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ROM the advertisement of a which plants grow that eventually thing more than plastic compounds invented loom, and thus making a New York department store: and their way to the markets of that take the place of wood and soft pliable fabric. But the übers

Grandma got by with a new ban- towns. Perhaps it will never out- metal. Our society is what it is were nature's after all

They are hard won, these tri- net and a smear of tale across her grow that purpose. Yet the signs just because the engineer and the pretty little nose but times are already here that in the future chemist have struggled with na umphs, won at the cost of much have changed To make it easier crops will be cultivated not to be ture, torn her coal, her trees, her violence. And because it is 30. his crudity. He for modern beauties we have as- eaten but to supply the raw ma- beauty apart, discovered how they the chemist is sometimes ashamed sembled the Personal Spectrum terials of chemical industries were created and then proceeded of himself-of

combinations of his contemplates nature with a tech- Kit with all related cosmetics to Consider these agricultural de- to make new

mands of a great American chemi- own. The lilies of the field and nical eye. These trees, animals, perfumes, these suit your individual colouring.

From an article by Edsel Ford, cal manufacturing company in a the boney of the bee are not in sweet-smelling exploiter of soy beans and builder recent year of this, our chemical themselves sufficient. On every poisons that the reptiles and in-

infancy:

hand there is synthesis-scents, sects secrete, all these she has of motor cars:

Sixteen and a

half million fabrics, drugs, pigments, plastics, made without fierce temperatures. Our engineers tell us that soy-

We are conscious of synthesis in tons of corroding acids and alkalis, bean oil and meal are adaptable pounds of cotton-the yield of

tric lamps and machines. They are chemist sees in his mind's eye a to by far the greater part of the 100,000 acres to make leather our bridges, subway's, houses, elec- powerful electric many branches of the whole new substitutes. plastic industry, and that short. Thirty-six million pounds of cot- obviously planned structures-in- Haber plant for synthesising am- ly we are to see radio and other ton liters the yield of 2,175,000 ventions. Not so obviously plan- monia and thus reducing nitrogen For the first time since the small cabinets, table tops, flooring acres of cotton-to make safety- hed or invented are our chemical from the air in fixed form-sees tragedy of the Spanish civil tile in a thousand different colour glass, toiletware, lampshades, shoe syntheses. To nine out of ten the steel vessels which must withstand war burst on a startled and combinations, brackets and sup. heels, fountain pens, smokeless chemist is still something of a a pressure of 3,000 pounds to the hundred varieties, powder, rayon, household cement, magician, a mysterious figure, im- square inch at a temperature ap pelled to mix together strange and proaching red heat. And then he uneasy Europe there are signs ports of

spools and shuttles for the textile motion-picture films. that common sense is coming

trades, buttons and many other Thirty-six million bushels

RETURN TO SANITY IN SIGHT

$

currents. The

of sometimes dangerous compounds, turns to the vetches and beans of

into its own again. Germany things of everyday use all com- corn-the yield of 1,400,000 acres only to discover that he has at his the field. They, too, reduce nitro-

and Italy have at last municated their

com-

anxiously

ing from the soy-bean fields.

From an address by the direc- awaited replies to the British tor of an industrial research la- Government's Note on

non-boratory:

intervention in Spain, and the

In 1913 the most carefully made

reaction in the capitals of Europe would seem to indicate automobile of the day had a body that the work of the non-inter- to which twenty-one coats of paint

By

London has, for the first time, 1920, through scientific manage-

·By· Waldemar

vention committee set up in and varnish were applied. Kaemyffert

a more than reasonable chancement, it was possible to do

now

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the air. There is no command an explosive that will gen from blast mountains asunder or a plas- terrific heat; no stout Tessel of steel He has to batter down the tic that is a substitute for wood.

But the chemist knows better. atomic gates. Nature opens them He deals with such invisibilities with a key. as atoms and molecules exactly as

if they were levers and gears. In his mind's eye he sees them as- sembling themselves into. new structures. He deliberately plans the new forms of matter as an ar chitect plans a house or an en- gineer a streamlined train.

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CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN PEACE

of successful application. Both body-painting job in about eleven m Germany and Italy are positive days. In 1923 came the first ni-

They cut to be converted into solvents for and constructive, coming for trocellulose lacquers.

ITALO-GERMAN ward with an offer of complete the time to two days. Now a paints, varnishes and lacquers.

Forty million gallons of moTHE synthetic chemist, the plan- co-operation much less condi-hole body is made out of metal

VOLUNTEER NOTES tional than was in some quar-and coated with any colour in a lasses, from which alcohol is dis- ning chemist, is like a god.

(day.

tilled for chemical use.

He is the creator of another world, ters anticipated.

From 2 German scientific ma- More and more is the farm an which is just as wonderful as that LONDON VIEWS With Germany and Italy

adjunct of industry. One-tenth of of nature." falling so readily into line, allazine:

Over twenty-five years ago the the corn crop is converted into a Take the metallurgist. Ten thou-

London, To-day. represented on the non-inter- vention committee, which is German chemist, Todtenhaupt, par hundred different products rang sand years ago, indeed until very

The German and Italian re- tented a process to convert the ing from glycerine to "dry ice" recently, he was a random smelter sitting in London, are

Govern- the British Bronze was plies to tense casein of milk inte artificial wool Cotton seeds, a nuisance half a and mixer of metals. unanimous that the

Under the economic stress of the century ago, had a value of about one of his magnificent accidental ment's Note on non-interven- situation caused by the pre-

the Italians de $200,000,000 in the boom year discoveries. But how different to- tion in Spain meet with favour- sence in Spain of thousands of Ethiopian war

veloped the process and by Octo- 1919,

day With X-rays he peers right able comments in the London foreign nationals, must cease ber, 1936, will produce several

into the heart of a crystal-for press. and cease immediately. The hundred thousand pounds annual-

everything in the crust of the

The "Morning Post" states the next step, of course, is the putely of artificial wool. No one pre- ting into force of the plan of control already drawn up by tends that it is indistinguishable M a svathetic for a natural the atoms are placed. He shows opinion that while the two. Notes are not a conclusion in themselves. the League committee Tais perfect, but no more imperfect product is involved Buttons that temperatures relates

gress in the right direction. should be accomplished satis-than were the first Sbers of art look like ivory or bone but are nei- such properties as toughness, mag- they nevertheless represent pro- factorily, though the two Fascial silk. It meets men's needs ther, fibers that mimic silk but are netism, lightness. He makes a

The "Daily Telegraph" declares Whe result is a that with the receipt of the Ita- cist countries will expect very all that can be reasonably de- better, automobile upholstery that mixture of aluminum, nickel and sound evidence of the elimina-manded.

passes for leather but is a form copper. of guncotton, photographic films magnet that can lift sixty times lian and German Notes the last tion of Soviet influence from

that bring the same screen plays its own weight or an alloy so light barrier to action is removed, and to tens of millions simultaneously that stratosphere balloon gondolas believes that if the action men- YOSMETICS, soy-bean products, for as little as 25 cents these are are made of it.

tioned in the Notes is carried out,

the Peninsula.

Spain has often been in the

fore on such

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than the substitution of is crystalline and sees

them to

grip of civil feud but never becquers casein "wool" the outward evidences of a break- Already has he reached the all danger of war in Europe will

a scale. The all are "synthetic," as the term is ing down of social distinctions, of stage where he can synthesise a be definitely eliminated. country has been literally de- somewhat loosely used nowadays a profound change in life. Gun- metal for a special purpose. Sup A leading article in the "Times" vastated and there will be gen-There are thousands more like powder made all men the same pose he were to design and build emphasises the necessity of re- eral relief, not only because of them, transformations of such height, said Carlyle in a fine but an alloy with five times the tensile sorting to any and every means of the cessation of international familiar raw material as coal, pe- unwitting comment on synthetic limit of any we now have not a enforcing non-intervention. tension, which will follow the troleum, wood, slaughterhouse re- chemistry. The levelling is not yet wild impossibility. When be sac- The "Daily Mail declares that control of outside aid to one or fuse. Indeed, every article that ended.

ceeds, "the art of transportation Germany and Italy are united in other of the parties, but for the we touch is a chemical product of

revolu- a strong front on the question of « New industries came with the on land and sea will be some kind, and many a one bas

rise of chemistry, and with them tionised and, unfortunately, the making peace, while even the La selves. Civil war has nothing no counterpart in nature.

bour "Daily Herald” expresses 88- new opportunities for the many, methods of warfare." to recommend it at any time, There are metals like aluminum. There is a closer relation between

It is the organic chemist who tisfaction, declaring that the re- least so when the combatants sodium and a few hundred alloys democracy and the laboratory than has progressed far in solving these plies indicate the willingness of are merely the pawns of ex-that nature forgot to make when the historians realize. The environ- problems of design. Always he Germany and Italy to take the ac- ternal interests.

the earth was a cooling but still ment has been chemically chang- begins by analysis a tearing tion demanded by that paper glowing ball. There are dyes un ed, and with that change

has apart of molecules to see how they months ago.

The Liberal "News Chronicle,” matched by any gleam in the iride-

come a new vision of the social fu. are built up. It is clear that if scent feathers of a peacock's tail ture. Is the world ready?

we are to create a hormone or a while doubting the good inten- Great Britain, it is stated, Paper? A chemical tissue-one of

It is possible that the State may vitamin, a scent like that of the tions of both countries, admits will next year reach a record man's earliest successes in sy have to control the chemist. He violet or the rose, a hoe like that that progress has been made. --

nst first find Trans-Ocean. low figure of young men aged thesis. War is a matter of strong ruined the turkey-red industry of of indigo, we 20 suitable for military service. metals, high explosives, lung-cor France, the indigo industry of in- out how the vitamin, hormone,

Vital Figures

FRENCH COMMENT

Paris, To-day. The earlier feeling of optimism

To Germany's 313,700, Britain roding gases-in & word, of dia His rayon precipitated a scent or dye is put together. will have only 296,900. These chemistry. «Analyse talking. ma crisis among Chinese and Japanese But the chemist goes far beyond are the children born when the chine records that preserve the silk growers. Suppose that he were a duplication of nature. In his struggle of the Great War was renditions of Toscanini for the fu- to devise the nutritive equivalent zeal he cements the molecules to shown by the French press at the at its grimmest The services ture: you find carbolic acid deriva- of a beefsteak or an egg. Disaster gether in new ways or changes tenor of the German and Italiari and civil employers may expect(tives or artificial resigns,

might face cattle ranches and the their character, and thus arrives replies to the British Note on non- in a year or two to receive the The part that chemistry plays in packers of Omaha and Chicago. at photographic films, explosives, intervention in Spain has not benefit of the immediate post-the modern world of industry- With the aid of Legislatures the drugs. If he wants a plastic, like changed, and the newspapers con- War boom in babies; in and even art-will be set out dairy industry has made it diffenlt the stuff of which phonograph re- tince to publish favourable com- juvenile labour it has indeed vividly when the American Chemi- for the margarine manufacturer cords and amber-like pipesters menta.NE been making itself felt for the cal Society opens its meeting at to sell a good substitute for but are made, he knows that the mole- past two years.

Pittsburgh to-morrow. The science ter. But what of edible, butter-like cales must be formlessly jumbled the "Petit Parisien reports that But a temporary declension links the farm and the factory. fats that may well be made from together. If he wants a new fiber quarters close to the French For- in young men is nothing like so

We think of the farm as an area refined petroleum? Will Legisla- to take the place of silk, he links eign Minister, M Yvon Delbos, serious as the undiminished fall of land on which cattle graze and tures curb the constructors of the molecules in chains.

in the birth rate. When we be-yield milk, hide and meat, and on these too? And what of the pos come a race of the middle- aged, then

the disastrous extent of the whole proCESS will be revealed. Old Faithful

in search of the nursery Grail; and perhaps it is that memory- of his meme which a pont

home in his last years might revive.

An advertiser in a personal column in London paper wants to buy a rocking horse. Colouring Matter

sibility of doing away with soap? The result would affect hundreds" of thousands economically.

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The Geneva correspondent of

LEMORE POSITIVE-

are interpreting both answers as an anconditional acceptance of the ban on volunteers and the LREADY a beginning has been system of control,

The "Echo de Paris, however, A made in three-dimensional chemistry. The potentialities are declares that the German and infinite, breath-taking. Suppose Italian acceptance of the proposal trans--for control of volunteering is only Desempe

SPTTE 2 million chemical you want something as compounds known to techno parent as glass but as strong as conditional. logists, despite the manifest arti- metal. A three dimensional-chem-- ficiality of clothes, houses, vehicles, istry may achieve it. There is even

The "Excelsior” says that both " food-all the result of chemical the possibility that active com progress we have made but a be- pounds may be devised active in Notes seem to be a much more good home is offered to it: A "natural" green dye has gimming in the creation of a now the sense that they would shrink positive acceptance than previous Will the rocking-horse survive been discovered in America environment: If the test of a cul- from blows or electric shocks just utterances from Berlin and Rome........

“Le Jour" writes that the `an- into a mechanised world, keep for withering golf-greens. It ture based on science is the degree as if they were alive.

At present synthesis is merely swers contain certain” reserva ing the equestrian standard lasts a fortnight, is not washed of its departure from nature Aying in a nursery overburden-out by rain and does not harm woven cloth instead of akina, gas a transformation of me natural tions which were natural in view ed with two auto-gyros and the grass. And now the chem- in the Kitchen instead of wood, product. This transformation is of what is happening for Catalonia model T: T. racers? He is al-ists must look out for a dye electric lights instead of naked an evidence of social and scienti- at present

xses Fab. 1 as the ready dangerously near become which restores to their natural fizmes, rayon instead of silk-re de progress. It was a tremendous igaro

golfer are still chemical sens-barbariana, step from killing an smimal and date on ing quaint — a sad fate. But complexion choleric once he was the steed on which cruelly stymied on such infant knights errant rode

It must be old and large, and a

It is beside the mark to argue weering its skin for protection to teers shon. that a culture cous.sts of some- weaving a fiber on a deliberately Trans-Ocean.