Show Salvation by I can be made out of sows' sows ears An P PURSES Iowa farmer can plant an acre of motor fuel and you can pick steering wheels from vines A lot of other almost unbelievable things can be done on the land and Henry Ford is trying to get et his chemurgic movement into high gear for the salvation of the farmer by a better means than crop curtailment I The oil out of which today's gasoline is re refined refined refined re- re fined millions minions of years in the making was known to prehistoric ancients They started to deplete the supply It was used in the time of Alexander the Great Job tells that the rock poured me out rivers of oil Pliny wrote of it and the followers of made pilgrimages pilgrimages pilgrimages pilgrim pilgrim- ages to the eternal fires of Marco Polo found that this oil is not good to eat but it is good to burn and also to anoint camels that suffer from the mange No one knows when the black gold will be wholly depleted but instead of taking millions of years to bring I in a new supply corn planted in the spring and harvested in the fall can be made into alcohol in the winter and burned up on the road in the summer serving to keep men busy the year round and each year bringing in a new crop of wealth That is only part of the story Soy beans can be transformed into a thousand different articles steering articles steering wheels poker chips bottle caps radio cabinets and so on almost without end And corn too though it may be only corn to a hog is a hundred and one things to a chemist gums insulating boards paint explosives face powder fireworks and andon andon andon on through a al along long list Knowing these things out of the farm- farm industry meet held recently at Dearborn under Henry Fords Ford's wing there has come forth a Declaration of Dependence on the Soil and of the Right of Self It restates the principle that all mans man's basic sustenance comes from the soil to which he must return again to regain self It also restates the Ford thesis that chemistry and industry must together discover ways of using more farm products It may be five or even twenty years before the have taught industry how to use enough farm products to make up to the farmer for his lost markets abroad but when that time comes the problem of selling the farm surpluses at home vill will be solved There will be beno beno beno no need eed for A A A. A and its artificial economy of scarcity Crops that can be raised for industry indus indus- try to s supplant materials derived from natural resources will do the double duty of utilizing a acreage now devoted to wheat cotton and other r crops which become surplus and of c conserving these resources being rapidly exhausted Such a program as this though it will not be under way immediately may be taken as a plain indication that profound change lies ahead It will call for readjustments in national life lite in all its aspects We cannot follow new highways highways highways high high- ways with old maps Many frontiers are yet to tobe tobe tobe be crossed It may pay to re recall all the servitor in inthe inthe inthe the patent office who resigned half a century ago believing that everything useful had then been invented |