Show What Next Nest Washington ton is awaiting with in- in interest in interest terest the next step in this scheme to put over an blend alcohol motor fuel law on the American public What interests Washington most however is not the proposals proposal's so-I so so- so called so-called called farm relief asp aspect t That Thatis Thatis I is re regarded here as 35 a popular and convenient handle for all sorts of fancy legislation What Washing Washing- Washington Washington Washington ton wants to know is what would happen in other lines of business if Congress actually decided to force the replacement of or a part of the gasoline market with alcohol Until now there have been no laws designed to interfere with competition between industries along alons these lines ra Rayon on hurt the silk business and both silk and rayon did no end of damage damase to cotton Steel replaced timber cement ce- ce cement ce cement ment replaced brick the motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car drove the horse from the high high- highway highway way and the garage put an end to the livery stable Railroads bleached th the canal boat and motor buses eliminated the tralley car The electric light dimmed the kerosene lamp and the electric rei refrigerator re- re i put rust on the iceman's ton tongs s But these chan changes es came through open competition and economic development All these new industries industries indus- indus tries proved d they were ging ne- ne necessary necessary ne necessary concerns and except in inthe inthe inthe the case of grants trants of land to rail rail- railroads railroads railroads roads there was little government support or subsidy It would be quite different for government to force everyone to use the more mor expensive an and less efficient fuels fuel to furnish the alcohol industry with distilling capacity it will wiIl not itself spend money to build and to impose additional taxes upon gas gas- gas gasoline notI I oline merely to make a n market for alcohol American policy has been to let each industry stand upon its own feet If we start taxing the pro pro- products products pro products ducts of one industry to provide revenue for the subsidization of another we open the door to leg les- legislation leg legislation that will result in govern sovern- government government ment subsidization of man many indus indus- industries industries industries tries at the expense of the public Founding new industries could become a racket and probably would It looks as if a report of Iowa State college on this propose proposed I new industry in blend alcohol alcohol motor fuels was about right when it stated In the long Ions vi view w no industry I should be subsidized or propped up unless it c can m show that before long Ions it can enn stand on its own feet without protection of any kind I Any industry that cannot eventual eventually eventually ly Iy get ct along alons- without support should not be started in the first place |