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9 1925Reprint from The World, May , . SAYS BEST PROOF the first and only one to be experi mented on." he replied. " O ur tests consist of observing our men and see ing that nothing happens'. W e have OF ETHYL CAS LIES perfected a method of handling the stuff so there is no danger, if it is not misused. A t that, we are con stantly learning something new. Our position is exactly that of the electri IN RECORD OF USE cal companies when that art was new. In the pioneer days, men were killed because of ignorance. N ow, if a man is killed, it is because somebody is careless. Vice President Midgley of Death Due to Ignorance General M otors to Bring "The deaths in Bayway were due This Up at Coming Hearing to ignorance of the effects of tetra ethyl lead. The primary effect of the stuff is to exhilarate like alcohol. CITES IMMENSE SALES, They wanted to and did stay at work until the sleepless stage developed. W e W IT H NO B A D E F F E C T S know better now. The minute a man shows signs of exhilaration he is laid off. If lie spills the stuff on himself he is fired. Because he doesn't want T ells of Laboratory and Other to lose his job, he doesn't spill it. Tests Made Check up by on Company to Its Action " T h at's one trouble. If it would only burn or be immediately unpleas ant, w e'd have no difficulty through carelessness." " Is there danger in getting it on From W orld Staff Correspondent one's hands?" the reporter asked. Special Despatch to The World " No; let me show you." He had D A Y T O N , O. May 8.-- A t the hearing General to be May h2e0ld before the Surgeon on ethyl or leaded gasoline, Thom as Midgley, jr., Vice an attendant bring a quantity of pure tetraethyl, washed his hands thor oughly in the fluid and dried them on his handkerchief. President of General Motors and I'm not taking any chance what " Father of E thyl Gas," to-day said ever," he said. "Nor would I take the defense of the product would rest any chance doing that every day." largely on field experience. Mr. Midgley said he had received " The one paramount fact in the no report concerning tests made at case,' he told a reporter for The Columbia University nor by Dr. Hen W orld in his offices at the General derson of Yale. Motors Company research laboratory five miles from this city, "is that for ' N o Danger in Exhaust two years we have been selling ethyl The dangers to the public from the p2g0ae,sr0h.0a0pssItna3ti0to0hn,a0st00inp,0e0trw0ioedngatywll-oeenigshhattvheSrtoasutoeglshd. exhaust from motors using the com pound, Mr. Midgley declared to be nil. The danger compared to the danger A check-up shows not a single sta tion or garage man affected. That is ofrnoemtoca3r0b0o.n monoxide, said he, is as better than any laboratory tests. It is a large-scale service test." " W e have made no tests on the Laboratory Tests Too possible effect of the discharge from motors in the streets," he continued. T he company will put in laboratory " The only laboratory equipped to records as well. Am ong them will be make such tests is that of the Bureau the records of the local plant, where of Mines in Pittsburgh. animals have been exposed and where for two years Dr. Robert Kehoe of the University of Cincinnati has kept tabs on the physical condition of the forty men employed there. " There is1 one interesting feature about the agitation. Ethyl gas is feared only where it is not known. In those State where it has been in use one or two years there is no The results have been negative. Mr. M idgley said. The men are examined at least once a week. So far no one has developed any untoward symp toms and tIre animals have shown no ill effects. " Have any tests been made on hu man beings?" he was asked. " No. If any are made, I will be clamor against it. " But no more of it will leave our plants until it is settled (hat there is no danger in the stuff used prop erly and with reasonable care," he concluded. Mr. Midgley left no doubt of his faith in the ultimate vindication of ethyl gas.