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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
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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
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State College, Pa.
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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-
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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 $3,000,000 00.
Only the ele‘otorn and one mill and a
few other buildings, that stood on the
oppoalte side of is railroad track en
coped entire destruction All.the root of
the immense brlek and concrete ntruc
turen were liternlly blown to fragments.
There wore twenty-coven buildings or
sections in the dentroyed area catering
seven acres Had the explonion oc
curred a half hour menet., the death
lists would probably have reached live
hundred or morn Tito destruction
wan more than could have been done
with a hundred of the most powerful
nhells or bombs that have over been
made.
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AGAINST FOREST FIRES
The felloming statement regarding
the fall Ilre season in the forests has
bern made public by Mr. John W. Kel
ler, the state forester located nt Dents
burg•
After tile frequent rains of the past
few oCeitlf, which made it Impossible
for the Myers of nature to get out in
the "Great Out-of-doom", will coma the
delightful Autumn dale. The twaines
of man turn him naturally towards tile
moods where ,he can let behind the
cares of tile business world and feel
free to enjoy nature as God intended
it to be Many people, more titan lye
suppose. mill frequent our mountains
forrecreation purposes during the next
two months.
The leaven are falling and a few
bright nanny Onto will make them dry
as tinder and the Fall Fire Season
will be on The Pennsylvania Depart
ment or Forentry not .p . nly Invites but
urges you to use the State Forestn for
your play ground but the eareleminem of
one person by leaving. It camp tire be
fore It in extinguinheM by throwing a-
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happen?
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IMAGINE any first-class, medium.
priced car ($l5OO or $2000) ever
becoming so well liked that even
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the millionaires would prefer it for
their own use to even the highest
priced curs.
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Impossible. • i .
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You're nglit.' Such a thing couldn't !••
happen with a medium-priced auto
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mobile—nor, you would think, with
anything else.
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And yet this "Imp . ossible thing has
happened with a medium-priced ciga
rette. Just note, if you. please, the
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. ' evidence below, at the left.
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Slow on,earth did Fatima do it? t:
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What is it—what does Fatima give
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• that these wealthy smokers prefer to
. anything given by even the highest
• priced cigarettes?
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The answer is
"Just enoug h Turkish"
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Until they bad tried Fatima; most
of these men bad been smoking
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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. (
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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
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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?
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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