THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
to the volume of world-wide trade and 
commerce. It means more mills and fac- 
tories—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 Arti- 
ficial 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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