New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1929, Page 13

PRACTICAL DREAMER Unusual Silhou- otte Portrait of Fordinand Mopasteds, KN 700 Soss Fosing Porshing 8¢, 8 you tip the syrup jug over your wheat cakes in the morning, it probably doesn't occur to you that you are idly employing s sugar product that, in its varfous industrial xhnm, has become in this country & 1,000,000,000 plus proposition. ore than that—a product that eon- tributes to modern civilization the most wildly divergent factors: artificia) flowers, bay rum, chewing tobacee, dental Jnld, fireworks, mirrors, shoe polish, tinfoil—to name a random few, B’gn ‘I.".’rd f slight] d, agic word of sligl comic soun which through the im‘l%nlve paficnnd‘ of an nrenmnnhl Danish chemist has srown, n twenty-six years, from a esplsed and discarded”by-product of cane n{u tos mmd-ah({lrlnf. conti- nent-linking business, with its own fleets of ocean tankers. I8 might be affirmed that society, as now organised, would find itself in & woeful plight 1f molasses were suddenly withdrawn as an industrial component of ‘r‘r'wdtm I!iie. & be expedlent] ‘ars could not be expedien! ywnrd without it; for high power explosives and poison gu require it. In form of ether, chloreform or {odine, it as- sists in ushering you into the world, and the mortician de{mdl upon l!‘ 00, Just how, you ask, did this billion. dollar miracle come into being? Primarily instrumental was one man, Ferdinand Kroyer Kielberg. newspapers or on the lij friends, his name is as un that of Sir Henri Deterding, the Hol- land oil magnate, or other similar “silent giants” of finance. Yot Kiel- berg’s sway is literally colossal. He r iracle of Big Business How the Vision of One Danish Boy Created Out of Waste an "n'-‘:&'m‘:'-;,':,riu:“:n Essential Element in e ; 400 Products What Molasses Can Do, Magicelly. Did You Know Thet Molasses— woed to meke reuge compects, L] M.;. M:‘ ereams, camphor, -“"‘. (1 uid, powder, the grestest comrtibuter te grain dleahal? tiel to modern lare? l g ghodaresighe i) — italised at §$1,880,000,000, thus give l.:; om) l.y‘m’u"b over 350,000 :'u\- oons, value of its eutput in the American chemieal Gndvutr‘.n L'l‘l ol.h!y mes, g Similar astounding advances in the automotive ind| ’u rded. The Rekr et &3 o paints, electrlc light bulbs, {nsulsting Solutoms.—thess s § fov 50 sely & solutio ow, an . (o:. of ita ve: 'p"m" [ lkfllz- for manufactu 8. How éxtrae ly unaware we laymen are of things that quietly o b6 Sur meormiiaal” IF pon ot ven :-.mp coonskin-coated ¢ m kid and le: in thelr Io-dut& 'y and tel that ¢ thick, gummy liquid was the lling at in laughter “‘&“:o o 3 wou raucous. preceding rm& preves they weuld be. wg .‘Z v:ulaa .l"&. vealise that = nat cohe! garage man G R 000 m 3 hndnn!-n oly for thely mnnl{uo— came from mol Let us presume embeldened by (.mr 4 went en to quis the u“‘l dustry, = h‘c“{“ l“' molasses in 5 r fum! escort hadn't lit.hl:"m on full mu MISCELLANY. Thelr Demand te Molasses Derivative, chemistry, he looked sbeut him for new uses for this His loyers applauded But tum aside, nun e eakes, exam ing TO DISCHARGE READY Motered Tanker About to Unlead Its Carge Which City f Molasess at from "1t Will Be Bent All Gvee the U §. golden & vessel as that mythelogical ewer that gave forth perpetual milk and honey, liquids dear to the palate, but scaroely rated et beyond $1,000,- 000,000! .An illustration in one instance, as quoted {n the Commerce Monthly, re- s iR T o jeohol mo! [} corn in the ratio ot’ 67,404,- 218 “Ilm compared with 7,948,184 bushels of the more famous ingredient. ‘The humble raisin sneaks in for a rec- ord of 10,705920 pounds, and rye rates only ‘12,678 bushels, with malt sbout 50 times as voluminous. Kiel differing from many men who m'uhi-nd‘ huge fortunes in their own lifetime, is reputed a good natured trader and those who know :i.?butuyhuverdflvuhmb» ns. As 8 charity donor he is snonymous, In various European centers whers he has many workers of the peasant class he has bought tracts of land and built homes which be donates to his em- 'l%u. suslly worthy employes are given homes o'!m-l.bt as gifts, these being voted for long and faithful continuows nr:ilr as well as work of outstanding me In such sections the ownership of a home usually is regarded as out of reach of even the hope of the low-wage classes. For time-payment homes are not as widely bought and sold on the other side as they are in every suburb and hamlet in the United States. Mo- lasses artisans, therefors, are becomin real estate proprietors as against al- most any other group in their respee- tive territories.