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The factory is managed and the work is supervised by 

 men of practically no training and education. Unlike the 

 foreign factories where chemists and Chinese engineers are 

 employed, and the raw material is carefully analyzed before 

 use, the chemical factories in Kwangtung employ no chemists 

 or engineers. Their success depends entirely upon the ex- 

 perience of the foreman who is most secretive. The factories 

 are dark, dirty and poorly ventilated, so that the laborers 

 have a very hard time and besides this their wages are low. 

 This is a great handicap to the chemical industry in this 

 country. 



Again the apparatus and instruments used in chemical 

 industry are crude and inefficient . As science finds no place 

 in the curriculum of old schools and colleges, it is no wonder 

 that men of learning pursue no research work in chemistry. 



This accounts for the fact that the chemical industry in 

 this country has made little or no progress. Although wine 

 has been made for 4,000 years, the methods which are now 

 used do not differ much from those used by people of the 

 early ages. 



In America, the university and the chemical factory 

 have close relationship. The former sends out men to help 

 develop the chemical industry. The chemical factory is the 

 best place for a trained chemist and graduate of the colleges 

 of chemistry outside of the laboratory. 



