Ovens.-The writer's attention has been called to a review in the June number of the Journal, of the book entitled "A Short Treatise on the Destructive Distillation of Bituminous Coal," in which the reviewer draws some conclusions as to the disposal of coke oven by-products that hardly seem justified when the rapid development of these markets in recent years is considered, as well as their present status. The review questions whether the addition of a plant carbonizing 1,000 tons of coal daily, to the present by-product oven installation, producing approximately three and
I 1 5 1 the prevention of war. What will the Day of the Chemist bring forward as his contribution to war's prevention? And yet despite the possession by the German nation of a highly honored body of the world's greatest scientists the scourge came and none could stay it. Something more then is required than simple devotion to scientific truth. Is it "reasonableness?" In other words, that spirit of mind which is not allied to partisanship-the balanced, considerate and open mind. When that shall be the recognized mental equipment of every scientific man, then shall dawn the True Day of the Chemist.
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