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GAS MEN PLAY A BIG»»»»;♦»»»»PART IN WINNING WARISiik Stockings Banished in Kansas Gymnasium.Ten Thousand Soldiers Toil at Turning Out Shells to RoutGermans.SMANY ARE INJURED AT V. QSSEdgewood Arsenal in Marylpnd Won Place of Leadership Over Allies in Scientific Progress and Dead-liness of Output—Gas Factory City in Itself.Baltimore, Mil.—While the men who have been working in shipyards and munition plants have received just praise for their fulfillment of patriotic duty, there is an army of men 10.000 strong who have worked faithfully, carefully screened from public notice, performing some of the most important w'crk of the war, work which was largely responsible for the early signing of the armistice, who have received no recognition at nil.Day after day they have secretly worked in the manufacture of the poisonous gases which routed the Huns and Impressed upon the Germans the Ingenuity and resourcefulness of the American brain.These men of the Edgewood arsenal stayed on American soil, never had the excitement of an ocean voyage or adventure in a foreign country or the hero-worship of those who have been1Iit was confidently declared would smother the Metz fortvI |*oil these 300 acres have boon eon* strutted a large number of Immense chemii-u, plows wirb the necessary adjuncts. all on an extensive scale, contorted by ,*T» milof railway, operated by I nif«*d States anm crew*#working three shifts a day. At fir-1 it whs attempted to run the arsenal with e:\ilian tabor, Ion the hazardous character of tin* employment made this class of employee so miecrfnin. al-though fancy wages were offered, thatit becalm- necessary m use enlistedmen exclusively throughout the plant.The result has been that work ofa highly specialised nature and extra hazardous has been done by men receiving from $30 a nienth up, and under rigorous military discipline.The research laboratory work of the arsenal has been highly fruitful mid the gases of the Oennans are said to be inild in comparison with the more terrible products of P-dgcwood. of which the Germans ban only got a foretaste when the armistice wassigned.“Came to Teach. Remain to Learn.”Two exports, i*olor,e! Auld cud Captain Hankar, one sent from England and the other from France, to aid 111 the establishment of toxic gas plants, said on leaving: *\\ came to teach,but we remain to learn.*'The Centra! Cors*ruction eorpora-tion received a contract in October, 1017, for the construction of. a gas¥Lawrence, Kan.— Silk stock tugs are a thing of the past in the women's gymnasium of Kansas here, the ban having heen«»t*e «-f tile first rules pkiccd byVVI!h“ authorities recently. Here after nil girts in the gym classes must wear eot.on stockings. Tin-new rule is inj.de til the interest ♦ *f tiYtif*i y is-otumiy and dei¥yiIiter*—a | irft of luNini^s men—wereullcwi'd throe *b ♦*» plod last vviM'i;i-; «- . ft** *»r *he ••oiamiHiest ofr«ii.table supplies. sal:, being made Inf*one of* the west fatal poisons. TIP*chloric gas passes from 3.552 elect n-lytic eel ha. is dried by sulphuric iictd and pumped to the chemical plants. Dry chlnric gas js buidded Into the common sulphur In tanks and becomes a basic raw material in the production of mustard gas, which was one of the deadliest weapons used to win the wa r. ?Then there Is the phosgene plant. Here coke is received by rail and burned bv a common steam holler. Pure oxygen, obtained from liquid air and carbon dioxide are passed together through red-hot coke producing carbon monoxide. Dry chlorine gas and carbon monoxide arc suitably mixed, and by passing over a catalyzer, converted to form gaseous phosgene. The Hipjid phosgene is filled into one-ton containers for overseas shipment and was lit * gas most largely used in thewar.
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Viroqua Vernon County Censor
Viroqua, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Feb 05, 1919
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