Smyrna times., 1936-08-27
FILM DRAMA OF
SCIENCE HERE
Shown by DUPONT Company
at John BaSSett Moore
High School
SPONSORED BY ROTARY

Sponsored by the Smyrna Ro-
tary Club the Publicity Bureau of
the DUPONT Company gave a film
showing of THE Wonder World of
Chemistry in Smyrna, Thursday
night that despite the hot summer
evening was fairly well attended
and appreciated by everybody. The
Smyrna Rotary had previously
held their dinner meeting at The
Wayside Inn at which the DUPONT
Company representatives were the
honor guests and following a short
meeting they repaired to the John
Basett Moore High School auditor
ium. Rotarians, Grangers, local
farmers, business and professional
men, some with their wives, were
present to witness the film showing
and hear the lectures. George o.
Fearon, president of Smyrna Ro-
tary Club, called the meeting to or
der and Erwin r. Dick, chairman
of program took charge of the ev-
ening performance. 1t was brought
out in the discussion of Mr.. Tyler
that nearly ten per cent of Della
wares population is directly de-
pendent on the chemical industry
for support, and this state, espec-
tally Wilmington, is one of the
worlds leading chemical centers,
said Chaplin Tyler, assistant direc-
tor of the DUPONT Company pub
licity department. He spoke be-
fore Rotarians gathered from all
parts of Delaware to see the new
motion pictures of the DUPONT
Company and the Bayer-Semesan
Company, subsidiary. j. Hunter
Gooding, sales manager of the
Bayer-Semesan Company, also
spoke. Mr.. Tyler also pointed out
that the DUPONT Company is a big
customer of agriculture. In
normal year, he said, the company
buys IL million pounds of staple
cotton, 36 million pounds of cotton
linters, % million pounds of veg
etable oils, 40 million gallons of
molasses, and a million bushels of
corn. This indicates he contin-
ued, that in the future, further
quantities of farm products may
be consumed by our factories, thus
providing additional outlets for
farm surpluses or farm wastes"
The motion pictures were THE
Wonder World OF Chemistry"
showing how natural products,
such as cotton, spruce wood, coal,
salt and water are converted into
rayon, dye-stuffs, perfumes, Cello
phane, Acele, Pryalin, Duco, Dulux,
Zerone and Five Star, both auto
mobile radiator anti-freeze, pre-
sented by the DUPONT Company;
and Feeding the Multitude, which
shows methods used to combat
plant diseases, presented by the
Bayer-Semesan Company. Speak
ing of rubber, Mr.. Gooding had this
interesting point to make; "For
more than so years chemists all
over the world struggled to de-
velop god imitation of natural
rubber. And all the time, the
stakes were getting larger, because
the use of rubber increased tre-
mendously with mass production
of automobiles. So, to make a
long story short, Dupont chemists
have developed a material similar
to rubber in many respects, but
without the deficiencies of natural
rubber This material, called Du-
Prene, is made from the basic ma
terials coal, limestone, and salt, all
of which are plentiful and cheap.
Though the present price of Du-
Prene is rs cents pound, compar-
ed with 16 cents for natural rub
Der, it is sufficiently superior for
many purposes to be in demand.
Thirty years ago SO per cent of
the worlds nitrogen deficiency was
Offset by nitrate imported from
Chile. Today less than 10 per cent
comes from Chile, despite a seven
fold increase in world nitrogen
consumption. The DUPONT Com
pany is one of the worlds largest
producers Of air nitrogen, having
in West Virginia factory for that
purpose which cost more than 20
million dollars"