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formerly devoted almost exclusively to cotton goods, is 

 reaching out into new lines and new fabrics, such spe- 

 cialties as shoestrings and rugs, fine fabrics made of 

 cotton mixed with all the new synthetic fibers. 



This industry-supported Foundation is additional evi- 

 dence of the new self-help for cotton in the Southern 

 textile industry. From one of the most ancient arts, the 

 making of cloth has grown by traditional, rule o' thumb 

 methods, to be one of the greatest of modern industries, 

 almost without the aid of science. During the war there 

 has been a great awakening and, as Malcolm Campbell 

 says, "We have shaken the lead out of our shoes and are 

 going places/* 



To say nothing of the research work of the National 

 Cotton Council, the textile men have their own nation- 

 wide, all-fiber research under the Textile Research In- 

 stitute with headquarters at New York and working out- 

 posts at Princeton and the University of North Carolina. 

 At Charlottesville, Virginia, is the Institute of Textile 

 Technology, with ultrascientific aims, backed liberally 

 by millowners and led by Ward Dulaney, an atomic 

 bomb of ideas and enthusiasm, formerly with the Insti- 

 tute of Paper Chemistry. At La Grange, Georgia, the 

 Galloway Institute, financed chiefly by Fuller Gallo- 

 way, aims to do specific research for mills, specializing 

 in the conservation of assets by doing better jobs with 

 existing machines. There is a new, highly technical 

 magazine, The Textile Research Journal, and textile re- 



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