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- THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1918. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 6 JfOBTH FORSYTE ST. Entered at the Atlanta Poetofflce a» Mail Matter ol the Second Class. JAME3 R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE , Twelve months *. 75* Six months 40c Three months ., -5c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong department* * of special .value to the home and the farm. Agents war ted ct every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R* R- BRAI> . LEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. R. F. Bolton, cT C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money' paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you Insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices Tor this de partment toi THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta,^ Ga. The End of Stripes in Georgia. in abolishing stripes for all Georgia convicts ex cept those of the incorrigible class, the State Prison Com nission has instituted ‘a praiseworthy and very practical reform. A garb that continually reminds the prisoner jf his degradation can serve no useful or justifiable end. It represents a hind df punish ment which thoughtful observers agree is as foolish as it is inhumane and which enlightened States are fast discarding. Stripes are simply a relic of that dark age w T hen little or no discrimination was made among offenders against the law, when jails were conducted as houses of torture ana wnen society’s attitude toward its errant members was one of crushing indifference or persecution. One of the distinctive and cheering traits of this age and this country the more intelligent interest which is being taken in prison problems. It is the mind and conscience of the twentieth century which speaks through this recent order of the Georgia Pris on Commission. “The punishment of a convict,” the commissioners declare, "should be inflicted by the labor he performs and the confinement, not by the garb he wears >r the treatment he receives. By put ting him in stripes you so degra.de and humiliate him as to make it almost hopeless to effect a reforma-, tion of his character.” Georgia is to be congratulated that she has pris on commissioners who recognize one rightful place of reform in the penal system. A State that looks solely to punishment, that disregards the prisoner’s future when he must return to society, that con siders the crime alone and ignores the man, has scant hope of attaining the true ends for which its laws exist Punishment is necessary but without the guidance of reform it is merely a brute force, on which no civilization worthy the name can be built or sustained. • Lender the new order of the Commission there will be tnree grades of convicts. Those in the highest twa grades will wear uniforms, the particular color O- che uniform indicating whether the prisoner is in the first or the second grade. Only the lowest class of convicts, those who are incorrigible and are guilty O- extraordinary offenses against discipline, will be put in stripes; and even they by improving their conduct will be eligible to the two higher grades. There will thus be provided a system of honor, serving as a stimulus and encouragement' to the pris oner s liter self. There will be an appeal to the human and social side of his character; and if we may rightly judge from the records of other pro gressive States where this system has been tried, the discipline and the working efficiency of the con victs Will be greatly improved. Georgia is moving steadily forward in matters of penal reform. The Legislature enacted at its last 'session several measures of this character, wfiich will result in far-reaching good. We have ceased to regard such issues either indifferently or sentimen tally; we have come to study them in the light of the individual’s practical welfare and the commun ity’s practical good. * The Passive “Concert” of Europe. It has been truly said that the only visible achieve ment of the concert of European Powers in the Balkan disturbance has been “the preservation of peace among its members and the rather inglorious coer cion of poor little Montenegro.” They were unable to prevent the first peninsula war and either unable or unwilling to avert the second. It was through their good offices, to be sure, that the treaty of Lon don was adopted and their influence in devising the terms of that "agreement was potent. But now they shdw little capacity or inclination to hold Turkey to a faithful observance of its promises. When Montenegro conquered Scutari and pro posed to establish a rule in Albania contrary to the plans of the Powers, they straightway offered a very- vigorous and effective protest. But they are appar- enly passive in the face of Turkey’s far bolder and moye dangerous defiance of the London treaty. Tur key have reoccupied Adrianople which was the one great objective point of the first Balkan conflict and which the Bulgarians fairly won; and now the Otto man government insists upon retaining that city. If this is permitted, the new boundaries agreed upon iii the treaty of London will all be opened to further dispute and the problems supposed to have been -'settled by the first war will reappear as vexing as •ever. Bulgaria, bled to exhaustion by its recent strug gle with its one-time allies, Servia and Greece, is manifestly unable to enforce its own rightful claim to Adrianople. v The Turks must he held to their agreement by concerted action of tne Powers or not at all. ,What will Europe do? For the present, it is doing nothing. It has meant much, of course, that the Powers have maintained their own balance during the troublous and treacherous days of the Balkan wars. The fact that they have not fallen to fighting among themselves is a tribute to the skill and prudence of their diplomacy. At the same time, the Turkish problem remains unsoived and until it is solved definitely and justly the peace of Europe will be at stake. Congress Should Kill The Clarke Amendment It is a matter of vital importance to the country at large, and particularly to the South and the South ern farmer, that the proposed tariff amendment, taxing all cotton sold for future delivery, he de feated. To the merchant and the manufacturer of cotton, such a tax would be flagrantly unjust hut, to the cotton producer, It would be little short of dis astrous. It would narrow his market, cut down his profits and wring from his labor a harder tribute than the trusts or the Aldrich tariff ever dared im pose. \ This ill-advised and really outrageous scheme was interpolated in the Democratic tariff bill through an amendment^ off' reu by Senator Clarke, of Arkansas. It had no place in the measure originally passed by the House and Its purpose is utterly foreign to that of tariff reform. It proposes a federal tax of one- tenth of one cent a pound on contracts for future delivery of cotton. That would mean a tax of fifty cents a bale on all cotton traded at the exchanges. True this levy applies ostensibly to cotton futures alone, but it is a fact universally known that the cotton business cannot be carried on unless the mer chant has some means of protecting himself against the continual and often violent fluctuations of the cotton market. A cotton firm in Georgia, for instance, may sell to American or Eiropean spinners cotton to the amount of a hundred thousand bates, subject to de livery through the year in monthly allotments, suited to the purchasers’ demands. Fluctuations In the price of cotton are greater than in that of any other commodity. Obviously, no dealer could afford o make a contract involving so large an amount of money and exposed to the endless uncertainties of the cotton market without some assurance against ruinous losses. This necessary safeguard is now pro vided in the cotton exchange through which mer chants can buy contracts against their sales with a sufficient margin established between the two to fix a definite profit on their transactions. It is, therefore, evident that the cotton future contract is absolutely essential to the orderly and profitable conduct* of legitimate cotton business. In deed, it is the very basis of that vast fteld kf inter ests comprised in the merchandising, the manufac ture and even the production of cotton; for without freedom and security in the buying and selling of cotton, the cotton grower cannot receive his due. The purpose of the Clark amendment to the tariff bill is to penalize, if not destroy, contracts for future delivery of cotton. The proposed tax would amount, as we have said, t., fifty cents a bale, or fifty dollars per hundred bales, a sum which one authority de clares Would be “as much as cotton merchants now expect to make as net profit on any of their transac tions and certainly more ’ than any cotton merchant or firr of cotton merchants ~ in the country has averaged over a period of years.” The tax would thus be virtually destructive of the present right to secure prrtective future contracts. The result of this would be twofold. In the first place, it would tern, to concentrate the power of pur chasing cotton in the hands of a few large buyers, for, the dealer with onl. moderate resources could not af ford to take the risk of a continually fluctuating mar- ketj if he were deprived of the “hedge” protection. In the next place, such dealers as remained in business would naturally discount the price they heretofore have paid the farmer and .hus at the farmer’s ex pense insure themselves against loss. In either event, it would be the cotton grower who would bear the brunt of this unjust tax. If a large number of small buyers are driven out of business, then will soon develop a powerful cotton monopoly that can hold both the farmer and the consumer at its mercy. And what a mockery It would be for a Democratic Congress to place in the very law which is desired to strike the fetters from individual en terprise a provision that would inevitably foster a new And tyrannous trust! Even if a considerable number of small buyers remained in the market, they would, as we have said, deduct the future-con tract tax from J h price paid the producer. The merchant and the manufacture: would be sorely in convenienced, If not deeply injured but the heaviest suffering, the ultimate burden of this tax would fall upon the Southern' farmer. Something must be done, and done promptly, to avert the grave injustice with which all those inter ests that depend upon the South’s greatest crop are threatened.' The Democratic caucus of the Senate, despite earnest ani_ logical appeals, has declined to reconsider its approval of the Clark amendment, so" that the tariff hill will doubtless pass the Senate un relieved of this dangerous provision. But the cotton tax amendment, together with a nu noer of others that have been proposed in the Senate, must be accepted by the House before the bill becomes a law. There thus remain hope and opportunity for freeing an otherwise magnificent work of legislation from this disgraceful and vicious amendment. It is earnestly t- be hoped that the Democrats of the House will stand immovably against the tax which, should it he allowed to pass, would bring irreparable hardship to millions of farmers, and would damage every department of America’s cotton interests. If they will stand stanchly for what is wise and right in this issue and will urge their con victions in subsequent committee conferences with the Senate, they can save the South and the common country from the consequences of this outrageous cotton tax. Let every Democrat in the House, and especially every Demi crat who represents the South, fight relentlessly to the last ditch against the Clarke amendment. S. of n., Constant Beauty Is in the Cornwall, Conn., telephone directory, and if you don’t believe it call up 23—5. Cornwall. Senator Newlands Stands By the Party. Democratic leaders are much relieved by Senator Newland’s assuring statement that he will stand by the administration’s tariff bill when it comes to a final vote. Indeed, it has never been his purpose, says the Nevada Senator, to make any tight on the bill outside the party ranks, though he will persist in his effort to effect certain changes within the caucus. With the gler.d<r majority they nc«*hn«f> .in the Senate, the Democrats are naturally concerned over the safety of the tariff measure. Had Senator New lands faited the party in the eleventh hour, the re sults might have been keenly discomforting. His attitude, however, is one of workmanly patriotism. He will not press his individual views to the point of defeating tariff reform. What a pity the Louisiana Senators could not adopt this wise course. Japan and China. Japan, like moot countries, has its plague of pro fessional war-seekers. The jingoes are now inflamed over the reported shooting of a number of Japanese subjects during a fight between Chinese government troops and rebel forces in Nanking. The more rad ical newspapers in Tokio are said to be demanding military action and some of them go so far to urge the occupation ot a Chinese port “until full repara tion has been made.” Sensational chatter of this tone is not to be regarded as presaging any serious difficulty between China and Japan % The governments of both na tions are under the guidance of prudent men who understand the saving grace of diplomacy. If Japa nese subjects have been kilted in the now extin guished rebellion of Southern China, the officials of the latter, country will doubtless respect and satisfy any just claims that may be presented; and Japa nese officials, if !eii free to exercise .heir own discre tion, may be depended upon to handle this issue in a proper and orderly manner. There is no gainsaying the fact, however, that Japan is troubled with an element of ambitious militarists who are eager to seize upon every ex cuse for fanning the spirit of war; and it is but natural that they should he particularly vehement In trying to arouse hostility toward Ihina. The new republic, with its intensely progressive and demo cratic ideas stands as i a continual contrast to the imperialistic regime in Japan. Its growing place in the world’s regard bestirs no little jealousy among those Japanese who hold narrow views of interna tional affairs. Besides this, Jhina is now rather embarrassed by fimncial problems and by its com parative' unfamilia. ity with a republican system of Government. The Japanese jingoes probably reason that this is the time and the place to strike, if strike they can. IN PRAISE OF LAZINESS BY DR. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.) A Nation-Wide Demand. Through all the comment that has been made the country over, on the latest New Haven wreck, there runs a persistent demand for the replacement of wooden cars with cars of steel. On this point, the public mind is evidently very clear and very deter mined. If those great railway systems, which still cling to obsolete equipment will not voluntarily avail themselves of modern safeguards in behalf of their own as well as their patrons’ interests, they should be compelled to do so by iaw. It seems commonly agreed that this rear-end colli sion on the New Haven would not have been a tithe so terrible in its sacrifice of life, had the coaches been of steel instead of wood. The Philadelphia Public Ledger calls attention to the fact that in a recent Pennsylvania wreck, exactly similar to that in the New Haven line, more than one hundred and fifty passengers were only slightly injured and not one suffered a broken bone. The difference lay in the circumstance that the cars involved in the Penn sylvania accident -tere made of steel nd were, there fore, proof against the tremendous shock. The wood en cars, on the contrary, were merely so much paste board under the engine which cleaved them. These two cases of one train at high speed telescoping another, supply an unanswerable ar gumentsays the Ledger, “in favor of steel cars. Steel cars cost the railroads an immense sum of money but they protect human life.’' It is doubtful If in the long run, the cost of steel cars would be greater. Certain it Is that modern equipment -would have proved far more economical to the New Haven railroad than the reckless policy of adventurous finance to which Wall Street specula tors have sacrificed this great line. A Victory for Bird Protection. It is a matter of keen satisfaction to everyone who realizes the importance of protecting bird life that the Senate Democratic caucus lias restored to the tariff bill a clause prohibiting the Importation of feathers and plumage from certain valuable species of wild birds. This means that the United States will set the world a timely and wholesome example which other nations will doubtless follow and which will go far toward putting an end to a costly and cruel traffic. The tariff bill, as originally passed by the House, contained a provision that virtually closed American ports to shipments of feathers and plumage intended for commercial uses. This clause was inserted large ly through the influence of Audubon societies and conservationists and it won the ready assent of thoughtful Congressmen, irrespective of party align ments. In the Senate, however, there developed rather a remarkable opposition to the bird protection clause so that its passage seemed for a while ex tremely doubtful. But the friends of the provision rallied to its support and brought to bear so strong a pressure of logic and public sentiment that the Senate’s approval was finally won. This is an interesting example of what organized effort for the safeguarding of birds can accomplish; and it also reveals a great awakening on the part of the American people to the importance of this sub ject. A decade ago such a measure as this would have had little or no chance in either branch of Con gress; it would have hen treated with indifference, if not ridicule. But when our representatives at Washington receive letters and telegrams and per sonal visits fronj people in every part or the country, all unselfishly interested and all armed with well- considered, reasonable pleas for the preservation of valuable birds, results inevitably follijw. This legis lation is the triumph of an awakened public mind and public conscience and it is a distinctive tribute to the influence and the usefulness of, our Audubon societies. • f Out of he Mouths of Babes Teacher—“What is the highest form of animal life. Tommy?” Little Tommy—“The giraffe.” Sunday School Teacher—“Albert, can you tell me the cause of Adam’s downfall?’’ Albert—No, ma’am—unless he stepped on a banana peel.” Uncle Joe-—“Can you write, yet, Raymond?" Raymond—“Only with a pencil.” Uncle Joe—“Can’t you write with ink?" Raymond—“No; ink takes up too much room.” “Mamma,” said little (Gertrude, who lived in a flat, “somebody is going to have boiled cabbage for din ner." “How do you know?" asked her mother. “My nose told me," replied Gertrude. T make no bones of it., but here confess and set down that I am lazy, t was born lazy and it has grown on me. I would never move at all if it did not hurt bo to remain in one posi tion. The only reason I take ex ercise is in order to relax after ward. Furthermore, I raise my voice in defense of the army of lazy ones. They are the salt of the earth. A lazy person does better work than an industrious body. He puts a fiery energy into .his task because he wants to finish It as soon as possible. A lazy boy vrill saw wood fast so that he can get through and rest. A lazy girl sweeps the room with whirlwind activity, while the girl who loves work will fiddle about all morning. It is laziness that is the spring of human progress. Because a lazy man wanted to get out of the job of currying the horse, he thought out a plan for put ting a bucket of gasoline under the buggy seat, whereby we ride like the wind. Because lazy folks hated to climb stairs elevators were invented. Because people were too lazy jto get off the train and go to the lunch counter, they devised dining cars; and being too lazy to ride on the railway all night sit ting up, they contrived sleeping cars. Being too lazy to dip his pen in the ink every few seconds, some genius invented the fountain pen. And being too lazy even to use that, he proceeded to build a typewriter. Also too lazy to run the typewriter himself, he started the fashion of having girl typists. It was a lazy genius that thought of making a patent cigar lighter out of a flint stone and benzine, because he was too tired to strike matches. Likewise, who would have conceived the idea of a fireless cooker except some woman too lazy to stand over the cook stove? The eight-day clock is due to the unwillingness of men to wind the thing up every evening; and now they have clocks that will run a year. .* The coat-shirt is the triumph of laziness too great to put the garment on over one’s head, in the good old style. It is to almighty laziness we owe the ocean liner, the electric telegraph, the baby wagon, the buggy spring, Cook’s tours, the shoe horn and the works of Mark Twain. It is told of the last named that when he worked in a newspaper office he would pay the office boy a nickel to sweep around him so that he w<>uld not have to take his feet off the table. If everybody was an earnest and toiling little Willie that just ate up work and loved to. employ every mo ment in useful energy, we should lapse into barbar ism. L It is because the race is so blamed trifling and shiftless that it forges ahead. PA6S IT NOW No one should be deceived toy the movement devel oping in the senate to put over the currency bill to another time. It is not for the purpose of perfecting the legislation but for the purpose of defeating it. More time is wanted not so much to enlighten sena tors as to enable hostile bankers to bend the legisla tion to their exclusive demands. This bill is already the product of extended public hearings and many perfecting changes. It is broadly based on a plan which had the “unqualified approval” of the American Bankers' association It differs from that plain mainly in substituting a 1 federated reserve system for a central reserve bank and limited govern ment control for exclusive banking control. But these are divergences which public sentiment ^imperatively demands and which no end of senatorial delay and discussion can overcome. The country wants action in protection against fur ther bank-bred panics. The banks were demanding action until it appeared they could not dictate alto gether what it should be. Congress is as well pre pared now to take action as it ever will be. We have had a long season of uncertainty over the tariff. We do not want another long season of uncer tainty over the currency. As the one period of sus pense is about to end, why not end the other? Give trade and industry a chance. As their tariff shackles are broken, why not knock off also the shackles of a panic-breeding bank and currency system? Delay in continued uncertainty'may be worse than definite defeat. The time for currency reform is now. —New York World. An Adaptable Prodigal A man who lived in Raleigh, N. C., fell heir to about $15,000 and immediately spent it in high living. A second and a third good-sized sum of money came to him, and each time he played prodigal son until ne was without funds. One day Josephus Daniels, now secretary of the navy, met this man oil the street In Raleigh. The prod igal was in rags, looking hungry and was evidently in very hard luck. “It seems to me that you must have a tough time," said Daniels. “How do you stand it after the good living, luxuries and fine clothes you naye been accustomed to?" “Mr. Daniels,’’ the man replied, '’I’ll tell you how I do it; I have made arrangements to get along with out what I can’t get.”—Saturday Evening Post. Quips and Quiddities “Speaking of cruelty to animals," writes Burgess Johnson, “if Daniel was a very thin man when they threw him into the den—" A Dane who owned a farm in Kansas applied for naturalization papers, says an exchange. ^ The judge asked him: “Are you satisfied with the general conditions of the country?” “Yas,” drawled the Dane. “Does the form of government suit you?" queried the judge. “Yas, yas; only I would Hke to see more rain," re plied the farmer. * • • Reuben—“Silas don't seem to care much for the theater." Hiram—“No, he don’t. When I was with him in New York we went to on© o’ them continual perform ances, an’ We wasn’t there more’n three or four hours afore he got tired." * * • "Hi, waiter! This chicken is mighty tough." “Very sorry, sir, but when we came to kill it we couldn’t catch it, so at last we had to shoot the bird as it flew on to tne barn." “Blast it! Y'ou must have shot the weathercock by mistake!" m m 9 t Charles P, Norcross went into a cigar store in k Pennsylvania town and asked for some good cigars. A brand that retailed three for a quarter was the best the cigar man could offer. Norcross took three and lighted one. He stood puffing at it for a moment and the dealer asked: “How do you like that cigar?" “It’s rotten!" said Norcross. “Well," said the dealer, “I can’t see that you’ve got any particular kick coming. You’ve only got three of them and I’ve got a thousand!’’—Saturday Evening Post. SHORTAGE IN GASOLINE BY FREDERIC J. BASKIN. “Wanted—A substitute for gasoline. Millions of dollars for the right liquid fuel at the right price. Ap ply’ to any chemical or mechanical engineer in the world." Such is the desire, translated into the language of the want ad page, of a large portion of 4he scientific and industrial world. Gasoline Is not only high In price, but there actually is not enough of the product in sight to keep pace witn the rap idly increasing number of inter nal combustion engines, which must use a liquid fuel so highly volatile that upon the appftca- tion of heat ^t will be turned fhto gas ready to be exploded by an electric sparker. Kerosene may be used but it requires a specially constructed carburetor and the application of much outside heat before the engine can be started. Alcohol may be used, but it is even higher in price than gasoline, although the supply is practically unlimited. The International Association of Recognized Auto mobile clubs, the membership of which is composed of representatives of ^he most influential automobile clubs>in the world, has offered an award of $100,000 cash for the best all-round fuel other than “petrol," or gasoline, whicn will satisfactorily take the place of the petroleum product. The decision was made at the meeting of the board of directors held in Paris last February, when it was arranged that each of the big clubs in the organization representing France, Eng land, Germany, Austria Hungary, Holland, Russia* Switzerland, Roumania and Egypt, should contribute its portion to the general fund which shall constitute the prize. Baron de Kuylen de Nyvelt is the chairman of the committee and has hii. office in Paris at the headquarters of the International Association of Recognized Automobile clubs. ... The British Society of Motor Manufacturers amt Traders Is offering a prize amounting to the same sum. The restrictio is are very simple. The fuel must be suitable for existing Internal combustion engines. It must be less expensive, readily procurable and of such nature that It cannot be'cornered by trusts, either national or international. Preparations for the formal announcement of these conditions are now being mad^ ready by the committees. A important detail in con nection with the prize offered by the Association of .tomobile clubs is the assurance, which will be ob tained from all 01 the governments of Europe, tl.at the new fuel will be taxed very moderately if at all. • • >* In the United States equal interest is being mani fested in a gasoline substitute. Several new fuels are now being tried out by automobile manufacturing companies, the results of which are not yet complete. One of these which it is claimed can be manufactured at 3 cents le§s per gallon than ,the present rate for gasoline has indicated a capacity of 15 per cent more mileage to the gallon than gasoline. Another fuel has proved smokeless, sootless and practically odorless, but, according to the present tests, it will not start the engine as quickly as gasoline. • • • A meeting was held in Pittsburg during the first week in August to which were invited delegates from twenty different organizations interested in petroleum and its products. A careful study has been made of the gasoline situation with relation to its use for fuel and arrangements were made for the co-operation ol this nation with the International Petroleum commit sion, which was organized in Paris several years ago. • • • In order to obtain a single gallon of gasoline from refinable California petroleum, it is necessary to pro duce as by-products nine gallons of kerosene ani» thirty gallons of residue oils. In other words, it re quires forty gallons of crude petroleum to secure on* gallon of gasoline. Althcugh the output of western petroleum is continually increasing the price of gaso line is rising. The investigations made by the depart ment of commerce indicate that the advancing price of gasoline is due solely to the law of supply and de mand. No trust or corporation is responsible for the higher prices which are now impending. * '999 The production of crude # oil. in this country will probably approximate So*.000,000 barrels this year. But the largest increase of production of gasoline y£t recorded in a yei r has been less than 10 per cent, while the production of power-driven vehicles Tpdll in. all probability-represent an increase of 100 per cent. In addition to this the supply of crude oils yielding gasoline? is decreasing. The increased crude oil out put of Oklahoma and California will consist largely of asphalt oils having insufficient gasoline for existing requirements. • • • A means of supplementing the present gasoline re sources which is likely to give some addition to the future supply is the manufacture of gasoline from the natural gas which comes from sands associated with the oil fields. This process has passed the experi mental stage in California. It consists of compress ing the gas and subsequently condensing it into liquid form. The process was introduced nearly five years ago. By 19J0 over 13,000 gallons of gasoline were produced by it. In 1911 50,000 gallons were secured and this quantity was more than doubled in 1912. A movement is now under way to buy up all the gas whioh has been going to yvaste in the Santa Maria oil field. The promoters are to pay 6 cents per 1,000 feet for it, and it is expected that the output from this source will result In a, large quantity of gasoline this year, although even this Increase will not be in any/ way equivalent to the Increase in the demand. ... v The use of kerosene as a substitute for gasoline in the Production of motor power is feasible, and Is being regarded with Increasing favor, especially by au tomobile manufacturers. At the recent meeting held In Pittsburg for the discussion of the fluid fuel prob lem several manufacturers expressed the opinion that kerosene might Solve It. ... * Several kerosene carburetors are now upon the mar ket which are reported to have met the full require ments of the tests to which tSey have been subjected. At a meeting of the Society of Automobile Engineers held in Indianapolis last month, the opinion was ex pressed that despite the fact that the oil-driven en gine had heretofore had less commercial popularity than the gas or gasoline engine, it will in the future come to supply the power for transportation by land, water and air. ... The shortage in the/gasollne supply caused by the increased demand is well recognized by the United States navy which is planning to depend less upon It in the future. Even now the only gasoline used by the navy is to supply the engines of some of the sub marines and for the motor Doats which are furnished to the large battleships. The hew submarines are be ing supplied with burning oil engines because the In creasing output of American crude oil renders the fuel oil resources much more dependable than those of gas oline. ... * In connection with the market prices of kerosene and gasoline, it is interesting to note how values are affected by popular demand. In former days the oil engine was expensive because of the high price of both crude and refined oils. Now the conditions arc absolutely reversed. Kerosene has become a by-prod uct of little value. It is quoted at 60 per cent less a gallon than gasoline. The increased use of elec tricity and gas for illumination has greatly lowered the demand for kerosene since it is no longer in such great demand for lighting N purposes. Consequently, some additional use for It must be found if It is to .pre serve its value as a marketable commodity. , * mi V