SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



That husky paper-making infant of Southern industry 

 whose cradle Charlie Herty rocked, has become a giant. 

 How thrilled he would be to know that since his death 

 in 1938, this industry has doubled. Fifty mills through- 

 out all the thirteen Southern states, except Kentucky 

 and Oklahoma, are pulping four million cords of wood 

 a year. Its investment now totals over two hundred 

 million dollars. It gives employment to over forty thou- 

 sand men. How proud Herty would be that of the two 

 and a half million tons of kraft paper and board rolling 

 off its gigantic machines, a fifth is bleached kraft, not 

 a single ton of which was made when he began his 

 bleaching experiments. 



He never lived to see newsprint made from slash and 

 loblolly in the pioneer mill at Lufkin, Texas. But he 

 knew the inside of the fight against subtle, determined 

 opposition from Northern paper and financial interests 

 and the struggle to build that mill with Southern dollars. 

 Today the Southern Newspapers Publishers' Association 

 stands ready to back other Southern newsprint mills. 

 Wood, water, and transportation facilities have all been 

 surveyed for the best sites; the capital is ready when 

 men and machines are again available. Four pages out 

 of five of all Southern newspapers are still printed on 

 paper made from Northern or imported pulp, and this 

 loyal Georgia chemist would have keenly appreciated 

 this bright sign of revived independence and purposeful 

 self-help. How he would chuckle at the news that the 



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