Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-10-11
CHEMISTRY SEEN AS
AGENT OF DEMOCRACY
(Bv Science Servicel

talks about the chemist is actually ac-
complishing," said DR.. Edwin +. Slos-
son, of Science Service, Washington,
in the opening address to the Amerl-
can Chemical Society meeting here
| this morning "Chemistry is the most
effectual agent for democracy since it
actually achieves in regard to many
material things that equality which
| legislation aims to bring about IN the
political Sphere" said DR.. Slosson.
"Luxuries, formerly the monopoly of
| the privileged classes become through
chemistry the common property of the
masses. The royal purple of the an
| clients and dyes far more beautiful are
now to be had on the bargain counter
and Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like the modern American
maiden. Even though her purse be
scant she need not lack jewels and
perfumes and fine raiment, such as
once were worth a slaves life. Fruits
exotic and out of season are upon our
table, and the china we eat them from
is not bought brom China but made
from a clay bank at home.
I'm early ages the man who owned
piece of steel shaped it into sword
and made himself master of his fell
lows. Now we make buildings out of
steel and he who lives in the CARROT
of one of them could look down on
the Tower of Babel The Feudal Age
vanished at the first Whit of gun
powder for that device of the Black
Art levelled the natural and the arti-
fetal inequalities of humanity nj war
fare, for with a gun in his hand the
IL. Il ha oh oil
footing and the dwarf was match for
the giant-more than a match for he
had the larger target.
medicines such as a prince could
not have procured. though his physl-
clans surveyed the earth from China
to Peru, are now at hand to cure the
pauper. The new chemical motive
powers have given man in the automo
bile a very fair substitute for the sew
en-league boots of the fairy-tale; they
enable him to go down into the sea in
ships on more or less lawful occasions,
and they have endowed him with the
wings that he has always longed for
but never expected to get until he
reached Heaven. Books are no longer
chained up in treasures but, manifold
ed by the magic of ink, are to be bot
on the street corner like peanuts. Pic
lures from the private gallery of
prince or plutocrat are multiplied by
the same mechanism and scattered
throughout the land. We do not have
to pay ten dollars to hear a song by
Galli-Cursi since we can hear her at
home with SIS many encores as we
want. Caruso, though dead, yet
speaketh. His voice has been en-
banned oy carbolic acid Events that
few could witness are brought to all
of us on the celluloid film. The drama
is brought to every village.
$50 whether it be the satisfaction of
our material wants or the gratifica-
ton of our aspiration for art and lit
erature, the chemist acts as the agent
of applied democracy. Democracy was
engaged in a struggle for life lasting
five years and emerged triumphant
thanks to the chemist. For was has
now become essentially branch of
applied chemistry, carried on almost
entirely by chemical weapons and
chemical defenses. Germany, regard
ing herself as the heaven-born leader
of mankind in this science attempted
TO use it to establish her political SUI
premacy in the world, but in spite of
her advantage on the start she was
foiled in the end by the democrat ma
tions. She ha dfreed herself in adj
vvance from dependence upon the nj
trate beds of Chile for her explosives
by developing methods of making nj
trates from the air.
''The war is over and Germany has
been relieved by the Allies of the bur-
den of armament that still weighs up
on the victorious nations. But Ger
many, unlike the United States, finds
it profitable to proceed with the Haber
process even in time of peace. We
have no fear in America of such
catastrophe as the explosion of Oppau.
We have no such works to lose. 1T
the Muscle Shoals plant should blow
up now the loss of life would be con-
siderably less. 1t is curious to recall
that the Allied aviators were never
able to blow up the Oppau works de-
spite their gallant and persistent at
tempts, yet now the Germans, without
outside aid. have removed the entire
establishment from the earth with the
greatest ease. The moral of this is
the old maxim. If you want a thing
done, do it YOURSELF
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK
That the local newspaper has much
to do with the building of commun-
ity.
That if public movement is start
ed which means better things for a
city, the newspaper co-operates and 1T
generally wins.
That If the newspaper does not help,
the movement usually loses.
That ht local newspaper is a BIG
PART OF EVERY COMMUNITY.
That it is always working for the
public good.
That it seldom gets the credit it
deserves.
That a newspaper is business in
stltution the same as any other busi-
ness.
That they have goods to sell the
same as any other merchant.
That their goods consist of news
papers and advertising space.
That they can no more afford to give
1t away any more than a merchant
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