SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



from our pine chips before pulping them. We have been 

 experimenting with a portable hogging machine that 

 we could drive out in the woods to make our chips in 

 the spot to save transportation costs. During the war 

 we made asphalt emulsions and sent shiploads to Brazil 

 and Africa to stabilize the runways of Army airfields. 

 We are working on synthetic rubber-asphalt tiles and 

 on building plywood made of a felt-base core faced 

 with tulpelo, a nice sort of soft hardwood that works up 

 beautifully. 



"You see," he explained with a cheerful grin, "when 

 youVe got to pay good money for your raw materials 

 you must get your money's worth, and we are trying to 

 develop some new products to recover that fifteen cent 

 differential in asphalt." 



Bill and the new plant he runs both exemplify that 

 new industrial spirit in the South and I was not sur- 

 prised when he spoke out against low wage scales and 

 did not complain about discriminatory freight rates. He 

 was only echoing the views of many Southern industrial 

 leaders who do not all hold the traditional views that 

 one has been led to believe they cherish religiously. 



"We don't want twenty-five-cents-an-hour wages," he 

 volunteered out of a clear sky, "because we do not want 

 twenty-five-cent workmen. Low pay rates mean poor 

 labor. Good pay gets good men, South or North. South- 

 ern industry is bound to modernize and that means 

 more complete mechanization, which requires better, 



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