Page Four FLOUR MILL EXPLOSIONS 0 INVESTIGATED BY COLLEGE Prominent Penn Slate Faculty During War in Effort to Elim I Flour ➢tills, Elevators and Ind Penn Slate hal be ingetested In a little hitting.), tool a statement of foots Loneerning the ening:that hi: the Inc e ention ut grain dust explosions in gout nulls, g leg:Mors and cereal mills, 111111 Non inaugutatted by the goLetn ment NNIIVII this Lounti 0 enleied the garia \tar Penn State 11111 be Inter ested beLause a 31.11,01 Of Venn :that) men took u leading pall in this 000 k, +lnd too. because at this college, In con nection kith the Department of Flour 11111 Llngingget intr. early hie estigationel mork gam conduLled 1110 or three ears previous to tho gal en an eglitotial "The Not thnestern Millet" in Lelding on tile xalu able hork rendered ogin be tho sluff of trained men in tills um*. has this to say Nl* LonLetning the Pummels/mitt Stab College "Alost of the early experimental ll ork of the investigation Into the causes of groin dust explo -11101111 51.10 done in the PentatelLaula State College, under a. cooperathe agreeinent milted at betgeen the fac ulty of llial Institution and the Depart ment of Agrleultute At the request of the lexpeelmental 11111 Department of tile college, materials furnished by 1.1.-le—s milling. companies Work by the Bureau of Chemistre In Lonneetion pith dust explosions In feed mills. dour mills, elevators and Industrial plants utts begun shortly utter an explosion in a teed grinding plant In 131101110 In June 101.1, cused the .10 1111 of thirte-three men. In a eured 001 1.110 others and damaged a great inland* of gods and destroeed the plant It 01110 short!) after this explosion that 111A.Ligill101111 I 01 01 it started at the college, At the time the equntre entered 1110 Itar, the c unit:dim Mali organized and beganhot It under the dire/Lion of tilt Bureau of Chemistry. of the U. S De vanamensranntmarannnotmimmennumusanniv 1 Schaffner Overcoats 1 Overcoats of deft style appeal tontte 1525 to $4O i Single and double breasted wtth g , belt models In blue, cheviots and 0 . k t i c r i r t y r s a , in prown and other colors to 1., ICome in and Look them Over i 1 Fromm's Economy Store i 4, 30 rest College Mu: en a natnamommucuummanommanumancsammuomm PIE The American Pastry Harvey's Bakery 220 East College ave J. F. Harvey 'l6, Mgr Members , and Graduates Active inate Dust Explosions in Feed and ustrial Plants mirtment of Apr [culture, the stork being siondueted under the Immediate super , 114011 of \ir 'll .1. Price of Wriehington, 11 C. The country , woe divided into six ithisions, ouch with its head who ilia ectssi the field work und Inveetigm Mut hitlihr his division or district. Each district had Its headquarters, with a. number of field men, each assigned to ntortaln definite territory IP that die- PIM It has In this way that the while counts, min csered and Inspec tions made of thousands of mills, ele vators and other Industrial plants The faZt that there here less fires and explosions in mulls rind elevators dun Mg the hint two years by sixty Per cent then eser before (while tires In general throubliout the country were greater) is attributed target, to the ef ficiency of this organization This meant that millions of bushels of grain. mostly Mlle/It, has saved, much into of life presented and the destruction of ndllinnx eof dollary no, th of property presented Ilad all the emergency war work been run MI rot economical bolds rind Lusl ws Übe method ens this work, a few billion dollars would have been saved the country. Each head was required to make it close estimate of expenses of hie district. This estimate Included salaries and traveling expenses, the number of nilla of each trip and the period of time to cover the same. The topropriation or funds to carry on thin impel hint aork nag ‘ery email tonal doling the millions Insolved, hence it uim ecneemtr3 to plan before under taking the adult bark. The funds First National Bank State College, Pa. W L FOSTER, President DAVID F. KAPP, Culler Best Quality "When you are right you need not GROCERIES be afraid of anything"-Clemenceau We invite comparison in our line Wholesale and Retail Men's Wear Custom Tailoring Special rates to • Cleaning -- - Pressing -- - Repairing Clubs and Farternities WW. S A UERS FYE'S H. 200-202 W. Collega Ave. ROBISON BLOCK STATE COLLEGE, PA. available for thiiiiiiork were barely sof- Solent to carry alp Work up to the end of the fiscal year on June thirtieth and us congress made nu provision for car rying on this weir*. though asked and recommended by the Secretary of Ag riculture, the work ceased on that date, but shortly afterwards, Jails. IL Bar nes, president of the U. S Orate Cor poration, made an arrangement with the Secretary of Agriculture whereby the cork would continue, Mill under the direction of the Bureau of Chem istry, but taking the whole Muff of about fifty men over on to the rolls of rho Grain Corporation. Mr. Burnes considered the dkistence of this organization and the work of these trained mon as of great import ance in tile necessary protection of the Crain Corporation mocks, stuttered as they are throughout the country, aga inst lires and explosion., and that they could pay particular attention to ele vators end plants holding the Corpora tion's stocks of grain. Instead of six districts as the country was forinerly divided Into, It la now divided into four, on eastern with head quarters at Washington. a central with headquarters at Chicago, a northwes tern With headquattere at Minneap olis, and a pacific with headquarters at San Francisco Mr. H. IL Brown, a graduate of the Penn State Milling Department, is head of the eastern dis trict, Prof. 11. W. Dedrick, of the milling Department of Penna. State College, le the head of the central district, Mr. Vernon Fitzinions ,another graduate at the Milling Department of Penn State, Is head of the northwestern district, and Mr. II E. McCallum Is head of the patine district. Several mere of the men who aro engaged to the field dlvi- P •• • • 111311MIN111111311111111M111111111110/11111111141131111111111110111111111=111111111111U11110 For QUICK SERVICE and the BEST FOOD Penn State Cafe Open until 1:00 A. M. College Aron and Pugh Street Stale College 'PENN 'STATE' COLLEGIAN sign of this work, ore graduates of Penn State Department of Haling. It fe the duty of these men to Invest- Ulnae and report any urea or duet ex- Plostons occuring P.lthln their rm.- tive district., , On May Twenty-Mcond moored the most disaffirms duet explonion on record. Shortly after 0 P M the immense plant of the Deakins Starch Werke. at Cedar Rapids. lowa. pas almost totally dmtro)ed by a ntarch dust explosion In which (01 ty-seven men were killed outright and many who escaped im mediate death, died later in hospitals The financial loss waa $3,000,000 00. Only the ele‘otorn and one mill and a few other buildings, that stood on the oppoalte side of is railroad track en coped entire destruction All.the root of the immense brlek and concrete ntruc turen were liternlly blown to fragments. There wore twenty-coven buildings or sections in the dentroyed area catering seven acres Had the explonion oc curred a half hour menet., the death lists would probably have reached live hundred or morn Tito destruction wan more than could have been done with a hundred of the most powerful nhells or bombs that have over been made. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS A• DEAL Sanitary Plumbing Highland Ave. ummuauwatuwaunwmucbo; STUDENTS SHOULD GUARD AGAINST FOREST FIRES The felloming statement regarding the fall Ilre season in the forests has bern made public by Mr. John W. Kel ler, the state forester located nt Dents burg• After tile frequent rains of the past few oCeitlf, which made it Impossible for the Myers of nature to get out in the "Great Out-of-doom", will coma the delightful Autumn dale. The twaines of man turn him naturally towards tile moods where ,he can let behind the cares of tile business world and feel free to enjoy nature as God intended it to be Many people, more titan lye suppose. mill frequent our mountains forrecreation purposes during the next two months. The leaven are falling and a few bright nanny Onto will make them dry as tinder and the Fall Fire Season will be on The Pennsylvania Depart ment or Forentry not .p . nly Invites but urges you to use the State Forestn for your play ground but the eareleminem of one person by leaving. It camp tire be fore It in extinguinheM by throwing a- , . State-Centre Electric Co. Electric Supplies and Appliances 123 Frazier BOTH PHONES •, ' • . ' . ~.. , . ...-47,,, , _:, "''." How `on did ~ • . • it ~ happen? . • IMAGINE any first-class, medium. priced car ($l5OO or $2000) ever becoming so well liked that even • the millionaires would prefer it for their own use to even the highest priced curs. • • • N. Impossible. • i . • • • You're nglit.' Such a thing couldn't !•• happen with a medium-priced auto s mobile—nor, you would think, with anything else. - - , • • • ..• And yet this "Imp . ossible thing has happened with a medium-priced ciga rette. Just note, if you. please, the ~ . ' evidence below, at the left. • • • '''l Slow on,earth did Fatima do it? t: • • * What is it—what does Fatima give ~,, • that these wealthy smokers prefer to . anything given by even the highest • priced cigarettes? •'• • • • . . The answer is "Just enoug h Turkish" 1 Until they bad tried Fatima; most of these men bad been smoking • straight Turkish cigarettes—because, of course, until a year or so ago these fanerboxed, expensive straight Turk ish cigarettes were practically_the only • cigarettes on sale at places like those ' • named below. ( •• • , Giadually, however, it seems that' EVIDENCE these men have learned two things Fatima is the largest selling cigarette about Fatima: at the following, and scores of other 1. That Fatima . , famous blend (containing , prominent places: more Turkish than any other blend) has - The Breakers, Palm Beach; . just enough Turkish for full flavor; and Congrew Hotel, Chicago: 2. That the blend in so "balanced" as to Edgewater Buell Hotel, Chicago; offwet entirely that overrichness on Cams Hotel, Narragansett Pier; heavmess of straight Turkish. • • French Lick Springs Hotel; • • • The Vanderbilt, the Astor, Which proves again that Fatima. are a tho ?deAlpin and most of New ; sensible cigarette—that they leave a man YorkNother big hotels., feeling fine and fit even after smoking mom Marlb ty oroughallenbeim. Atlantic heavily than usuaL .• Hot C iel Traymores, Atlantic City; • • • , Hotel Touraine, Boston • Has your present cigarette — Las any eiga. New York Stock Esche;ac. retie—as strongaim for your *alma etc, eta. colunderatlon as h a s Fatima? .• 4 IMA, , ,:rt . , F A .• . . 20 for 23 cents way a lighted cigar or cigarette, or, at- ree of forest were burned in Pontlol9o ter lighting his pipe throws :limy the nia and In almost every instance it burning match Will cattle a forest Ilre mu through ca releemem on the part which ma, burn over thousands of of some person Everybody should feel acres before it can be controlled, and Interested In keeping the mountains of destroy the recreation ground of thou.- Centre County glean by being except ands of our nature lovers. tonally careful with tiro 1111110 In the During the year 1918 over 230,000 ac- woods _ Wednesday, October 29, 1919
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