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Chicago ACS Meeting Biggest Yet

JL HE program of the 118th meeting of the AMERICAN C H E M I C A L SOCIETY to be held in Chicago the week of Sept. 4, and published in this issue, totals 36 pages. The coming meeting will set a new record for the number of papers presented and the number of sessions scheduled. Our curiosity was aroused when we were informed of the space requirements for the Chicago program and we checked the N E W S EDITION of 1940. Nineteen pages sufficed to list the program of the 100th Meeting of the Society, held in Detroit, Sept. 9 to 13, J 940. At today's prices the 17 additional r3ages repre­sent an increased expenditure of approximately $2,000 for mechanical and distribution costs alone, or $2,900 if all editorial costs are included.

At the dinner meetings of the divisional officers' group, held in conjunction with the divided sessions of last spring, Ron Warren of the staff of the Executive Secretary requested that an effort be made to hold more sessions on Friday of the meeting week than heretofore had been the practice. Mr. Warren explained that if his suggestion were followed fewer hotel meeting rooms would be required and sessions could be con­centrated in a smaller geographical area.

The cooperation of the divisional officers is evidenced by the fact that five divisions will hold full-day sessions on Friday, Sept. 8. They are: Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Colloid Chemistry, Industrial and Engi­neering Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, and Water , Sewage and Sanita­tion Chemistry. Several of these divisions have scheduled more than one session on that day.

How would you like to search for 2 3 rooms in Chi­cago, each with a seating capacity of 200 or more? That is the number of rooms required on Wednesday— the busiest day of the five-day meeting. Those who are responsible for the physical arrangements of our meet­ings carry a heavy burden. Seldom, if ever, do those at tending realize the excellent work that is done by the staff of the Executive Secretary in charge of arrange­ments for our national meetings. It is performed so smoothly that the membership takes it for granted.

With quite a number of important sessions scheduled for Friday, many members probably will wish to extend their hotel reservations. An added incentive for re­maining over another day is the National Chemical Ex­position, sponsored by the Chicago Section, which will open Tuesday of the meeting week and close at 6:00 P . M . on Saturday, Sept. 9.

The News Service Breakfast a t Chicago

A HE ACS News Service breakfasts held at national meetings have been most effective in promoting better public relations at the community level. These round-table discussions have made possible the exchange of a wealth of ideas and have promoted closer cooperation

WALTER J . M U R P H Y , Editor

and coordination between the News Service and the Local Sections.

It is confidently expected that the 130-odd sections of the Society will play an important role in the pub­licity and public relations program for the 75th Anni­versary Meeting in the fall of 1951, and the meetings of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chem­istry, and the International Congress of Pure and Ap­plied Chemistry which will follow immediately after the Jubilee Meeting of the ACS.

The breakfast meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept. 5, in private dining room No. 2, Hotel Stevens. The News Service staff is most desirous of formulating definite plans for participation of local sections in the inter­national chemical conclave well in advance of the 1951 meetings.

A panel discussion on publicity and public relations plans lor the conclave will be a feature of the Chicago breakfast meeting. John Nair, chairman of the ACS Committee on 75th Anniversary; Arthur B. Lamb, chair­man of the National Research Council committee, in charge of the union and congress meetings; Harry L. Fisher, administrative assistant of the committee; and Alden FI. Emery, Executive Secretary of the ACS, will participate. T h e director of the ACS News Service will preside.

We hope each section will be represented at this breakfast meeting b y section officers and the chairman of the local section publicity committee, or by alter­nates specifically requested to represent the section. A cordial invitation to attend is extended to the officers of the divisions of the Society.

A special opportunity is present in the International Chemical Conclave to publicize the work of the chemist and chemical engineer, and to build additional prestige and recognition of the chemical profession.

Lectures f o r the Public

o NE of the recommendations of the Brayman Report of 1945 (a report on the public and member relations of the ACS prepared by a group of leading experts in public relations) dealt with the desirability of encourag­ing local sections to hold meetings for the lay public.

Many of the ACS local sections have conducted such meetings in the past. We are pleased to learn the Pittsburgh Section is arranging a series of eight weekly public lectures which are to be given in the Buhl Planetarium b y outstanding chemists and engineers in the Pittsburgh area. This series is to begin the first week of October arid will carry through the third week in November.

This project of the Pittsburgh Section should be watched closely by other sections. T h e lecture platform is an excellent medium for bringing the story of chem­istry to the lay public and creating an awareness of the contributions chemists and chemical engineers are mak­ing to the steadily rising level of living conditions in the United States.

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