Show FARMERS WANT FREE ALCOHOL Would Revolutionize Production lion tion Power and Heat I j. j Said Vii i. i ITS SOURCE IS UNLIMITED 5 1 k fr 1 Denatured Grain Alcohol kohol Would Take t. v v 4 PIneo a and 11 Wood I J Alcohol S Republican Special I S Washington ton March 1 I. According to tor r testimony before the committee on ways S and nIl means In connection with wih J propos d dS S legislation I for tor tax free tax denatured alcohol alcohol alco- alco hol hoi the sale sak nl of oC engines en ln s for use on farms for tor driving agricultural m machinery is ran ran- rn- rn IJ dered re more mOle difficult evel every year rear owing to io to the exorbitant price of oC gasoline This statement nt was wa mode made by bJ a representative of or the International Harvester company compan In part he ha sad S The rho rh agriculturist at the present time recognizes more th than n ever before beCore the general ener J utility of ot the tho small en engine ne on the farm for example In pumping water ater grinding teed reed sawing wood operating churns churns and cream separators threshing 11 grain In shredding fodder r. r etc With fa favorable fa- fa a- a prices on fuel its Is application can readily I be e extended to tractors so RO that S within a short time power driven grain grin Janc mowers mower plows corn harvesters harvest harvest- ers S 'S cult cultivators and l like e implements may replace many of those In present use Ise and thereby h save Rave the cost and k keeping of an extra team U Used III for fO and Light There is s little doubt that the amount df Of the denatured alcohol uS used d for tor power lower lighting purposes alone would far tar 1 exceed the aggregate ate amount used for all ni other purposes An estimate as to toS S the amount would be mere merely I a conjecture ture I bellvI believe stationary engines per ner year yr would be bl a Vet very conservative conser guess on the output for the factories of this thi country countr and the cas gas engine men with wih whom I have consulted concur In Inthis inthis this estimate te clma S Alcohol I Is a s suitable fuel for e plo plo- Ive In In In fact It Is the Ideal fuel because of oC its ts unlimited and universal Source and because lecause of oC Us its is uniform quail quail- I I. I ty Its Is physical properties peculiarly adapt It to economic conversion con erslon Into power pow pow- er ir r In the combustion chamber chambe of ot an ex explosive cx- cx X- X plosive engine I 5 An Au Impo Important fact wa was q developed In the recent hearings this that most mOt of oC the engines In present use can with slight sl ht be converted by attachments Into in into into In- In to alcohol enInes S Hatters Hatters' Lined ti Cp S All 1 the hat manufacturers rs of the countr country country coun coun- tr try have ha e lined up to for or I tax free denatured I alcohol In the stiffening of or hats large I quantities of wood alcohol are u used d and ami the fumes ures from Crom this liquid cause ruse serious In illness s on the r ar art an o of operatives At a accent recent cent meeting of the committee several hat finishers who have been working with wood wool alcohol appeared and thc they were emaciated broken down specimens of or manhood one o of them being totally blind this blindness having been caused I b by these thee fumes and numerous other cases cales were ere cre referred to rie he of or Painters has bas also ned u til tt f for r the proposition and ie several f their representatives have ha e given tn J tN tee tes- Im mony n before the committee the subr substance sub- sub r stance tance of or which ha has been that a majority major majori t ty of oC the cases of illness amon among painters 1 results from the lie use of or wood alcohol in shellacs and varnishes which arc are cut with wih this spirit Impaired vision Is also one o of the numerous effects of or U using this liquid On account o ot of the high price prie of grain alcohol from 20 to r a gallon hatters hat hat- an and painters can not afford to u uI use use- it I and as a result resul are compelled to use useD D DS ns a substitute wood alcohol which costs about holt 75 c cents a gallon alon The latter Vaporizes vaporizes va Va- 0 to such an extent that If I grain alcohol whose vaporizing properties amount to 10 practically nothing could be obtained at a reasonable price It would displace the former completely S Would Use Uc Grain Cram Alcohol The tax on gram graIn alcohol Is 07 per gallon and it is s sold at from flom T to 2 this heln being the largest ta tax tax In proportion proportionS S ip tp value levied td le b by the ro government nt The he advocates Hoca tes of ot tax free dena denatured alcohol alcoholS S claim that with wih Increased production It I could be produced for tor from 15 IS to 3 20 cents o a a ra gallon J on and that a process has been e discovered d whereby grain alcohol can be he denatured that j it is rendered unfit nt for Cor or use usen n as a beverage and that it IL i can not nol be res resolved resolved re re- re- re s solved I cd back Into its orl original form tor so that It I can be so 0 m used ed as ag a be beverage The he proposition is being opposed before be he- fore tore the committee hy by h the wood wool alcohol Interests who arc are also the rs of or charcoal Wood alcohol I Is obtaIned obtained ob ob- ob- ob S tamed during the destructive distillation of oC wood In the manufacture of or charcoal normous i-normous Quantities of oC which are produced produced produced pro pro- for tor use to n the manufacture of ot 11 pig hg Iron sheet iron ant and ane powder I Industries Affected I S Following is a list of or industries which S f e wood alcohol as a solvent which would woul ue use untaxed denatured d alcohol in inthe inthe tl the event l o of such legislation 1 by con congress colors and electrical Aniline s dyes des hats apparatus transparent soap furniture picture burial caskets cabine cabi cahl- IH ne net work passenger palener car cars pianos organs s. to toys rattan goods lead pencils s wagons boots booth and sho shots shoes s smokeless smoke less powder fulminate of or mercur mercury brass ti gas as and electric light fixtures arl Vari ari kinds ous-kinds ut ot or metal hardware Incandescent cent mantles mantes photo photographic materials celluloid and other like compounds sulphuric sul sul- ether ethel and an or organic chemicals chemical |