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Show STANDARD OIL NAY GO INTO ALCOHOL TRADE; AFTER THE DISTILLERIES grain, while Germany makes about 70 per cent of its product from potatoes. The German Government offers A special spe-cial inducement to manufacturers who will use potatoes in the manufacture of the fuel. All the potatoes produce-t in the empire are -Taded, one grade is for the table, one for food for Jive stock and the third is converted into alcohol. Mr. Yerkes says he was not disappointed at not finding denatur-ized denatur-ized alcohol more generally used fur power purposes. ' "I am confident that the United States will solve the problem of applying ap-plying the new uses.' said he. Farmers Will Make It. Asked if his investigation led him to believe that farmers would eventually eventu-ally engage in the manufacture of the fuel, he said he expected to see tM time eome when farmers would join together to-gether in the manufacture of the fuel. "'Thev are doing it in Germany," said he, "and are doing it successf ullv. " The commissioner says that he will it once begin the preparations of the rules that are to govern the manufacture manufac-ture of the fuel. It is not true, he says, that there is sny provision in the law which will put the business of making the new fuel in the hands of a few of the Isrge distillers. PEORIA, HI., Aug. 27. The Standard Oil company has, it is claimed, taken steps toward acquiring ownership owner-ship of all the principal distilling plants in the United States. The chief reason of this action on the part of the Standard Oil company is the recent passage of the denaturized alcohol bill by Gongress. Experts employed by the Rockefeller interests, after experimenting, reported re-ported that alcohol cannot be distilled cheaply enough to make it a serious competitor of gasoline, but that it could be used in the manufacture of mercerized cotton- and other fabrics, and would be an extremely valuable product pro-duct to control. WASHINGTON, .An. 27. John W. Yerkes, Commissioner of Internet Rev-enne, Rev-enne, who hit just returned to his desk, after two months in Europe, devoted to the study of denatnrired alcohol, expresses the belief thst the United States will, in time show the world how to mske use of alcohol in the Industries. In-dustries. He found, he says, that denaturized de-naturized alcohol has not supplanted gasoline in England,' Germany or France. While it ia extensively used in some lines of manufacturing it has not come into general wse for power purposes. Gasoline, he says, is still just as cheap and the users of power teem to like it better than alcohol. "I did not tee an automobile In England or France run bv denaturized alcohol," said he. "In Germany it is being used to some extent for power purposes. While this fuel is not generally gen-erally used anywhere over there for power purposes, it is put to many uses. Housewives, for instance, use it extensively exten-sively for heating coffee, tea, water and milk for the table. It has generally gener-ally taken the place of wood alcohol." From Grain and Potatoes. Mr. Yerkes says England and France make their denaturized alcohol from |