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alcohol. I t desires t o aid in stamping out the improper use of alcohol and in finding a w a y to do this without ruining business through improper and unnecessary regulations. To these business men the willingness of t h e Commissioner to seek advice on technical matters from this committee was a very welcome sign of wholehearted cooperation and a long step in the right direction. In organizing the committee, William A . Sailer was made chairman and H . E. H o w e secretary. A provision was made for promptly obtaining tho advice of t h e various members of the committee on a n y matter submitted to it by the Com missioner. The committee will meet at the call of the chair man and its business will be cleared through Secretary Howe's office, S10 Eighteenth St., N . W., Washington, D . C. Members of the committee who attended the conference expressed themselves as being very much encouraged by the present attitude of the enforcement officials and it is hoped that the next step will be the appointment of an Industrial Alcohol Commissioner to take over the administration of that part of the law which relates to industrial alcohol.
Section Publicity Activities Show Excellent Results summary of the publicity secured by sections of the American Chemical Society in local newspapers reveals the fact that over 5000 inches of newspaper space represented by 858 newspaper clippings were obtained since January first to June first, 1923. The Rochester Section with 135 clippings tops the list, and practically every section of the SOCIETY is represented in the publicity obtained during the period men tioned. The fact that one section of the SOCIETY is able to ob tain as much space as the Rochester Section has been able to secure indicates that newspapers are interested in chemical news if it is prepared and presented to them in proper form. The secretive success of the Rochester Section lies in the method followed by the Publicity Committee. There, are as many members of the committee as there are newspapers in the city and each committeeman is assigned to a particular newspaper. The newspaper therefore gets into the habit of applying to the one individual for information and he, in turn, becomes ac quainted with the staff of this paper and is therefore able to se cure space much more frequently and more readily than if he were a total stranger. Usually the entire work of a committee is left to the chairman. The publicity committee is one committee at least on which every member can be given something to do. The A. C. S. News Service will continue to keep these records and publish them from time to time in the hope that a spirit of friendly rivalry may develop among the publicity committees of the various sections and aid the good work of popularizing the story of chemistry. It should be noted that general meeting pub licity is not included in the classification of sectional publicity.
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SECTIONAL PUBLICITY
Rochester Section University of Illinois Section Syracuse Section Philadelphia Section Delaware Section Cincinnati Section Chicago Section Northeastern Section Indiana Section California Section Virginia Section Milwaukee Section Eastern New York Section Southern California Section Northern Indiana Section New York City Section Cleveland Section Southeastern Texas Section St. Louis Section Rhode Island Section Ames Section Western New York Section
Clippings Reed. 135 71 64 63 56 28 25 23 23 20 19 17 16 16 15 14 13 13 12 12 11 11
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Clippings Reed. Colorado Section 11 Lehigh Valley Section 11 Central Texas Section 10 Iowa Section 10 Nashville Section 10 Detroit Section 9 Puget Sound Section 8 Maryland Section 8 Pittsburgh Section 8 New H a v e n Section 7 South Jersey Section 7 Cornell Section 7 Washington, D. C , Section 7 Minnesota Section 6 Northern West Virginia Section 6 Savannah Section 6 Georgia Section 5 Maine Section 5 Purdue Section 4 Kansas City Section 4 Connecticut Valley Section 4 Sacramento Section 3 Toledo Section 3 Wisconsin Section 3 Omaha Section 3 Nebraska Section 3 Arkansas Section 3 Louisville Section 2 North Carolina Section 2 Midland Section 1 Hawaiian Section 1 Akron Section 1 University of Missouri Section 1 Michigan Agricultural College Section.. . . 1 Columbus Section 1 Total Publicity Emanating from Local Sections S5S
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Employees Given $ 5 0 0 0 Each by Eimer & Amend Two M e n Have Served C o m p a n y 50 YearsOthers Receive Gold Watches
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U D O L P H Z I M M E R M A N N and Louis Moses, who have been in the employ of Eimer & Amend for fifty years, •were the honor guests of a golden jubilee celebration, June 1, a t Cavanagh's restaurant in New York. The occasion also marked the completion of twenty-five years or more of contin uous service by the following twenty-four employees: E. Kuehnemarin, F. Lange, H. Ferber, D . Frattolillo, F. Kuebler, F. J. P. Arndt, H. E. Broestler, Albert Belling, J. R. Cahill, W. Deuvelsdorf, W. Duncan, P. Efiertz, William Harres, C. Klinger. T. Schnecke, H. F. Smith, B. E. Ulrich, H. Watchter, W. Then, M. F. Mai, Mary C. Lyden, Maizie Mejo, M . A Magee and Louise Sormani. The directors presented to Messrs. Zimmermann and Moses checks for $5000 each. In accordance with an old custom of the house, those who have served 25 years were presented with suitably engraved gold watches. August Eimer, Dresident of the company, presided. The other directors of the company who attended the celebration were: Otto P. Amend, vice-president; Carl G. Amend, secre tary a n d treasurer; Ε. Β. Amend, superintendent; A. O. Eimer, assistant treasurer; W. R. Eimer, assistant secretary; and Elenore Amend, director. Thomas W. Delahanty, formerly with the Ajax Rubber Com pany, h a s been appointed a member of the Chemical Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D . C. F. S . Dickson, who resigned March 1. 1923, as reparation-dye expert for the Government and who had been employed as a dye expert i n various branches of the Government for several years, has b e e n appointed assistant to C. H. Herty, president of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers' Association, with headquarters in New York City.
