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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1943
Sod Lab To House Plastic Research
Experiments To Boost Kansas In Industry
Great progress in creating a lucrative outlet for surplus farm products and in establishing the state of Kansas as an important industrial unit in the nation, by the establishment of the Kansas Industrial Development Commission's plastics laboratory at the University, were predicted here today by Dr. J. J. Jakosky, director of the laboratory and dean of the School of Engineering
Jakosky will leave this week for a tour of plastics industries in the East and for a visit to the government laboratories where plastics are undergoing exhaustive tests. On the trip, Jakosky plans to investigate the purchase of machinery and equipment for the laboratory which is to be housed in the new engineering experiment station building just opened, and constructed from the stabilized earth blocks which have attracted national attention during the past eighteen months.
Has Worked in Ford Lab
Jakosky has already spent some time in the plastics laboratory of the Ford organization at Dearborn. Henry Ford himself pointed out recently that the increased use of plastics can solve the farmer's surplus problem in the future by stating that such a development will give the farmer new outlets for his crops and he will profit by lower prices and greater serviceability of the machinery with which he works.
Kansas engineers, chemists, and industrialists are interested in the movement to develop the soybean as a major Kansas crop, particularly from the standpoint of it adaptability to the manufacture of plastics, Jakosky said today. The soybean has long been an important standby in plastic production at the Ford industries.
Work With Photo-clasticity
Another reason why great developments are expected from research done in the Kansas Industrial Development Commission's plastics laboratory is the establishment also in the
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new engineering experiment building of a photo-elasticity laboratory, under the supervision of F. L.Brown, professor of applied mechanics in the School of Engineering.
By means of photo-elasticity studies made by passing polarized light through materials possessing certain optical characteristics, Dean Jakosky pointed out, one of those characteristics being the translucent and transparent plastics, it is possible to study the stress distribution of a material subjected to a load. The photo-elasticity laboratory is therefore designed to serve as a means to study various plastic materials made for test purposes in the plastics laboratory.
It has already been shown Jakosky continued, that many failures of cast materials are due to poor design
which can be corrected by proper photo-elasticity. Under the press of war urgency, he stated, unbelievable things are being accomplished. Plastics are being tailored to order with properties—such as hardness, weight, stress resistance, and volume—as required for specific jobs. There are limits to what can be done with plastics. Jakosky concluded, and Kansas is on her way to industrial importance with proper attention concentrated upon plastics research.
University A Pioneer
The University was one of the pioneers in the development of commercial plastics. Dr. L. V. Redman, of the University of Toronto, came to the University in 1910 to take one of the industrial chemical fellowships offered under the direction of Dr. R. K. Duncan, one of the most daring chemists of modern times and one of the founders of the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. Redman's work at the University was upon plastics, and "Redmoman" one of the most famous of the original commercial plastics was the result of his investigation.
Develop "Dedmanol"
As early as 1920, approximately one million pounds of "Redmanol," which was formed by a union of carbolic acid and formaldehyde, were used for commercial products. At about the same time that Redmanol appeared, Dr. Leo Baekeland, a Belgian chemist living in Yonkers, N. Y., developed "Bakelite" from approximately the same formula as that employed by Redman. A good deal of drawn out litigation resulted in the matter of patent rights, and the matter was ultimately concluded successfully by the merging of the Bakelite and Redmanol interests in 1923 as the Bakelite Company and with Redman as a vice-president.
Fifty per cent of the University of Rochester's medical staff of 423 persons is already in active military or government service, and another 25 per cent will be made available within the next year.
Later in the day the labor controversy flared up again when Rep. A. P. Ham, Prescott representative introduced the "O'daniel Anti-labor Union Bill" in the house.
Redman was one of six University chemists who have served as president of the American Chemical Society.
College enrollment immediately following this war will be double that of pre-war days.
Meanwhile the Senate was getting the state school appropriations bill ready. E. A. Brites, chairman of the Senate ways and means committee, said the measure would probably cee some action next week. He said an effort will be made to raise salaries of state school employees wherever it is needed badly, but that his committee would probably adopt a policy asking that the number of employees be reduced to offset the salary increases authorized for those staying on the payroll.
The measure got a severe jolt today when Rep. C. Eimer Youse, Boxter Springs, chairman of the house labor committee declared himself opposed to the measure. "Radical legal legislation doesn't do anyone any good," Yousse said.
Topeka (INS) — The battle over labor legislation, one of the main issues of the last gubernatorial campaign, broke out into the open today at Topeka where the labor union control bill is under consideration.
Labor Discussion Opens In Topeka
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Senator Chandler, member of the committee which is investigating military plans and manpower said that the total of armed forces will reach 10.420.000 at the end of the year, of this the army will have 200.000.
Washington, (INS)—The navy will expand by one million men this year and by next January will have 2, 200,000 officers and men, the senate military affairs committee was informed today.
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