Show south Is treasury for U S chemists raw material wealth cited in survey physical frontiers are gone but chemical frontiers remain to chal lenge the united states dr frank C whitmore dean of the school of chemistry and physics at the perm penn sylvania state college believes writes a state college pa united press correspondent the south will be the chemical frontier of the country for the next quarter century at least he said after a tour through the southern states to visit sections of the amer ican chemical society its chemical raw materials es specially ally the new ones such as cellulose starch and vegetable oils have hardly been touched they are ready for the chemical pioneers who are going south and the additional ones trained in southern matitu turns considering the united states as a whole dr whitmore believes it has limitless supplies of cellulose in cot ton the purest form in the slightly less pure form of cotton finters and in the rapid growing pine he said pine made an ideal chemical crop because it utilizes sunlight water and air without taking more than traces of nitrogen phosphorus and potash from the soil starch also exists in limitless quantities from fast growing crops such as sweet potatoes dr whit more continued the department of agriculture has already placed this preparation of starch on a semi commercial basis great varieties of vegetable oils such as cottonseed oil peanut oil and tung oil exist in limitless si p plies the tung groves are reach hg the besix bearing ing stage in many parts of the south A nation which is growing must constantly have new tron fron tiers physical frontiers are gone but chemical frontiers remain to challenge the united states |