THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK 
The full noon-day of its prosperity is yet to 
come. 
Sir Edwin Stockton, who may well be said 
to speak for Manchester, says: “I certainly 
believe that the prospects of the British 
Artificial Silk industry are of the very 
brightest, and I suggest that we have so 
far merely touched the fringe of its potential 
future development. 
“ Manufacturers, producers and designers,” 
he says, “are now offered enormous scope 
for their imaginative minds. Who can dare 
to say what the result will he ? 
Roger W. Babson, the American financial 
expert, says: ‘‘ My advice is to watch these 
so-called cellulose industries. Nobody knows 
exactly what cellulose is, but that does not 
stop us from making and using it. The beauty 
of 1t is that cellulose can be made chemically 
from almost anv old thing.” 
Mr. Ben W. Veysey, the head of John 
Dyers, of Southsea, says: ‘‘ Artificial Silk 
has come to stay. The good and reliable 
yarns are rapidly taking ascendancy over the 
poor-quality stuff, which for a time threatened 
to bring the whole industry into disrepute. 
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