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Show oo ' LUMBER IS MADE FROM WASTE PAPER Kansas City, Sept. 21. So"' nearly perfect has artificial lumber been made fiom paper there is no longer cause for gTcat worry over forest conservation, said J. B. White, chairman chair-man of tho executive committee of thp National Conservation Congress hero tonlghL Ho has Just returned from a .trip through eastern stales. Much of his time there was spent Investigating tho manufacture of "lumber" "lum-ber" fiom paper. "A superior quality of artificial paper pa-per can bq manufactured choaper than natural lumber can be grown," he said. "Taking 57 per cent waste paper, 22 per cent straw, 5 per cent juto and 1G per cent wood fibre, a ton pf flbro board one-fourth inch thick or )00 fejjt of inch lumber can bo produced,"-. . A C ' J 4 oo -: I ' i |