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Show THE HERALD, FEIDAY. JULY 27, 1923. World Battle for Oil Grips Three Gontifienis United States in Inferior Position in Struggle for Petroleum Supremacy, With British Mastering Future Fields Oddly Contrasting Views of the World Oil ttt SayS-- Eve now the Americans are constrained to buy from English companies a million pounds ster- ling at a time, and to pay mors and mors dearly in dollars, because of the unfavorable exchange, for the oil which Is Indispensable to them and which their own soil can no longer Except for Mexico and a give. amall part of Central America, the whole world Is securely barricaded against any aerioua enterprise of the United States. The English poeition Is Impregnable. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, the eyes f the Americans have bean opened too lata. d copea tbti Situation The '.ondon Times eiial Bat America bad tba att. and Ear show. I tblak tt h generally admitted Outeb empire at their dlspoe-laaand tie glob circait. d:4 aot S!ac Drake dr Ud a bad this eipdiUoa airf aeeeiat. Brst well oa OA Creek. Ptacartvaaia. , aurferuttta our ptnui.. 3 is r tM ' .H .. "be as if tbe London' Times bad Jubilant ta 1S5J, enterprising Aaeriraas bad; today would rave feeea ry difleneai (reason u ' 6!ch fire England her j Tse poer steadily developed country's from what tt is." bold oa' tba future oil Jelds providence-bestoveoil resources. ad t Aa aae writer ha sprSi4a it. . tirjttlt lews not tbe power of aaaaslated prt-pushed aver teio Mexico, aghttna tbe while Hadeaburi's fool fevers of tbe Jungles ad tbe g Me- reck of tbe British lioa ! Fri-- .. aH Irate enterprise, but tnai or we unusa rrills basis ot tbe plains to extract Ue its toagae was sticking a. t ti. golden liquid crafty animal was scratch r.g c :tb oae' c r a n The Senate committee investigating the oil indus- 1 Trade, said la Parliament that the policy of Graat Britain would be aot only to control the coal of the world, bat the supply of oil M well British Uon Hoars Walter Horn Long. First Lord of tba Admiralty, said la 1(20: "It we fa-ta- re i estimate that there are barrela of oil left in American soil. The treasure store In the loll of the rest of the world is estl mated at 58,000,000,000 barrels. Over 600.000,000 barrels of oil were used by the United States last year At that rate of consumption Increasing every year the United States has Elsewhere are 14 years' supply left. supplies for over a century. 't is this supply which England is Plajto get has already succeeded Inering, according to the trlum15 CSt ry of the London Times, tbe .erful organ of British capital, and - flfe unofficial mouthpiece of the British Government England Wine to Lose For four bitter years England fought to destroy the German navy, a growing threat against her position as mistress of the seas and of the commerce of the world. The conflict raised a new rival, twice as powerful as Germany the United States. During the war Geologists ' Anglo-America- n SLIGHTLY WRONG. of producing tht world. And now, with ;J 4SS$ ildbi lijij llfe quasl-raonopol- y oil fields a merchant fleet. British commercial and Industrial ascendency hud rested on coal. She conqured a world empire In order to circle the world with coaling stations. ai During tbe war, while Haig As long as coal was tbe fuel ot com fighting with his "back lo the wkll" merce a vessel could hardly sail the in France and every man and gun was needed then some critics wondered seas without her permission. But coal as compared with oil be- why England was conducting an came a medieval fuel. Oil gives a ves little campaign down in sel a cruising radius 50 per cent great Asia Minor acainst the comparatively er than coal, ut.es 30 per cent less inoffensive Turks and ilsrrl tr.bes bunker space, and Is stoked automati- Perhaps the statement of Sir ("h. tries cally. Where there Is competition the Greenway, managing director, nf the Oil Comjuny. rejects difference In efficiency is so great as to drive the coal burner from the some light on the situaiicn At the ocean. first meeting of his company follow Ing the war he aif1 Snatching Back the Victory "How far the MeFopr!mia txp-(i- t Everything that iS true in commerce is doubly true in war. An l t:on has tended in bring about the fleet has already won the victory, as conclusion of the war I will fleet of Mot venture to express an opinion but compared with a comparable size. So England convert- notwithstanding attacks which were ed her navy to oil. at one period of the. war maile on s Anglp-Persla- ; . I- - rfw Anglo-Persia- . Order a supply now. Peaches, pears, apricots, pineapple,piums,berries and many others a score of varieties in all grown in the world's finest or chards and gardens and ready to add new, thrifty flavor to meals the whole year round. California packing orporatio.n rV vcrjvhxt BY OF THE n ' . DIFFER. International News service. MONTICELLO; Ind., July 26 "The greatest surprise to a girl who gets kissed for the first time is there is no taste to it." North Judson News, Which excited the Newton County Democrat to the following: "No taste to it? Well, by the hen leathers on Cupid's dart, hut the News man must color-blinin ' They ten us, those who have tried it, that It tastes like the double distilled essence ov honey spread thick on a piece of .v pumpkin. A way back In the jlost our teeth and our cinch on the beauty prize, the prettiest girl in jail the world told us wiith her eyes that it felt like a covey of guail fly i ling out of each ear and ended with ' a sensation like a flock of angels pouring molasses down one's back. No taste to the first kiss? Great Scott! ' It would make a wooden cigar store Indian's hair curl and his toe nails quiver in ecstacy." ; U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, CONTROL. BRITISH-DUTC- Africa--Englan- secure the supplies ot oil now available In tbe world we can do what we like." E. Mackay Edgar, London banker and oil man, recently said that In ten years America will be buying barrels of oil annually from Great Britain at a cost of at least $1,1)00,000,000. '.; "All the known oil fields." he added, "all the likely .or probably oil fields outside the United States Itself are under British management or control and financed by British capful" How did this astonishing and dangerous condition come to pass T Simply, because the United States Government, far from encouraging the development of the American oil Indus ley Barry s fce rescmblo the fea tures of a spotless egg. He has been offered $190 a week, to affiliate with a moving picture concern in Los Angeles and share his freckles with movie fans, ac cording to Mrs. John S. 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More Government Interferenoe Out of this Investigation came a series of recommendations based on the amazing statement that two American companies Mdyldt tht world between themselves" recommendations not to assist tht oil companies, as England has done; not even to let them alone, to develop and win back soma ot tht lost ground it they can; but to regulate, supervise, limit markets, compare earnings, confiscate jIpe lines, further investigate, prosecute if possible, and In addition add tht burden of more government bureaus. American oil geologists are second to none, and the American driller Is best In the world. Herbert O. Wylle, former oil driller in the jungles of ot the Mexico, now Mexican Petroleum Company, recently said: "All we want to know is that there Is a government at Washington behind us, and we will get all the oil this country needs." There ia a long way behind. RIDING MASTER SETS INSPIRING EXAMPLE. International News Service. r ATHENS 8HOW8 THE WAY. International News Service. PARIS, July 26. The example ATHENS, Ind., July- - 26 The Max Ossie, riding of Major first six months of 1923 brought school master, who married an 289 guests to the county jail,""?? American millionairess, inspires French schoolboys. sided over by Sheriff McKinley.fe-cordIn a recent questionnaire conshow this was the largest ducted by the principal of a Paris number of persons In the count; grammer school several o'. the boys jail here in the same length i declared they are going to be time In twenty-thre- e years. Of the 289, 130 were bootleggers. grooms when they grow up. . Wiliord Perry I treat coming A Famous Beauty Lecding Groters PREPARED hlnd claw in the soil of Mesopotamia Government, which bought Into the tor oil and struck It. The Mesopc-lamia- n Oil Company and now field, one of the world's rich- owns the interest; ue controlling est. Is now England's British Government, which took conIndia is another field England's. trol of the British Petroleum CompaTriniEgypt Is another England's ny, the Homellght Oil Company and dad and British Guiana. England's, and the Petroleum Steamship Company, Venezuela, under British influence, owned by the Deutsch Bank, during are the hriehtesl prospects In South the war; the British Government. Smith and East America "financially Interested. In the new 135,- Australia England's. 100.000 refinery In Wales, to supply Government Partnership 80 per cent of the country's gasoline: . Most important of all, the British the British Government, which sent are in a dominating position In the its military forces, accompanied by a Royal Dutch SUell group of compa- complete geological outfit. Into Meo nies the most powerful combination pjtamia while England's back was "to outside, the United States, and also the wall" In France. In 1916 Rt. Hon, Walter Runclman, with ertens ve holdings in this coun' This places the great President of the British Board ot try an. I Mexico K 1 Oo?tt i Once you have tried Del Monte Canned Fruits, you have a standard to. know how delicious and tempting these products really are. m SHOWING THE VAST PREPONDERANCE mounav ea 1 1 - OPINIONS International News Service.PARIS, July 26. "My wife has International S'ews Service. f died of heart trouble," Charles MADISON. Wis., July 2fi. When I Fusilier, 59, reported to the police. a stranger entered the garage op- j The coroner who examined the' erated here by F. C. Kalsclieur am- I body discovered she had been asked whether he could "clean up, I stahbed in the heart with a butcher the proprietor took it for granted, ! knife. Fusilier was arrested on a! he told the police, that the stran- charge of murder. ger meant his somewhat sdileo face. HUMAN TORCH. The stranger, however, obviously ; S International News Service. had notions of his own. He no I ivAuium. h is., juiy zd. only washed his face but removed following a quarrel with a wallet containing a considerable 'his wife, John Bulcholz. 59, of this sum in cash and other articles of town, saturated his clothes wits lvalue from the; garaeemen's .Kerosene ana ignited them. He died grousers, left hanging on the wall In agony. of the washroom. I ocean MAP OF THE WORLD'S OIL FIELDS, MISUNDERSTANDING COSTS HIM DEARLY. ' Govern. The American oil Industry, which has mat every demand tor Its product, and consistently kept the price ot gasoline down to loaa than halt uat paid in other eoutrlea. has foond Its greatest barrier ta the gov. ernmeat which It served. Whatever the tlcoa or vlrtles ot tht old Stand-ar- t On Company, it got ou. and kept the American flag; 01 the sigh teas when tt waa unknown except aa flows by a tanker. nenL Foreign Loaa by Regulation The United Statea Government broke the Standard Oil Company Into J7 ctecea, leasing each ot these members of the original body to obtain tor Itself sources ot supply, transportation and refining facilities, and market out, lets tt tt could. While tht Standard parts were striving to reconstruct themselves and function aa separate units, as a group they sank to second place In" tht production ot American, oil, tat hundreds ot Independent com. painlts gaining leadership. Competition at home was so keen, and this reconstruction process to difficult that there was so surplus energy In the American oil Industry to carry on the fight so aggresalvely begun by tht old Standard Ofl Company tor this country's rightful ah art ot tht oil fields ot try says the United States added to her a policy directly c that of the British " THE 7,000,000,000 fcaa followed posed to . The dominating fact In the. ell Industry today Is its complete control by the Standard companies. . . . Not only this, but two of the leading Standard companiesNew Jersey and New York divide the world between themselves In marketing operations, and each carefully abstains from entering the terrl-tor- y of the ether, while both refrain from competing with the Oil Company, Ltd. (one of the original Standard group), In the retail trade In the British Isles. most colossal commercial struggle the world has ever in progress. The stake is control of the world's oil supply, carrying with it domination of the trade and industry of the globe for generations to come. On the one side is England, marshaling the capital and enterprise of Europe, backed by powerful governments, two colonial empires and "spheres of influence" vastly greater. On the other side are the scores of private oil companies of the United States, the new country which has risen to world supremacy on a tide of oil. try, FRECKLES CHAMPION? International News Service. FINDLAY, Ohio, July 2& John Robert McDowell, nine, is Bald to have enough freckles to make Wes- - UTAH POULTRY PRODUCERS, INC Phone Roy Peters, 862, Proro, Utah. Our quotations to dealers for the week of July 16 to July 23: Strictly Fresh Standards, per case ..........$6.00 Fresh Strictly Selects, per case . .... .... .$7.20 Ask your grocer for association graded eggs. mwf 338 WEST CENTER. CASH PRICES LONG DISTANCE TRIPS , Just received a large cask of White Dishes Dinner Plates, $1.25 per set; Cups and Saucers, per set, $1.45 ; Fruit Dishes, 60c per set, etc Try our Boiled Ham no one has better ; sliced, per b., 50c; Whole Ham, lb., 45c; Smoked Ham, lb., 30c. We get fresh "Butter-Krust-" Bread in every day, in white, whole wheat, rye, French and raisin, per loaf, 10c. We buy our Crackers fresh from the factory every week, both loose and package. Try a pound of our Loose Cocoa at 15c and you will be surprised at the quality. It is not too late to plant turnip seed; we have four kinds suitable for fall planting. We will have a shipment of New Yerk Head Lettuce Seed this week direct from the grower. Prices Most Reasonable. Phone 665 Provo Transfer & Taxi Co. NIGHT AND DAY SERVICE. WE DELIVER PRICES FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 28 We have on hand two extra heavy tents, 10x12 and 12x14; some Ice Cream Freezers, and No. 3 Tubs that we are making special prices on this week. 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