Off ic ial Reports for the Year 1943 Secretary and Business Manager

ON ACCOUNT of the paper shortage, this report will be much shorter than usual. Much of the year's details will be found in interim

reports and minutes of the Board of Directors and the Council in C H E M I C A L AND ENGINEERING N E W S , May 10 and Dec . 25, 1943.

Three new sections were established in 1943—the Carolina-Piedmont Sect ion with headquarters at Charlotte, N . C., Lake Superior Section w i t h headquarters a t Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., and the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Section with headquarters at Port Arthur, Tex.

Two general meetings were held—one in Detroit, Mich. (April 12 to 1 6 ) , and the other in Pittsburgh, Pa . (Sept. 6 to 10). Reports on these meet ings and the awards made and committee reports will be found in C H E M I C A L AND E N G I N E E R I N G N E W S , May 10 and Dec . 25, 1943.

Very great progress was made in 1943 in employer-employee rela­t ionships and in equitable understanding of the relationship of pro­fessional men t o management and t o labor organizations. This has b e e n due largely to the decisions of the National Labor Relations B o a r d and the apparently growing feeling of the labor unions them­s e l v e s that professional men, normally sympathetic with management a n d almost invariably in confidential relations therewith, do not make desirable additions t o union personnel. While the psychology of the s i tuat ion developed very greatly in 1943, little appeared in print until publ icat ion of the summary of our Counsel in CHEMICAL AND E N G I N E E R ­I N G N E W S , Jan. 10 ,1944 , and the pamphlet, "Collective Bargaining for Professional Employees", containing legal briefs and court decisions w a s made available through the Mack Printing Co. (see page 12, C H E M I C A L AND E N G I N E E R I N G N E W S , Jan. 10, 1944).

The SOCIETY has been greatly handicapped by the lack of paper to print i ts journals properly and the refusal of the Printing and Pub­l i sh ing Division of the War Production Board to give the slightest con­sideration in the allotment of paper t o the essentiality of our publica­t i o n s t o the war effort. This was described in detail, and should be read b y every still uninformed member of the A M E R I C A N CHEMICAL S O C I E T Y , in the "Emergency Notice", page 1782, CHEMICAL AND E N G I ­N E E R I N G N E W S , N O V . 10, 1943. More than anything that has hap-3?ened in the past 25 years, it has retarded the SOCIETY'S progress and i t s ability to serve America and the advancement of chemistry. Al--though the quality of the paper has been maintained, its weight and transparency, and the format of the journals are a misfortune which will b e felt in the libraries of the world for years to come. Also it has been impossible to furnish new subscriptions to anyone, including the Army a n d the Navy , in spite of a greatly increased demand and insistence b y government agencies of the need for our publications in the conduct o f the war. Journals cannot be printed unless paper is available and t h e W P B has declined t o allow a single additional ton over the 2 5 % deduction from 1942 allowed to all magazines irrespective of their character and usefulness. The SOCIETY has been forced to refuse about 2 5 % in advertising insistently demanded by industry, which advertising i s almost as essential as the editorial matter to the proper information of the chemical industry and to its needs in the war effort.

Throughout the year the SOCIETY has continued i ts efforts to see that chemists and chemical engineers are assigned to service, or are allowed to remain in service, directly connected with the war effort where their training may be best utilized for America. In by far the majority of cases success has attended these efforts and chemists and chemical engineers have been deferred for service in the "production army". Of late, however, owing to the very great pressure put on local boards to meet their quotas, increasing numbers of these specially trained men have been taken from some important posts and have been placed in •the Army or t h e Navy , where there is today no place for the specific training they possess. Thereby war production is threatened with serious retardation. Chemists and chemical engineers as a group are

unique among technical men in that they are really officers in the "production army" and essential to its continued operation. Approxi­mately 3,000 who have been taken from productive work and inducted into the Armed Forces are simply aiding to fill quotas and to increase manpower without the slightest reference to their years of specific train­ing which is so greatly needed. On the other hand, the Armed Forces are using physicists and electrical, mechanical, and other engineers, and are assigning them to places of specific usefulness.

N o one objects to drafting chemists and chemical engineers, pro­vided they can be made most useful to America thereby. With official Washington as it is composed today, in spite of all efforts of the SOCIETY and many others, there appears to be little hope for understanding and a streamlining which makes this possible. I t is scarcely to be expected that 6,600 local boards will all be informed or that appeal boarda will have time and knowledge to consider intelligently th is type of per­sonnel. It is impossible t o understand a psychology which encourages the retaining in college of technical men for specialized training and immediately after graduating denying them the privilege of utilicing that training in the war effort.

We are doing our best, and by far the majority of chemists and chemical engineers, with the help of the SOCIETY, the National Roster, and other informed groups, are being allowed t o remain where their skills and specific qualifications can be best utilized. The 1943 index of CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING N E W S lists many communications on this subject. The latest change of procedure appears on page 103 of the January 25, 1944, CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING N E W S .

The following figures show the great increase in membership and subscriptions in 1943.

Total Paid Subscriptions

Journal of the American Chemical Society Chemical Abstracts Industrial and Engineering Chemistry CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS ("NBWB EDI­

TION")

I HI 12,60β 14,243 24,030

194* 1943 12,417 13,605 24,512

13,707 14,651 27,698

34,156 35,987 40,694

Membership Changes as of December 31

Y BAB ELBCTBD

1941 4,466 1942 4,296 1943 5,849

RESIGNED

4 8 0 5 3 3 449

UÏTPAID ONE YBAH, DBCBABBD DSOPPBD DBC. 31

7 9 8 8

127

Membership as of December 31

Regular paid Student paid Corporation paid Honorary Life Emeritufl Unpaid

1941 24,973

2,299 605

6 16 57

782

' 1Θ4* 27,702

2,281 6 3 6

δ 17 7 0

1,006

782 1,006

868

1943 32,296

2,053 6 8 8

5 1 5 7 6

8 6 8

28,738 31.717

Membership as of January 1

36,001

1941 1942 1943 1944

25,826 28,347 31,722 35.542

V O L U M E 2 2, N O . 4 . » F E B R U A R Y 2 5, 1 9 4 4 231

American Chemical Society NEWS

On January 1, 1944. 985 m-w mrriiht-r.·» won· added. Additions an» being made rapidly and at the time of the publication of this report, and in spite of the fact that 1,444 members (deeeased,-delir.«.|uent, and resigned) were dropped December 31, 1943, the membership of the SOCIETY is again in excess of the December 31, 1943, figures.

Number of Paid Members in Local Sections

Akron A l a b a m a A rnes Baton Rouge oi i iRhamton California Carolina Piedmont Central Pennsylvania Centra! Texas Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Columbus Connect i cut Valley Cornell Dallas—Ft. Worth D a y t o n Delaware Detro i t E a s t Tennessee Eas tern N e w York Erie Florida Georgia Hawai i I l l inois-Iowa Indiana Iowa Kalamazoo Kanawha Val ley Kansas C i t y Kansas S t a t e Col lege Lake Superior Lehigh Val ley Lexington Louis iana Louisvi l le Maine Maryland M e m p h i s Michigan S t a t e

College M i d - H u d s o n Mid land M i l w a u k e e M i n n e s o t a M o n t a n a Nashvi l l e Nebraska N e w H a v e n N e w York North Carolina North Jersey Northeas t Tennessee

1942

016 177 108 143

GO 911

213 94

2,053 349 509 134 258 341

93 128 133 769 638

44 236

65 170 138

56 40

362 72 75

210 153

40

257 42

202 188

56 453

92

89 108 207 214 320

34 48 39

140 2,912

191 1.940

99

1943

632 199 126 198

70 1.166

58 227

in 2.288

398 039 158 277 431

99 147 172 867 818 126 262

59 189 165

6 3 51

436 7 6

102 254 202

44 3 5

321 41

2 5 5 2 4 3

59 5 6 2 108

87 131 2 1 8 2 2 4 3 5 4

2 8 50 47

160 3 ,343

140 2,234

132

Northeas t Wisconsin Northeastern Northern West

Virginia Northwestern Utah Oklahoma Omaha Oregon Panhandle Plains Pennsylvania— N e w

York Western Border

Peoria Phi ladelphia Pi t tsburgh Princeton P u g e t Sound Purdue P_hode Island Rochester Sacramento S t . Joseph Valley S t . Louis San D i e g o Sioux Valley South Carolina S o u t h Jersey Southeas t Kansas Southeas t Tennessee Southeastern

Pennsylvania Southeastern T e x a s Southern California Syracuse Texas A. & M. Texas-Louis iana Gulf To ledo Univers i ty of Il l inois Univers i ty of Michigan Univers i ty of Missouri Virginia Virginia B l u e Ridge W a s h i n g t o n Wash ing ton- Idaho

Border W e s t e r n Connect icut Western Maryland Western N e w York Western Vermont Wich i ta Wilson D a m Wisconsin Wooster

1942 66

1.215

46 67

256 40

119 45

66 138

1,475 902

51 163

99 130 427

58 89

536 42 25 80

275 46 50

95 255 728 202

34

108 199

90 4 3

293 103 979

51 3 0 3

59 641

4 0 46 84

212 34

28,024

1043

71 1,265

46 82

286

152 82

71 155

1,662 1.088

76 175 122 148 4Θ2

47 113 615

38 31 9β

300 51 46

105 277 937 207

30 139

240 110 37

301 108

1,086

56 345

77 729

37 49 97

253 39

32,415

Collections, Business Manaser's Office, 1943 Dues S323.287 .00 Subscriptions. Back numbers Postage * Bank interest ·. . Royalties Reimbursement of general meeting expenses. Decennial Index sales Building rents Miscellaneous

229.958.24 17,850.76 9.294.75

710.98 8.142.72 3.079.40 7,376.45

19.146.15 4,179.30

S623.025.75

T h e foregoing a m o u n t was du ly deposi ted with t he M u n s e y Trus t Co. b y t h e A M E R I C A N C H E M I C A L S O C I E T Y . T h e collections m a d e iu 1942 a m o u n t e d t o S54S,376.60. Therefore , in 1943 there was an in­crease in income collected th rough t he Business M a n a g e r ' s office of $74.649.15. T h i s does not include adver t i s ing income which is paid direct t o t h e T r e a s u r e r in New Y o r k C i ty a n d which is accounted for in t h e T r e a s u r e r ' s r epor t which follows.

In 1943, 15S, 575 copies of o u r j ou rna l s were mailed from Eas ton , P a . on special order . T h e condi t ion o f t h e s tock w a s t h e s a m e as t h a t repor ted on page 232 of the F e b r u a r y 2 5 , 1943, C H E M I C A L AND E N G I ­N E E R I N G N E W S .

In 1943 t h e r e were SO c h a p t e r s of S t u d e n t Affiliates wi th 1,640 s t u d e n t s enrolled, and 171 S tuden t Affiliates who were n o t enrolled in chapters , mak ing a to ta l of 1 ,811.

T h e E m p l o y m e n t C l e a r i n g House , ope ra t ed a t the semiannua l meet ings of t h e S O C I E T T , is increas ing in i m p o r t a n c e a n d usefulness. I t is a con t ac t med ium with o p p o r t u n i t y for personal in t e rv iews a n d is apprec ia ted bo th by e m p l o y e r and employee , as ind ica ted by t h e fact t h a t in De t ro i t and P i t t s b u r g h t h e r e were 913 r ep re sen t a t i ve s of e m ­ployers present , 760 ind iv idua l s regis tered who wished e m p l o y m e n t (in a lmost eve ry case s imply a change of e m p l o y m e n t ) , and 4,917 in t e r ­views were a r ranged . Owing to t h e lack of clerical help, t h e figures for P i t t sburgh were not pub l i shed , but t h e Sec re t a ry a n d Bus iness M a n a g e r apologizes a n d again asks tfcie -consideration of the m e m b e r s h i p for delays t h a t h a v e been made neces sa ry because of t h e inab i l i ty t o secure clerical help in Wash ing ton , or, if found elsewhere, inabi l i ty t o find housing facilities for t h e m in t i i i s c i t y .

I t is grea t ly hoped t h a t t h e p a p e r s i tua t ion , a lso t h e h e l p s i tua t ion , will be relieved in 1944. T h e s t ress , however , is still g r e a t and a t t h e m o m e n t no relief is in sight; t h i s is accompanied b y a still acce lera t ing growth of t h e S O C I E T Y both i n member sh ip a n d in income.

C H A B L S 8 L. P A R S O N S Secretary and Business Manager

reasurer B O A R D OF D I R E C T O R S A M E R I C A N C H E M I C A L S O C I E T Y :

We have examined t h e s t a t emen t , of as se t s and l iabil i t ies and re la t ed s t a t emen t s of cash a n d securit ies o f A M E R I C A N C H E M I C A L S O C I E T Y as of December 3 1 , 1943, have r e v i e w e d t h e sys tem of in t e rna l control a n d the account ing procedures of t h e S O C I E T Y , a n d h a v e e x a m i n e d or t e s t ed account ing records a n d o the r s u p p o r t i n g evidence, b y m e t h o d s a n d t o the ex tent we deemed appropr i a t e .

In our opinion, t he a c c o m p a n y i n g s t a t e m e n t of assets a n d l iabil i t ies and rela ted s t a t e m e n t s of cash, and securi t ies p resen t fair ly the pos i t ion of A M E R I C A N C H E M I C A L S O C E E T F a t December 3 1 , 1943, i n conformi ty with general ly accep t ed a c c o u n t i n g principles app l ied on a bas is con­sis tent wi th t h a t of t h e preceding y e a r .

F . W. L A F R E N T Z &, C o . Certified Public Accountants

NEW YORK, Ν . Υ. January 20, 1944

EXHIBIT A AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Statement of Assets and Liabilities, December 3 1 , 1943

ASSETS CASH I N BANK, E X H I B I T Β GENEBAL INVESTMENTS, a t cost , ΈΧΙΙΓΒΖΤ C

Bonds and stocks (quoted market value $145,-355)

Mortgage participation certificates, wholly owned mortgage and real proper ty acquired under foreclosure (value indeterminate)

LAND AND BUILDINGS, WASHINGTON, D . C , at cost

Less Reserve authorized by Board

of Directors S90.GOO.00 Reserve for depreciation 4,000.00

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, ADVERTISING CASH ADVANCED FOR FORWARD PURCHASE O F PAPER PUBLICATIONS (nominal amount) FURNITURE AND FIXTURES (nominal amount) TRUST FUNDS (contra). E X H I B I T D

Cash in bank • Investments (quoted market value $864,680)

CASH IN BANK FOR ACCOUNT O F 1944 IDUBS, S U B ­SCRIPTIONS, ETC. (contra)

$ 1 3 6 , 7 4 8 . 0 5

2 2 8 , 1 4 0 . 9 7

S 1 5 0 . 0 0 0 . 0 0

9 4 , 0 0 0 . 0 0

PER

$ 1 0 7 , 4 5 2 . 8 0 8 8 7 . 2 7 9 . 4 9

$ 1 8 8 , 2 8 9 . 2 0

3 6 4 , 8 8 9 . 0 2

5 6 , 0 0 0 . 0 0

6 6 , 2 5 1 . 4 2 1 0 , 0 0 0 . 0 0

1 . 0 0 1 . 0 0

9 9 4 , 7 3 2 . 2 9

246,378.06

TOTAL $1,926,541.99

CONTINUED ON PAQB 2 3 4

232 C H E M I C A L A N D E N G I N E E R I N G N E W S