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Life Saver. Patrick Henry Callahan, paint and varnish man of Louisville, Ky., oldtime friend of William Jennings Bryan, ardent Dry Catholic, indefatigable letter-writer and publicist, told the committee of the lives Prohibition had saved. His statistics: alcoholism, 26,400; cirrhosis of the liver, 42,300; Bright's disease, 62,100. Declared Mr. Callahan: "With undisputed statistics I have shown from merely three diseases where prohibitionists have saved more [U. S.] lives than were lost in action in the Great War.* A hundred thousand lives are not to be sniffed...
Durium is the recent invention of Dr. Hal Trueman Beans, Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. It is a synthetic resin, somewhat like bakelite. In its original form it is a liquid composition the color of varnish which when exposed to heat becomes so solid that dropping or mild whacks will do it no harm. Like varnish too it can be spread with a brush but there the resemblance stops. Durium hardens so quickly that phonograph records, which are pressed from metal disks, can be stamped on it with the speed of a printing press. The manufacture of records...
Pratt & Lambert, Inc. ("61" floor varnish, "Vitralite" enamel, "Vitroloid" lacquer): $1,251,000 as against...
...Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...
...find myself in hearty agreement with his views. The fashion which Princeton, in common with many large eastern universities, has set in recent years of sending over large hordes of students, immediately after graduation, either to Oxford or Cambridge, for the purpose of acquiring an extra coat of varnish whereby to dazzle the yokels back in the sticks, has resulted, it seems to me, in a most deplorable state of mind. We are given generally to understand, these days, that neither Princeton or any other American university can really educate a man--let alone cultivate him. The American university...