“Our final honorary doctorate goes to John P. Lind, who kicked
in three million claws for a chem lab.”

This sound like a contem
porary ppc hades

"Coal and oil are strictly
limited in quantity. We
can take coal out of a
mine but we can never put
it back. We can draw oil
from subterranean reser-
voirs, but we can never
refill them again. We

are spendthrifts in the
matter of fuel. In rela-
tion to coal and oil, the
world's annual consumption
has become so enormous that
we are now actually within
measurable distance of the
end of the supply."

Addressing a graduation
Class in Washington, D.C.
Alexander Graham Bell, in
1917, went on to say:

*

"There is, however, one
other source of fuel supply
which may perhaps solve the
problem of the future. Al-
cohol makes a beautiful,
clean and efficient fuel,
and can be manufactured very
cheaply.

"Alcohol can be manufactured

from corn stalks, and from
almost any vegetable matter
capable of fermentation.
The waste products of our
farms are available for
this purpose, and even the
garbage from our cities.

We need never fear the ex-

haustion of our present fuel

supplies so long as we can
produce an annual crop of

alcohol to any extent de-
sired."
Now reed this Crilomn pasy

(Apil 30, 1474) Wessase
2:

OF RUSINESS

(*

WASHINGTON (AP) — A
scientist urged the United.
States today to go on an
alcohol-production binge— as,
a panacea not only for the en- »
ergy crisis but also for “many
other social problems” includ-
ing unemployment. ;

Physicist Peter Fong advo-
cated a $12-billion-a-year
“‘alcohol-fuel industry’ that
would be manned primarily
by people on about 1.5 mil-

Jion small ‘alcohol farms”
stretched across the U.S.

The farms would be devoted
to making into alcohol corn
that Fong said could be raised
on now-idle cropland.

Fong, from Emory Univer--
sity, Atlanta, Ga., said the
new breed of alcohol -

producers might come frofi
“the hard-core unemployed
city slums.” ame

He said such an industty
would provide alcohol as ‘a
supplementary motor fuel “to
meet the current gasoline
shortage’’ and pave the way
to making alcohol ‘‘the motor
fuel in the distant future.” *

He spoke to the spri
meeting of the Alberta
Physical Society.

 

Some U.S

°sy exists to mix gasoline |
and alcohol to stretch the
gasoline supply.

buretors would have to be

changed, and the methods

of processin
; & and di c
ting the fuel. oe

lo ain

Auto car-

 

* €xperts say technol-