CHEMICAL PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH: PREFACE The facts here collected are presented in the hope that some can be found who will make use of them. It is for the reader therefore to determine whether the effort made is worthwhile. In a short time the facts collected will be out of date and this publicatiou forgotten. But if the reader will use the facts presented to accomplish something of benefit, his accomplishment will live on and bear fruit as the years go by, perhaps a hundredfold. The book deals with the present. but if you would read it with an understanding heart, think of the future and translate some of your thoughts into action. In re-reading the pages the editor is troubled mainly by one feeling. Perhaps he has been too modest in the suggestions made. There is no reason why the South should not build up educational institutions the equal in all respects of the best in the United States. Its industrial expansion should rival that of any section of the country. Its laborers should have equal training and equal capacity and should receive equal pay. Therefore look to the future and plan for big things. Let each individual do his own best to bring to pass the realization of those plans. Some omissions have doubtless occurred through ignorance, others from necessity. Certain interesting developments could not be described because the owners did not desire any publication a t this time concerning the processes involved. In this publication the opinions expressed are the opinions of the individual authors. The Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, of the National Research Council, would express the thanks of the Division and his own thanks to the many who have contributed material for this volume, and to those who have aided by the information furnished, and by suggestions as to the work. Without this cooperation nothing could have been accomplished. Particularly we would express our sincere thanks for the assistance of Doctor Clarence J. West and Miss Callie Hull of the Research Information Service, of the National Research Council, who have prepared Part V of this volume for publicatiou, and for the generosity of the Chemical Foundation, which has borne the expenses of its publication. The chemists of the nation owe a real debt to Mr. Francis P. Garvan and to the Chemical Foundation for their great contribution to the advancement of chemistry in this country by the aid so often given to the publication of information encouraging the development of chemistry. Woshingloa, D. C. J. E. Mum. Chairmun June 28,1930
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