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to better avail themselves of the increased opportunities to learn more chemistry, and there is certainly plenty of it to learn, but would also be of great benefit to the many who will not go to college. It is also a good plan for chemistry teachers to cultivate the friendship of the representatives of those firms that deal in chemical supplies and in the products of chemical industry. They are all intensely interested in things chemical both from the standpoint of general interest and of commercial possibilities. There is not one of them but would go out of his way to talk up the American Chemical Society and everything it stands for, particularly chemical education. They know very well that the greater the interest taken by instructors, the greater will be the requirements for materials and, following down the line, the greater will be the number of suggestions to the superintendents which will consequently redound to the interest of the dealers. A member of this committee knows four men, all college graduates and a t one time teachers of chemistry, who represent various companies both in the west and middle west, who are quite enthusiastic about this sort of missionary work. One has already started and is distributing to each chemistry teacher whom he interviews in the high schools a few of the printed forms sent out from the committee of 1026 as what constituted perhaps the best courses in high schools. LOUISW. MATTERN,Chaiwnan JOHN
T. FULTON
HALWALTERS MOSELEY M. CANNON SNEED H. STONE CHARLES
Seeking New Uses for Sugar through Research. Stimulation of the American sugar industry on new lines is contemplated by Rudolph Spreckels of the Federal Sugar Refining Company, New York, who plans t o establish a research laboratory not only to develop improved methods of refining hut to find other uses for sugar than as a food product, as he writes to the Manufacturers Record. "The sugar industry has been carried on a very unsatisfactory basis for years, owing to overproduction of raw sugar and an over-capacity in refining," he says, and he hopes by developing new uses far sugar to remedy this situation. As in the case of many other industrial leaders in various lines, experience has convinced Mr. Spreckels that "the backbone of success" in the development of new uses rests very largely on scientific research. Resort to research and chemical experimentation proved so successful long ago that fine laboratories now are a regular part of the equipment of hundreds of plants of the greatest industrial concerns. And the results of such research and chemical investigation have proved so remunerative that the benefits have been extended to the countrv as a whole, rather than restricted to individual industries. There is no doubt that such laboratory work as Mr. Spreckels plans will do much for the sugar industry, and consequently for the South and the entire country.-Man. Rcc., 58, Mar. 14, 1929.
