Show Keeping e Up Wi h c e 0 D 1 El n e e C Science Service Service Wood Products Are Arc I Assigned New Jobs Jobs Jobs' in the Industries By WATSON DAVIS DAYIS New York Wood Wood is Just plain lumber a building material material ma ma- to most people although although al al- though they have heard that I both the paper upon which newspapers are printed and rayon are made from wood Utilization of wood has many ramifications ram In modern Industry today But the editors of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering In a survey survey sur sur- vey discover that wood and products products products prod prod- will have many more uses wes in industry's tomorrow I Take the troublesome liquids that result from the sulphite pulping process first step toward newsprint and rayon Sulphite waste liquor contains lignin partner to cellulose in wood Chemists are looking for jobs for lignin confident that eventually eventually even even- it will be found to be as talented talented tal tat chemically and Industrially as 81 cellulose In Washington state the sulphite liquor is used instead of oil for tor dressing the dirt roads stabilizing sta the soil and giving a hard free dust-free crust There is also research research re re- search looking towards Its use as 81 fertilizer Gas From Wood Waste Wasie In Europe working wood plants make gas from wood waste for tor power power pow pow- er purposes and automobiles are fueled by wood producer gas made as you ride with 25 pounds of wood the reported equivalent of a gallon of gasoline Germany makes make sugar sugar actual actual sweet stuff stuff and and alcohol from wood by two different processes but it is concluded that this would not bedone be bedone bedone done profitably in the United States Then it is possible to squeeze ground sawdust and mill waste Into hard dense products that are stronger strong strong- er than the wood that nature made Inferior softwood lumber can be pressed into hard dense attractive hardwoods ds and the lumber Industry industry indus Indus- try is looking into the commercial possibilities of this thI transformation Awake to the fact tact that they are not limited to the form torm of wood as produced by the tree useful as 81 that thatis is lumber companies are Installing their own research staffs staff and scientists scientists scientists are now helping lumberjacks and In one of the oldest of American Industries |