THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK

to the volume of world-wide trade and
commerce. It means more mills and factories—more
 shops—more ships—more banks
—more securities—more prosperity.
As it occurred to me that my opinion of
the vast possibilities of Artificial Silk may
seem to be too optimistic to many readers,
I have secured the opinions of a number of
eminent business men, in both retailing and
manufacturing. As you will see, they are
fully as optimistic as I am.

Sir William Pope says: “ We are only now
beginning to discern dimly certain main lines
of research which may be fruitful.

“Up to the present,” he says, “ progress
has been achieved largely through empirical
means, and the best methods for preparing
and treating the solutions for spinning Artificial
 Silk have been worked out chiefly by
experiment of the trial and error type.”

Sir William Pope has written a Foreword
to Mr. E. Wheeler's book—‘ THE MaNU-FACTURE
 OF ARTIFICIAL SILK,” in which he
points out that in spite of the marvellous
progress that has already been made, the
Artificial Silk trade is only in its early dawn.
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