The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1927, Page 7

Oi tcl lominating pond in see = aie " begun to feel his oats. For a long time he has felt he ff mankind, in industria! But he known to f those le: oat ry a ror acid-stained saci Sd a eae Seely eiicag tex: thes ead vitor: Last year, rare he crept out of his veritable , aaare ers t the past, and to the people. He got his first at yt at Williamstown tive of the American Chemica! eyes of his listeners to his achieve HE BEGINS, TO TELL THE WORLD This year, however, feeling even mightier he ha: inaugurated his own Institute of okie under the auspices of the same society, and has revealed his im mense power to the world. ie is no longer the quiet, plodding mixer of chem the illusioned world has pictured him. He is the scientist on lepends practically every industry, practically rite profession and even some o! pure sciences that before his rise have asserted their own importance in this “world, ‘The chemist is king, for to him we go to enhance ow Progress, our health and our very lives. The chemist is called in today to unravel the problems of the stee manufacturer, the automobile maker, and practically . e other f manufi justry. He is called upon sonny the mysteries of medicine and guide the physician in his care 0 Look over the re of famous chemists, from all parts of the world, at the recent Institute of Chemistry at the Pennsylvania State te College It is a review of practically every important industry, profession and pure science that affects our existence. EUROPE = ‘ ITS LEAD Fm con the Ala ee Dr E. Enel: it, Cambridge and a can a a that has. ali sayed mill of “sda te for more, With Prof. Rideal at the Institute was Prof. J--C. ry F WE were to search high and low for the cost- liest thing: in the universe, we couldn't. find ‘any- thing as costly as nothing! PF airy ey OD a a pure statement of fact, but it'is more fact than it is cleverness. For it is nothing, the actual lack of anything all, Sor: which this country & peying shove thes. million dollars.a week. ‘What is more astounding, there are great institu- tions in the United States that would be glad to double, even triple, this payment if they could be assured of getting nothing else but nothing for their money. Un- fortunately, science hasn't achieved the ideal of obtain- bar peste arg Cag wwe Hardly a Science or Industry but Depends on tus Kesearth Drummond of Sapliges'd rina at London, an eee and deficiency of Tees was oe i a Pred of the Ur jean Ficcal ol af dh Unive of to reveal a ror isnt of Germany, told and organic pilaciey : All this may mean little to she tevisesiiee who isn’t in terms used to thinking i with his immediate interests. But these researches vo to f their negro me in dyes. at Franz progress in motor those connected * tending from the simplest atom to the most complex and mysterious of ever age he turns. ween a tes Fg Wt eeple say. affect his progress which- lustries, for instance, and of New York, one of country, has to PROF HENRY C. SHERMAN, GREAT FOOD CHEMIST, TYPIFIES THE RISING SCIENCE. sae emi in industry it is absorbing the other Teen ‘ing indust is his pronouncement. “It will cel take charge of ai manufacture excepting ation as cutting and fitting, weaving and knit- ping and molding, and assembling and dis- pe to the millions of people. “NOTHING FREE OF CHEMISTRY “Twenty years ago the manufacture of steel was scarcely Frac of as a chemical eeesaiets but today ration is one of the largest manu- — of juct Is, it has just an- nounced organization of a research department in isthe ofa acme to study the chemistry of steel and its “The. manufacture of aluminum is decidedly a \ =. chemical eanpte ae ee Hower rh coppe duction are la le feld of of metallurgy i 4 ps ow —. an by otep a of the chemical industry. “Tanning, glass, synthetic vty Seater ree fining, rubber may be ope to the Look over come = ae sompentid piece m4 whether you can fi Prom te possibly wood, from the tires to Pap as — lenses to the tail light, that hasn't pr Sia ah transformation. “Try the same experiment with your radio, your airplane, telephone, office floors and kitchen floor coverings. That's ro in the field of manufacture, where ma- terials are being syi to take the place of wan- ing supplies of natural products, and where new pro- cesses are being devised to stl production. OUR FOOD "IS CHEMICAL But the same is true of medicine, of the various engineering professions, and of such distantly related sciences as electricity and even astronomy. For the study of the ftars includes the study of the gases and chemicals within them, and the lighting of our homes depends on the progress of retearch in metals and gas- es that are used for lamp manufacture. Food is believed to be within the scope of the phy- sician, or dietician, if any one. But paitiaps the great- est food expert in the country, Prof. Henry C. Sher man of Columbia University, is primarily a chemist. He it is who delves into the mysteries of the vitamins, those new elements in our foods that are believed to be so highly effective _ body builders and disease deter- rents. His is the field of proteins, carbo-hydrates and such, things with which the lean and the stout are so painfully familiar these days. X-rays have been associated somehow with hospitals and broken bones. But they are the means of ascer- taining the construction of metals and other chemical — aot ee above eh ie tool of the chemist. ave the microscope ans ie spectroscope, for the analysis of the minute and the difficult. The test tube and retort are still important in chemi- cal research, but they have had to make room for other appliances. Altogether, these methods and Baines have placed the chemist in Sy role of the king of the sciences and industries, and ruler of our destinies. He still remains hidden in the odorous chemical laboratory, but his achievements are known and felt as are those of no other scientist. iene ecomeedy A MILLION A WEEK ‘FOR NOTHING a only otfe-ten-billionth of the gas that was — no in the tube! THESE SCIENTISTS ARE PARTICULAR From the scientist's point of view, however, that's still far from a vacuum. Dr. Whitney explains: “Strive as they may, scientists have been unable to attain a vacuum wherein a cubic inch includes fewer molecules than there are people in the world. Even so they have succeeded in removing 99.99,999,999 per cent of the gas. “In other words, only one out of ever 10,000,000,- 000 molecules remains. Yet there are 40,000,000,- 000 molecules in every cubic inch. Compare that with the population of the entire earth, estimated at less than 2,000,000,000. “Across the broad girth of America, 3000 miles across, imagine a great belt of fine sand nearly a fifth ae Wek cada Wet desk Then imagine it*