Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-14


years its progress has awakened
and attracted the attention of the
world. No wonder then the state
of New Jersey can achieve no high
er honor than to prepare for future
generations an education in keeping
with that liberty. Security and n
joyment.
In the experimental science man.
kind OF necessity is constantly adj
vancing; every generation has its
front rank and rear rank: the front
of today is the rear of tomorrow.
To the state or country that keeps
in the front rank of experimental
science there is unlimited oppor-
unity afforded its citizens for peace
and prosperity. New Jersey with its
large natural deposits and great in
dustries should be in the fore rank
in ceramic experimental science and
il is the school we are ~dedicating
today that promises to give u state
the leadership that it so richly de-
serves
1T may be said that the youth of
our state cannot all partake of the
advantages of this school. This same
objection may be made to every ia
cility for education but all benefit
either directlw or indirectly. Think
of the large number of those in the
succession Of years that will come
and partake directly or indirectly of
the stores of truth and knowledge
in this school; think of the numbers
without number who through them
and who b. them indirectly will par
take of the same stores: studious
men will come to learn to speak
and write to and for the growing
millions of our state and nation;
they cannot hoard it IL they would
and they would not IL they could.
They take in trust to distribute and
every motive of ambition of inter-
est and OF duty will compel them
to distribute. They buy in gross
and sell in retail. The lights which
they kindle will not be set under a
bushel but will burn on a thousand
hills lighting up new pathways o
increased employment fer capital
and labor and bringing to our state
new sources OF revenue and peace
and prosperity to its citizens.
with gratitude TO u ~forbearers
for their priceless heritage and for
the everlasting honor OF u nation
and state let us this day through
and by this dedication renew our
efforts support and loyalty TO the
further increase and perpetuation
of the enjoyment of our liberty n
security of our happiness in a man
ner that will be pleasing in the sight
of him who is the Lord and Master
of u destiny.
Professor Edward Orion. Jr., head
of the Ceramic School at Ohio State
University and dean OF ceramic IN
structors in the United States, was
one of the principal speakers. Pro-
lessor Orion, earlier in the day had
conferred upon him by Rutgers Col
lege a degree together with Thomas
Edison and other notables. He was
the first to give scientific ceramic
education in this country and is rec
ognized by ceramic workers ana
manufacturers as one of the most
learned men on this subject. Pro-
fessor orion spoke as follows:
During the summer of 1888,
while a college student. / was given
the task of preparing a chapter up
on the clays and clay-working in
dustries OF Ohio for a volume On
economic geology which the state
of Ohio was getting out. Like any
other college boy, l went to h
library to see what I could find. l
found but one state which had pub
lished anything of value in this m
dustrial field. and but one writer
in English who had applied the con-
ceptions and viewpoint of modern
| science to the subject of clays. That
was the late Professor George H.
| Cook in his famous report upon the
| Clays of New Jersey. written In
1878. q
while what he described per-
tanned to a very different geological
order from that of Ohio. and but
little of 1t could be applied direct
to the conditions found in the mid
die west, the fact remained that 1t
furnished the inspiration, the
method, and the viewpoint Of our
efforts.
"a field study of clay-working
plants in Ohio and neighboring
who directed them, then followed.
This disclosed that the important
industry OF clay-working was still
in the empirical stage of an art. and
that almost no use was made OF
either science or engineering, except
as an occasional architect, mill
wright, or machinery manufacturer
might be brought in from the out
side and might produce a better
plant layout or machine and thus
gain imitators. And these few be-
ginnings p~ertained almost wholly to
the points at which mine engineer
ing or mechanical engineering
touched this field. and not at all to
the chemical engineering of which
clay-working primarily consists.
The chemistry of fuel and of the
s~ilicates with which the clay worker
deals were as yet sealed books to
him. Such was the industrial situa-
ton of the clay industries in 1888.
the heritage of centuries of trade
custom and experience.
Eight years later the exigencies
of getting a living brought me again
into contact with clay-working, this
time in charge of a factory. In
solving the very real and practical
problems, which concerned directly
the balance sheet of the factory and
the continuity of the salary itself.
appeal was once more made to the
library and the literature was again
searched. Some few books had ap-
peared, but they contained few new
ideas, and gave little help to prac-
teal men.
1.-TWO years later. in 1893. al ef-
fort was again made by the Geolog-
ical Survey Of Ohio TO put forth
something constructive upon clays
and clay-working. But not much