if it can be recycled by reasonable means common to the paper industry through the pulp stage and to be reformed into paper that is comparable to paper made from virgin wood pulp i e wood pulp that has not previously been in the form of paper such brokable characteristics are generally not possessed by papers treated with the other cationic polyethers of this invention in general the quaternized polyethers of the present invention are most advantageously prepared by first polymerizing an epihalohydrin or copolymerizing the epihalohydrin with one or more alkylene oxides or similar alkyleneoxy compound then reacting essentially all of the pendant haloalkyl groups with a secondary amine primary amine or ammonia and finally reacting the resulting pendant amine groups with epihalohydrin of course in the preparation of the azetidinium polyethers and polyether bearing pendant primary or secondary amine groups is reacted with epihalohydrin and the azetidinium ring is formed by subjecting the polymer to basic conditions of ph of 7 to 10 e g as described by arnold weissberger in heterocyclic compounds with three and four membered rings interscience publishers part two p 891 1964 examples of epihalohydrins useful in the polymerization and amine substitution steps are preferably epichlorohydrin epibromohydrin and others represented by the structure str18 wherein x is chloro or bromo and r is hydrogen or methyl epichlorohydrin is especially preferred examples of suitable alkylene oxides for use in copolymerization with epihalohydrin are the following alkylene oxides e g ethylene oxide propylene oxide 1 2 butylene oxide 2 3 butylene oxide isobutylene oxide and octylene oxide glycidol glycidyl ethers or thioethers e g methyl glycidyl ether allyl glycidyl ether phenyl.