Providence Technical High School - Review Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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66 THE TECH REVIEW 1928 to national defense? Are we preparing ourselves? Yes, in a way, but still we are not doing as much as we could. By that I do not mean that we should build a great number of battleships, tanks and other war implements, but we should pre- pare ourselves through industries. In order to progress in our industries we must have national defense but in order to defend our nation properly during war time it is necessary that our industrial development is great enough to compete with the industrial development of our enemy. This can be understood easily by Germany’s position during the war. The reason Germany held on so long, while being completely cut off from the rest of the world by the Allies, is because her chemical industries were the leading ones in the world. She had prepared her- self during peace time and had every- thing necessary right in her own country. Germany’s real soldiers were not the ones that were at the front, but the chemists that stayed at home. When England’s navy prevented Germany to reach Chili to get saltpeter, from which nitrogen is obtained, she thought that Germany would only be able to keep on fighting for a little while, because nitrogen is obsolutely necessary for the manufacture of explosives as well as for the growing of plant foods. But Germany got her chemists together and they devised a method of obtaining nitrogen directly from the air and it was the same with everything else. Germany’s chemists de- vised methods for making all kinds of chemical warfare weapons in order to keep on fighting longer. They understood the relation of chem- istry to national defense and its import- ance, and they prepared themselves, not so much by building war implements, than by improving and progressing in her dye and other chemical industries. In this short discussion I have tried to show the relation of chemistry to na- tional defense and its corresponding rela- tion to industrial development because I believe they both go together and can not go one without the other. I have only to add that the people of the nation instead of talking against the chemist and his work, should as a nation help and en- courage him in his research work, be- cause it is he who will be our defender and saviour in future wars. o------ COMPENSATION “Mother says there was a fly in the cake she bought here yesterday.” “Tell her to bring the fly back and I will give her a currant for it.” Farrell: “Did you know Mr. Man- chester is a musketeer?” Ajootian: “How do you make that out ?” Farrell: “He tells us that we musketeer at 8:30 every morning. The City Girl: “What’s that funny stuff on the sheep?” The Herder: “Wool, ma’am.” The Girl: “Wool? Huh, I’ll bet it’s half cotton.” “Dear Doctor: “My pet billy goat is seriously ill from eating a complete leather-bound set of Shakespeare. What do you prescribe?” Answer: “Am sending Literary Digest by return mail.”

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68 THE TECH REVIEW 1928 Fates Twain Ruth Simmons, '28 Sydney Carrington pushed to one side the numerous papers which were spread before him on his desk, yawned lazily, ' ¥ « ' and sat gazing out of the window of his combined office and sitting room at the Hotel Dusseldorf in Moscow. Three weeks previous he had been commissioned to Russia as representative of “The Daily Mail,” a prominent London newspaper. He had journeyed to Moscow expecting to witness the turbulent revolutionary riots to which Russia and the city of Mos- cow in particular were subject. However, a more quiet, peaceful three weeks he could not have spent. So, wholly disap- pointed in his expectations he sat musing, and wishing himself back in London among the gay whirls of social life which he had been compelled to abandon. Sud- denly, his reverie was interrupted by a sharp rap on the office door. In answer to Carrington’s “Come in,” his valet en- tered the room. “Well, Hobbs,” asked Carrington, “what do vou want ?” “I just came. Sir. to remind you that you ’ave an engagement with the Minister of Police at three-thirty, Sir.” “Confound the Minister of Police. Well, what time is it now, Hobbs?” “It is three o’clock, Sir.” “Well, I’ll he along in a minute, and say, Hobbs, lay out my blue serge for me.” “Yes, Sir, anything else. Sir?” “Well,” drily, “you might give me a shirt, and a collar and I might suggest a necktie, I think I’m in the habit of wear- ing one.” “Very good, Sir,” replied the imper- turbable Hobbs, as he disappeared through the doorway. Twenty minutes later, Carrington, due to the perseverance of his valet was dressed for the street, and as he passed through the lobby of the hotel he attracted a good deal of attention, as foreign visi- tors were unusual in Moscow during the period of Revolution. Besides, who would not turn to gaze, after such a good looking young man? Carrington made his way to the Soviet Embassy where were stationed the police headquarters. He was conducted by a guard through numerous halls and pas- sageways to the office of Mr. AralofF, the Minister of Police. The door was opened at a knock from the guard who saluted and announced in perfect English. “Mr. Carrington, Sir.” “Good afternoon, Mr. Carrington,” said Araloff also in English, and then to the guard who waited at the open door, “You are dismissed, Svensky.” “Now, Mr. Carrington,” resumed Ara- lolT, “I supj ose you are wondering why I. the Minister of Police, have summoned you. a total stranger, here before me.” “Yes, Sir,” replied Carrington who really was too much surprised to say more. “Well,” said Araloff, “since you have been here, I have looked into your past history, somewhat, for various reasons, of which I shall inform you, so that you are not such a total stranger, to me at least, as you think. But, l)efore saying more about that, I wish to tell you a few of the incidents of the revolutionary out- break which occurred some four or five weeks ago.