said Dr. Smith, addressing Mir. Barrett when he was called upon. The chemists's ideal is to give
 comfort, welfare and happiness to | nf " nf L. fv, F.; | direction. You have had a vision of what could be done and you have done 1t. That is the true ideal and | purpose of the chemist"
 | Dr. Smith spoke feelingly' about | his native state of Pennsylvania and the traditions of his hone city, Phil | adelphia, and urged the importance of the chemists work in carrying on the work of the 56 men who signed l the Declaration of Independence at the average age of 42 and of those who framed, also in Philadelphia, the Constitution of the United States. He defended chemical warfare and said that any man would be lacking in patriotism who did not use every re- source in his power against the enemy | In time of national peril.
 | General Fries cited figures to show | that gas warfare is more humane than war with explosive weapons and less permanent casualties follow | chemical wounds than from shot and shell. He warned his hearers against | propaganda being circulated against chemical warfare saying their in- vestigations had shown that this propaganda came from organizations which were purely soviet and bol- shevik in character. He said that the
 arms conference had agreed not to
 use gas as a weapon but that this did
 not mean that America should not continually study how to protect It.
 self against such attacks if made by | others.
 The chemical arfare worker he said takes mustar. gas as his model In life because it Is so everIastingly persistent. The discoveries made by
 his stion prom SC to be of great
 benefit in revealing poisons and
 methods of destroying all kinds of
 pests He predicted tear gas uiti-
 mately in every bank vault; tear gas
 brigade in every police department
 and pointed to mn; other important
 uses to which the work of the gov
 ernment's chemical researches would
 lead.
 Several vocal numbers were sup
 piled by the Howard College glee | club