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TAYLOR TRUSTEE HELD NOT EXPERT CHEMIST
Rader's Speeches Betray His Lack of Any Scientific Knowledge
T. N. T. EXPERT UNKNOWN
Investigations Confirm Doubts Aroused by Unintelligent Lectures at LaFayette
The Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society has started agitation to have membership of Lyell M. Rader of the board of trustees of Taylor University, investigated by the national officers of the Society, because of the speeches that he has made in different parts of the country, in two occasions in Topoka last year, and each time visited the University.
Mr. Rader makes his speeches in churches. Always his coming is beamed by long press reports and handbills which state that he is an adliary chanitist for more than 125 important industrial concerns. His supposed interest in T. N. T. is also made an important inducement to attend his lectures.
A professor of the department of chemistry of Purdue University, says in a letter to the chemical bulletin, published by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society, that Mr. Racher came to LaFayette, Ind., on Wednesday reports came ahead of him and the church was crowded for his lecture. The attention of the chemists of Purdue University was immediately attracted to this unusual event and they were greatly chagrined to find that they had never heard of this chemist. They searched through the "Americal Chemistry Abstracts" but failed to find any mention of this "eminent scientist."
The professors went to hear the lecture on "Garbage" and one of them termed it "a gas attack filled with mother-in-law vulgarities." He talked of almost everything under the sun except garbage and didn't say anything about his T. N. T. experiences.
Professor Mahin, of Purdue University, wrote to several men connected with the War Department and asked about Rader's connection with T. N. T. They replied that he had neither officially nor unofficially given any information in regard to the manufacture or purification of T. N. T.
Professor Mahin then wrote to A. M. Johnson, of Chicago, who seemed to be Rader's employer. Mr. Johnson worked with some experienced sublimber while in the employ of J. P. Devine Co., which were furnished the makers of T. N. T. Mr. Johnson said that Radder had never advertised him and was connected with the manufacture, where he learned that Radder never worked for
J. P. Devine Co., but used one of their laboratories for a short time on an experiment of his own.
Dr. H. P. Cady, chairman of the department of chemistry says, in talking of Rader, "I never heard of Mr. Rader in a professional way and all that I know of him is what he told of himself and I had great doubts of this. Since then, what I had heard of him confirm these doubts."
HAS SCHEME TO KILL THE DANDELION WEED
Professor Mix Experimenting to Eradicate Nuisances With Chemicals
Person approaching the campus on Oread Street this morning were arrested by a sign "Dandelion Experiment, Department of Botany" placed in a spot ten by fifty feet. devoid of any plant life and no growth of the undesirable weeds.
Dr. A. J. Mix, processor in the de partment of botany, has been under taking for some time experiments us ing the idea worked out in the Geneva Agriculture Experiment Station of New York State, where it was found that iron sulphate will kill certain plants among them being dandelions. Dr. Mix has experimented with the method in this climate and on the soil here and has secured good results. With the help of imprinting the tops are first killed and the roots which are thick and full of stored food for the plant eventually die. In digging, all the root cannot be extracted.
"Several precautions should be observed," said Doctor Mix. "The spray
will kill white clover and therefore it is adapted only to bluegrass lawns. The spray used is iron sulphate, known as copperam, which can be purified by boiling or one-half pound of this is used to a gallon of water. The solution is applied with a hand sprayer. A sprinkle-land can not be used.
"The time to spray is in the early spring just before the first blossom and twice more that spring at intervals of three weeks. The whole lawn is sprayed the first year, and the second year the remaining plants should be sprayed one once or twice. A lawn is then immune except for a few straggeting plants which may blow in from "neighbor's lawn."
Another necessary precaution is to keep the solution off of cement walls and stone buildings as it will discolor them. A screen can be used to keep the spray off while applying it to the dandelions.
This method is quite cheap and may prove practicable to golf links and lawns like the University campus.
LOUVAIN FUND BELOW QUOTA
French Department Disappointed With Results Here
The French department, which has been conducting the drive to provide funds for the rebuilding of the Louvain Library, is disappointed with the results in this University. Voluntary subscriptions of ten cents were asked, but the total amount collected amounts to only $28.00. The quotas in eastern schools averaged $1.00 per student and reports from some of the
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