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GD&ue Pont Vol.14 A ' `tV^ I i>V'*\W V^4JS\!-.'/">*. uvory QJ:Ofyva7ii'n WOMAN'S toilet articles are her intimate companions. They must stand the test of daily use, year after year. They must have that simple beauty which never wearies. Their usefulness must be never-failing. Per haps these are the reasons why Ivory Pyralin is a favorite with so many thousands of women. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS dc CO., INC. Sales Department: Pyralin Division WILMINGTON, DEL. HE beautiful La Belle Pattern with its exclusive Tfeature, the transverse handle, is illustrated. Made in Shell Pyralin and Amber Pyralin as well as Ivory Pyralin--decorated in colors, ifpreferred. It is sold the country over, in complete sets or single pieces easily matched at any time. --^1 MA GAZINE WORLD DISARMAMENT ITH oiievuiceamitiedat last Win a single universal aspira tion, I lie world cries out for disarmament, for relief from its great est and most perilous burden. How can if be brought ahnnl.? 'Hie problem is difficult and complex, but. one at least 4if ils conditions is dear. Ho long us nulions are nations, independent and sovereign, disarma ment is and imisL be limited by the necessities of national defense. No nation will eoriseut to a.iiv course uf action, however unitorin and universal, which decreases its safely, its relative power of resistance. As regards armies, interns and the older and more highly developed mechanisms of warfare, the problem is relatively simple. Numbers of trained men. ships, airplanes, tanks, guns, machine-guns ami shells cart he reduced proportionally by mutual agreement, and the facilities for production of them all can he diminished hi like manner. The men cannot be trained, nor can the elaborate struct urns ami implements be Manufactured. except by specialized means, which cannot be improvised. The creation of such menus can either be cheeked by international net ion or, failing that, duplicated by any nation in time to insure its safety. These ijistrunientulities, however, which used to constitute; the whole o! military force, are now hut part of any imuojds fighting power. Chemical warfare, developing ;>y leaps and bounds throughout I he great war, has assumed commanding importance. In Hu; Iasi of the fighting half of the .shells used were designed 1o distribute |K>ison gases, while floods of noxious vapors wen; launched by means altogether independ ent of artillery. Chemical defense against, these substances had become n first essential. By the same token, scientific advances, in the way of discovery of new poisons, or new methods of applying old poisons, held out constant possi bilities of instant and overwhelming victory. Already pro jectors--not guns hud been developed which coukl be made iu quandh in any lube-works, and which could put down oceans of gases at a range of a mile. The science was and Ls in its infancy, hut already the chemists, to some extent without the aid of any existing weapon, and to an over powering extent in conjunctum with the older equipment, can provide an alUtek of hitherto unparalleled efficiency, while they ahme can offer any adequate Means of resistance. This enormous power differs from all previous military n'.sources, in that most of it is not dependent on special plant and organhaiion, built fur war and nothing else, but can lie produced and kept in constant readiness in peace, by I he normal operation of n peace-industry. The organic chemical industry, particularly Ui.-i.L pari of it engaged in dye making, supplies everything I hat is needed. To make the thousands of different, dyes and intermediates needed in our other industries, requires the quantity production uf all jiobsible substances needed for the production of poison gases and (heir and loins, including many of the gases themselves. The enormous research required for the solution erf the iidiuile problems of riiumifuclurc and application, for the disposition of by-products, and for discovery of new materials, insures the mainlenanee of a iVree of research chemists main' times greater than that requitvd hv any other industry. Dyechemists and dye chemical employes have, and they alone have, all the necessary knowledge and technique. They, their apparatus and their materials, are instantly ready for con version to the manufacture of poison gases or uf explosives. In a word, a nation equipped with such an industry is, automat Iealfy, sell but prepared for chemical warfare on a colossal scale. Accordingly, no nation can disarm lo any serious extent, unless it lias such an industry. Thu equipment and the knowledge necessary cannot Ik ; improvised, nor even pro vided beforehand specially for war purposes, and kept, during pence, unused. Inactive plants deteriorate, the indispiuisahle trained employes can not he kept available and the advance of science is so rapid that no anticipation of the nation's needs can succeed. A scientist, at work with only the simplest apparatus hidden away anywhere, at any time, may make discoveries which render all previous preparation worthless. Only the incessant intensive research constantly necessary in the dye industry can hope to keep up with the progress of the science. Equipped, as a complete dye industry equips it nation, wilh facilities for immediate huge production of the needed substances, and with the men who have the necessary knowledge, no nation ne-'d fear to limit its gnus, ships, planes and tanks proportionately with other nations. To a nation THE DUPONT MAGAZINE mil so equipped, .such a limitation would he suicide. Against, fur example, such military force as we maintained before the war, aJi otherwise unarmed nation, which had a powerful organic chemical industry, could easily develop an irresistible attack. In a disarmed work! the dye-making countries will reign supreme. Before the war there was hut one such country. Germany supplied the world with dyes. In the war her dye-works, without material changes, supplied many of her explosives, all her gases, and all the technique of her gas defense. While the allies were spending years and tens of millions hi building plants and making experiments she was producing ns rapidly us she I bought necessary. Had she realized her advantage and used gas. at the outset, on 1 he later scale, the allies could never have resisted, A colossal power, fortunately but halfunderstood, was in her hands, ami in hers alone. Today the United States and to sonic extent Great Britain arc in a similar fortunate position. To be sure of maintaining it, the British have embargoed German dyes for ten years. As long as we maintain our industry, and for mil. one moment longer, we can safely plan and attempt disarmament. If we lo.se our new dye-industry, we must either remain armed to the teeth or accept the certainty that we cannot resist ari attack by any dye-making country. linked, the real crux of the problem is the German dyeindustry. While it. exists it. can instantly furnish to the Germans, to the Bolsheviks, or to any other destroyers of the world's peace, the necessary resources for a formidable campaign. If every German munition-works were totally dcsl roved, this would still be true. Till controlled and curbed by the allies, under the clauses of the treaty designer] to that end, the German industry can partially, at least, ana half the world. That industry in itself constitutes a formidable armament; and if its peace value is deemed too great to permit its destruelion, its war efficiency must be counter balanced by the establishment, of similar industries in other countries, or else disarmament cannot, proceed, 'Today the United Stales, and perhaps the United Slates alone, has an organic chemical industry capable of offering the same military advantages ns the German, In addition, while it survives, that industry guarantees the progress of chemical medicine, the advance of applied chemistry in every industrial field and the independence of the huge industries whose essentials it supplies. For all these reasons, it invites the certain ami deadly attack of the. gigantic German dye- trust, which must monopolize our market or cease to he Germany's most lucrative industry. This attack, driven home with true German ruthless nnserupulousness, has already begun, and will annihilate any tariff-defense, as the trust's gases and high explosives annihilated their victims in the war, and nothing short of direct measures of exclusion can furnish the necessary shield. If Congress will furnish that defense we have the prime essential, without, which neither we nor the rest of file world can safely' disarm. If the defense be denied we shall leave ourselves helpless against, the warfare of the future, and by the same denial strung then the inde structible armament which, in the shape of Germany's dye- industry, will make the Germans an incessant mul continuing peril to the world. --Hrprmtcd from "World Distunnimrnl mid the Aiur.kr Kf.y Industry" Uy permits urn of thr American Dyer, Institute. - MOTHER MAY DRIVE T1 HUl GHOl T the ages babies have traveled in many 1 curious ways. One confronts this fact in every library' - and aid gallery where babes in arms are portrayed riding with their mothers on donkeys, camels, ele phants, horses a Mil other animals. The pathetic figure of the Fndiai) papoose, wrapped in a blanket and suspended from its mother'sshoulders, excites comment from young Americans and arouses the sympa thies of grown-ups. Poor, helpless infants, wlint tortures they have suffered in trav eling, even though fond parents have pro vided I he best convey ances of their time! Baby coaches are considered among the best, devices of our day, built ns they are to insure riding com fort without the jars arid jolts that, have made infant travel so uncomfortable in the past But until the day comes when baby coaches are trans formed into airplanes and nurses qualify as pilots; until mothers are willing to let. their lmhies enjoy an outing in the clouds instead of along the park jiallnvays, baby coaches, with rubber-tired wheels and shock-absorbing springs, will serve well enough--at least, for parents who do nut own automobiles. Those who are fortunate enough to have a baby in the home and a touring ear in the garage will be interested in a motor crib, made in Chicago. It fills a real need-iincl enables every member of the family, baby included, to enjoy the delights of motoring. As the illustration shows, the crib fastens securely to the roberail , while a coil spring attached to the foot rest counteracts the jolting ofthe machine. When not in use, the crib.folds up. against the back of the seat. Opened or closed, it occupies very little space, weighs only ten pounds and can be installed in any make of touring car, sedan or limousine without difficulty. The frame work is constructed of black enameled steel, light, but much stronger than neces sary. The basket and hood are made of light-weight durable elolli, trimmed with Du Pont Fabrikoid. By selecting this material, so extensively used to upholster automobiles, the manufact urers have produced a crib that harmonizes with the rest, of lhe inferior, and is an attractive, useful accessory. 2 THE DU PONT MAGAZINE CLIMBING FOR OIL GREAT (kit1 has been heard A lately of drilling wells for oil ,, Biif-li terms as shallow drilling, deep drilling, drilling proven Reids, simi even "wild rutting." are familiar; hut out, in the Rocky Mountains, with trim Western initiative, prospectors arc beginiiiitg to climb into the skies for oil. Rising high into the air among the canyons of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Nevada are great cliffs of oil shale, and the seekers after nil are now planning to scale and quarry them. The term "oil shale" is misleading, as this .dude does inn contain dl in its common form. The shale does not even feel greasy, nor are there any signs of oil in I he crevices of the rocks. As a mutter of hud-, the shale eonlnins meivly a hydro carbon ingredient, culled korogeii, which, when subjected to a heat of Ironi 1MI to 100(1 nr 1500 degrees K., gives off gases that- 4>im he eondensed into crude oil very similar iu that usually obtained by drilling wells. These shale depos its. often two or three hundred feel thick n ml covering in all sev eral hundred square miles, belong to what is known geologically as tin: Green Iti \ or formation. Geologists tell us that the oil shale was formed in the bottom of wind, was originally an iiiiineii.se lake, ur some other body of still water. The remains of luxuriant tropical vegeta tion and of pro!die animal life, espe cially of those animals which inhabit the water, were deposited in the bottom of tins immense lake or hav of si ill wat er together with the malarial which forms clay. The weight of later depends of sand, lime stone and oilier clays pressed these deposits into a sulk! mass iu layers from the thickness of a piece of paper up to several feet; producing the laminations characteristic of shade. Subsequently erosions cut canyons through this formation into llie rock Mow, leaving the towering oil shale dill's that rise a thousand or two thousand feet above the bed of the valleys. The inflammable character of this shale was discovered by a prospector who built an immense ruck fire-place from the material. On lighting a few sticks of wood, lie found that the shale caught lire and was entirely consumed, melting down into a heap of smouldering, sticky substance. Very hi t ie attention was paid to the composition of tins rock., however, until people began to worry about the growing consumption of oil for auto mobiles and for other purposes, which tl reaU'JK'd to exceed the supply from oil wells*. Within the last few years claims lu:ve ham filed under the Mineral Act upon a great deal of this shale-hearing land for tin' purpose of converting the shale into eiL II he ckiimauts haw? been obliged, recording to the Federal land laws, to do considerable "assessment work;*' that is, to spend at least one hundred dollars a year upon rut* > mineral claim to hold title to it. When five hundred dollars' worth of such work has been done, they have been able to apply fur a patent title from the United Stales GuYernmeu l and buy the land at a low price. During 1980, the Federal authorities, realizing the value of the land, with drew it from entry under the Min eral Act and placed it UTKler the Oil Land Leasing Bill. This prevents further filing of claims upon tills land; now, anyone who washes to mine this shale in areas that have not already been filed upon, will have to pay the Gov ernment a royalty upon the oil which is extracted from the rock. One of the xnetht d$ of doing the required assess ment work on these cliffs of oil shale is to build pack trails up the side of the mountains and around these cliffs In I he lop. This constitutes a definite iifipruxcmcnt and aids more than anything else in the examination and development of these immense depos its of shnle. The common impression is that shale {> n fairly soft material that can ie excavated very readily. This however, is not always true; in the dise of the oil shale, the opposite is l he fuel. Miners working with a single hand hammer can drill prob ably eight or nine feet a day, if they are energetic workers. The great mass of the cliffs is a very tough, solid, impervious rock, and in order to make a trail through it, it is neces sary iu drill holes every few feet and blast the rock with a suitable high explosive. Du Pout explosives have Mu used on many of the roads ill ready built. These hillsides are so a:cep lhat the rock which is blasted out from the top of the cliffs rolls thousands of feet to the bottom of the THE DUPONT MAGAZINE Va Hoys, rutting through the brush like a scythe uud snapping off ! lit1 trees in its path. Building cHit* trail up tin* side of one at thes<- mountains is a -Himiiiteh work for Hovoral men; yel from the opposite side of the eanyun this trail looks like; a mere srnib.h on the side of the cliff as shown in one of the accompanying illustrations. From the lop of one of these cliffs, other cliffs can lie scon extending 0:1 nil sides as fur us Uie eye can reach. There seems to Ik ; no Hunt io these shalo deposits, and computation of I he amount of oil contained ill them staggers She imagination. The yield which can ho produced varies from twenty gallons to as much as one hundred gallons a ton. Here, cerhiinly. seen is to he h ii milimiied supply of gasoline for all the auiomohiles (hat can hit nsamifaellived in the fill ure. Before these supplies can he realized, hm\e\er, it will he necessary Ut quarry Use ruck from the top of the mountains and slide it down into the valley below where the oil can hr nrloilvd From the shale and refined. Several large corporations are now working out economical methods of operation for their oil shale pro|>erties: hut ihe best means of getting down I lie shale, dist illing and refining the oil have not. yet been definitely determined. Underground mining such as is used in getting out coal, or "raving" and "glory hole" mining may prove the hast system, but it seems probable that methods of stripping, similar to those used in the huge open-pit copper and iron mining operators, will he tint most success ful. Large well drills that Imre holes six indicts in diameter and Fifty' to a hundred feet deep may he used for drilling holes into which large charges of explosives can he placed. After sufficient blasting has been done tn give space on thcf cliffs, immense steam shovels inns! in some maimer he hoisted to the tup of the mountain and set up in place to remove this rock to tramways, chutes, or to some other con trivance for sliding the shale down the mm in tain under human control. Processes must also ho perfected for securing the oil from the shale on a large scale, and, later, special itifiuer.es must he designed to produce this type of oil. The male ml extracted from the oil shale contains rhmii Qll per edit, gasoline or motor spirit and 40 per cent kerosene, the remainder being composed of lubricating oik paraffin waxes, tar and other by products. The kerosene, and even some of the heavier distillates* can he cracked to produce a total of 40 per cent gasoline, or more. These oil shales also contain many by-produHs, si mix as carbon, paraffin, dye bases, ammonium sulphate and other materials wfdch will be useful in the iminutaetiire of various products. Reliable authorities* state that the gasoline produced from shale oil will vaporize ala lower temperature than paraffin gasoline of the same gravity. This property makes it valuable, especially in cold weather. It is also slated that this gasoline yields more energy mid in a steadier and more sustained thrust than the ordinary paraffin gasoline. Its use will there fore tend to reduce the jerk in gaso line engines. The lubricating oils derived from shale ore said to hold their body better under the high frictional heat of gas engines than do Ihe paraffin lubricating oils. These superior properties make the shale gasoline and lubricating oils of especial value for use in gas engines of all kinds, and as a result, early development, of the deposits on a large scale is to he looked for. Whatever methods of mining are adopted, explosives will necessarily play an important part in the development of the shale deposits, and Du Pont brands will help iu the work. *Pror. P D,, Georgy, Slate Otologist, and Professor uf Geology, University of {`okirtvlo, is <jne of I h<1 (minorities. HOW LONG WILL SHELLS KEEP? HOOTERS often write: "How long can I keep shells hours. These .slidIs were under water all that time, and S loaded with Du Font Powder before the powder will were not discovered until we were cleaning the mess out of spoil?" "Will shells give .satisfactory results after the garage. When 1 ran across the box I put it aside, never several years' .storage?" The assurance is given Lluti. thdereaming that the slidIs could over be used, but did not take inmnler will not deteriorate so long as the shells are properly the time to destroy them, stored. But the Cfompimy has never churned for its powder "Yesterday our rabbit season opened, and in gelling my the qualities described by IL fch Kauffman, secretary and machine out of the garage 1 noticed these shells and, out of trcxisurcr of the Kauffman Manufacturing Company, of curiosity, put three of them in my pocket, thinking I would Ashland, Ohio, who tells of his ex|>erienee in the following try them out. 1 killed u rabbit with each of the three shells, letter; _. they firing just as jierfeelly as if they had been loaded that "Twelve years ago I bought a ease; of * * * shells loaded day. When the gun cracked on the first shell I thought I had with Du Font Powder (smokeless), and after using over half made a mistake and had put a new shell in tlio gun, but found of the ease I was unfortunate enough to miss hunting for it was the old one. several years. In the meantime these shells had been pushed \ "This seemed such a remarkable performance that I back in a comer of my garage and had been covered up by thought I must let you know of it, as it ccrlainly seems won old inner tubes and casings, and forgotten. derful to me. After the above experience, l have such faith "One year ago last August we had a flood here, and, as I in the remaining sheds that I am going to use them altogether uiu located close to the `town creek.' my garage was Hooded, in my next hunk Tins experience surely makes a confirmed having nearly three fee! of water in if for over twenty-four Du Font man of me," 4 TUB DUPONT MAGAZINE BEAUTIFYING THEATRES T was only yesterday, compara It is located in the recently completed I tively speaking. Hint a converted store, with a few crude attempts at decoration, served well enough as (Jivility paints are essential to the Hamm Building, which itself is worth several pages of description. With a seating capacity of 3,000, this theatre a inotioii-|)i<rt.ux`e theatre. Now the is claimed t c j be the largest motion- most skillful architects are e mployed, picture house in the Northwest, I fie finest localities a re selrrk'd and Tim Kt. Paul theatre has many flic best materials are utilized in the interest ing features, nol the least of erection of magnificent palaces fur the presen :aiion of the which is the fat1! that k embodies the kkvsland best ideas in "silent drama/' WiM West thrillers have given nay to Him then I re archil eeture. A pipe-organ wilh ubiety slops is one masterpieces, the "finny" piano lias been replaced by the of the incidentals of equipment, This instrument cost 873,ODD symphony orchestra and instead of ex-stores, theatres are mid required the labor of l wen I y met! for fourteen months lo huilf. at a cost of millions of dollars. assemble it. One pipe is hi* huh long and large enough at While motion pint ores are universal in their appeal, the the base for a hoy lo crawl through. Another is smaller than progress mude in America, far exceeds their development in a pcvndk any other country. Then* are hoc towns in the United Slates Musical entertainment will he provided for the fortunate so small that they cannot boast of at least one "movie" house; St. Paul "movie" fans, not only hy this organ, but also by a in Diet, the population of larger places can often he estimated 1 liirly-pieee syjupborn* orchestra, said lo be tin1 largest with fair accuracy by the number of motion-picture theatres organization of that kind west of New York City. Tin* located there. The gorgeous pa.hi.ecH of New York, f'hirago, lighting system is ur in that section of the country. Philadelphia and smaller cities are monuments to the progress Through an ingenious arrangement it is possible to light the made by the industry In this ennntry. stage with red. I he main body of l ho house in blue and tlx- h.hby The new Uapilol Then!re in St, Paul. AI inmsoUi. will serve in yellow. Any other combination desired enn he supplant as an illusl ration of the expansion of the film business and One fact alone indicate* to wha t lengths the owners wen I lo the popularity of the i cerealion. Il is one of the largest make the building as beautiful as possible'--some of the picture houses of its kind, and in architectural details will not, marble used in the lobby, the foyer and other parts of the suffer by comparison with any in Ihe country. The. beauty theatre was imported from Italy, a distance of approximately of the theatre and its appointments certainly justifies the 3.30P miles, Every other decorative material used is in title -"the perfect playhouse"--given to it by appreciative keeping mid, us a result, the superb artistry of the theatre audiences. is its main claim to did motion. The restful effect, of soft The amuseoienl house cost. $!/>OflJMMI. Mere ligures. color combi nations, subdued lighting and harmonious arelii- however, cannot give-one any adequate idea of its splendors. ('on1, hand on pvjjr [ft 5 THE 1)11 PONT MAGAZINE RELICS AND RAZORS EVERAL hundred, perhaps t.bou- Lnjirmimiuuu l t u u; t wo pairs of tweezers which were neces S sands, of people helped you shave this morning. The labor of a The modern. Made is protected hy multitude of hands, the brain power a beautiful handle worthy sary complements of the crude razor. Above one of the tweezers is shown a stone used for sharpening the blade, and invc*nlions of many generations are indirectly responsible for your of its steel the prototype of the modern razorhone. elean-shaven face. Moreover, a vari n.n.njirinjiji njirui.nji nxirurrerurji The immense gap between the ety of materials from many (amnines primitive razor of the Egyptians and entered into (he ojHTut.iuii. A Siberian hog, a .Japanese tree, the handy, keen-edge blade of today shims dearly enough the a Michigan mine ami n Southern cotton Held may have been evolution of the instrument. But it. would take mure than the source respectively for your shaving brush bristles, per a few pages lo describe with any completeness the changes fumed M>p. razor blade and handle, that have been made in the handles. Many material haw Tliis will give some idea of cutlery as It- appears to a man been used at different times, but among them the most com of iuiaghmtum. lie can see men tunneling and blasting in mon were wood, bone, horn, ivory, shell, pearl, tortoise, silver the depths of the earth for iron ore and picture workmen and (sennan silver. Some of these are still used today. smelling it. He can imagine the Lehemm-ltke glare of the Rack material mentioned has some fault., but t he cutlers of furnaces where the iron is transformed to steel, hear the former days had to he content with what they had. Wood, forges pounding and walch the erabsmon fashioning and useful for many purposes, has never been accepted as carrying tempering the blades. sufficient tune and quality. This is also true of bone. Horn is Rut I he man who is worrying about the 7./Hi lues little scarce, limbed as to size and hard to work. Ivory is also lime for iniiiginal-ive flights. Therefore lie is likely to become scarce, expensive and difficult to secure in large pieces. Silver unappreciative of the advantages and comforts of living in tarnishes, requiring an immense amount of attention. Peer! lids century. Mark Twain probably had something of this is beautiful, hut so brittle that, the waste in culling out scales in mind when he wrote "A L'oimocticut. Yankee in King or handies is emmrous. The other materials are either Arthur's Court.5' difficult. to work, hard to obtain or too expensive. Were it possible to take a man of loci ay ant set him down Yet cadi material, in spite of its faults, has some things beside the Pyramids in Ihe time of the Ptokmk-s, it would to recommend it. The problem lias been to supply I he cutlery he interesting to waleh his actions and reaction.s. This trade with handles that have the beauty and utility of the interest certainly would he redoubled if we could see him materials formerly used without any of their faults. This 1ms shave. Provided mir transposed wanderer had been befriended been accomplished hy the production of Pyraliu in which can by an opulent Egyptian, he would be given u cimeave imH.nl he reproduced almost; any material in common use among mirror, a sharp (?) knife and a pair of tweezers, Then his cullers, with the possible exception of silver. troubles would begin. Even with the keenest hollow-ground There are a great many dieds and color combinations razor made today he could hardly avoid anting himself, which can he prod nerd in Pyraliu. Among oilier Hungs il is because of the distorted image of his facet reflected hy the made to reproduce grained ivory, tortoise-shell, amber. horn, primitive mirror. The crude knife which pushed as a razor mother of peark ahaJone pearl, coral ami such woods*as in those ihues would be the crudest revelation; Ins skin, ebony, mahogany and oak. Aside from its beauty, Pyraliu pampered by the unappreciated luxuries of the modern has other recommending qualities; it is lough and strong; will toilet fe, would surely suffer. Perhaps he had glanced askance iiol crack or .splinter; does not mst or corrode; is free from at. his Egyptian host when he was presented with the tweezers, grit; eon Ik * out, sewed, turned on a lallie like wood, and m hul. after seeing the plastic form can he hadly renped field of bent or molded in si nhidcJcfloH his face any way desired. by I lie knife, he would Someone has said, understand their use. "It is the supreme The pieces of metii! mark of wisdom to re were used lo pluck out place an excellent the hairs which had thing hy a better been missed by the one/' Cutlery manu v'r;i7-ur." facturers generally The aeeonipanyiug have recognized the ill us! ration show's a superior excellence of shaving set used in Pyraliu for handles, Egypt, during t he and as & result it has X\ III Dynasty. At to a large extent re the extreme left side placed natural mate note the several im rials formerly used, plements wrapped up Manufacturers of as u I ravel ing set. razors, particularly, Beside it is the razor have sought Pyralin or blade. The purpose handles or "scales*' for of lhe piece of wood in their best products. the middle is not cer Large orders have tain, but it is thought been made up at the to Ilave served as a Arlington plant, handle for the knife. which is unusually At the right side of Lire ill us fra I ion are a is rii .'/f m '"v well equipped to pro duce high-grade fiii- 6 Pijraiin van be math' into baudiftd and meftd handle*, md only far razor* but for all kind# of cutlery ished articles. The Du Pont Company is in position to siipplv the trade with a distinctive line of razor scales, some of which are shown in the accompanying ill astralinn. It is, of course, quite impossible to show in black and white the beautifiil color effects produced in these finished articles; one must soo the scales themselves to appreciate their beauty. Considering the wonderful variety of colors mid reproduetions made in Pymlin, I lie ease with which inanufaiiurer.s can assemble razors without waste or breakage when these scales are used, there is little reason to doubt that the popularity of Pyralin in the cutlery trade will increase. No material sofully meets all requirements for hemdifuh.servk^ahkduimlbs. DELIVERING THE GOODS OT a mao works in this mine another 1 our until I N give the word!" The mine inspector delivered the ultimatum to the supennlendenl as fifty or sixty miners came pouring out of the slope behind him. The superintendent remained silent. A quick glance at the inspector fold him that it would he futile to raise objection. The mine was furnishing coal to the railroads throughout that section of West Virginia and must at least get out enough coal to supply the locomotives daily, but he knew the in spector had the upper hand, and the men knew it Just then the general manager hove info sight with a Du Pout sfiledumii in tow. "What's up?" he demanded, seeing the men standing around and the superintendent looking glum. "There's gas in one of your dip headings," answered the inspector. "Tve just ordered the men out, and they don't, go hack until you load safety powder." The manager turned to the sidesman. "IIow lung will it take von to gel some of this powder here?" "Why, I can wire our magazine to deliver Moiiobel to the railroad tomorrow, but that may mean two weeks' delay." The manager whirled on his heel, looking like a man who could swear if he would, as he started off down the tracks. The Du Pont salesman trudged behind, thinking hard. "Look hen;;," he called ahead presently. "Suppose I deliver five hundred pounds of permissible;* to the mine tomorrow morning. Will that title you over?" "Vos, probably," replied the manager, "for by I he time that's shot the railroad might get a shipment to ns if they knew their own coal depended on il. Can you do it ?" "Can't say for sure." answered the salesman, "hnl Til try." He took the next train to Ins headquarters, a town two hundred miles over the mountains, where was located another large coal mining operation. Arriving nt G.ttf) I1. M.,hc quickly got in touch with the coal company anil secured live hundred pounds of Mcmohel No. 3. Then he got out. his automobile, loaded the dynamite hi the back seat and started off. The road was fairly good at that end of the route, and mile after mile reeled off until Morgantown was reached. There he stopped for supper, gns and oil. It. was then IP o clock and the mine was still one hundred mid thirty miles away. Hour after hour he drove over the rough mountain roads. Just as daylight (mine, he pulled into Oakland and struck a piece of macadam road forty-five miles from his destination. After giving the car the "once over" to see that it was on four good lira, he let the engine out on the last lap and in less than an hour drew up in front of the mine office. The ten cases of Monuhcl were quickly unloaded. The sales man conducted a demonstration which completely satisfied the inspector, and the men went hack to work. The miners had lost only twelve hours' lime. "Believe me," declared the general manager as he gripped the salesman's hand. "Til say Du Pont for service." THE DUPONT MAGAZINE LITTLE THINGS COUNT ABKIKOIJ), ever pioneering into Fnew hVlda. overcoming diflirullies ami establishing ilsdf firmly, has mvntlv made its entry into she paper' making hu.Miiess, As is usual, Ur * udvenl <*!' this material in a new sphere of usefulness means progress. In this instance il lias removed one more nightmare from the minds of I lie men who satisfy the appetites of the voracious printing; presses for `'paper, paper, inure paper,"' Fahrikoid has many uses, hut h o ik * h o fully demon strates }|s .suitability for a variety of services as its latest application. In Hr papiTmakin.it business. as i:i everything else, "main' a mickle makes a murlde," which is a canny Sroleli way of saying it is the little tilings that- count.. One of these' "filth- things," comparatively speaking, is the "apron" on the? h'oimlr-nier papermaking machine. To t ho leehmeally initiate this apron is known as the connecting link between the How box arid I he bread folk To the uninitiated it. might he described as the bridge of transition between Ihe fibrous pulp and i he first appearances of paper as such. A short description of the proee.v of paper mmmfaehinng should make the use of the* apron more easily understood. In making paper from wood pulp, the worn, is chipped by machinery mlo small pieces and then chemically reduced to a pulp, either by l he use of soda or sulphurous acid. Following this operai.iuii the pulp is washed and screened to remove impurities mid some of the exeess water is drained oJL When the wood is first turned into u pulp if is a dark, rich brown color. After being vs ashed and screened if is a light grayish brown so t hat, it is necessary to bleach the material to secure the dear white? color commonly associated wit h paper. The next, process is known as "beating." In this operation the pulp is washed, thrashed and cut. until the libres are of suitable length and proper degnx1 of fineness. (.'lay and sizing are added to life pulp at ibis point so that t he finished product may have a bettor surface*. To complt-P* the piepara lion of the fibres, which have now been freed from all non-essential matter, a refining engine is used to make a still finer division of the fibres. The pulp is then pumped to the sink' box and from there to the flow box, where I he first operation of the Foiirdrinier machine begins. J'revious to the final refining of the fibre, the pulp has been washed ami treated until the chemicals used in ilie various processes have 1 wen removed. But the pulp is still diluted with a quantity of water which inn.st be removed. To remove tfii.s excess water uml at t he same time to "i'eii" or weave Ihe paper, the pulp flows from 1 he vat, or flow box. over a ]K;rfeet.ly smooth "'apron" mi lo an endless bronze wire screen, the mesh of which is from sixty U> ninety threads to ihe inch. The water falls through the holes in ihe screen o i l s drawn off by suction boxes underneath ihe sure on which the pulp is being carried forward. The forward motion throws the fibres in one dimTum. To offset this and to secure lue interlacing of llie fibres that gives strength to the paper, tiie breast roll also shakes laterally as the bronze s<-risen moves forward. The width of the paper is determined by two endless borders, or deckle rubber simps, which control the edge of Ihe flow of pulp at tie sides. The drawing oil of the water and t lie felting of I hr fibres transform tbe pulp into paper. Tin* "dandy roll," a light cylinder covered with wire, presses tlie moist paper as il passes underneath and gives il wluilever design is on its surface, pulling the watermark and the "weave" in the paper. Where the endless bronze screen begins its return journey lo the flow box are the couch rolls. These press mil. more water and still further consolidate the woven or felted filin'. The paper is then carried to the press rolls, consisting of a series ot highly polidled brass and rubber cylinders. The paper, carried along on mi endless woolen blanket, passes he! ween ! hose rolls and is smoothed off by the pressure. From T H E I) U J' O N T M A G A ZI N E tills press the weh of jjypcr Ls carried to the drier*?, a series The double impregnation of the Fabrikoid apron renders il. of stem n-heated east-iron cylinder*. Following the drying, wiiterproof, Kvoi whet the protective coating is worn <if, the paper is passed through a. perpendicular row of chilled the water can have no `fleet on the fibres, which are them iron cylinders, or calenders, which, hy Iheir awn weight, selves impregnated with pyroxylin. Papernntkcrs know llml produce the final links! i. when Idle nuiehines arc shut down il is necessary to project W hat has been wriUeu is a very brief descrip lioi; of the intri ordinary aprons from drying so as to prevent shrinkage. This cate and Inchmeal is generally done business of making hy keeping wet paper. Hut the won! ''apron," uiu* blankets on the cloth until the ma of the big-little chine is started things in the proc again. Even with ess, appeared in this protection the the description, aprons shrink and ami if was to ex buckle. plain its uses that At the Augustine the out ire opera Mills, while the tion was briefly Fabrikoid apron summarized. was being tested, In a foregoing the xrutehities were paragraph it was shut down. The staled that "the apron was left ex pulp flows from a posed to the action va I over a perfectly of the air without sinool h apron on 1 o protection, but an endless bronze after several days' wire screen." It is time, when the ma es.seid in! tliii l t he chines were again fibrous pulp go from the flow box Ihv ftnufhfd jirudmi as (f rulLs uuf tif !h< idlh r i mi at (In wa-htm started, the mate rial was found to to the breast roll as be as good as new. smut .tidy as possi- I'he Fabrikoid did " he paper not shrink or buckle when il dried. Fraying Ls almost impos m ail even sheet. Tue slightest unevennes* in Lite way the sible with liar Fahnkoid apron. The lihres are so closely fibre is spread over ihe apron on to the sereen will show in an interwoven and the pyroxylin .solution becomes sue}; an uneven product. II if is Irue lluil a chain is rui stronger than integral part ul the labrie that il eun stand a maximum its weakest, link il is also true that a Foimlrinier machine is amount of wear soul abrasion. Outwardly there is very little no more cllicienl. than its apron. difference between Severn 1 \ards of coaled cloth and several Formerly paper manufacturer* used a coated doth, usually yards ui Fabrikoid when used ns the apron of a pupeflunking Ikiserd-coaled drill. The fibre in llie doth was kept eoii- machine. Hut llie nmniifnchircr knows that in his business sboilly wet when the machine was running, pur! ieularly as in every other "many a mickle makes nmekle," nnd after Ihe protective coating had begun to wear off. Ibif Fabrikoid is one of the little things l.hnl count. when the machine was stopped the waler-imprepiuled fibres of tlie doth w< re exposed to the net ion of the air, ami shrank. As a r<*snlb a `"buckle" or hump appeared in the apron. When the machine was started again, if I his defect h,id not been SHOOTING IN INDLSTin' remedied, the pulp could not How evenly over this ''buckle" Hie vital part which the training of marksmen plays in 1 lie or hump and the finished paper had a thin streak where t he defense of the nation and the thousands of hoars of real hump caused an uneven flow. recreation that Du Ford spurting powder* give to miHions of The under side of t he apron is laid on the constantly revolv shooters each year have l ven generally known for a long time. ing. endless, bronze wire .screen. The ennsetinenl friction Hut the use of I hose powders for wlmf. might be termed wears away whatever coating has hern placed on the cloth, industrial purposes, hi the manner indicated by Ihe clipping leaving the (Hires at the uicrey of the constant immersion. below, shows them in a nil her new light. Some!lines the abrasion of the wire makes the doth so thin From the Detroit Free Press comes I lie following: l.ltul il collapses, or in making repairs to if ihe workman "Marvel lus. Aikdi.--Local sportsmen came in tin' village's inadvertently puls JiLs finger through the thinned material. relief after the smokeskitk on the local electric lighting plant Abrasion in also responsible for frayed edges, another source had buckled, fallen over and cut >IV the draff, in the boilers, of annoyance and trouble to paper uiauul'aet ttrers. hut ring the eominuiiil.y in darkness. Whether buckled, frayed or broken, the apron has to be "There was no ladder in Hie village long enough In enable replaced. This means shutting down the machine, the loss workmen to make the repairs, hut marksmen, armed with of valuable lime. Ihe waste of much material and the cost, of every known kind of 'shooting iron,' Bred volley after volley another apron. Fahrikoid, doubly impregnated with pyroxy into the slack until bullets severed the pipe and removed the lin. is now being used as an apron on papemiakiiig machines. cause of the trouble. It ha* a nineli longer life than ordinary aprons; the materia! "From the middle of the forenoon until afternoon, Ihe stack stands greater wear from the rasping, file-like bronze wire, was bombarded and the sound of the firing was heard for and buckling, if not elirnmaled, is reduced to a niimiiimn. .several miles. The apron has beeii tested extensively in the Augustine Milts, "Officials at. the light ng plant estimated it would have of the Jessup and Moore Paper Company, Wilmington. taken a week to make Ihe repairs hid for the happy thought Delaware. According to these manufacturers, the Fabrikoid of u member of the rifle dub." apron lias proved thoroughly satisfactory, more convenient Du Font dynamite might ha re done the work more quickly, and much mure economical limn those previously used. but in ihe emergency sporting powder served well enough. 9 THE lit TO NT MAGAZINE PROTECTING THE BEAUTIFUL HERE is one phii.se of manufac- the attractive appearance of the metal, Tl.mhig, important enough lo he classed as a separate industry, which deserves more attention than it making the article less salable for the dealer and less useful to the purchaser. It is not enough to apply any sort of i.s receiving, El is the business of lacquer to silverware. Every manu prol reting manufactured articles from facturer knows that the material used uifluence.s u Iii-f lj t *n*l lu dest roy them. cm precious metals must have qualities While une manufacturer is making an the ordinary lacquer is not required to urlicle, another is busy preparing the materials which will possess. Two of the principal essentials are transparency prolong its life, preserve its beauty or protect its strength and a water-while color. These? are necessary because the and utility. artistic products of the jeweler would be? mined by the A list of materials wlio.se main or secondary purpose is piio^euee of any foreign color. Some lacquers, even among protection would .show a wale diversity. PaiuL rubber, (hose sold specifically for use on silver, give a slight yellowish creosote, ushrstus, oil, glass, lacquer. 'dopes'' :tnd inamifae- tinge to the inch'd. When lacquer is not transparent, ii gives luriug processes sucli as galvanizing, insnh.tmg or nickel the ohieH on wldeh d is applied a clouded appearance. Some plating are some of them. Among the enemies these Uniterm Is limes Ihe materials arc transparent, and water-while when or processes fight, are rind, corrosion, friction, putrefaction, first applied, but degenerale later. These defects are partic waste, oxidation, flirt, ularly serious when and plain old age. the lacquer' is 'to" be One is apt to admire applied to the finer a complicated piece of grades of silver, for machinery wiiltou i poor lacquer lessens giving much attention the value of the silver i.o the liny oil cups article.'' that protect the ma The Du Pout Com chine from tearing or pany has been manu burning itself to* facturing lacquers for I >ieoe-H, WJ lei i u I >rn Ige many years and about has .stood the wear a year ago developed a n d t car of imi n y a special lacquer for years' service, I tic silver, called Du Pont credit, is usually given Silverware Lacquer, to tue strength of the which has many un si eel and not to the usual and desirable painf which protected qualities for protect the metal from rust. ing gold and silver. T h e h e a 111. y o f a There has not been a piece! nf silverware is single complaintmade afliui re i 1 >y ailJ m l lew during the time it has think of the invisible been on the market film of lacquer which and manufacturers Iireserves intact: the original beauty of the These arfiolea are profeeletl with Du Pont SHerrim re fMeiqner who tested the prod uct always returned metal. If the relative favorable reports. importance of the protective materials Is judged by the The success of l his lacquer is due mainly to the use of special number and value of the articles on which they are used, processes and specially prewired raw materials in ils manu lacquer would hold a high plate on the list. It, is used on all facture, Its transpsueiiey and water-white color meel all the kinds of metals and woods as well as on glass and even on requirements uf nnmufaelurcrs of the fines! silverware, while cellulose products. Above all, it is the only material used for its uniformity makes it practically indispensable to those who the protection of gold and silver. produce in quantity. The value of these precious metals renders their protection The qualities of Silverware Lacquer have not been devel a matter of importance. Both are intended primarily to be oped, nor are they maintained without painstaking efforts. beautiful ami it should be the first thought of the manufac In ils production the greatest care is exercised throughout turer to preserve that beauty. Tarnish nr oxidation is the t.lm on lire. operation. Absolute control over raw materials great, enemy of beautiful silver. Everyone is familiar with and mechanical processes, formulas which have been proved the unsightly stains that either mar I he metal or make fre by exacting tests, extensive laboratory work, arc.some of quent dcafling necessary. Lacquer proven Is tarnish by the means employed to preserve the siq>erjor quality of this presenting an impenetrable, transparent film to moisture and product. In most, eases the raw nutlerial which enters into air. Blrange as ii may seem, iiinmifaeturers of solid silver the manufacture of the Silverware Eacquer has been made by ware often refuse to use lacquer on their products. Why this the Company especially for this lacquer. slum id he so, when lacquer not only protects the metal but Before a hatch of this product, is shipped it is exhaustively also preserves its beauty, seems rather odd. tested to see that. it. conforms to specifications and will meet Lacquer is used on a variety of articles made of precious the special requirements of the manufacturer who ordered :L metals, among them lighting fixtures, casket hardware, I u this work the trained services of a corps of technical experts tableware, cigar and cigarette cases, silver novelties, jewelry, employ**! by the Company sire of invaluable assistance to buckles and safety razors. Unless lhe?*: art icles*nre lacquered the manufacturer. they soon tarnish and must be frequently cleaned before being Much attention lias been paid to securing a water-white sold nnd after I hey are in use. This means a loss of some of Continued on page J4 10 THE DU PONT MAGAZINE SOMETHING NEW IN SPORTSWEAR V ERYexpericticcd outdoursimiji, at the siune time soft, flexible, strong E he ho hunter, fisherman or wlml-iux, knows Unit proper Garments that give the rrouter apparel is the first esscmml lo real real service are now made ami al l rmi.i vi\ and that would retain all of these? qualities throughout long use. They put this problem up to the pleasure and success afield. He knows, loo, that ruin, snow, brush wild brier ofan improved materia! Du IW laboratories more than a year ago, mid a few months ago they haw always Marched ouI, ;jud found weaknesses in the very host garments nnnnrxsuuinjijxriin^jinjxri: accepted as perfect a process, applied in Du Tout, plants to their own fabrics, he could procure. And so lie accepts a cvrlain atmmtil of which promises the exacting sportsman field apparel Unit is discomfort a.1* hiuviluhle, whenever in forest or on stream he all he has hoped for. The first suits made of this perflated meets Nature in a surly mood. maJenaf are already being marketed ami are meeting with Take, tor instance, the standard hunting suit made of great hivo:- under the I rude name of Kisner-Du Font Sports waterproofed canvas. Though no oilier type of garment lias wear. The word Du Font appears in this name m an acknowl ever heui -o popular ami generally satisfactory fur woods edgment a.' the assistance remltTud by the I>11 Font Company wear, this suit is far fruui ideal; I,Ll ; service it. must, render is lo the Sigmimd-Eisner Company, whose ownership and control loo varied ami 11u: tesls ii. must withstand art1 loti severe, of the finished product is absulu,.e. Wry often the designing amt tailoring of I he suit, are such ns The fabric which tin- Sigmund-Eisner Company supplies for to limit its usefulness. Xo one knows this heller than the processing is a very fine, high count khaki canvas the best veteran hunter. mid most enduring material made for nigged use. The Your genuine, rain or shine hunter b iiuthmg if wot Heli process by w hich the waLerpioo'sng in accomplished actually con Lamed. Once Ik - sets 1'uui. on llm {.rail he is prepared for strengthens the fabric materially without in any wav affecting anything--..mid meets U with a smile. His hunting suit, laden its softiic.ss and flexibility. Very little weight is added to with many iudispen.sables, must. Ik - mure ilum his Imiiir and the fabric mid no chemicals are left in the fibres that, will shelter while he is out; it is Ids htiirehoiisc, couiniisriurv. ailer in character or dissolve as bine passes. The material in arsenal si ml workshop, as well _______ ______________________ this respect, w radically superior as the receptacle for whatever trophies lie is able to secure, Lo anything now in use for the same purpose. it must posses warmth with light weight, strength williim stiffness, capacity with conceit icnce. It must, keep all tin essentials in and all the ek> 'The Sigmund-Eisner' Com pany has given much thought to the designing of the various garments in the new line. i; ie ideas? of veteran outdoorsmen meals out. Ii mush in mhli* Lion, stand the grinding wetu and tear of hard service imdei streimoms < *oim111ious. To give the hunter and hi? "fellowamlers** clothing suffi ciently nigged ami weatherresisting has been the effort d various American nianufac* Inrers. Although fair progress in that direction has been made during recent yews, further have been followed entirely and with the happiest results. The Eisner-Du Font "gamester" coat is certainly the most prac tical and efficient garment of its type yet, made. .Every possibility of this coat has been developed to afford the maxi mum of service and comfort to the hunter. Roomy pockets and more' of them? a perfect distribution of the weight of success depended upon the the garment and its contents, development of a more positive and permanent process ui' and a new standard of tailoring are outstanding features of this waltTpmufingt ban t hose in use. coat and of the entire Bisner- This problem had proved very difficult indeed. Hlginimd-lhsncr Company of 1>U Pont line. Every garment is made to exact measurements, and. care New York City and lied Bank, New Jersey, was c-outrun led fully finished by experienced tailors. W1 tef her it is a coat, with this problem. Having fin trousers, hat or vest it must ished its war work as the larg est producer of uniforms for the look well, fit well, stand up perfectly and be worthy of the United 8t.a tes and nllied annuls, Eisner-Du Pont label. this company determined to Eisncr-Du Pont Sportswear devote a part of its immense will be sold through the regular facilities and wide experience sporting goods dealers in every to the production of garments community and the Sigmund- for sportswear, and to make Eisner Company will be very these garments more mIe<j uale glad to have'"any""inquiries ' ' for the use of sportsmen than from dealers regarding this any other clothing available to them, ' Above everything else, they sought an absolutely ( f/r.u-.H s' /or iutif i ih>ti r.didij.jf.s line. They will also be glad to put individual sportsmen in touch with dealers who can waterproof material that was supply them. II TIRE DUPONT MAGAZINE THE DU PONT MAGAZINE Published mtmihhj and voppriyUted hj E. I- !>U PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY, Inc. Subscription, SO cents the year EL Ft. MANCHesTim...............................................................Muti*witty Editor Ma it JJk k n x n u .......................................... -........................ A sscrinte Editor Publishers maj' reprint, with credit, all articles nnd illustrations except those carrying special copyright. lOieetroiypt* will, when poHHililc, be fumiehptl on rmiucat. Yd* XIY APRIL, 1021 No. 4 DIRECT! HIS IFICKLECTED Stockholders r>r E. L dii Rout de Nemours N Company. Inc.. r<-Heeted all I ho members of lho hoard of directors al the amtunl meeting held in March, Tim directors me: E. 1>. Frown. II, F, Brown. IF IF Al. Carpenter, A'. S. ('arpeuler, dr.. F. L, (Tunable, William Covne. A. Felix dii Font, Alexis I. (In Pont, Eugene du Ron I, Eugene E. (hi Ron!, ML F,, tin Runt. Ireuee dn Ronl, l-ammol du Pont, Pierre S. <!u Font, .1. B. 1). Edge, H. G. Haskell, ,1. A. Haskell. -I. T. Lnffey, A. Meade. C. A. Pal lersum (\ L. PnH.er.xo.'j. F. AY. Rickard. II. M. Pirn-e. M. IF Puncher. J. J. Rnskob, 13r. C. E. Reese, \V. <*. Spruauee, and IL G. Tall man. COMPANY GRANGES F. Leslie Rayford, Economic SLitisfiemn of the Dn Pont ( onipuny, has accepted a position in the Xeu York Other of General Motors, Jne. ('hiretire I. B. Henning has been transferred from the Experimental Hud ion of i hr Chemical Department to (hr Al Hilary Bairn Depart men I, as Assistant Director of Sales. L Bayard Kliasou bus hern appointed comptroller of ihe Di: Ponl ('oinpanv to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of James B. Broad. Air. Kliasim has hern assistant comp troller of the Company since Decemher. PI H. \S iIlium P. Allen, Director of the Service Department.. has been transferred In I lie Treasurer"* .Di-part.iuent as Assist-iint. Treasurer. He will represent the treasurer in all matters prt'Uih.iui*' to cost accounting. William B. Foster, Assistant Chief Engineer, has been transferred to the Service Department, as Director. tV. AL Moore* Manager of 1 fin Planning Section of the Service Departmenl, has h<:*en transferred tu the Accountmg D< par- moul as Assidnid. ('oniptrolh-r. AN hYDGSTRIAL FILM An interesting motion picture uf Hie large dye plant, of the Du Font Company a I Deefnwder Point, Ncu Jersey, was recently I a Lei i and is now being shown at colleges, technical schools and Indore business bodies, A iews of the extensive laboratory area are shown, together with interesting details of the operations hi the semi-plant and exterior and interior pictures of I lie large units in 1 he manufacturing area. The him shows the importance of the dyestuffs indusl ry in America's coimnrreial life, and also tin what a large scale cm* dyestuffs manufacturers have founded their business. JAM HR IF BROAD James B. Broad, comptroller of the Du Pont Company, died March 12. at a Wilmington hospital after an illness of more Hum a month. 11 is death resulted from an abscess which had developed in one of his lungs. Mr. Broad was horn in Youngstown, Ohio, and begun his business career as a stenographer in I he employ of Hie Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad at Rimxsutu'.viiey. Ra. Later he became chief clerk tu I lie yardmasler of the mad. Since 1902 lie had been associated with the powder industry, Air. Broad was employed iu the accounting department of the Ih.-pmuiu Chemical Conmany in I DIM when the Du Pont Company acquired it. by purchase, lie became identified svilli tlie Du Pont ('oinpanv at that time. Ills thorough knowledge of business and accounting practice filled him to render an important service in mapping out. the accounting system under which the Company has been sucees>fidly opemling for years.and Ids rise in ofhehd position was rapid. When the Arlington Company was purchased in iObj lie was made its treasurer, with headquarters in New York City, but was recalled to Wilmington when Hie parent company neodod f he assistance of its allies! men during the trying days of its wartime activities, Mr. Broad was assigned to special work as a member of the comptroller's stuff. in April. 15) 18, ha was made assistant comptroller of Die Du Font Engineering Company, and three months Inter, its comptroller. In November, If) 18, he was made comptroller of the parent, company, a position he tilled with cr*dil until the time of his death. In the passing of Air. Broad, the Du Rout Company has lost the services of a capable executive who was highly esteemed not only for IfIs loyally, ability and energy, hut also for |K*rsoual traits of character that endeared him to his associates. His was a personality that won friends in all walks of life. He was an active member of many business, fraternal, social and religious organizations and I lie recipient of many distinguished honors. His death is sincerely regretted by all who knew him. N KAY PERMITS r 1ILK EX FLOSIYER The Federal Government. centralizes its texts of explosives a I, the experiment, slid ian of the Bureau of Mines iu Pitts burgh,, Pj l ., and recommends under certain limitations of use whal. arc termed ''permissible explosives" for use in gaseous, dusty n >al mining operat ions. About, nine per cent, of all industrial explosives comes within this chk-sific*it ion. Five years before the Bureau of Mines was created, the T>u Roof ('ompmiy developed a safety powder that was in its day in advance of anything produced; and when the ex|x;rimeiihd station was opened at Fit Ulmrgh and manufac turers were invited fo sithniil samples for the Federal author ities to pass on them. Du Pont powders were I lie first to v.-Jahlish their rating as permissible}-. For more than a decade Du Pout, permissihles have been aerupted as standard products, although improvements made in the Monobels and ('mlionites have followed, as u result, of careful i'esearch work and constant experiments. The devel opment, of I hmhel marked am>lJher forward .step in manu facture, During 1920 the Company perferled two of its lowfreezing permissible explosives. Carhnmfe No. 0 ami DuuheL now known respectively is ('arbonile No. 7 and Dnohel No. 2. Samples of these were recently tested by the Bureau of Alines and admit Led to eIi..s.si!icai.ioii as jxwimssibles. Carbouile No, 7 'vHI be ])laced on the market, immediately, but, it is not. planned to seek a market, for Duohef No. 2 until next fall. AVil.h fourteen brands now listed as pennksUiles, Hie Dn Font Company is in position to meet the requirements of explosives users in any part of the world, regardless of climatic or ofbei conditions affecting the use of tlie;.:e pruducU;, VI j T H E D U P ON T M A G A ZIN E TORTOISE-SHELL AND SHELL PYRALIN SK the average man whore ior- QJUVLO*liTJ"LriJTXLnj**01J''li*OTJTJ`LiXrLjlJ1JTJ"Lf*LrY twenty pounds. When a hawksblll is comes from and the caught and killed the plates are first chanci-s ure hell turn u cold, 5 Ottf' vtimvs from thosvtL. the oilier healed, llieu detached with a knife. appraising cyi! on yon before replying: from the cotton field, vet both Curved ami irregular in form, the L''Why. from a iortoi.se, of course," You'll note llie emphasis on the last are blent tea! in appi'arance plates are l!al tened under heat and the superficial inequalities are rasped, off, two words, and ymill fed that in hi> A remarkable property at tnrhhsc-shefl estimation you belong the grammar grades. somewhere in It floes seem obvious1/tihnajTt Jtionrjtmoirs^ejTJinbjLyrpiires.su ie in is that it can be welded and moulded scalding hoi. writer. 11 cat Motions and liquifies shell must come from the animal we call a tortoise, doesn't, the horny substance and gh es it a svmi-plasi ie efmrm-ler; but it.? 'Flic iiitoreiice Ls natural, direct, plain, hut unfortunately even imrlfT the most fuvurable conditions it, floes not respond it is not a v o it c c I one. so readily to heat, nor can ii be worked as well as pyroxylin For the haloise-shell of commerce--the exquisitely beauti phis! ir materials which in reeenf years have so largely replaced ful material "hat manufacturers use to fashion combs, paper it for manufacturing purposes. cutters, picture frames, siiufif-huxe.s. eigaroUe ea.>es rind oilier The luiwksbill family u\\e.s a debt of gratit mle to the makers novelties.... does no, come from the tortoise af all. Whatever of I'ymliu ami similar producls, foV science has (lour away may have been tin* original ekissifioalion of the reptile family, with the necessity of combing i he seas to lure and destroy the distinctions nov. marked between specie?- show the tortoise these turtles- In the degree tl ut Tyrahn ha* gained wider us a land animal and ifie turtle us an aquabe animal at least apprecialioii of its qualities ns a material exnrlly reproducing most of the time. Aesop's fable about the race between the color and beauty of real shell, 1 lie deslmotion of these I he tortoise and the animals has abated. So ban* certainly suggests perfect, is llie reproduc a sport ing event on tion of real shell that lurid mid imlieules the few people are able to aeeopUi nee of such a distinguish between the classification in very natural product and the early times. transformed product of So the claim that tor the cotton fields. To toise-shell comes from examine a piece of Shell the 1 aeks of tortoises is Pyra lin is towonderhow erroneously made, Asa anyone could reproduce mu tier of fact, theprod- the rich mottled colors i id e imes from a spades of genuine tortoise of sea turtle culled tin' shell so faithfully. hawkshi] I, which is, The manufacture of incidentally, the small Shell Pyralin is no small est of the marine tur achievement because tles, They range in size of the difficulty of from one foot to four duplicating exactly the h im! u half feel, long and warm translucent yel rarely attain a weight low, dashed and spotted of more Ilian one hun with rich brown tints, dred and fifty pounds. the color character A good-sized hawksbil! istics of genuine shell. will yield up to eight But it has been accom pounds of shell. The principal source The beauty of Shelf Pyratin in enhanced by appropriate decorations plished by manipulat ing Pyralin sheeting of supply is in the vicin stock in two colors.... ity of the West and dear amber and clear East iinlies and some of the oilier tropic sous. Because the dark. The material is first, heated and rolled together, forming product commands a price ranging from 1^,00 to $*2,>.00 a n single sluxd: in which the two colors arc intermixed. The pound) depending upon the grade of shell ;uuf the condition sheet, is then cut into long shreds, which are skillfully arranged of the market, fishing for these turtles has become n estab in n "ehii.se" and pressed into a solid cake. Subsequently, lished industry. the cake is cut into sheets of van nig thicknesses and after The hat'k of the hawkshifl consists of horny plates which seasoning, straightening and finishing is ready for the manu overlap one another like roofing tiles. There arc thirteen fill! facturer's use. plates on the middle of the back, known as the carapace, Of course, Pyralin shell .stock is not n new product. For which is hordcml by twenty-four marginal plates. These are several years past the Du Foal. Company has supplied the yellowish above and mot tied with yellowish white and trade with a material that has closely approximated the chestnut brown below. Their distinctive coloring gives rise appearance of real shell. Some years ago the Company itself to the three ehissifications nr grades known to the trade as used this stuck In the production of a limited number of blond, demi-bfond and dark. Of the three, blond shell is by essential toilet arl teles. More recently manufacturing far the most valuable. For example, a manicure knife handle processes were improved and Shell Pyralin, exactly reproduc made of blond shell is displayed iu the British Museum and ing the most beautiful color dfecis of shell, was achieved. is valued at more than one hundred and fifty dollars. A The marked improvement in the quality of this product single halpin with u round knob of plain yellow shell on a encouraged the Company to pxoduee a high-grade fine of silver gilt pin is w<rth a pound Sterling, while a good comb toiletware. As an experiment to test the salability of this made of this material commands a price raaging from five to Continued on jKige U> 13 THE DU PONT MAGAZINE IT'S TRAPSHOOTING TIME |T tli is time of the year boys start concentration drives away hrain-fag /jk out with their a.irriHe.s;md redTM j L m. blooded men o) ioy the impulse Spring calls yon to outdoor sports, mid hram-iag and gives real relaxation. Your skilled trapshooter is a man with to spend sui afternoon each week a.!- the U7iv not try trapshooting nerves of steel, quick and unerring traps; Unit is. if there is a gun rlub in the vicinity. Both young and old this year ? judgment, superb poise and unfaltering action, qualifies latent in every man respond to spring's inviting null to the UlJTJUiTJTJTUVTUT^^ and woman, and needing hut the virile pleasures of outdoor sports. Trap touch of this sporl for l heir develop shooting... tlie sport, alluring.... is doubly so to those who ment. Someone had described trapshooting as "a bumper delight to prove their skill in friendly cum poll Lion with their from the fountain of youth." It is a rejuvenation to those fellows. Devotees of the sport know its thrills and delights. who have been "slowing up1' or "going back;" a reversion hi Those who have never tried to break the living clay targets dements and interests that have inspired youth since the may we!] follow the suggestion to start lids .spring. world began. Requiring no special physical development or Trapshooting has been described as u blending of mental training, it molds along lines of vigor and endurance. and physir-al satesfuelions....the rapture of accomplishment Trapshooting is recognised as o ik ; of the leading sports in with the zest of exercise. It is an impulse to the open; an this country. In addition to clubs organized specifically for urge to the great out trapshooting, assoehi- doors: a beckoning forthof prisoned iiuibs and loitered minds to IpSSgJ||C|i'nn|n7^^M liens of almost every other kind have taken it up. These include sunshine. golf and country Enticing, faseimd- clubs; boat and yacht ing, tempting, it lures clubs; athletic, social with varied charms and industrial clubs. and satisfies with un Many hunting and numbered benefits. It fishing clubs let trap simulates the tang of woods and the*, whir of shooting supply the necessary thrills when wings to the hunter; the fish won'tbite, the brings relaxation to ducks aren't "coming tin?business man; lin- in," or the dogs can't gling vigor to the locate the birds. ' ' ' frail; sociability to There is a great the stranger. It is an American-horn, deal of pleasure to be derived from the small Aiiiefieuri-hnal sport, outlay 'which is neces satisfying an inherent sary for trapshooting American passion in equipment. All that is an entirely adequate1 needed is a cluhhonse. way. a trap and good Trapshooting has fellows. that touch of nature which makes all red l rei w {} //.(' mpinrt . >J mv-m/. pi e./< n<< i>f inf/i 'hr oj rt'r; The Du Font Com pany lias spared no blood kin. If knows expense to give ihe no caste, recognizes no social distinctions, is hedged about tmpshooler all the information necessary to make his sport with no embarrassing ritual, and neither age nor sex is a more widelv appreciated. One of Ihe latest ami most eom- handicap to its enjoyment. It is I lie call to a new binding plei e booklets prepared for distribution is "The Trapshooting which all enjoy on equal terms, without chance of fatigue, Club Handbook.'' It contains forty-eight pages devoted to a disappointment or tender-hearted regret over the slaying of discussion of the most essential phases of trapshooting. bird or beast. Those who comtemplate organizing clubs this spring and Every field is a hunting ground and every day "in season1* desire complete imiWm&lion about, the sport may procure for trapshooting. Nor is I here anything selfish in its enjoy copies of this handbook ami other literalure by addressing a ment. The nearest trap to your home may stand beside Idler to the Military Sales Division of the K. I, du Pent. mine magnificent clubhouse, or by the humble shack ol a <le Nemours and Company, Ine., at Wilmington, Delaware. few village kds, hut either place you will he welcome. The sportsmen and the sport itself invite you, for trapshooting PROTECTING THE BEAUTIFUL is the "open sesame" to good -i'el1 owship. Continued from jxitjn 10 The need for trapshooting is as varied as its benefits. That eolor arid transparency with a minimum decrease in solids. it serves a manifold purpose.4 and eaters to a number of neces Both these qualities are to lie found in Silverware Lacquer, sities is evidenced by the physical range and the widely ami for this reason alone it is the most practical lacquer to divergent interests of its devotees. Thai, it is potent and use on the finest wares. It will not affect the most delicate worth while Is demonstrated by their enthusiasm and loyalty. tones of ihe silversmith's art and can be used successfully on Few pastimes are as scientific as trapshooting; none is so burnished, satin finish or French gray silver as well as on good a brain tonic. It constantly develops situations requir gold ware of any description. The finest conception of the ing keen judgment. Every target, brings its own difficulties, jeweler will remain beautiful with no blurring of fine color to he solved in the fraction of a second. 'Hie rapid calculation tones or delicate traceries after it is protected by this material. of lead, elevation, angle and other points, the idee decision In fact, Du Pont Silverware Lacquer not only preserves and instant, action, quicken the eye and hand. The intense the beauty ol a line piece of silver but even enhances if,. 14 You Need This Book Branch Offices : Btrnungham, AJ&. Boston, Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. Chicago, III. Denver, Colo. Duluth, Minn. Huntington* W. Va. Joplin, Mo. Juneau, Alaska Kansas City, Mo. New York, N. Y. Pittsburgh; Pa. Portland, Ore. St. Louis, Mo. San Francisco, Calif. Scranton, Pa. Seattle, Wash. Spokane, Wash. Springfield, III. Du Pont Products Stare Atlantic City, i. J, / "Blasting Accessories" Mail the Coupon Today T contains up-to-the-minute details covering the most ad I vanced blasting practice, which will prove valuable to anyone engaged in the purchase or use of explosives. Du Pont Blasting Accessories are designed by the world's largest makers of explosives to give completely satisfactory results under all conditions. They are the most widely used of any accessories made, simply because they deliver 100 per cent service. Blasting Caps Electric Blasting Caps Delay Electric Blasting Caps Fuse Blasting Machines Electric Igniters, Delay G alvanometers Rheostats Leading Wires Cap Crimpers Tamping Bags Thawing Kettles E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., INC. Sales Dept.: Explosives Division Wilmington, Delaware Fill out and mail the coupon NOW s' E. 1. du Pont de Nemours & Co.* Inc. s. ... ^ y ,s S' Name. (Fill In nearest brunch office --see above) Gentlemen; Please send me your hook "Blasting Accessories,55 without charge or obligation to me. Position_____ Company. City........ . State--.... T H E DU POX T M A G A '/INF, BKAtrriFYING TJ1EATRES Coniimiaf front pwjv h twtnn* .show jtisl what ran hr <hme toward making n. moving pktlure l.hcafre really beautiful. To Toft*, fviiig & Day, of St. Paul AHimesota, [hr ardiitrrls, belong rmirli of the credit, not. only for developing the plans of the theatre but for the entire Hamm Budding as well* Tills building, including llir theatre, cost approximately JjftbalJO.ONO. It 1ms several unusual features, 1 ml the umst unique is tin,* way in whic h the spare below the ground hour hn* been utilized. Ainst buddings have only one basement, or po.sriibly two. unless the building Is linnsiadly large. The Hamm Building has six stories above the ground level and three below. One of these basements is to he used entirely for reerealion mid has been leased to a. recreation company which has installed howling alleys, billiard tables and other amusement devices. A cafe and dance Hoar will he main tained in this basement. The owners plan to install an tee skating rink in lhe second basement. The remaining space will he used for storage, heating and electrical inslallat ions. Great cure was exercised in combining the various decora tive tea lures of the theatre. In color scheme and architectural <hia;ls I here are no diseordnn! notes. Every piece of molding, every bit. of color, every curve and line is an essential part, of the whole decorative balance. To secure this effect it was necessary that all materials used, whether wood, marble, iron, phisfer or paint, be subjected to the closest seniliiiy to mh * that they met. exuding specifications. The question of paint, alone was a.u important one. It. was realized iluil unless paints of the best quality were applied, i lie result would be disappointing. 'The color and uniformity of all paint prod ucts were carefully eonddered as well as their protective value. The decision was finally reached :o use Du Pont paints, not only for the theatre but for [he entire building. The paint, was supplied by Thompson Yards, Inc,, of St, Paul, lumber dealers, who, iri their paint, department, handle Dn Pont, products exclusively. Tluil the choice of materials was excellent can he seen in the pleasing harmony of the color scheme. The selection will be justified still further when time shows ihe lasting merit of these producls. TOIiTOISE-SHEIX AND SHELL PYRALIN (htifiniwd from paye IS improved product, small sets of eleven dresser articles were produced and placed on the market. So promptly and com pletely did discriminating buyers accept them that the Company, in revising and standardising sis 1 1 line, decided to include a complete dresser set ami a complete bag-fitting set of Shell Pyralm in its two most distinctive pal terns. This year there, are forty-one pieces of Shell Pyralin 1 uiletware produced in the popular Du Barry Pattern as well as in the exquisite LaBelle Pattern, with its distinctive trans verse handle. Included in the fuily-oue pieees in each pattern arc the essential twenty-five pieces for the dresser set and sixteen pieces for tie bug-fitting and men's military sets. The popularity of the*e patterns in Ivory jpyruliit assures the ready sale of their counterparts in Shell Pyraliu. Shell Pyralin |x>s.xesses an umixmil beauty, a. richness of color and tone that gives it appealing charm. In many eases it harmonizes belter with boudoir decorations than Ivory Pyralin. Elderly people parfcienlarly express a preference for Shell Pyralin possibly because witli age conics a keener appreciation for the more subdued colors and a feeling that soft blends of umber and brown, like lavender and old lace, are more in keeping villi refined tastes. For quile another reason. Shell Pyralm finds pnrclmsers among travelers. Several manufacturers of line traveling bags and eases have created a demand for fitted sets of She]] PyraliiL They are offering at a single price I heir luggage completely outfitted with Shell Pyraliu toilet articles in all essential pieces. While Shell Pyralin toiletware is distinctive in color anti of unusual beauty, tike genuine shell it is more pleasing lo ihe eye if each arliek* in ihe set is appropriately decorated. No type of embellishment serves to bring out ihe full beauty and charm of Shell Pvrulin quite so well as inlaid designs in gold. Tl ic floral and classic designs illustrated in black and white on page VS suggest hut do not. convey any adequate idea of the Inanity of Shell Pyraliu decorated toiletware. One has lo see the pieces themselves in order Co appreciate them. Tin* opportunity is open--in almost every store where toilet ware of the better sort is kept in stock and displayed. .. ................................. ...... .... ........ ......................... 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