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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June 11, 1953
Do you know anything about cel
lulose? I'll have to tell a story
which "brings in my refreshing and
enthusiastic friend, Mr. J. B.
phv, known affectionately as “Pat’ |
Some years ago "Pal" came before; between rollers
gak and stately palm, the grass that
lovers the good earth, the lichens
that clothe the rocks, even the mi
nute algae that flourish in the sea,
all are manufacturing cellulose. It
is the great primary substance Of
the whole vegetable kingdom.
Cotton for calico, flax for linen,
hemp for rope—our great vegetable
fibers—are all composed chiefly of
cellulose. Paper is almost pure cel
lulose. It is made of the fibrous
partof wood cleaned of its sap, its
resins, its minerals, and its binding
compound called lignin, and then
felted and pressed into thin sheets
These are old,
a farm organisation and spoke with 1 every day uses of cellulose^ as
true Hibernian eloquence in favor i commonplace a s a handkerchief and
of the plan to organize a National this morning’s newspaper
Cotton Council. At the next meet
ing came Colonel Murphy again ex
tolling the new organization and its
probable service to the cotton grow
ers, and, therefore, to all the world.
My friend Murphy, like a true
son of Erin, never does things by
halves: when he is for something he relieve stomach ulcers to wall-
goes all out, with unquenchable boards and beltirig to drive machin-
and irresistable zeal; and when he,ery. Before we could harvest this
^ not for it he says nothing in sev- rich crop of new products for bet-
e ral languages, particularly that lin-: ter living for all of us, scores of pa-
go spoken in Texas and regarded tient research workers had to learn
bv them as Spanish. ’ 1 a lot about cellulose itself.
Today cellulose treated with
chemicals yields us not only fibers,
plastics, lacquers, and films for
wrapping and for photographs and
motion pictures, but many
useful products that range
fingernail polish and compounds to
Mr. Murphy had spoken and had
brought a real vision to the Farm
Within the past twenty-six years,
thanks to chemical research, man’s
Council, when a very prominent ag- oldest material has thus become the
riculture specialist in high official i^asis gf ultramodern industries. The
position proceeded to throw a lot chemical that grows is now one of
sume of both alumninum' and cop
Per. ' ^ .
The purified cellulose we use in
industry takes no acount of the, bil
lions of tons of raw cellulose eaten
as fodder^ by beef cattle, dairy cows
and horses of the billions more tons
that we ourselves consume in car
rots and beets, apples and peaches.
All grasses, all vegetables, all fruits
contain more or less cellulose.
Fortunate indeed for mankind
that this greatest of our raw mate
rials is that the economists call a
replenishable asset’. Unlike our
great mineral raw materials—coal,
petroleum, sulfur, phosphorus, pot
ash, and all the metals—whose sup
ply on earth is fixed, cellulose is a
product of al living plants. It is
truly a substance- , of
dance in nature.
Not only is cellulose abundant
but, what is most important in
, these days, it is widely available,
other | Save in the polar regions and in the
from deserts, cellulose is at hand for use
by all peoples all over the earth.
There is probably no have-not-cel
lulose nation.
Cellulose is the great chemurgic
crop—that is, a crop grown for in
dustrial use, not for food. The
chemical that grows is an ideal
raw material out of which to build
a global economy of abundance for
all mankind.”
So, what?
* • *
r .superabun-
oi cold water on the plan. Out of
the warm affection of my heart for
our most important, most versatile
raw materials, so that in 1952 wc
my friend Murphy I stepped in to Americans consumed over 85,000,-
back him up, bolster-him while he Q00 tons Of cellulose. That is almost
was smarting under the cynical re- as man y tons as we use of steel; ten
marks of our agricultural leader, times as much cellulose as we con-
Mr. Murphy and I are farmers: thatj , , „., r ,,, ,,, ■ ,, v
we are lawyers who. talk about
farming, though we might not run **
In London my first Sunday there,
I heard Dr. Jowett preach. His text,
“When the Son of Man cometh shall
he find faith on the earth”? And
the sermon was a gracious and
moving exposition by the great
preacher. There was hearty con
gregational singing and an atmos
phere of quiet, peace and friendli
ness. Straingely enough, most of us
Americans went to hear Dr. Jowett.
I was then at the Washington Inn,
a hotel for American casuals, in St.
James’ Park, near the home of Lord
and Lady Astor. My first three
nights I had a cot in Lord Astor’s
home.
That week, as I recall, someone
suggested we go to Buckingham
Palace (residence of the King and
Queen) to see the change of the
guard, the King’s sentinels comnig
on duty, while others were being
relieved, stepping high, the regu
lar goosestep. We were a bit late,
but a British offeer, seeing us in
uniform, told us that there was to
be a ceremony and invited us to at
tend. We didn’t know what was to
happen but were given good seats
near the front in a place arranged
in the court yard of the palace.
It was a great sight. King George
conferred high honors on Lord Haig
his Majesty knighted an officer,
slapping him on the shoulder with
the flat of his sword and saying,
“Arise, Sir Knight” Best of alll
was the Victoria Cross part, when
a Tommy, Britain’s private soldier,
stood before his King to receive the
Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest
award for heroism above and be
yond the obligations of the military
service. It is like our Congression
al Medal. *
I must tell something on myself:
when the King appeared the band
played something and all stood.
Knowing his Majesty’s tact and
graciousness I thought the band was
playing America, as“ a compliment
to us. Nay, nay; not so: the band
ITS NEW. ITS HERE
a straight furrow except in words, jg
The point of all this harangue is
this: the Agricultural specialist
thought he would knock us into a
cocked hat by this blast: "Well; af
ter Ml, you can’t deny that the basis
of cotton is cellulose." That left
Mr. Murphy and me almost speech
less. If that brother meant to drag
us into chemistry we laywer-farm-
ers would have to throw down our
a mere iota or speck of an idea—
guns and run. One little idea—just
came to me and in a last gasp I said
‘ Well, I don’t know anything about
Cellulose; do you?”
Here before me is a book: “Cellu
lose: the chemical that grows”.
Some years after the agricultural
specialist had hurled his atomic
bomb at us I told a great chemist
about the remark. Said he, > ‘Well,
I’ve been studying cellulose for
years and I certainly don’t know
all about it, by any means.’’
Says the book:
"The man who undertakes to as
say the great services of the cellu*.
lose molecule to the humarrmamily,
services both direct and indirect,
must exercise restraint, lest he fall
into the scientific sin of over-ent-
.hi:s::ism.” ,
Tli s warning I pass albngTcTyou. g
O ..’osc- his fired the imagination!§
<:i tf • hr:hunt chemists and hard-18
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