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FILE NAME Kohler KOH DATE 1934 DOC KOH026 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Bulletin - American Ceramic Society 6684 February 10 1994 I hereby cenify that the attached copies of the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society Volume 13 1934 are true and aCcecruarmaitce cPolpaiceesWtehseteorrivgiilnlael Oohfiwoh4i3c0h8is1maintained maintainedin the normal course of business at the American Ceramic Society 735 Christine Schnitz Christine Christine Schnitzer Product Manager Ceramic Information Center 735 Carcmic Place Westerville Ohio 43081-872043081-8720 614-890-17006-14-890-1700614--890-1706- 14-890-1700- ; TWX 71011C9409 THE BULLETIN of the American Ceramic Society ' Monthly Publication Decated to Proceedings of the Society Discussions of Plant Problems Discussions of Technical Scientific and Art Questions and Promotion of Co^perativeResearch Vol 13 1934 Edited by the Secretary of the Society Ross C. PURDY HENRY Holmes Smith Assisted by MARY MARY J. RADCLIFFE EMILY C. VAN SCHOICK Supervised by the officers of the Industrial Divisions L. E. BARRENGER CHARLES Bardez Art W. N. HARRISON B. J. Swzo } Enamel JAMES BAILEY P. C. FLINT } Glass R. M H. DuBors . E. War R. E. Bres ^ MRaterials Equipment Equipment Refradories i Refradories J. L. CARRUTERES D. A. MOULTON H. D. CALLABAN H. E. DAVIS EDWARD SCHRAMM T. A. KLINEFALTER Structural } Products } Terra Cotta White } White Wares Officers of the Society W. Kerra MCAFzz President Universal Sanitary Mfg Co. New Castle Pa J. M. McKINLay Vice President North American Refractories Co. Cleveland Ohio H. B. HENDERSON Treasurer New Brighton Pa Ross C. PURDY General Secretary and Editor Trustees J. HOSTETTER E. P. Posts F. H. Rabad W. C. LENDEMANN C. FLINT V. V. KRLSBY R. B. SOSMAN R. B. KEFLINGEE R. L. Clare D. P. FoZST Committee on Publications Louis Navias Chairman M. F. BasCHER L. J. TROSTEL R. M. King Ross C. PURDY Editorial and Advertising Offices 2525 North High Street Columbus Ohio Publication Office Easton Ps I.V ACTIVITIES OF THE SOCIETY its in called cultural subjects including economics but not at the expense of science subjects 3 We have in- creased the total credits in mathematics physics and - chemistry 4 We believe mathematics should be taught by mathematics specialists whether engineers or not and our students are so taught 5 We believe chemistry should be taught by chemistry specialists and our students are so taught We are unalterably opposed to instructors in such departments as ceramics teaching anything but their own specialty and have successfully fought other departments here that attempt to do it 6 We do not look on Occurrence and Properties of Clays or as we call it Ceramic Materials because we try to broaden the field as a geology subject Geologists even of the Ries type can not teach this course because . I want to make it fundamental to all other courses in this department Properly taught one can lay the foundation for all other ceramic courses We devote only three credits to it and it follows and ties in with the first course in geology One other comment My idea of the function of a col- lege agrees with that of Roberts My one aim is to teach students to think and to be reliant I work at it from the time they enter as freshmen It's a tough job with some probably the majority simply because I contact them so little during their four years here and there are too many instructors who teach on the memory theury who constantly tear down as I build up I have consistently attempted to stay clear of called practical courses and from teaching practice I da very often attempt to show the application of theory to practice Like you I believe the teaching of practical courses lawers college instruction to a school level My experience has shown me however that you must teach a certain amount of applied science in order to make the pure science of value to an engineer May 29 1934 A. F. GREAVES * Professor of Ceramic Engineering North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering of the University of North Carolina Raleigh N. AMERICAN 158 CORPORATIONS RECEIVE THE TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE . CERAMIC SOCIETY FOR THE MINIMUM FEE OF ONLY 25.00 ABB^ ENGINEERING Co. C Spark Plug Co. AKRON PORCELAIN Co. American Encaustic Tiling Co. AMERICAN Gas AssociatioN AMERICAN Lava Corp. AMERICAN Potash & CheMICAL CORF AMERICAN Rolling Mill Co. AMERICAN Srove Co. MORTON Co. Atlantic Terra Cotta Co. BABCOCK & Wilcox Co. BALL BROTHERS Co. Baltimore ENAMEL & Novelty Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. BEACH ENAMELING CO BENJAMIN ELECTRIC LTD BONNOT Co. BUCK CLASS Co. BUFFALO POTTERY Co. Canton Stamping & Enameling Co. CARBORUNDUM Co. LOWNEY GLASS Co. CERAMIC Color & Chemical Mfg Co. CHAMPION Spark Plug Co. Chicago Hardware FoUNDRY CO Clay PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION CLAY PRODUers Co. Inc. OF INDIANA COLUMBIAN Enameling & Stamping Co. COORS PORCELAIN CO CORBART REFRACTORIES Co. Inc. CORNING GLASS WORKS CORTLAND GRINDING Wheels Co. Crane Enamelware Co. C200ESVILLE China Co. CROSSMAN Co. Crown POTTERIES CO DETROIT ELECTRIC FURNace Co. DEVILBISS MANUFACTURING CO JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE Co. B. F. DRAKEnfeld & Co. Edgar Plastic Kaolin Co. EMPIRE STEEL CORP ENGLISH CHINA CLAYS SALES CORP : EUREKA Flint & Spar Co. Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Corp. FERRO ENAMEL CORP FOSTORIA CLASS Co. GENERU ALLOYS Co. GENERAL CERAMICS CO W. S. GEORg^Pottery Co. GILLINDER Brothers InC GLADDING McBean & Co. TIEBOUT CLASS Co GLENWOOD Rance Co. GOLDING SONS Co. Great LaceS STEEL CORP A. P. GREEN FIRE BRICK Co. HAEGER POTTERIES INC Hall China Co. HANOVIA CHemicyll & Mro Co. Hardinge Co. INC HARSHAW CHEMICAL Co. HARTFORD Co. ATLAs Glass Co. Q. CO L. J. Houzz Convex CLASS Co. INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATIONS INC RICHARDSON MPG Co. INTERNATIONAL LEAD REFINING Irish Glass Bottle Co. LTD Isolantite INC Co. JOVA BRICK WORKS Tennessee Clay Co. EDWIN M. KNOWLES KNOWLES CHINA Co KOHLER CO LACLEDE CLAY PRODUCTS Co. LAFF INSULATOR Co. INC Homer LauGHLIN CHINA Co. NOTES AND NEW'S 171 LEB CLAY PRODUCTS Co. LIDBEY Glass Manufacturing Co W. RIDDELL Co. A. J. LINDEMANN & HOVERSON Co. LOCKE INSULATOR CORP LONDON BRick Co. & Forders Ltd. LUDWICH Co. MACBETH CLASS Co. MARYLAND GLASS CORP Marawan Tile Co. MCLAIN FIRe Brick Co. METAL & Thermit Corp. Mississippi Glass Co. MITCHELL CLAY MFG Co. MOORE & Munger Co. MOSAIC TILE Co. MOUNT CLEmens Pottery ^ ~- National Aluminate Corp. National Fireproofing Co. NEW CASTLE REFRACTORIES Co. NEW JERSEY Porcelain Co. Nippon Gaisifi KwaishA NIPPON TOKI Kwaisha Ltd. NORTH AMERican Refractories Co. NORTH STATe Feldspar Co. NORTON Co. Ono Insulator Co. Onondaga POTTERY Co. OWENS ILLINois Glass Co. PACIFIC CLay Products Co. Paper Makers Importing Co. Pass & Seymour ^ nc Pennsylvania Pulverizing Co. PENNSYLVANIa Salt Mfg Co. PACDLER Co. PITTSBURGH Plate Glass Co. PORCELAIN Enamel & Mpg Co. POTTERS SUPPLY Co. Inc. Republic Steel Corp. ROBERTS & Mandex Stove Co. R. & H. CHEMICALS DEPARTMENT NEMOURS & Co Isc RICKMANN & Rappe W. A. RIDDELL Co. RoseVILLE POTTERY Co. TaconY CRUCIBLE Co. RUNDLE MANUFACTURING Co. E. I. D-Pont de SALEM China Co. Sarvango Pottery Co. SOMONDS Worden White Co. SIMPLEX ENGINEERING Co. SMITH & STONE LTD Southern CALIFORNIA Gas Co H. C. SPINKS CLAY Co. . SQUARE D Co. STANDARD PROMETRIC COME Co. STANDARD Sanitary MANUFACTURING STAR PORCELAIN Co. Stark Brick Co. J. C. STEELE & Sons SER ENAMELING Co. SWINDELL.Dressler Corp. Co. Taylor Smith & Taylor Co. TRENTON Potteries Co. W. S. TYLER Co. UNITED CLAY MINES CORP UNIVERSAL CLAY PRODUCTS Co. UNIVERSAL Dental Co. Universal Sanitary Manufacturing Co. VERRERIES SOUCHON NELVESEL VESUVIUS Crucible Co. VITREOUS Enameling Co. Vitro ManUFACTURING Co. VOLLRATH Co. WALTHAM GRINDING Wrem Co. WEBER ELECTRIC CO West Gas Improvement Co. WESTERN ELECTRIC Co. WESTINGHOUse Electric & Mpg Co. Wheeling Steel Corp. Whitall Co. NECROLOGY ARTHUR D. FORST Founder and for forty years president of the Robertson Art Tile Co. Trenton N. J. Arthur D. Forst passed away ca April 2. fr Forst received his early education in Trenton and at the age of eleven went to New York to attend the Columbia Grammar School - He later entered Princeton University and was graduated with the class of 1988. In 1890 he became associated with the Robertson Art Tile Co. and later became its president For some years he was president of the New Jersey State Hospitai Trenton a director of the Y.3.C.A. a member of the board of managers of Meginley Hospital and treasurer of the State Board of Park Commissioners NOTES AND NEWS KIDWARD ORTON JR CERAMIC FOUNDATION INAUGURATES RESEARCH On January 1 1934 the Standard Pyrometric Cone Co. and the Orton Memorial Laboratories were turned over to the Board of Trustees of the Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation but on request of the Probate Court management was not assumed until May 1 The Board of Trustees intends to maintain the high quality product associated with the Orton name for thirty years and to improve the product in keeping with recent theory and practice On May 1 the Trustees appointed G. A. Bole ceramic research professor of Ohio State University as manager and research director with Myril C. Shaw as bis assinant With the available facilities and personnel of Ohio State University the trustees have inaugurated studies with a view to improving the pyrometric cones and maintaining their quality The personnel of the Board of Trustees and the ap pointment of Dr. Bole and Dr. Shaw guarantee thorough search for all possible improvements in the quality of the Orton Standard Pyrometric Cones George W. Rightmire President of Ohio State University is president of the Board Other members are E. A. Hitchcock Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Experiment Station of Ohio State University Arthur S. Watts Chairman of the Department of Ceramic Engineering of Ohio State Uni- Lak NOTES AND NEWS 13 14 Effect of Airing Mud and Press Booties for Clay Products Manufacture by W. C. Rueckel Ohio State University and R. B. Keplinger Metropolitan Paving Back Co.A summary of the laboratory development and findings on airing of clay products and data relative to the improvement in properties of clay products obtained in commercial operation s presented The authors describe the laboratory tests placing particular emphasis on the im- provement in fired properties porosity absorp- tion transverse and modulus of elasticity crushing strength and Report of Committee + on Clay Pipe by G. T. Hammond Chairman glasses quartz glass water glass glassmelting furnaces 20 Enamels technology drink etc. 23 Kessing examination of raw materials and products plaas con troi 22 Plant Equipment machinery transportation transportation plant erection and exploitation machinery 13 Eineston congresses societies exhibitions etc. 24 Puik Economy statistics labor trade duties taxes freight etc. 25 Miscellaneous historical normalization bib- liography etc. A few cards obtained from the editor indicate that they are of a standard size 29.7 x 21 cm The size of the abstract is not standardized and ductuates from a quarter of a page to a page and a half Subscription Res 27 nearly Foreign Rm 27.50 The cards are sent out at regular monthly intervals I. Praxal CURRENT CERAMIC LITERATURE New Abstracts of Silicate Literature Referatkartei der Silikatliteratur According to information from Germany the journal Feuerfest has ceased publication beginning with 1934 Feuerfest has been one of the few periodicals in the world devoted entirely to the subject of refractories To replace this publication the Technical Bureau of L. Litinsky of Leipzig Germany is issuing a new journal Referatkartes der S^...ikadiseratur These silicate abstracts are devoted to whitewart structural clay products refractories cement and lime and allied glass enamel fields including raw materials tests standardization etc. They will represent a review of the current world periodical literature devoted to sili- cates ... embracing about 100 periodicals containing yearly about 1200 to 1500 articles The number of cards for one year will apparently correspond to this figure The silicate feld will be divided into 25 groups as follows 1 General ceramics and the silicate industry in general silicate systems and silicate melts chemico- physical and chemical works 2 Silica Raz Materials quartz quartzite sand sandstone kieselguhr etc geology chemicophysical and thermal properties etc. 3 Aluminos^"icates clay kaolin diaspore andalunte corundum bauxite cyanite etc geology and winning methods chemicophysical properties thermal behavior etc. 4 Other Suicates feldspar mica pegmatite asbestos etc. 5 Different Raw Materials magnesite dolomite time Buorspar chromite zircon graphite rare earths etc. 6 Preparation crushing elutriation sieving grinding etc. 7 Mass Preparaionsonplastics duxing agents mixing dosage weather- economy ing Eneading etc. 3 Molding pressing moiding models etc. 9 Drying 10 Firing heat firing technique gas producer periodic and continuous firing furnaces etc. 11 Porcelain Earthenware and Pautery utensils insulators sanitary ware fired clayware faience Dutch tile wall zile majolica etc. 12 Stane- ware and Structural Clay Products sewer pipe clinker Boor tile apparatus for the chemical industry common red building brick tile drain pipe paving brick building terra cotta etc. 13 Decoration { glazing engobe color ing and decoration 14 Refractories Proper~"ZES strength chemical thermal and electric resistance porosity gas permeability thermal conductivity struc- ture molding of chamotte silica sillimanite magnesite zirconia chromite and carbon refractories special methods of manufacture 15 Refractories Application requirements behavior and use of different refractories in the metallurgical gas glass chemical and ceramic in- dustries for boilers etc. 16 Special Masser steatite grinding materials insulating materials molding sand for foundries etc. 17 Cement and Lime Portland cement furnace cement fused cement limes mor- tars etc. 18 Gypsum and Artificial Stones Alabaster proper- sandstone rhyalite Sorel cement manufacture ties and uses 19 Glass physicochemical foundations preparation of batches melting molding annealing opti- cal glass hollow and pressed glass plate glass etc special Silicosis Bibliography Issued June 10 Pneumonokoniosis Silicosis Bibliographyand Laws compiled by George C. Davis chief surgeon Mlinois Steel Co. Chicago Ella M. Salmonsen medical refer ence librarian The John Crerar Library and Josep^ L. Earlywine of the Illinois Bar Chicago will be of the press about June 10 according to the announcement cl 1. D. Cloud of the Industrial Medicine Publishing Co. The price will be 0.00 The bibliography covers the literature of the world from the first modera reference in 1556 to January 1 1934 It is intended to serve as an exhaustive and compre hensive summary of all the references in the world's literature on pneumonokoziosis silicosis A section of the book is devoted to laws concerning the Sccupational disease the workmen's compensation and the common law in the United States The state lawy are carefully and plainly abstracted and in every case the abstract is followed by citations to all adjudicated cises Doctors lawyers industrial executives insurancz men industrial boards state commission officials research workers and others connected with an industry in which the inhalation of dust is an occupational risic will So the book valua^ te The 2768 references in the bibliography will be supplemented by further material in 1935. Inquiries should be addressed to Industrial Medicine Publishing Co SH Rush St. Chicago Ill The Potter's Art Issued in De Luxe Edition The Potter's Art by Cipriano Piccolpasso 1524 1579 published by the Victoria and Albert Museum London in an Imperial Quarto 10.00 edition is now available in this .country ERRATA On page 61 of The Bulletin for March 1934 in the Report of the White Wares Division Standards Com mittee the authorship of the treatise Standardization of a Silicate Terminology should have been credited to S. I. Perkal Kharkov U.S.S.R. The chart of Official Personnel for 1934-1935 published in The Bulletin for May page 134 should have listed N. W. Taylor as third member of the Refractories Division Papers and Program Committee D. W. Ross is chairman of the Rules Committee of this division C. J Bair haa resigned as chairman of the Data Committee his vacancy is not yet filled a ew ee re oer 2 oaTr) fi P. H. Bates advised that very little could be done at this time in all probability so far as increase in funds was concerned there being every indication that the Administra tion did not contemplate the increase of such funds Cooperation with Ceramic Schools The Chairman questioned whether the Committee de ired to support cooperation with the schools It ap- peared that the leading ceramic schools had been ap- proached by the Chairman with the result that Profes- sor Parmelee of Illinois advised they had suficient problems for one year Professor Norton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did not reply and the others ap- proached were desirous of cooperation E. H. Fritz appeared to express the opinion of the Committee by stating that the idea of cooperation with the schools was correct but that the proper way of furthering such cooperation would necessitate having representatives of the schools meet with the Committee Investigations Mr. Celler next reported on the investigations under his direction It was stated that the determinations of phase equilibria in the system PbO were practically completed with the establishment of the compounds PbO 2PO and PbO The 4P O melts incongruently The melting points of the com pounds of the end members and of the eutectic compositions were reported also No progress was reported on the investigation of effect of tale in whiteware bodies In selecting the necessary tales Dr. Navias spoke ol slipperiness which varies considerably among different tales and which may be an important factor determining work ability He said also that American tales give more color to the body possibly because of the presence of TiO No detailed report of progress in the investigations under Mr. Klinefelter was necessary because as he stated to the Committee the work of Dr. Shelton on the glass phase in Ohio heavy clays and the work of Mr. Meyer on American kaolins and the nature of colloids in clays had been reported in the technical sessions R. F. Galler Acting Secretary SILICOSIS Bulletin No. R of Associated Industries of New York State Inc. explaining The Dust Hazard Racket in Manufacturing Operations goes into some detail regard ing the history of the subject since 1925 when the Association pioneered in an attempt to pass a law which would have prevented the bringing of the hundreds of mits at common law which now are pending and the loss of the hundreds of thousands of dollars to date about 350,000 including costs in those suits which already have been settled out of court or tried The bill drafted in 1925 passed bath houses of the Legislature but was vetoed by Governor Smith Law Suit Epidemic Normally it might be assumed that the plants affected would include only those in the ceramue industries the foundry industry mining that encounters silica rock stone cutting and polishing sandblasting tunneling quarrying and trade groups of that character The racket however has broadened out considerably and now includes every plant in which any sort of a dust hazard exists all included under the general term pneumoconiosis and the epidemic of common suits reached into plants which ordinarily would be considered immune The dust hazard has really re^stablishedthe old Spanish enstorn of ambulance chasing in the legal profession with the manufacturing industry the chief point of attack rather than the public utilities In justice to the legal profession however it may be said that there are comparatively few lawyers who now are specializing in these This may be due to lack of knowledge of the possi- Excerpt from the annual report of Mark A. Daly Secretary of Associated Industries of New York ptate Inc. Inc. . bilities or an adherence to a code of ethics The assumption is that the business will grow unless until the more prevalent and serious of these diseases are written in under the workmen's compensation law And of all the various ramifications of pneumoconiosis the most serious and costly is silicosis which is caused by breathing into the respiratory tract and lungs the dust of silica Silicosis Compensation Compensation The reason silicosis is not yet written into the workmen's compensation law is the grounded fear that the liberal administration would make silicosis the vehicle for compensating every case of tuberculosis that appeared in a compensation court notwithstanding the fact that the tuberculosis was in no sense due to the fault of industry The medical profession readily admits its inability to diagnose silicosis so as to differentiate it from tuber culosis In the whole United States there are less than a dozen medical authorities on the subject For the past ten years the Association has been seeking a method which would permit writing silicosis into the compensation law and yet avert the danger of obvious abuses The bill evolved thought to have come closer20.a.fair and reasonable solution of the problem than anything yet done It was a grave error not to have pressed that bill to passage The full text of the bill was printed in the April 1934 issue of The Monitor Division of Opinion There probably are good and sufficient reasons for objecting to the passage of this bill this year There still exists a division of opinion regarding legislation on this Official publication of Associated Industries of New York State Inc - & BNA haed wb ate re ay subject among employers representatives and in a matter of such importance representatives of industry can not al ford to be put in the position of siz~tingamong themselves This legislation can not be made retroactive and workmea's compensation can not become an exclusive remedy which would shut out suits at common law until silicosis is under workmen's compensation Those members of the legal profession who are specializing in these suits will not let the grass grow under their feet and before the next legislature meets there may be hundreds perhaps thousands added to the common law suits which already have been brought These suits must be met either tried or settled out of court and when it is considered that the actual cost of preparation of a case for trial runs to three thousand dollars or more the attorneys will probably do a thriving business in settlements out of court Insurance Costs It is in no sense a loose statement to say that if silicosis unqualified is included as an occupational disease in the New York State law it will cost every concern in which this dust hazard exists anywhere from five to ten per cent of the total payroll to properly cover by insurance the liability of the employer In Massachusetts where they have had some experience a supplementary rate of 2.00 per 100 of payroll has recently been added to the manual rate of 2.70 per 100 of payroll 4,70 in all to cover the occupational disease hazard in foundries In the Stone Cutting and Polishing Industry in Massachusetts a rate of 5.00 with a mini mum of 500.00 together with a provision for a per capita charge of 300 in extreme cases has been charged Compared on a common level of bene~ tsstone cutting in Wisconsin bas a rate of 38.04 as against 3.54 in New York State In the event of the inclusion of silicosis in the New York law the liberal administration policy practiced in New York state together with the possibility of benefits running into large amounts will mean the application of rate in New York to those industries having dust bazarda which conceivably might be double the rates in any of these other states The actual application of the law in Wis consin and Massachusetts has brought about a conditive so acute that both states now are trying to find a measure of relief and in Massachusetts particularly Governa Ely has appointed the members of his own cabinet as a commission to study the tremendous cost possibilities in relation to occupational disease . MANY ADVOCATE OLD DOCTRINE OF THE SOCIETY Ceramic Research Men Must Engage in Product Development and Promotion Five practical ways in which any research department should be able to justify itself were recently stated by FosDt ee e Sner ll They are ) reduced cost of prod uct to consumer 2 increased margin of prot to manyfacturer 3 increased appeal to consumer 4 increased field for utilization of product and 5 increased business through introduction of prostable new products Business Outlook Good Pointing out that the business situation and outlook is increasingly javorable Doctor Snell has also given evj dence to show that such an optimistic statement is predicated not on theory but on statistics of business covering the past five years In considering our own economic outlook he concluded we have the advantage is chemists and engineers engaged in analysis investigation and management to know the outlook of executives in industries which range from soap to cement and from fabrics to wines and liquors Great Advance Promised in Next Half Century It has also been stated recently that our present advance involving complex human relations requires new methods generally different from those which have bem taught for the manipulation of materials and machines The greatest advance in the next ^ftyyears will be discoveries in the realm of the mind and its working Th casting at Corning Class Works of the world's larges telescope mirror disk is cited as a good example of corres lated service involving chemistry physics and mechanics^fi and electrical engineering ORTON MEMORIAL PLANT TO PROFITS IN RESEARCH SPEND In pursuance of the plan of the Board of Trustees of the Orton Memorial Foundation a closer hookup between the plant and Ohio State University has been made to bring about a more accurate technical control of the prod uct and to help improve the quality of the cone service The entire profits of the plant are to be spent in research in the interests of ceramics To start the program two fellowships in the Ohio State University Engineering Experiment Station have been established for the purpose of studying improvement in cone body manufacture The fellowship awards are to be announced next month CERAMIC SOCIETY ENGLAND PUB- LISHES BOOK OF HUMOR Vocle Joe's Nonsense by J. W. Mellor Genera Secretary of the Ceramic Society England a collectia of material from letters written to intimates in varica parts of the world during the last thirty years has cently been published by the Council of the Society The book contains 129 drawings and two photograp in its 230 pages Dr. Mellor's opinions on a wide range t subjects are also included The price is 4.25 Inquiries of those in the United States interested in s curing copies of this book should be addressed to Lam man's Green and Co. 114 Fifth Avenue New York N. 213 EDITORIALS tion of ceramic welfare for thirty years has benefited and will continue to benefit all who are engaged in producing ceramic ware ceramic materials and ceramic equipment The Society should be supported by each ceramic person and corporation It is a rounded going concern devoted to a single purpose It is the only such co^perative activity in this country The Society covers the arts and sciences that are common to all ceramic manufacturing clay glass and enameled ware The virility of the American Ceramic Society is of vital concern to ever ceramic person and corporation WESTMAN SHOWS HOW AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY BENEFITS . CORPORATIONS The following classic story told by A. R. Westman applies to those corporations who insist that the American Ceramic Society contributes nothing to their progress A research man once visited a established plant where much advanced research work was done In talking with the president concerning some of the recent findings of their laboratories he suddenly asked Why don't you tell some of what you've found out The corporation was shocked the other president plants of the We do all our own research he boasted we don't owe any one anything for a single idea Why should we give other plants our ideas Let them work them out for themselves It would be different if we hadn't reached the place we are today by our own research Together they left the president's office and went on a tour through the plant the drying room They came to How do you run those fans asked the re- search man With motors of course laughed the president amused at such a simple question from a scientist They went into the mixing room Do motors run those mixers too asked the research man . Certainslaiyd the president a little puzzled Throughout the plant they saw example after example of motorized operations When they reached the exit the scientist turned to the president of the corporation that did all its own re- search Congratulations said the scientist for having had Michael Faraday in your laboratories Just what year did he work for you OFFER TO THOSE WHO JOIN THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY AFTER AUGUST FIRST The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to prorate the membership fees of those who join as members and who subscribe to the Society's publications after August , 1934 if they elect so to do New members and subscribers received after August 1 and who elect to receive only the current monthly issues of the Journal the Ceramic Abstracts and The Bulletin will be re- corded as 1934 members or subscribers on pay- ment in full of their respective annual fees of 10.00 personal 25.00 minimum corporation and 12.00 subscriber the understanding being that the following amounts will be subtracted for the 1934 publications and the remainder applied to their 1935 annual fees Mouth in which subscription 15 Feived Personal Corporation ! ; BUDIMUM } Subscriber BUDIMUM ( Subscriber August September 4.18 3 42 833 300 j 4.00 : October 270 25 | 3:00 November December Annual Fees in 1935 1.80 4.17 | .84 2.08 . 12.50 12.50 25 X 1 " Minimum 2.00 | 1.00 ! * 15.00 . t Those who elect to receive all of the 1934 publications will be expected to pay the annual fees for 1934 in full- 25.00 minimum and 12.00 respectively and will pay in full their 1935 fees when bills for the same are rendered next December