Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-12-25
Will Chemistry Change
Industry? Sensational
Upheavals Predicted

New York, Dec. 22.--.'The chemist
is revolutionizing industry" says
Hugh Farrell, financial editor of the
New York Commercial, in 100 page
pamphlet entitled what Price Prog.
ress?" that is circulated by the
Chemical Foundation.
The chemist is developing new
products and new ideas every 'lour nj
every day. As nsult of his worn
flourishing industries are being scrap
ped over night.
Yesterday belonged to the meckan-
ical engineer, but today and tomorrow
blong to the chemical enginee..
"The spectacle Of bunch of in and
iron goin gin one end of hopper aid
an automobile coming out at the other
is wonder to behold, but this pro-
cess does not compare in magic with
the plucking of solid substances oct
of the thin air or the waters of the
sea-"
The pamphlet is intended to warn
investors of revolutionary changes in
industry. The writer says:
Wake up, Mr.. Investor; the busi-
ness in which your money is invest
ed may already be on the skids.
"Theer is no business today whose
welfare an dinterest are not bound up
with chemistry. Chemistry is the sci
ence of the transformation of matter,
and that is what industry must ulti-
mately become. There is no industry
not one-that is not in danger of
waking up tomorrow and finding that
the chemist has made a discovery that
might revolutionize it"
The author submits these questions
to those who believe their industry
is on a solid foundation:
What is happening in the Ameri-
can wood alcohol industry as a result
of recent chemical discoveries?
What effect will household and
commercial electrical refrigeration
have on the ice industry?
Wat evolution in under way in au-
tomobile motor engineering?
What evolution is under way in
high pressure steel boilers, and what
will be the effect on the iron and coal
industry?
''What changes are being effected in
combustion engineering and what will
be the effect on coal investments and
public utility investments?
"What will be the effect Of the
Coolidge x-ray tube on the manufae-
ture of steel and on the practice of
medicine
"What changes are under way in
the public utility field?
will alcohol take the place Of gas
oline?
what are the possibility of rust
less iron and steel?
what are the possibilities Of the
marvellous new alloy steels which are
beginning TO displace the cheaper
tool?
sWill aluminium displace mon?
What matallurgical evolutions are un-
der way in magnesium, chromium,
tungsten, nickel and chromium?
Wat effect will rayon have on cot
ton and wool?
What effect will bakelite have on
the paint industry?
What effect will pyroXylln have en-
white lead ?
what is the field for byrex?
sWill ciment fondu revoluii0nlZe the
cement industry?
What revolutionary process is un-
der way in the fertilizer industry?
How about synthetic rubber
What is the future Of radio and
what Industries will be effected? ?
What IS the relation between the
vacuum tube and the telephone ?
what are the possibilities Of the
mercury boiler?
what about the telautograph and
printing telegraph
The author rejects the widely ae-
cepted view that the American chem
Iist is not equal to those in Germany.
The notion that Germany excels in