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" The Foundation has a large fighting fund so that it
"may be able to commence immediately and prosecute with the utmost vigor
infringement proceedings whenever the first German attempt shall
hereafter be made to import into this country."
So much mystery has been made of the achievements of German chemists--as
though the Teutonic brain had a special lobe for that faculty, lacking
in other craniums--that I want to quote what Dr. Hesse says about his
first impressions of a German laboratory of industrial research:
Directly after graduating from the University of Chicago in
1896, I entered the employ of the largest coal-tar dye works in
the world at its plant in Germany and indeed in one of its
research laboratories. This was my first trip outside the
United States and it was, of course, an event of the first
magnitude for me to be in Europe, and, as a chemist, to be in
Germany, in a German coal-tar dye plant, and to cap it all in
its research laboratory--a real _sanctum sanctorum_ for
chemists.


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