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This is the CELLULOSE
AGE
Alchemists of bygone days be- lieved in the existence of a "prima materia"-some primitive matter or universal essence which enter- ed into the composition of every- thing.
By=
Viscount Rothermere
creasing range of materials is pro- and, above all, the easy accessibil- duced from wood-fbre. An art-ity and facility of cheap transport ficial textile is now very largely that are essential to the economic used for the manufacture of shirts conduct of the wood-pulp industry. and clothes in Germany, German scientists are also making sugar. Differences between substances, alcohol, vinegar, glycerins, resin, they thought, arose from differen-tannin, and cattle-feed from pre- cca in treatment and conditions. It cisely the saine kind of wood as was this conviction that inspired their efforts to transmute base me- tals into gold.
To-day these early scientists might claim that their dream has found fulfilment-not, perhaps, as regards metala, but throughout a whole range of materials which til recent years seemed unrelated.
that which provided the "new- sprint" on which these words ap- pem,
SHRINKAGE IN SUPPLY Not only can wood-fibre replace the produce of plants like cotton, fax, and hemp; the fleeces of sheep, or the furs of wild animals; the products of silkworms and the feathers of birds. It can further
These resources, however, bave their Umitations, and it is inore than likely that the world may before long be confronted with A serious shortage of wood-pulp.
three
FLEETS OF THE WORLD
Details Of Italian Battleships
GERMAN SUBMARINES
The new Return "Fleets: The British Commonwealth of Nations and Foreign Countries" (Cmd.
6371), published recently differs in its predecessora. mapy details of arrangement from The nomencls- Treaty for classes of ships, "Cap- ture of the 1938 London Naval
Ital Ships, Sub-categories A and B, Light Surface vessels, Sub-rate- gories A, B, and C." for instance, are adopted in the explanatory notes which form a preface to the Return. The ships are arranged in headings corresponding partly to. the body of the Return under these definitions-to which the old are appended in
It takes 14 "cords," or tons, or wood to make one ton of newsprint, and in 1934 6,000,000 cords, or 12,000,000 tons of wood designations were used in Canada in the pro-brackets in order to facilitate com- duction of pulp. This figure has parison with former. Returns-but now been left far behind through till the subsequent rapid recovery of separate small lists where consider
further. subdivided Into the newsprint industry.
ed convenient. This rearrange- ment has the effect of increasing
THE BEST TIMBER
On October 29, 1929, it was stat- the volume of the Return without ed in a special Printing Supple-making it noticeably easier of re- ment of the "Times" that:
ference. "Scientists have established that the pulp supplies of the world will be exhausted within the next 25 years."
The age limits of the 1936 Lon- don Treaty are now adopted for the Return, which has the effect of showing several ships. In many
still under-age now.
FROM SPRUCE AND FIR The "universal essence" of mo- be used as the basis of a nation's dern umes is cellulose. This is ex-needs in a wide range of other tracted from certain kinds of articles, from foodstuffs to explo spruce and fir trees by mechanical sives, from furniture to lubricants. and chemical processes. In Europe
All this is in addition to the the Scots Br and Norway spruce
swiftly increasing consumption are the main sources of cellulose. of wood-pulp for the manu- ar wood-pulp. In North America facture of newsprint, which in it is derived from the black and Canada-where more than one- red spruce, the hemlock and the third of the 'world's supply is
More than seven of those 25 Davies, balam fr. The logs are first made had two years ago al-
years have gone, but, though the which were shown as over-age in stripped of their bark, then ground ready reached the highest level
raw material of the newsprint in- last year's return. The reconstruc into chips, and afterwards treated of output in history.
dustry has since come into greatly tion and modernization which cer- with sulphite to produce a pulp of Even if the newsprint industry the price of Canadian newsprint is undergone is indicated by the increased and diversified demand, tain British ships have recently wood-fibre, which is Brst mixed were the only consumer of wood-to-day as low as it has been at armaments now given. The battle. with water and then dried to pulp, we should be faced with a form paper
shrinkage in the supply of this any time in the past 30 years.
ships Royal Oak, Warspite, and Sheets of "newsprint like those this raw material, for its produc-
Special and peculiar conditions Malaya, for instance, are shown as on which these words are printed tión has now fallen behind the
existing within · that industry, now carrying eight 4in. anti-air- could be metamorphosed into rate of world-consumption. But in
which is the greatest in Canada, craft guns instead of the four for- scores of articles in common use. addition to the demands of the
are responsible for so paradoxical merly mounted. the Warapite's in. Treated in one way they would printing-presses, textile" factories
a situation. The result of these guns are reduced from 12 to eight, emerge as a suit of clothes hardly in every land, and all the trade level of commodity prices in Ca-Buffolk now carry no torpedo tubes has been that, while the "general and the cruisers Cumberland and distinguishable in quality from which have found new uses for good worsted. Fling them into a cellulose abre, are also clamouring nada has risen, even in the past but mount alx 4in. anti-aircraft vat, pass them through a batin of for wood-pulp.
five years, by about 10 per cent, guns instead of four. The Fro acid, and they will come
the price of newsprint in the same bisher, Effingham, and Hawkins out as artificial slik, or rayon, as its ma
period has declined by nearly 20 are now shown as armed with 8in. kers call it ready to be woven into
guns, and the Vindictive, having a vast range of attractive fabrics.
been disarmed and demilitarized, INCREASING USE
does not appear in the list at all,
FOREST FIRES The spruce and for forests of Eastern Canada, Scandinavia, and Finland are a steadily diminishing source of supply. In the case of More than 12 years ago-in Sep- Canada, all the newsprint-mills, tember 1924-I published an arti-which lease most of the existing cle in The Daily Mail" warning the timber-limits, are now working to British textile industry of the ser- practically fall capacity, but forest- lous competition which it was fires and various tree-diseases dea about to meet from the "new troy each year quite as much of Bbre." Since then the use of cellu- the standing timber as a cut for lose has extended to a great num-manufacturing requirements, ber of other trades and is con- The optimistic view is sometimes
stantly increasing.
4.
The wood-pulp of which these pages are made might serve as a basis for the manufacture of ropes
expressed that other sources of
wood-fibre will be found to supple- ment the forests of Canada and Scandinavia. When I was in the
have
per cent.
Yet, though the Canadian newsprint industry has rár years been running at a loss, largely owing to unwise com- petition and unbusinesalike ar- rangements with its customers, Its resources remain unimpair- ed.
FOREIGN CRUISERS -*
In the French list the Dunkerque and Strasbourg have been' trans- ferred from the list of battleships to that of battle cruisers, as have the
hips" are transterred to a special Gneisenau, and the "pocket battle- German Scharnhorst and
list of their own. Details of the of the Italian
the excellence of its plant, the It is unrivalled in the world for skill and experience of its person- nel, the abundance of its supplies reconstruction of water and power, and, above all, battleships Conte di Cavour and uated supplies of the best tim.. the possession of conveniently sit-Guillo, Cesare are now given; their for making wood-pulp.
displacement has been increased by 2,000 tons, their 12in guns re- duced by three, and their horse- power has been increased from 31,- 000 to 75,000, giving an increase of speed from 22 to 27 knots: A new list of 7-inch gun cruisers is in-. cluded, which contains only the U.S.S.R.cruiser Krasni Kavkaz,
*
or wickerwork, carpets or uphol- Philippines a few months ago, I stery, plastic. materials or the lac-heard of an experiment being
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY quer to cover them.
started there in the manufacture The lessons learnt in the long FRESH SUBSTANCES of wood-pulp from. bamboo. In period of depression will guide the But these are only the most ob- the United States. there
pulp and paper-makers of Canada vians transformations of which been attempts to utilise the scat in taking advantage of the unpre- cellulose or wood-fibre has been tered woods of Southern pine. cedentedly favourable conditions found. capable, German chemists,
UNIFORM QUALITY
not opening before them. out on their mettle by Herr Hit- But although in theory there are They control by far the largest and states that no others are build- ler's Four Years Plan to make hundreds of varieties of plants sources of a raw material which is ing or projected by the Goriet their country independent of im- which might be possible sources of In fast growing demand, not only Union, nor built, building, nor pr ported raw materials,, are contin- the world's requirements in fibrous for its major use in paper-makingjected by any other Navy ually producing fresh substances raw materiál, nothing in actual but for all sorts of subsidiary pur- In the lighter categories the Bri- derived from wood-pulp..
commercial practice can compete poses that have only recently come fish cruisers Coventry and Curlew The Government department re-with the soft-wood forests of into existence. Nothing can
be are now shown in a special list of sponsible for this Four Years Plan Canada, which alone have the long surer than that this age of cellu- their own, headed, "Anti-aircraft already controls 32 factories in fibre, the high, percentage of cellulose will be for Canada an age of shipe." their new armament, in which a wide and constantly tn lose, the uniform standard quality, golden opportunity.
KING GEORGE V. HOW GIRL DETECTIVE THE KING AS A MASON
*!
STATUE
Sir William Reid Dick As Sculptor
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott As Architect
Sir Wiliam Reid Dick, RA, 'is to be the sculptor of the status of King George V which is to be erected near Westminster Abbey Bir Giles Gibert Scott, RA will be responsible for, the architec tural work in connection with the schema,
Those appointments, it is added, were unanimously agreed to at a meeting of the Executive Commit tee of the King George V. Memorial Fund, on the recommendation of a sub-committee. The Office of Works has undertaken to carry out the necessary practical arrangements in connection with the scheme,
DISTINGUISHED MEN
"“'“SPOTS" PILFERERS
Past Grand Master Of Mark Grand Lodge
place of the five sin, guns and two 3in. A.A. guns formerly mounted, being now 10 4in. A.A, gins. There
is another new list, headed "Light
Cruisers," which contains the 32 French large "Contre-Torpilleurs”. of over 2,000 tons, and the some- what similar Japanese Yubari and At the March meeting of the Brindisi, Venezia, and Quarto. The Italian (ex-German of Austrian)
except the French
Miss Barbara O'Rourke, who was stated to have had two years and a half experience in detect Mark Grand Lodge Lord Bired four last named however, are not ing pilfering at a London store broke, who presided, read a mess-modern, and no similar vessels are was awitheas
in the King's age from the Duke of Connaught, building or protected for any Navy Bench Division in an action for which said that the King had damages for false imprisonment.been pleased to accept the office She said she was 20, and that of Past Grand Master of Mark of about 240 cases of alleged theft | Grand. Lodge. A loyal rote was that she had "detected," there passed to be presented to his new list headed "Small De-"
Majesty in due course. The King stroyers and Torpedo Boats," be Was Grand Warden in 1929 anding included, to which such of the Was Grand Master of the Province British "B" and "R" type su survivé of Middlesex from 1981 to his have been transferred; but this list accession.
does not include the new motor
had been only three acquittals.
Mr. Neville Leak K.C. (cross examining her)--How do you know which people to watch?
the look on their faces.
Miss O'Rourke-You can tell by
SMALLER VESSELS "Destroyers" are now subdivided,
The Duke of Connaught was elec- torpedo-boats, which appear later ted Grand Master for the thirty-on under the category of "Minor She never stated in an inter-seventh year, and Mr. . H. Bon- War Vessels." These lists of small- view that she could "ense" ham-Carter was elected - Grande Teasels, indeed, seem somewhat
Treasures. people who came to pilfer.
conftising, since lists of "Escort Mr. Justice Swift-Have you been interviewed in this country new premises fund, which now marine Chasers," among others, Lord Stradbroke referred to the Vessels," "Gunboats," and "Sub- and not recognised it after? amounts to over £83,000, and cecur both under "Light Surface number of keystone collarettes Vessels, Bub-category C." and un- were presented to masters of der "Minor War Vessels," lodges which have qualined, and which in some casce have con tributed double the amount or their quota
Mr. Laski-No. but I have seen ches that I was alleged to have made that I did not roug-
Ilse.
undertake the design. memorial' statue,
of the
Air William Reid Dick has been president of the Royal Society of Bir Giles Gilbert Scott is the British Sculptors since 1935. Last architect of Liverpool Cathedral December he and Sir Olles Scott, and the new, Waterloo Bridge, the architect, were invited by the London. He is a past-president of committee of the King George the Royal Institute of British National Memorial Fund to Architects.
In the submarine lists, which are now similarly subdivided into large. and small, the only addition or note is the detalle now given of the German submarines bulit and barding. Two of medium sise (0.25 and 28, of 712 tons) and 20 school was the question, "What and nes more of small are are In the Test Paper at Olive's new of small size have been completed are the three stagen of Matter?" bunding; the number projected matter. (2) It won't matter, (3) world's submarine, force ance
Bo Olive Wrote (1) It doesn't not known. The additions It can't matter)
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