Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1934 — Page 11

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It Seems to Me HEWO® BROUN MY bcyt friend died yesterday. I would not mention this, but for the fact that Ruth Hale was a valiant fighter in an important cause. Concerning her major contention we were in almost complete disagreement for seventeen years. Out of a thousand debates I lost a thousand. Nobody ever defeated Miss Hale in an argument The dispute was about feminism. We both agreed that in law and art and indu try and anvthing else you can think of men and women should be equal. Ruth Hale

felt that this could be brought only through the organization of women along sex lipes. I think that this equality always will be an inevitable and essential part of any thorough-going economic upheaval. “Come ofi and be a radical." I used to say, but Ruth Ha.e insisted on being a militant feminist—all that and nothing more and nothing less. Deems Taylor once said to her, Ruth, you have more capacity for emotion than anybody I ever knew. I wish I had it because if I did I woultin t waste it in such narrow channels.”

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Dec idcdiy I was not unsympathetic with the Lucy Ston° League of which Ruth Hale was the president and prime mover. I agree thoroughly with the slogan of that association which runs, “My name is the symbol of my identity and must not be lost.” Men. as well as women, live by symbols. But when I spoke of the brotherhood of mankind, Miss Hale : on changing it into the sisterhood of womankind “Mankind embraces womankind,” I argued with due grammatical license. “It works just as well the other way.” she responded and the vigor of her drive moved me invariably to amend the familiar phrase and make it run, “Are we mice or women?” a a a She Gave Under Protest—Hut Gave I HARDLY could deny the assertion that the western world is still stacked in favor of the male sex. I refer less to existing gross inequalities in law than to the force of custom ari tradition. This came closely home to both of us. When we met we were reporters and I never have denied that Ruth Hale was the better newspaperman of the two I think the things which held her bark were biological. Brisbanes don’t have babies. Vicarious expression was of no use to her. I may as well admit right off something which soon will be evident. Avery considerable percentage of all newspaper columns, books, and magazine articles which appearrd under the name “Heywood Broun” were written by Ruth Hale. I mean, of course, the brttrr columns. And even those which I felt I was writing on my own stemmed from her. It was a curious collaboration because Ruth Hale gave me out of the very best she had to equip me for the understanding of human problems. She gave this under protest, with many reservations, and a vast rancor. But she gave. ana It A/trays Will Survive, Hr if wood I UNDERSTOOD then and will always understand the inevitable bitterness of the person who projects herself through another, even if that one is rinse Os course in regard to a few minor points I felt that I was standing on my own feet. Miss Hale never could quite convince me that she could keep a box score of a baseball game more accurately than I could. What she could not realize was the fact that she m nstrated to me, at any rate, the kind of equality which inches up to a decided superiority. Since It is true that very many of the ideas for which I seem to be sponsor are really hers, in the last analysis I am the utterly dependent person. She was not mv severest critic. Her tolerance was broad to the mass of mediocre stuff. The newspaper hack is bound to produce in seventeen years Nobody else I suppose ever gave me UK h warm support and approbation for those afternoons when I did my best. She made me feel ashamed when I faltered and I suppose that for seventeen years practically every word I wrote was set down with the feeling that Ruth Hale was looking over my shoulder. It would be a desperately lonely world if I did not feel that personality is of such tough fiber that in some manner it must survive and does survive. I still feel that she is looking over my shoulder, i Copyright. 1934. bT The Times i

Your Health BI UK. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE old man's legs are weak and he spares them. His heart gradually loses its force and he is likely to spar? this organ by resting more and by playing rune holes of golf when he used to play eighteen. Even his mental powers are diminished and he is likely to do one-half as much mental work as he did previously. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, according to how you view the matter, the dentist provides him with good sound teeth In place of the weakened teeth that used to be the lot of aged persons. Therefore. he is likely to avoid sparing his stomach and to overload it with vast amounts of food. If there is any one piece of important advice that should be given the aged to lengthen them lives, it is that their diets should be sparse. mam INVESTIGATORS have long since established the fact that a tendency to overweight is not only a burden to the aged, but a dangerous menace to their lives. While the dentists have provided the aged with good strong teeth, physicians have not been able to put new linings into their stomachs. It is. therefore, well to bear in mind that the food of the aged should be soft and easy to chew. This means that excessive amounts of roughage must be avoided. In fact, there are two periods in life when soft foods are essential—first childhood and second childhood—so that the minced and stewed vegetables which are now made, especially for children, may also be considered particularly satisfactory for the diet of the aged. a a a IT is a serious matter if food taken by the aged is allowed to overburden the stomach. The amount c>f food should be small, but it may be taken rather frequently so that hunger will not occur. This also gives the stomach opportunity to take care of the food and to move it onward. It is esspecially important also that the food of the aged be not such as to produce large amounts of gas. An accumulation of gas in the bowels or in the stomach at night will cause pressure on other organs, particularly the heart, with some danger to life.

Questions and Answers

Q—Who was the founder of the science of electricity? A—The foundations of electrical science were laid in about 1600 A. D. by Dr. William Gilbert of Colchester. England. He justly can be called the creator of the science of electricity and magnetism. Q—What is the average speed of a United States destroyer? A—About 35 knots an hour. Q —Give the address of the headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati. A—l 36 West Lanvale street. Baltimore. Md. Q—When it is 12 noon, eastern standard time in the U. S. A, what time is it in Australia? A—Western Australia. 1 a. m. of the following day; Central Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia. 2:30 a. m. of the following day; New South Wales. Queensland and Victoria. 3 a. m. of tha following day. Q— ln what year was the screen version of the play, "Seventh Heaven” produced? A—1827.

‘THE COMING AMERICAN BOOM’

By Major Lawrence L. B. An gas . Installnie/it No. 9

In tlir pr*rrdin* !ntllment Major Anyas dwrlbrl how the rtfrnmrnl i rhrap money policy la Inrrruint tho triorilr of tprndin* and la effecting an eapantlon of credit, while Ita own eiprnditure* serve at a primer for trade. INSTALLMENT IX the $4,000,000,000 actually expended on “emergency” account about 50 per cent has come from public subscriptions to government issues, while the other 50 per cent has come from borrowings from the banks, either through short loans or long-term issues. The latter, as explained, is inflationary in nature, and has been the main cause of the rise in the net demand deposit currency of the country within the last year from about $11,000,000,000 to $12,500.000.000. Os the $4,000,000,000 of “emergency” expenditures actually disbursed in the fiscal year 1933-34, the greater part took the form of direct relief. The main items in round numbers were as follows: Agricultural relief, $900,000,000, exclusive of $300,000,000 obtained from processing taxes; urban relief (mostly CWAI, $1,400,000,000. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, $800,000,000. The principal item in the remainder was for the public works administration, with about $1,000,000,000. As regards actual appropriations for the future, i. e., permissive expenditure not yet spent: Appropriations in the last two congresses have amounted to approximately $12,000,000,000 (including Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds, the total is $17,500,000,000), of which $6,800,000,000 was provided during the recent session ending in July, 1934. For the coming year, June, 1934-35, the funds now earmarked for “relief,” total $3,270,000,000, which exceeds the President’s January, 1934, estimate of maximum needs by $525,000,000; this additional sum is now earmarked for drought aid. ana TAKING potential expenditures as a whole, the following approximate unexpended amounts, available up to the end of 1935, still appear to remain at the President’s disposal: 1. Permission to print paper money, granted immediately after the President entered office, March, 1933, $3,000,000,000. 2. Permission to issue notes against silver, $1,500,000,000. 3. Unexpended portion of gold devaluation profit. (This at present is largely earmarked for exchange equalization and for purchase of government bonds, and it is not improbable that Mr. Roosevelt regards this fund as part of the *3.000.000,000 in item 1), sl, 600.000.000.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.—Beneath the surface, national Democratic chieftains aren’t as cocky about the November congressional election outlook as their excited jubilations over the Maine victory made them out to be. The results in the Pine Tree state far exceeded their most extravagant expectations—as it did the no less astonished Republicans. On the basis of this heady wine, there was wild talk among some Democratic master-minds of a complete re-esumate of November prospects.

Such states as Indiana. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut. West Virginia, Ohio, they boastfully insisted, no longer could be classed as senatorial doubtful. But Exactly twenty-four hours after this strutting talk Michigan held a primary. And the Republicans polled a three to one vote. This was in contrast to 1932 when Michigan plumped into the Democratic column with a bang. Located in the middle west, and with a great deal more federal money poured into it than in Maine, the Democrats had every reason to believe they would at last hold their lines. Now. however, there is every likelihood that the Republicans will carry the state by a safe margin. From Maine and Michigan. therefore, can be deducted the following axiom: 1934 Is an off-election year, and as in most off-elections, sentiment toward the national regime plays a general overtone in state and congressional contests but personalities and local factors determine the decision. a a a THE senate's munitions investigation already has produced a unique by-product. It has contributed some graphic variations to that internationally understood word—"graft.” The probe's additions to the graft lexicon include: "Do the needful "—Sir Basil Zaharoff. "Grease the way”—L. Y. Spear, vice-president of the Electric Boat Company. "Squeeze”—L. E. Gale, Chinese representative of the American Armaments Corporation. "Palm oil"—John Ball, general manager of the British Soley Armament Cos., Ltd. a a a AT last the teasury is seriously considering a unified agency for the examination of banks. To date inspection has been diffused among five agencies with overlapping, waste and inefficiency. The agencies are: 1. The Federal Reserve System, of which most banks are members. 2. The controller of the curlencv, who supervises and inspects the national banks. 3. State agencies, which keep check on the tremendous number of state banks. 4. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which insists not only upon an inspection of banks to which it has loaned money, but also puts its own directors on the boards of aided banks. 5. The Deposit Insurance agency, which makes an inspection incidental to guaranteeing deposits. The result of all these inspections is wide discrepancy and sometimes disastrous confusion. Reports of some investigators about the same bank are millions apart, even though they have

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Indianapolis moves ahead . . . And, for the continuity of this movement, skilled hands of trained workers must be co-ordinated with the strength of great machinery’. . . . Here, in the American Bearing Company, 441 West Eleventh street, a lather is shown measuring down to one-one hundred thousandth of an inch the ball bearings used in new streamlined trains which will carry America ahead at a speed of more than 100 miles an hour. . . . This picture, by an Indianapolis Times staff photographer, is one of a series of photographs of industry being presented by The Times in connection with its presentation of Major Lawrence L. B. Angas’ “The Coming American Boom.”

4. Farm relief, $2,000,000,000. 5. Unexpended portion of Reconstruction Finance Corporation's funds ($7,300,000,000), originally allotted in January, 1933, $3,300,000,000. 6. Housing and home loans, $2,000,000,000.

examined the institution at almost simultaneous times. To date amalgamation of the inspection forces has been opposed due both to jealousy and the desire to hold on to jobs. Now, however, the treasury is considering putting all inspection under the federal reserve system. a a a DR. LEWIS A. HOPKINS, brother of Harry L. Hopkins, FERA director, is running for coroner of Tacoma, Wash., on the Republican ticket. This is a source of much hilarity to brother Harry. “I knew the party died two years ago,” he said, "but I had no idea that it was in need of a coroner." 'CoDvrleht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.t 35 BOMBS EXPLODED IN NEW HAVANA RIOT Students War on Government; Port Workers Battle. By United Press

HAVANA, Sept. 19—Explosion ofj thirty-five small bombs marked the I opening of a fight of highly organ- ! lzed university students against the government and brought threat today of new disorders. In addition to the bombings, laid to students, the city editor of a newspaper was kidnaped by government sympathizers and two men were wounded in a riot of port workers. The bombs were exploded late last night, all over the city. There was no property damage and only two people were injured. 3 HELD IN HIGH BAIL IN COUNTERFEIT CASE Trio Accused of Passing Ten-Dollar Bills in City. Three men held on alleged counterfeiting charges were held to the \ federal grand jury yesterday under! SIO,OOO bond each by Fae W’. Patrick, j United States commissioner. They are Harry E. Hardacre. 34.! of 4789 Schofield avenue; Harry I Burns, 25. of 134 West Twenty-first street, and John R. Zeiner, 27. city. They are alleged to have passed bogus $lO bills at two places Saturday night. CLEANING PLANTS”OPEN 10.000 Resume Work in Chicago After Lockout. Bp L'nitrd Prt*s CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—More than 250.000 men got their pants back today and as many women recovered impounded dresses when Chicago's dyeing and cleaning plants reopened after a two-weeks’ lockout. Settlement of the price and labor dispute returned 10,000 employes to their jobs.

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7. Unexpended funds appropriated in the budget message of Jan. 4, 1934. for the year June, 1934-5, $5,000,000,000. i He also has: 8. Over one billion dollars deposited in the treasury and not yet spent, $1,000,000,000. Total, $19,400,000,000.

ATHLETE CONVICTED IN SLAYING OF GIRL Hoosier Youth Faces Death or Life Term. liy United Press PETERSBURG, Ind., Sept. 19. A verdict of first degree murder was returned late yesterday by a jury in Pike circuit court against Ward Davis, 19, former Petersburg high school ( athlete, in connection with the slaying of his 17-year-old sweetheart, Annavieve France. Sentence was withheld until Sept. 26 to allow defense attorneys time to prepare a motion for anew trial. The conviction carried a death penalty or life imprisonment. Davis was accused of shooting the girl while en route to a high school class party, March 30. ADMITS KILLING MATE Illinois Woman Quits Innocence Pose; Gets Prison Term. By United Press WHEATON. 111., Sept. 19.—Suddenly abandoning a five-months’ pose of innocence, Mrs. Ida Michaels confessed to the “alimony killing” of her divorced husband while a jury was being selected to try her for the crime. The woman, white-haired at 34, whispered to her attorney that she wanted to plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter. Judge Max Allaben of the circuit court immediately sentenced her to one to fourteen years in Joliet penitentiary.

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IF use is made of the first three items available, this will, for the most part, constitute a pure note inflation, which, for the moment, Roosevelt almost certainly hopes to avoid, and will only resort to if other methods fail. The funds mentioned in Items 4,5, 6 and 7 would, for the most

TAX BILLS AVAILABLE FOR FALL INSTALLMENT Payment Delinquent Early in November, Is Warning. Tax bills for the fall installment of Marion county taxes now are available, Timothy P. Sexton, treasurer, said today. The installment will become delinquent after the first Monday in November, when a 3 per cent penalty will be added, plus interest at the rate of 8 per cent until paid. When calling for tax or Barrett law bills, Mr. Sexton said, last paid receipts should be submitted. Lot number, addition and township or other description of the real estate is required to avoid errors, he said. OCT. 7-13 IS SET FOR FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Observance Plans Discussed by C. of C. Committee. Fire Prevention week will be observed in Indianapolis from Oct. 7 to 13. Plans for its observance were discussed at a luncheon of the subcommittee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce fire prevention committee at the Columbia Club yesterday. R. D. Mac Daniel is subcommittee chairman. Indianapolis is one of the foremost cities of its class in the United States in efficiency along fire prevention lines, it was pointed out. Indiana Stamp Club to Meet The Indiana Stamp club will meet at 8 p.m. Friday in the Lockerbie, with the executive committee meeting 45 minutes earlier.

By George Clark

part, come from borrowing from the banks, and would thus lead to bank credit currency inflation, as distinct from note inflation. Item 8 already is at the President’s disposal, and its expenditure would not increase either the note or bank deposit currency. It will be seen, however, that most of the other amounts available would, if expended, be inflationary in character. Items 1, 2 and 3 would not increase the aggregate of government debt; they would merely be inflationary; but items 4,5, 6 and 7 would, in addißion to being infationary, add to the burden of government debt except in so far as extra tax revenues exceeded expenditure. The President's position, however, is that he can. without further authority from congress, inflate paper notes by $4,500,000,000 (items 1 and 2) and by means of government loans inflate bank deposits by $12,300,000,000 (items 4,5, 6 and 7). Net demand deposits now stand at $13,000,000,000. (Author’s Note —Statistics for net demands deposits (i. e. current accounts) as published by the reporting member banks only cover about half of the total banks in America, but may be taken as roughly representative of the w’hole. Time deposits are not immediately spendable by the owners and must not be counted in the statistical total of spendable money. The time deposits of one man are lent to another by the banker and become his demand deposit. They should, therefore, not be counted twice over, although to do so is a common mistake.) The Federal Reserve Notes now stand at $3,000,000,000. In other words, he can still, if he wishes, by various means virtually double both the note and deposit currency of the country, for he has only about $4,000,000 000 out of the total of at least $22,000,000,000 allocated to him. (I am assuming in this argument, I believe rightly, that item 7 does not overlap any other of the items.) Tomorrow—How Roosevelt began credit inflation this year—how new government borrowing will increase it and set in motion a trade boom—advice to prospective Investors. Copyright. 1934. by Simon <& Schuster, Inc.; distributed bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

The theories of Major L. L. B. Angas, in “The Coming American Boom” are presented by The Indianapolis Times to its readers as a journalistic function of service. Publication of the series of ten articles written by the noted British economist does not imply an indorsement of his views by this newspaper.

PARK DEPARTMENT REVENUES SHRINK Bad Weather Is Blamed by Joseph. Revenues of the Indianapolis park department fluctuate with the thermometer, the Marion county tax adjustment board was told today by Jackiel w. Joseph, commission chairman. Analyzing the prospective park fund balance, Mr. Joseph disclosed that revenues fell off sharply during the extreme summer heat, when not even swimming pools were patronized extensively. Golf revenues sank to new lows. The colder weather of the past two weeks has kept*park patrons out of the swimming pools. Mr. Joseph predicted a closing balance of $112,000. Chamber of Commerce representatives estimated it at $135,000. SCIENCE ASSISTANTS AT SHORTRIDGE NAMED Aids Will Help Students and Teachers Both. The heads of the science departments of Shortridge high school have chosen their assistants for the fall and spring semesters to help the students and teachers, and take care of the laboratories Those selected, with the heads of the departments, are: Chemistry—Frank B. Wade, head; Leslie Barlet, Martha Haltom, and Enos Pray, assistants. Physics—Fred Thurston, assistant. Zoology Rousseau McClellan, head; Tom Billings and John Wallace, assistants. Botany Rousseau McClellan, head; James Mitchell and Richard Phelps, assistants. TEACHERS WILL HEAR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR Public School Administrators Are Invited to Session Here. Public school teachers and administrators have been invited to attend a meeting of the Indiana State Federation of Public School Teachers’ executive board Saturday at the Claypool, when LieutenantGovernor M. Clifford Townsend will speak on educational problems. Teachers from nearly seventy-five Indiana towns and cities will be represented by presidents of local organizations who serve on the executive board. SLOT MACHINES FOUND Two Rifled Devices Found in Shed After Hijacking War. Two rifled slot machines were found by police early today in a shed in the rear of 431 East Washington street. The machines had been broken open and the contents taken. This discovery came several weeks after a slot machine hijacking war here in which several machines were stolen by rival gangs. W. C. T. U. Parley Set The Indiana Women's Christian Temperance Union will hold its six-ty-first annual convention at North Manchester, Oct. 4-8. it was announced at headquarters here today.

Fdir Enough hlm There is always plenty of good news to offset the bad and now, as a cheery note In a weary world, there comes from Venice a gay dispatch reporting that Prince Alexis Mdivani, that wholesome boy, and his wife. Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, the American Marie Antoinette, have bought a lovely old palace on the Grand canal for a summer home. At this writing your correspondent has not yet had time to visit any of the Woolworth five-and ten-cent stores to observe the rejoicing which this

event is pretty certain to have inspired among the working girls behind the counters. But that phase of the story will keep and may yet furnish material for another happy essay. It was pretty hard to keep the girls within bounds last winter there, when the Woolworths’ own little Babs, the darling of the be-hind-the-counter personnel, married the dream prince from Russia in a love-match as pure as anything in the matrimonial record of the Goulds and comparable, almost, in its poetic beauty, to the classic ro-

mance of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. In a way, it was none of the shopgirls’ business whom Miss Babby married but, in a sort of way it was at that. Because even shop-girls have dreams of love. Call it impudence, but they do. And furthermore, these shopgirls and thousands of their $6-a-week and $3-a-week predecessors behind the counters of the five-and-tens all over the United States for many years had been contributing their mites toward the income of $2,000,000 a year without which their own princess might never have aroused the love of her ideal. a a a Where They Prefer to Scratch THIS is not to suggest, of course, that the Prince Alexis Mdivani of Russia could have permitted any thought of sordid gain to mar the nobility of his feeling for the American Marie Antoinette. But it is only fair to acknowledge the acumen of a young stranger in a strange land, without much more than a title to go on, who married not one, but two American girls, both in the higher income brackets. When Prince Alexis married into the five-and-ten he didn't lead his bride out from behind the mousetrap counter or the glass bin where the salted peanuts are sold. He would be buying no palaces on the Grand canal in Venice today nor sailing any fast cabin cruisers in the boat races on the Adriatic in that case. It is even doubtful that he would be playing much polo. Life is practical, after all, and it is a much better plan, if one requires palaces, cruisers and polo to keep the five-and-ten girls where they still may contribute their little bit each. The Prince Alexis is prince of a land in which the ownership of a pair of shoes is a mark of rank. His native Georgia, in Russia, is a country in w’hich the citizens do not go in much for bathing, but prefer to scratch. * His title in the hands of another holder never might have amounted to much, but considering his score in matrimony in the highly competitive American field, Americans, who adore success in any line, must give him great credit and call him champion. His ow r n two brothers, each with the same title of prince, fared much less well. tt tt tt A Song in Their Hearts 'T'HE sentiment of the behind-the-counter girls must be very touching to observe just now. Your correspondent often has watched them under similar conditions. There was the time, for instance, when Mr. Donohue, who married another segment of the Woolworth fortune, was having hard luck in the gambling house in Palm Beach night after night and losing a fortune oh the season. Mr. Donohue could not win for lasing and his debit for the season was more than SIOO,OOO. In those days, your correspondent went looking through the five-and-tens across the lake on the landw'ard side w-here the lower classes lived. The ladies behind the counters seemed very sad about Mr. Donohue’s ill luck or something and resolved to work all the harder. They wanted to sell more mousetraps and coat hangers to make up to Mr. Donohue the money which he had lost. Then, last winter, when their own Barbara married the prince and the pair of them set out in a private railroad car to California where half a deck of an ocean liner was reserved to take them around the w r orld, your correspondent looked in on the five-and-tens again. The girls were working busily behind the counters and you tell that they were putting their hearts into the mousetraps and coathangers with special joy. They wanted to make the prince and princess happy. They wanted to buy him the best polo ponies in the world, the fastest cabin cruiser ever built for the Adriatic races and, most of all, they wanted to buy the prince and princess a palace on the Grand canal in Venice for their summer home so that they never would have to spend any summers in New York. It gets very’ hot and gummy in New York in the summer, particularly in the five-and-ten. It was easy to understand why. They had a song in their hearts, because their own Barbara once gave $25,000 to charity or lli per cent of her income of $2,000,000 a year. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

NOW is the time to get acquainted with the name of John Winthrop Jr. He was the first chemist to settle in the American colonies. You will be hearing about Winthrop and his colleagues quite a bit between now and next April when the American Chemical Society celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the chemical industry in America. The celebration will be held in New York during the week of April 22, with from 7,000 to 10.000 of the nation’s chemists in attendance. Professor Arthur W. Hixson of Columbia university is general chairman of the committee in charge of the show. The committee hopes to have President Franklin D. Roosevelt deliver the opening address. Professor Hixson says. It is planned to have leaders in industry. finance and government present to unite with the chemists in centering world attention upon the nation's growing chemical industries. a a a A SURVEY, just completed, reveals that research work has been continued without abatement during the depression, Professor Hixson says. "Many new processes have been developed for making products that could not formerly be produced economically and many new products have been developed that have been designed to meet the needs of new and better living conditions,” he continues. "The fundamental soundness of American chemical industries is illustrated by the way in which they have withstood the economic shock of the depression. "In the last 300 years in times of stress, whether in peace or war, the chemical industries have done their part. With such a record of achievement they stand dt the beginning of anew era confident of their ability to contrvbute in even a larger measure to the happiness and welfare of the people and to the wealth and strength of the nation.” a a a A STUDY of world production of chemical products today indicates the leading position of America. Professor Hixson says. “The annual production of chemical products in which these industries lead the world, such as petroleum products, rubber, cement, heavy chemicals, metal products, agricultural chemicals, engineering chemicals, explosives, foods, processing chemicals, air chemicals, sea water and brine chemicals, paints, pigments and many others are recorded in figures of almost astronomical proportions and whose values run into billions of dollars.” he says. "These gigantic basic industries have been built by American initiative and ingenuity with the aid of chemical and physical science. "Today, the United States produces more than three times as much sulphuric acid as Germany, four times as much as Great Britain, five tunes as much as France or Japan, and more than one-third of the world output.”

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