Show PETROLEUM AND THE WAR A c c. BEDFORD chairman of ot t tie A AC JH petroleum war committee In mm a t recent address s before the Wei rn Oil Jobbers' Jobbers association convention brought out err very clearly the of the time war organ organization of or the petroleum industry He lie stated that next to man powel food and munitions petroleum is ts the one most vital VHal factor actor that will help down don time the Huns Emphasizing Emphasizing sizing the responsibility which I Is placed upon the oil men he said paid they should feel proud of tho time Important part the they are arc called lIed upon Ullon to play pUy The Tho ver very rifles in imm time the han hands s of our men who stand tonight In the front line lino trenches In France declared Mr Ir Bedford Bedford Bed Bed- ford would woul never havo ha been made mado without with out petroleum For Ioor without petroleum the time machines that made them never could havo have run rumi or 01 themselves cs have havo been made Take tIo trucks s the tractors tractor the automobiles the tho aeroplanes the time ambulances lances tho the motorcycles It Is not only lor tor their operation that petroleum 1 Is nee needed ed but hut for or their manufacture just justas fl as it was wae needed actually to make as ns aswell aswelt well welt aa to help drive the time veT very ships that rr c. carry all those things over to France The Tho speaker pointed out that practically call cally th time whole world orld today Is 1001 looking ln to th time tho United r States for or petroleum and amid it la is up to the tho oil men to meet this enormous enormous enor enor- inous demand In 1916 alone alon some somo tl eight hl million barrels of or gasoline were exported d danti and anti more will bo required In the current year ear Some of our most experienced men versed In tI tin o handling distribution an Orl ani l of or oil h have o 1 been sent to Europe Eurof lo to take Uke care rare of petroleum lI shipments reaching that side diJ of the wat water r Stating that thai lh i c men were werl acquitting themselves them them- selves es time tho speaker continued continued contin contin- But think fur fOl a u moment of or the Lime lun lung lun line of or effort and Industry of oC patience and an courage and sl skill that back from front these men In France to the tho point where the work worle really began it Jl h began gan with some Olne Ica leaser baser cr or 01 prospector PI who In the tho he bl-he hearted big compelling faith alth althof of the iho pioneer s set aCt t out to lo find oil the oil the wildcatter B By hl lila his side through all the tho anxious and n often orten disappointing hour hours Is the driller dl and arid hl his crew Then Theil there thero como come the roustabouts the time gau the time field Held superintendents all all tho Iho men who JOto go JO golo goto to lo mal make up tIme the life of a well or 01 an aim old field kin Pumps Pump and pipe tines lines came caine later and you can pats pass In review In your our minds mind's eyt e d all the rest of time tilt oil battalions bat bat- time tho tho pipe line walker tho the and amid time the en engineer r the tho ami anil tin sill cleaners the time yardmen in time the refinery er cry ery the tie chemist In hie laboratory and the time superintendent every everywhere But fluE Butmore Butmore more moore Is yet et to lo be done lone and We wo see sec the time tank steamer builders mid the tIme shipping men and tho tin officers and fI saIlors Bailors or l who mini man tho oil fleets and take lake them out to sea Mr Bedford complimented the tho oil men Inen menon Oh on the time patriotism thc they ha had shown and averred a they hwy had h won for themselves eR a place high on tho the honor roll roil of or the time Suites States The Time production o of crill crude oil must millS b h be stimulated and encouraged the speaker Iel declared and producers houll h bo 10 offered such increased prices as will encourage further efforts toward production u Hi lie re referred referred referred re- re to Mr Ir the federal oil administrator ad nil- as a man maim thoroughly sympathetic sympathetic sym sym- pathetic with the time oil industry all and having hay hav lug ing no Il to Impose Irl Irksome and amid unnecessary un un- necessary all rr regulations upon IL JU but hut to a ap- ap slet I encourage e stimulate and 11 harmonize all branches of oil production I In ii concluding I I i IH iii nimbi ross Mr Ir r. r I Bedford leni lord made malle an au to time the oil mon men to make malic whatever sacrifices s were ivere win the war necessary s. r to The rime oil all men inca can be depended upon to lo loback hack back the the- government to tho the limit |