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: Thus | Hugues’ artic et ‘What he pee says x about perfumery and essential oils, 
is is “of 1 ess ‘interest for us. We. only do not wish to keep from our readers what he 
# ommi inicates ‘regarding the imports from French colonies. 
ES “The metropole and our colonies ‘supply almost everything we want and there is 
no need for us to be obliged to pay tribute to others. | 
| Why had most things to come from Hamburg? Are we lacking means to bring 
1 to Havre or Marseilles? What was amiss? What was amiss in order to protect 
- interests better 2” 
Binz says quite to the point that the most striking feature in the article is the 
tT pulse of German scientific publications — apparently Schimmel’s Reports — and, at 
the same time, the reluctant acknowledgement of their value and of the German 
: hemical achievements, by indicating how they can be imitated. It is not conceit if 
© Say: Germania preceptor mundi. We must be satisfied, however, with having reaped 
enmity for it instead of thanks. P 
_ Binz then discusses an article of M. Ajam in arta franeais’”’ of 27. 12. 17 
enti tled: “Tne industrie bien francaise. La Parfumerie”. According to it, France’s exports 
¢ perfumery are worth from 50 to 60 million Francs in gold per year. As the statistics 
show, the French manufacture rose from 12 million Francs, in 1836, to 100 million 
Francs, in 1912. The United States are good customers for French scents; it is true, 
t a Americans have tried-to cultivate flowers in California, but without any great 
; ccess, ues to gue high — cost of hand labour. In Peers. of a protective duty of 
} been able to prevent a eanbides abe invasion of French products. Nearly the same , 
jlies to all the other countries, except Japan, where the activity and spirit of enterprise — 
the people have made the perfume manufacture develop rapidly, Ye) that it threatens 
nce with serious competition, especially in China. 
- Above all, Ajam lays stress on the necessity of taining chemists in order to 
Be France to maintain its prestige as perfume manufacturer after the war. 
"In the same number of the “Exportateur,” there is an editorial note: “How to protect 
= interests of the perfumery trade”. It is stated therein that the germanophile tendencies in 
Me sandinavia and Holland have induced the Government to stop all exports to those countries, 
as it was to be feared that the goods would be forwarded at once to Germany or her allies. 
‘< eh This measure, although excellent in principle, missed its aim, Ajam thinks, for a 
differentiation ought to have been made regarding articles unsuitable for military use, 
such as products of the perfumery and allied industries, the exports of which are a__ 
urce of France’s wealth. The Germans are the first amongst the competitors who 
ned a firm footing. 
At another place’), Binz discusses an article by M. Praveice published in “Le Feu” 
: £15. 11. 17, in which he gets excited about Professor Haller’s nomination as honorary 
5, eit of the New Society for Chemical Industry in Paris, for “Professor Haller — 
ote the propaganda preface for Schimmel, he is the author of the preface and the 
es in the book on essential oils, published by Schimmel in Leipzig’, etc., etc. 
urthermore, Provence has to say the following about Professor Haller: — 
ie ~ “Camphor Sar caet t of the firm of Schimmel were seized by the Neuilly 
Cu istoms-house. ‘ 
__ The best expert for them was their see sia table pretden writer Haller. Those people 
wit ‘ sgemeel eee coats of arms at their Barréme factory wrote: ‘Mr. Haller, professor 
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