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DUST CONTROL
Speakers
DEAR M R . EMERY:
Several sections provide speakers for nonchemical groups—PTA, luncheon clubs, and women's organizations. This is a worth-while undertaking. However, are they giving t h e same assistance t o chapters of s t u d e n t affiliates within their territory? Here are our future professional associates. T h e y need encouragement. Local sections can and should render such aid. T h e annual report of one chapter for t h e past year contained the following: More meetings with off-the-campus speakers would be desirable if the financial strain on the club were n o t so great. Most local sections can supply at no cost to the chapters within their area as interesting speakers as could be obtained from great distances a t considerable expense. The effort expended will be returned many times over in the pleasures of addressing a responsive student audience and in the satisfaction that comes from a contribution t o t h e future well-being of our profession.
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T h e following letters concerning use of EGA funds for restoration of European laboratories will interest m a n y members:
DE A κ MR. HOFFMAN: The
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Sly pioneered in the development of positive dust collection and were the original patentees of cloth type filter The most effective—as w e l l as simplest a n d c h e a p e s t — m e t h o d of collection is b y cloth filtration. The Sly Filter uses m o r e cloth than a n y o t h e r a n d hence has g r e a t e r filtering capacity. This a d d i t i o n a l c a p a c i t y plus s a v i n g s in o p e r a t i o n and
maintenance make
t h e S l y Filter m o s t inexp e n s i v e in the l o n g r u n . Ask state
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of Laboratories
AMERICAN
C H E M I C A L SOCIETY,
CHEMICAL SOCIETY at its September meet
ing and the following action was taken: I t was moved, seconded, and carried that the B o a r d of Directors of the AMERI CAN C H E M I C A L SOCIETY go on record
as
favoring the allocation of funds from t h e ! European Recovery Program for the pur| chase of scientific equipment in order t o restore the devastated laboratories in t h e participating countries. W e realize t h e magnitude of the prob lems you face in allocating funds where they can be used most effectively to ac complish the purpose for which this pro gram was instituted. A t the same time, it is our genuine belief, based on personal observations, that the small amount of money required t o accomplish the fore going would yield returns out of all pro portion t o t h e allocation. ALDEN H .
Executive 3676
a
federally chartered organization of 59,000 chemists and chemical engineers, always has taken an active p a r t in international affairs. I t is deeply interested in con tributing to t h e recovery of Europe. It is rny belief t h a t the members as a whole en dorse t h e principles behind the European Recovery Program. D u r i n g the past year, many of our mem bers have traveled extensively in Great Britain and on the Continent. Naturally, their major contacts have been with scien tists and industry based upon science. All have returned with t h e firm conviction that science can contribute as greatly t o the recovery of Europe as it has t o the pros perity of the United States. This m a t t e r was considered by t h e Board of Directors of the AMERICAN
This is in response to your letter of September 29 to Mr. Hoffman recom mending that E C A allocate funds "for t h e purchase of scientific equipment in order t o restore t h e devastated laboratories in t h e participating countries." The E C A is very m u c h interested in your proposal, since the value of scientific endeavor in t h e rehabilitation of Europe is fully recognized. Within t h e programs a l ready established for several countries, some scientific equipment h a s already been included and i t is a n t i c i p a t e d t h a t this will continue. Where the participating coun tries develop projects for restoring labora tory facilities a n d expanding them, t h e ECA is anxious to encourage this aspect of the program. Where scientific e q u i p m e n t can be made available readily from within Europe itself, E C A assistance would not b e required directly. If your Society h a s specific proposals o n this subject, w e would be very glad to hear about t h e m a n d t o discuss t h e m further with representatives of t h e participating countries. GLENN
H.
Deputy
Decennial
Index
CRAIG
Director
Cost
Every 10 years, the Decennial Index t o Chemical Abstracts is issued. W e are in the midst of t h e fourth such undertaking. T h e author volumes have been mailed t o those who have ordered this comprehen sive work. T h e first of four volumes of subject index h a s just appeared. Almost 21,000 subscribers receive CA; less than 4,000 have ordered the Decennial index. Undoubtedly t h e price deters many. An individual member can obtain this set now for $60; others pay S120. This is a lot of money, even in these d a y s of inflation, although it is less t h a n the d e posit for a new automobile that won't be useful as long a s t h e index. Here's another way to look a t the ex pense. T h e index is set in very small t y p e (6 point) with no lead between lines. T h i s fine print, solid composition, on big pages means t h a t the average page of t h e F o u r t h Decennial Index contains a b o u t 3.5 times as many words as the average textbook page. T h e index contains a b o u t 1,425 a n d standard text a b o u t 400 words per page. The 10,000 pages in the F o u r t h Decennial Index will be approximately the equivalent of 35,000 textbook pages i n words. Text books cost more than a cent a page. A t this rate, the comparable cost of the index shetfild be at least $350, b u t it's far less. Another way to look a t it—in content the F o u r t h Decennial Index will b e equivalent to 7 0 500-page books, which, if sold a t -85.00 each (a very low price), would cost $350. '
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EINIERY
Secretary
CHEMICAL
AND
ENGINEERING
NEWS
