THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1924
THE SOUTHERN SERVES THE SOUTH
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Railroad service that
profits all of us
On the Southern Railway System last
year we hauled seven million tons of
farm products. We carried back to the
farms a great volume of things that
the farmer gets in exchange for his
products.
This is a big part of the day's work of
our 8,000 miles of lines, stretching
across the South from the Potomac
to the Mississippi.
Farm prosperity means prosperity for
us. To give the best service, at rates
which will enable our shippers to sell
their products in the markets at a good
profit, and which will enable us to
make a fair profit, too, is a fundamental
policy of the Southern Railway System.
Did you ever stop to think how much
better service the Southern has given
you in recent years since it was reliev
ed from financial starvation? That is
part of your share in our prosperity.
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"IMPORTANCE OF CHEMISTRY"
Prize Winning Essay by Miss Ethel Lee Scruggs,
of Henrietta School.
In view of the intense interest dis
played by the large crowd who heard
Dr. H. I. Jones, noted scientist, who
spoke on the wonderful accomplish
ments in chemistry at the late Chau
tauqua, The Courier believes its read
ers will be equally interested in the
following essay on the "Importance
of Chemistry," by Miss Ethel Lee
Scruggs, pupil in Miss Blanch Burke's
class at Henrietta school. The essay
was a prize winner and is intensely
interesting throughout. It follows:
Importance Of Chemistry.
It may fairly be claimed for chem
istry that it is at present the most
fundamental of all the sciences.
Chemistry embraces the material uni
verse, our solar system, the most dis
tant stars, and the flaming nebulae
no less than the dust speck within
the universe, on which we live and
which we call the earth. It includes
within its scope the physical basis of
our own bodies and those of every
living thing upon the earth. It is
directly concerned with the air we
breathe,, the water we drink, the food
we eat, the materials upon which we
work, and the things which we buy
and sell.
To me has been assigned the pleas
ant task of bringing home to you
some knowledge of the extent to
which you are already indebted to
this branch of science and a better
appreciation of the benefits which it
still holds out to you.
We live immersed in an ocean of
air and we draw this air into our
lungs approximately eighteen times a
minute. The quality of this air, tem
perature, pressure, humidity, the
small impurities which may be pres
ent, affect our comfort and well be
ing in many ways. The nature of
all this enveloping atmosphere of air
has always been a subject of specu
lation.
The heavy toll of life in mine dis
asters would be much heavier were it
not for the Davy lamp, the fire-damp
indicators, rescue outfits, and the
regulation of explosives, all of which
have come to the world through
chemical knowledge. Ventilating
systems as applied to theaters, halls
and dwellings are based on chemical
studies of the air in rooms.
The chemical and biological study
of public water supplies has been the
means of saving countless lives thru
out the world.
Nowhere is the practical value of
chemistry in its relation to every-day
life more strikingly shown than in
connection with our food supply.
Chemical fertilizers are in constantly
increasing measure responsible for
the enormous total of our agricultur
al products. One of the greatest
demands of growing plants is that for
nitrogen in a form available for plant
food. They have recognized that 33,-
800 tons of nitrogen are pressing
down on every acre of land. The
problem is to get the nitrogen from
the air and give it to growing plants.
Such plants as peas, beans, clover
and alfalfa have the power to grasp
the nitrogen from the air. The sur
plus nitrogen is stored in little balls
or nudules on the roots of these
plants.
Chemistry pervades the packing in
dustry, thus reducing the cost of food
by utilizing the by-products.
The relation of chemistry to the
clothes we wear is of the first im
portance. More land is planted to
cotton and cotton itself is cheaper be
cause chemistry has taught the plant
er how to secure increased yields by
proper fertilization and how to ob
tain increased profits by making use
of the cottonseed for oil and cattle
feed. Chemistry is now developing
new sources of profit for the planter
by adapting the short fiber adhering
to the ginned cotton seed hull to the
making of smokeless powder and the
stalks of the cotton plant to paper
making.
. One of the highest Industrial
achievements is the very modern de
velopment of artificial silk which,
though made from wood pulp, far
! surpasses in brilliance and beauty the
finest products of China and Japan.
The chemists alone have made it pos
sible to have all the beautiful ranges
| of colors in silks, hosiery and rib
bons.
The refining of petroleum involved
; the solution of many difficult chem
ical problems. The Chicago fire is
! said to have been started by Mrs.
j O'Leary's cow which kicked over a
i kerosene lamp. The discovery of gas
I has put an end to such useless disas
j ters. When coal gas was first em-
I ployed for lighting the House of
i Parliament the members were seen
cautiously touching the pipes to find
, out if they were not hot from
carrying such a flame. The im-
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provements in nicandescent lamps
in the last ten years have resulted
in the saving of $24,000,000 a vear
in the cost of lighting as compared
with the cost of equal illumination by
the use of lamps.
Air is a mixture chiefly made up
of oxygen and nitrogen. One of the
most remarkable properties of hy
drogen gas is its extreme lightness.
Everyone knows that soap bubbles
blown with ordinary air gradually
fall to the ground; those blown with
hydrogen are so light that they rise.
This brought about the idea of filling
balloons with hydrogen. Balloons
are now filled with coal gas.
I Scientists have discovered that by
burning gas instead of coal and wood
the smoke problem in cities would be
eliminated.
Important as are the losses in the
first purchase of coal, they are small
compared with those which go with its
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