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MARCH 27, 19311,500 CHEMISTS !FTO GATHER INCITY MONDAYFour Distinguished ForeignSavants Are AmongSpeakers.Men whose brain-children have blasted armies out of trenches, and who from acids and water made the ink that wTote peace pacts, will j com© to Indianapolis next week, but orobably none of them will have a thought for demolition of helmet A \ battalions or diplomatic reconcile*.~-ir? ,.;-11 **£ 'FI They will be part of 1,500 chemists attending the eighty-first meetingof the American Chemical Society it the Claypool from Monday until;; '• - .•In the multitude of discussions hat will range from new foods tomathematical formulas almost asintricate as Einstein's relativityheory, many papers by learned jscientists from Industries, universi- |’ies, and technical schools will be* |Foreign Chemists ComingFour, and perhaps five, famed foreign scientists will attend the meetings, They are: Dr. H. Falken-hgen and Professor Karl Freuden-berg, Germany; Dr Nevil V. Sidg-vick and Dr. R. H. Fowler, England, and perhaps Dr. Heinrich Wieland, i a German. They will read papers on physical and organic chemistry.•One result of the convention- is [ expected to be a plea tor more high- j Hcf iy specialized training of students in chemistry tn high schools in | \/ Scientific imagination of more • han 200.000 boys and girls studying chemistry is being stifled by inadequate attention on the part of teachers, according to Professor R.A. Baker of the College of the City of New York, one of many speakers ■vho will address the chemists.“A boy in a high school laboratory 13 intensely interested in combining one substance with another to get a tangible and immediate result,”Dr. Baker has declared.Cclittlearouthin:Shless*Should Be Encouraged‘‘Under an instructor who is skilled and absorbed in the science he would be encouraged to go forward to become the professionalchemist so needed in present-da^industry.He will advocate to many teachers and representatives of industries who will be here during the convention, a plan for closer co-operation between industry and high school and college students, with the aim of opening industriallaboratories for advanced instruction of students.Need of chemistry in modern human civilization will be stressed by a report of Otto Wilson, statistician, of Washington, D. C.. who will present a report to show that while virtually all other forms of businesssuffered during the business depres-I1sion, this science has fared well.ThisJustwithdeveLowhal weai upor plete the word Cont Fo a srrpapeTI ings been othe hats be s The nighY( frorr of iton , el sa
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