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OPENINGS FOR CHEMISTS 



\V. A. NoYts. 



Eighteen years ago, as I was sitting in a cafe in Munich one 

 evening, talking to a young EngHshman, he said to me, "Eng- 

 land has the present but America has the future." He meant, 

 of course, that while England at that time stood in the fore- 

 front of progress, industrially as well as politically, the con- 

 ditions were such in America, both in our command of natural 

 resources and in the character of our people, as to make it 

 practically certain that the lead in both respects must go to 

 America in a not far-distant future. 



In the years which have passed since that time, this prophecy 

 has been going on toward a rapid fulfillment. As an illus- 

 tration, we may take the manufacture of iron. At that time 

 more iron was manufactured in England than in any country 

 in the world, but within a few years afterwards the production 

 in America exceeded that in England, and it is now very much 

 greater here than there. 



In this increased industrial activity in America, chemists 

 have played and are playing a very important part. In this 

 very industry of the manufacture of iron and steel, twenty-five 

 years ago very few chemists were employed in this country, 

 but today chemists are required not only in the large establish- 

 ments where steel is produced, but in foundries and factories 

 of all kinds where large amounts of iron are used. 



