REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH 



he says bluntly: "If we add five cents per one thousand 

 cubic feet to the cost of natural gas at the well mouth 

 pouf! we snuff out all its uneconomic uses as an in- 

 dustrial and household fuel, and make it what it really 

 is, an invaluable raw material for gasoline, plastics, 

 medicines, and scores of chemicals." 



We stand on the threshold of a chemical age. Almost 

 every Sunday the magazine section of any newspaper 

 tells thrilling tales of new triumphs won in the chemical 

 laboratories. The chemist to his infinite amusement- 

 is hailed as the modern miracle worker. Wonder prod- 

 ucts of synthetic chemistry are promised for our cloth- 

 ing, our home, our car, our gardens, our medicine chest. 

 Discounting all this popular ballyhoo, it is a fact that 

 the brightest horizon of our industrial future lies at 

 the end of the chemical path. That path leads straight 

 Southward. No other section of the country is so blessed 

 as the South with all the chemical raw materials. South- 

 erners are learning this, and they are reappraising 

 Southern natural resources in terms of chemical values. 

 They are determined to end the curse that burdens 

 Peter Molyneaux. 



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