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ROBLEMS of chemical industry, progress in chemurgy of agriculture's P products, and promotion of more cordial
and understanding relations between industry and the American people occupied the 200 members of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association and of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association at the former's sixtyfifth annual meeting at the Sea View Golf Club, Absecon, N. J., June 3 and 4. Progress in meeting problems of the industry during the year past was discussed in the report of M. C. A.'s executive committee presented by its chairman, H. L. Derbv, president, American Cyanamid and Chemical Co. Precautionary labeling of hazardous products to give more protection of those handling and using these parts of the industry's output has been much improved through activities of the association's technical committees. Better designs of one-time shipping drums for solvents, whose adoption may reduce costs by a million dollars a year, have been developed. Progress has been made in all directions in reducing stream pollution by plant waste. New employment for 3,000,000 workers and for 25,000,000 acres in 12 southern states within the next 10 years, as a result of chemurgic developments under way, was forecast by Carl B. Fritsche, Farm Chemurgic Council, addressing the Union Dinner sponsored by the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturrs Associât ion. W. B. Weisburgér, executive vice president. National Association of Manufacturers, reviewed recent surveys of public reactions to industry as a basis for a continuing campaign of education to promote cordial relations between industry and the public. Four projects in farm chemurgy have already progressed to the point where rivate industry can take them up 3afely, fr. Fritsche pointed out. These are: the manufacture of paper, pulp, and alphacellulose from fast-growing southern pines to offset imports of pulp; the growth of tung nuts and the expression of oil from them, an industry already producing 2,000,000 pounds of oil annually; the manufacture of bleached starch for industrial purposes from white Triumph sweet potatoes to replace imported tapioca βtarch; and the manufacture of anhy drous ethyl alcohol for blending with lowgrade gasoline to increase its antiknock value to equal that of standard or pre mium grades. By projecting these develop ments, already beyond the experimental stage, barely 10 years into the future, Mr. Fritsche said, their economic effect in the 12 southern states alone will be great
enough to end farm tenancy and rail receiverships in this section and to supply new markets of greatest importance for products of chemical manufacture. Ex· penditures to date by the Chemical Foun dation, Inc., on the projects of the Farm Chemurgic Council were stated to have been approximately $860,000—a sum char acterized as small in comparison with the effects now in sight from it. The position of chemical industry as compared with all industry as to wages, hours, and production was reported on the basis of official figures of the Department of Labor for April, 1937, as follows:
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The adoption of an amendment to the association s by-laws permitted increasing the number of members of the Executive Committee from 13 to 15 to allow repre sentation of more of the divisions of the industry. R. S. Chipman, president, Chipman Engineering Co., C. S. Munson, president, U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., and R. H. Dunham, president, Hercules Powder Co., were elected members of the Executive Committee, and other officers were re-elected for the year 193738 as follows: president, Ε. Μ. Allen, The Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc.; vice presidents, George W. Merck, Merck & Co., Inc., and Charles Belknap, Monsanto Chemical Co.; treasurer, J. W. Mclaugh lin, Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp.; secretary, Warren N. Wateon; Executive Committee, H. L. Derby (chairman), American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp.. Charles W. Millard, General Chemical Co., Leonard T. Heale, Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co., J. H. Dunbar, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Clyde D. Mar iait, The Martin Dennis Co., Lammot du Pont, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., August Kochs, Victor Chemical Works, William B. Bell, American Cyana mid Co. Eight firms elected to member ship in the association during the year were: Austin Powder Co., Durite Plas tics, Sylvania Industrial Corp., Celluloid Corp., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Sharpies Solvents Corp., Metal & Thermite Corp., and Fiberloid Corp. An invitation golf tournament on Fri day, June 4, concluded the meeting.
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New York Section Elects Officers T THE annual meeting of the New York A SOCIETY o n M a y 7, t h e following officers
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were elected: Chairman, William C . MacTavish; Vice Chairman, W . W. Winship; Secretary, Cornelia T . Snell; Treasurer, C . R . DeLong; Councilors, H . B . Lowe, D. H . Killeffer, Robert Calvert, J . G. Detweiler, H . G. Lindwall, Lewis G. Longsworth, Irving Cowperthwaite, C A. Marlies, George H . Walden, L. A. Wboten, J. J . Beaver, Charles O. Beckman, R . H . Crist, W a n d a Farr, C. V. King, J. J . R i t t e r . Francis W . Power. R. R . Williams, a n d W. G. Youden: Alternate Councilors, D . P. Morgan, William C . MacTavish, Cor nelia T . Snell, C . R. DeLong, Robert J . Quinn, a n d R. L . Garman. T h e officers assume their duties o n J u l y 1, 1937. TOP ROW (left to right): 8. V. Cooke. Secretory. Dayton Section; E. J Crane; J . H. Lum. Chairman, Dayton Section; Ralph H. Ferguson, Chairman. Cincinnati Section BOTTOM ROW (left to right); Austin M Patterson, William Lloyd Evans. Herbert Freundlich. C . W. Foulk, Wesley France.
Joint Meeting of Three Ohio Sections TΗΕ annual spring meeting of t h e Dayton a n d Cincinnati Sections of t h e A. C . S., augmented this year b y t h e Columbus Section, was held a t Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, on Satur day, J u n e 5. T h e chief feature of t h e meeting was a lecture b y Herbert Freund lich, of t h e University of London, on "Thixotropy." T h e afternoon began with a ball game in Bryan State Park, a n d visits t o t h e various science laboratories of t h e college, including t h e laboratories of t h e C . F . Kettering Foundation for t h e Stud ν of Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis and those of t h e Samuel S. Feis Research Institute for study of t h e effects of prenatal and postnatal environment upon children. At 4:30 o'clock an audience of some 300 gathered in Kelly 1Hallt o hear Dr. Freundlich's first lecture in this country. A former student of Ostwald, Dr. Freundlich became famous as a colloid chemist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin; his visit to t h e United States was occasioned by an invitation t o speak before t h e Colloid Symposium in Minneapolis. Taking a s his topic "Thixotropy," Professor Freundlich spoke of those gels which change their consistency upon being agitated. Thixotropic substances seem to be in a state intermediate between a freely flowing collodial suspension and a powder. T h e commercial applications of thixotropy include t h e manufacture of
paints, of rubber, and of petroleum prod ucts. T h e phenomenon of quicksand (an apparent solid which flows on agita tion) is a common example of t h e principle. Thixotropy m a y also o p e r a t e in proto plasm a n d consequently in muscular activity, t h u s furnishing a partial explana tion of why a t h l e t e s must "warm u p " b y exercise before starting t o play. While there is some evidence t h a t protoplasm is a thixotropic substance, t h e part played by thixotropy in muscular activity is so far only a suggestion. T h e lecture was supplemented with slides a n d with t h e exhibit of numerous specimens of thixo tropic substances which D r . Freundlich had brought with him. About 225 of t h e group staved for t h e dinner after t h e meeting, held in one of t h e college dining rooms. William A. Hammond, of A.ntioch, introduced a s speakers C. W. Foulk, of t h e Ohio State Chemistry Department, a fellow student of Dr. Freundlich's under Ostwald, w h o gave various reminiscences of their stu dent d a y s ; a n d President Algo D . Hender son of Antioch, w h o welcomed t h e visitors to Yellow Springs. T h e secretaries of the Cincinnati, Day ton, a n d C o l u m b u s Sections t h e n intro duced t o t h e gathering t h e various mem bers of their groups. A brief program of entertainment was also furnished b y Joe Peake, a local entertainer. Arrange ments for t h e meeting were made by C. S. Adams, of Antioch.
Annual Meeting of A· S. T. M. HE fortieth annual meeting of t h e T American Society for Testing Materials will be held a t t h e Waldorf-Astoria, New York, Ν . Υ., J u n e 28 t o J u l y 2, inclusive. Nineteen formal sessions are t o be devoted t o t h e presentation of technical papers a n d reports, t w o of t h e features being t h e a d dress of t h e president, A. C . Fieldner, on "Fuels of Today a n d Tomorrow," a n d t h e Twelfth Edgar M a r b u r g Lecture on " P l a s tics: Some Applications of t h e Diffèrent Classes—Methods of T e s t i n g / ' b y T . Smith Taylor. An Exhibit of Testing Apparatus a n d Related Equipment will be open throughout t h e meeting and, in addition to booths sponsored b y manufacturers a n d distributors, will include displays showing special a p p a r a t u s a n d equipment. Members of t h e AMERICAN C H E M I C A L
SOCIETY a r e invited t o a t t e n d the meeting a n d exhibit.
Paint a n d Varnish Production Club Broadcasts Γ Ή Ε Western New York Paint a n d I Varnish Production Club held its regular monthly dinner at King Arthur's Restaurant, Buffalo, Ν . Υ., on M a y 20. D. M . Wilhelm, secretary of t h e P a t t e r son Foundry & Machine Co., East Liver pool, Ohio, was t h e guest speaker. T h e program consisted of a novel radio broadcast with Ford Bond acting a s a n nouncer a n d master of ceremonies. Other speakers included Lowell Thomas a n d Richard L. Cawood, president of t h e Patterson Foundry & Machine Co. Interspersed throughout t h e program were several vocal selections rendered b y t h e Master Quartet of New York C i t y .
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ETALLURGICAL delegates from Aluminum Research Laboratories and the major reduction and fabricating divisions of Alumi num Co. of America, as well as representatives from the company's development and mechanical engineering divisions, met in New Kensington, Pa., June 3 to 5, 1937. They met under the sponsorship of the Technical Committee of the company in order to coordinate the technical activities of the various works of Aluminum Co. of America and to enable them to exchange ideas on the metallurgy of aluminum. They also had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with each other's metallurgical problems, includ ing those of pure and applied research, fabrication, and the adaptability of aluminum for present and new commercial uses.
Awards a t Μ. Ι. Τ. ELLOWSHIP and scholarship awards totaling nearly $100,000 for graduate work in the coming academic year, just announced at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, included the following: Arthur D. Little Post-Doctorate Fellowship in Chemistry, Joseph Kaminsky Moore Traveling Fellowship in Chemistry, Walter L. Hughes Arthur D. Little Fellowships in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. James W.. Libby, Jr., and Ernest O. Ohsol Dupont Fellowship in Chemical Engineering, Thomas H. McConica William Sumner Bolles Fellowship in Chemi cal Engineering, Thomas F. Reed Louis Francisco Verges Fellowship in Chem istry, William S. McClenahan Frank Hall Thorp Fellowship in Industrial Chemistry, Albert C. Faatz, Jr. Awards covering tuition were made to 52 teaching fellows in the science depart ments and 54 assistants in the engineering departments.
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Graduate Chemistry Courses at Brooklyn College N LINE with the gradual enlargement of its program the Division of Graduate Studies of Brooklyn College will offer during the fall term six graduate courses in chemistry: Advanced Inorganic Chem istry I and II; Theories of Analytical Chemistry; Advanced Organic Chemistry I and II; Colloid Chemistry. Full information concerning these courses and the general regulations for graduate work may be obtained by writing the Division of Graduate Studies, Brooklyn College, 383 Pearl St., Brooklyn, Ν. Υ.
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William Riker Foster Award HE Chemistry Teachers Club of New T York has established the William Riker Foster award to be given to a teacher of
chemistry in the secondary schools. Benjamin M. Jacquish, for 36 years a teacher in Erasmus Hall High School of New York City and during the last 12 îars chairman of the Department of hemistry, has been chosen as the first recipient of the award. The award is pre-
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sented in recognition of his sterling character, his intellectual integrity, his devotion to the club, and his long and faithful service as a teacher of chemistry in the secondary schools. The award was made at a dinner held in the Webb Room of the College of the City of New York, on May 21.
Philadelphia College Holds 115th Commencemnt T THE 115th annual commencement A of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, June 9, honorary de-
grees were conferred upon FREDERICK BLUMENSCHEIN, president of the Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy and retail pharmacist in Uniontown, Pa.; RALPH R. FORAN, chief control chemist of Merck and Co., Rahway, N. J., and former faculty member at the Philadelphia College; HARVEY FRANK, assistant professor of operative pharmacy at the
Industry Machinery Awards HE Industry Machinery Awards of the T Lincoln Foundation, totaling $25,300, are offered for papers on machines, structures, building, manufactured or fabricated products designed in whole or in part for the use of arc welding. The object of the awards is to urge engineers, designers, and production managers engaged in manufacturing industry machinery to study machines which are now partially welded so that electric welding may be applied more extensively, and to study machines now built by some other methods, so that electric welding may be used in construction. Information is available from the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation, P. O. Box 5728, Cleveland, Ohio.
Pharmacy Graduates Establish Second $1000 Fund Philadelphia College: and PAUL N. LEECH,
secretary of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association. Dr. Leech delivered the commencement address to the graduating
Jn addition to these honorary degrees, 72 degrees were granted in bacteriology, biology, chemistry, and pharmacy.
Gift to Rackham Engineering Foundation SECOND gift of $500,000 has been made by the Horace H. Rackham & A Mary A. Rackham Fund to the Rackham
Engineering Foundation which was incorporated a year ago with an endowment of $500,000. This second gift is to provide a fund for the purchase of a site and the construction of a building as a permanent headquarters for the Engineering Society of Detroit and as a memorial to the late Horace H. Rackham. The purposes of the society are educational and scientific; it aims to aid the public in solving civic questions involving engineering problems, to encourage researches in science of public interest, and to provide in its headquarters library service, lectures, publications, and instruction on subjects tending to increase the technical skill and social usefulness of the members.
HE School of Pharmacy of Howard T College, Birmingham, Ala., was established in the fall of 1932. Last June it
graduated its first pharmaceutical students, a class of 8 young men who received the B.S. in pharmacy degree on completing the 4-year course. At the 1936 commencement, this class announced the establishment by its members of a $1000 fund for the pharmacy school. On June 8, at the 95th commencement, the second pharmacy graduating class, composed of 10 young men, announced the establishment of the Class of 1937 Pharmacy Fund of $1000 for the pharmaceutical division of the college. Howard College selects its pharmacy students on the basis of previous good scholarship and personal traits essential to success in the practice of the profession. Classes are limited to 24 selected students.
