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Show PAPER IS MADE OUT OF COM STALKS Process Discovered in Germany; Ger-many; Worth Millions to United States. BERLIN, July 30 (correspondence of the Associated Press). The royal material mate-rial testing office at Gross-L-lchterfelde, a suburb of Berlin, announces the interesting inter-esting discovery that paper can be manufactured manu-factured from cotton stalks. The discovery is not considered of much importance for Germany, which produces no cotton, but Is pointed to as of vast Importance to the United States, the greatest producer of cotton in the world, because of the shortage of paper reported report-ed in that country. The discovery was made, it is stated, by a German Institution while carrying out a commission from an Egyptian firm, given before the war. A shipment of stalks, which had arrived from Egypt before be-fore the opening of hostilities, was used for the experiment. The stalKs were cut and ground, boiled and bleached and the pulp making then ! proceeded, after the usual methods. The result caused the testing office to arrive at the decision that cotton stalks are a , good material for making paper. i NEW YORK, Aug. 7. Lincoln is. Palmer, manager of the American News-; News-; paper Publishers' association, said today I that, although private and governmental j laboratories had been seeking for years , to find a suitable substitute tor wood pulp in the manufacture of paper, noih- j ing had; as yet been produced that would I i stand the test. i "If the Germans have solved the prob-I prob-I lem," he said, "they will have rendered the United States a valuable service, and j it ought to bring millions to the inventor : of the process. The discovery, if true. should prove a boon to the paper-making Industry of this country." |