THE POLITICAL GOAT The war has ended and left several sev-eral very important questions relative rela-tive to development of.' western oil and water power Industry hanging in the air. Even" eighteen months of war crisis cris-is waB not enough to Jar our nation al legislators intd final action on these subjects which havo already been ponding for years. VA few soclallstlcally Inclined gentlemen gen-tlemen have been able t6 block development de-velopment of these Industries on gov ornment-reserves and thereby harass har-ass and Inconvenience thousands of Industries ad millions of people and all for what simply to play politics, and try to force a socialistic socialis-tic experiment on the public. The net result or this dog in the manger policy has been an unprecedented unprece-dented fuel and power shortage, dls-cquragement dls-cquragement of industry, an inconvenienced incon-venienced public, millions of barrels of oil wasting in the ground, thousands thous-ands of acres of oil land that no hand ia allowed to prospect on, and untold millions of horsepower wasting merrily; mer-rily; to the sea and all for what to carry on soialled conservation theories at expense of the great western epantry. Such a policy Ii a shame and a dta-grace dta-grace and an insult to the intelligence intelli-gence of' the American people.