financed research offers as much f o r cancer as has been accomplished f o r diphtheria. Each country, each investigator, each research laboratory, each c a n c e r clinic can, by its work and t h e publication of its experience and ideas, be helpful in the solution of t h i s problem.
A New Motor Spirit, claimed to possess exceptional anti-detonating properties owing to the addition of certain material derived from the m d e ail itself, was announced by Sir John Cadman, chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., a t a luncheon given recently by the British Petroleum Co., Ltd., a t the Savoy Hotel. The new spirit was to he on sale throughout the country an Thursday. The daim was made that i t was an "ideal" spirit. Its volatility ensured an easy start under all weather conditions, and gave a clean exhaust; there was no free sulfur, and therefore no objectionable odor, and it was absolutely free from gum and therefore innocuous to all metal and moving parts. The spirit had been evolved by the chemical experts of the company, to whom Sir John paid a tribute.-Chem. Age, 20, 568 (June 15, 1929). New Uses for Lead. In addition to Amaloy, which is being used for soldering work in the automobile industry and in the manufacture and installation of electrical equipment, a few other new uses for lead have mme into prominence lately, and some of these may develop into important items of consumption, says Lewis A. Smith, in a report recently issued by the United States Bureau of Mines, Department of Commerce. I n building construction, interest is evoked by the use of lead mattresses to act ar shock absorbers between the foundations and the steel framework of skyscrapers. In one building in New York about 55 tons of lead appears to have been used for this purpose. I n the pigment field a new lead preparation called "Subox" has been introduced. This preparation, which consists of very finely divided particles of lead suhoxide suswith a brush upon any surface. After pended in linseed oil, can he sprayed . . or applied ~. being applied i t undergoes a slaw transformation, resulting in a film of metallic lead held firmly as a protective mat by the oxidized oil.-Chem. Age, 20,566 (June 15,1929).
Responsibility of Educational Institutions. After all a country's greatest resource is the untrained talent of its rising generation. To search this out and give it full opportunity is surely a good philosophy for a democracy. Whether we represent the endowed or the publicly supported institutions, there rests on all alike the imperative obligation t o exercise to the uttermost such creative imagination, such wisdom and energy and devotion as we can command, t o meet the bewildering educational needs of our time and people. If the greatest experiment in self-government ever undertaken by man is t o avoid the pitfalls of pervasive vulgarity and meretricious ipnorance, masquerading as sophisticated intelligence; if it is to survive the sinister influence of political corruption and commercial greed: . if it is to come into its heritage - of great . intellectual and spiritual achievement, which shall furnish the indispensable counterpart and camplement t o its unprecedented material accumulations, it is chiefly to education that we must look. The development of that education will call for all those human qualities of courage and vision and self-sacrifice which we justly esteem most highly. We may well pray that.we he not found wanting in this supreme test of our national life.-JAMES R. ANGEL&
