SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



return to the South, and not all of those who have moved 

 into Southern cities will go back to the farms. To the 

 majority such a homecoming probably holds forth few 

 attractions. Nevertheless, unless they can find employ- 

 ment, a return to the familiar rural community is logical, 

 especially if the Government is willing to pay their 

 way back. 



"Nobody starves in the country," was how a big cotton 

 planter of the Delta Country put it, "and if the going 

 gets really tough in the industrial cities, the old farm 

 and the old neighbors and old job will look mighty 

 good. They won't all come back. How many do will 

 depend upon how tough the going gets." In homespun 

 terms that just about summarizes the experienced think- 

 ing of the South. At Memphis, and in hundreds of 

 other Southern communities, they face these facts as 

 they see them without blinking. Dr. Buckman and his 

 colleagues are striving, first of all, to anchor their city's 

 war gains. In this they are rather fortunate. A good deal 

 of their recent growth has been along chemical lines, 

 and chemical war products usually have peace uses. 



The furfural from corn cobs and cottonseed and rice 

 hulls, produced at the new Quaker Oats plant for the 

 synthetic rubber program, will continue to go into this 

 product, but it can also go into plastics or for petroleum 

 refining. There is a likely supply of phenol, also for 

 plastics, and the Southern Acid & Sulfur Company 

 makes a general line of industrial chemicals. Further- 



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