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Show Y I THE CITIZEN I Fairyland must be sovietized. And allRussian competition is in progress to provide substitutes for mythology, ghosts and fairies. What would Hamlet be without Hamlet? Aye, and what would Hamlet be without the ghost that makes each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the prickly porpentine. But in Russia just begun to discover. He will be wresting secrets from ten thousand years, perhaps a million years, from now.. no one can such a tale unfold. During the past five years this country has imported in aggregate 4,226,000,000 pounds of vegetable oils, or an annual aver age of 845,200,000 pounds. The total domestic production of v table oils in the United States runs from 2,000,000,000 to 3,000,000,5 pounds per year, of which about 40 per cent comes from cottony and 25 per cent from linseed. Exports for the five-yeperiod av& aged nearly 300,000,000 pounds, of which animal oils made up a 24 per cent. The chief raw materials used in the production of vegetable are cottonseed, linseed, peanuts, corn, olives, castor beans, cocoam soya bean, rape seed, mustard seed, and Chinese nut. Almost allj these raw materials are procurable from the United States or i possessions, such as the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, etc., and uni a proper system of protection which would encourage the raising these raw materials to a point where they would meet the dema of our oil manufacturers, the United States and its possessions con! in the production of vegetable oils, in additk become to developing a large export trade. In view of their importance as a part of our food supply it highly probable that in the forthcoming general tariff revision oft! Republican party, far greater attention will be paid to the indust than heretofore, and that steps will be taken to. assure the Unit States a commanding position in the world's oil trade. For example, our average imports of soya bean oil have be over 210,000,000 pounds annually. Yet there are large areas of in this country where the soya bean can be raised, and it could handled by cottonseed oil mills during the otherwise slack seasc Of the fats and oils produced from cocoanuts we have be importing 388,000,000 pounds annually, yet by paying proper attt tion to our tropical areas, and encouraging to the utmost the raisi: of cocoanuts in the Philippine Islands, we could confine this grc business largely to the American family. And the same is large true of palm oils. In the soya oil business, Japan is our chief and most aggressi opponent. The Netherlands leads the world in supplying us x cocoa butter. Spain and Italy supply the bulk of our purchases olive oil. From British West Africa comes. 90 per cent of our pi oil. And China and Japan command the United States trade in ra seed, peanut, linseed, cottonseed, and Chinese nut oils. Under present conditions, if we should unfortunately be ck pelled to resort to arms today in our controversies with Japan, as price of food oils in the United States would go soaring, just blot price of dyestuffs reached rarefied heights after Germany was aded. That is the penalty of placing too much dependence on in bi other country and not taking precautions to be industries. And their minutes buried all Under the downtrodden pall Of the leaves of many years. t ar In spite of our Republicanism we have been rather partial to the royalties of Fairyland. They seem to be, particularly harmless royalties. Indeed, a fairy queen was the symbol of all things good and beautiful. It was she who, with the wave of a wand, restored the sick to health, the despairing to hope, who burned tears from the faces of forlorn lovers with the errie sunlight of the fairy realm. But inasmuch as they have destroyed everything else in Russia why not destroy .the fairies? Of what service can fairies be in. such an unlucky and unbeautiful land? . . ;. GOOD AND EVIL OF DISCOVERY It that Professor Einstein's prayer for the solidarity of science throughout the world will be answered. The war of the scientists and did worse it deinterrupted the team-wor- k voted their energies to the invention of instruments and agencies of is to be hoped A GROWING INDUSTRY ! No those days are gone' away, And their hours are old and gray . . destruction. In the long run science does the human race more good than harm. There are periods when the scientific heritage of all the ages is turned to the work of destruction and it seems as if civilization would be destroyed and the heritage lost. War, however, stimulates those who delve for the secrets of nature. The search is intensified and when peace comes the discovered secrets are utilized to promote the welfare of the race rather than of the nation. It is a curious thought that every secret of nature, as soon as it is discovered, is devoted to the ways of evil as well as to the ways of beneficence. No matter how deep we delve into nature we find evil or the potentiality of evil. Even the sunlight and the rain work havoc at times. Whether the discovery be of great portent such as radium or of lesser portent such as the chemical extracts of coal tar its power for destruction is soon discovered and used. The discovery of analine dyes went hand in hand with the discovery of explosives because both are derivatives of coal tar. The discovery that bacteria caused disease opened up a broad field of beneficence but germs have been used deliberately to spread diseast and there are, we believe, several authentic cases of murdering by means of germs. Hardly had the science of aviation perfected the airplane than the world war broke out and the lighter than air machines were employed to blow up cities and slaughter thousands. But though man may use everything for evil think how much good with how little evil, comparatively speaking, has resulted from some of Edison's discoveries the phonograph, the moving picture films and telegraphic devices. The wireless is almost a perfect example of a discovery that does as much harm as good. At any rate it seems so if we confine our observation to the period during which the wireless has been practicable. During that period it has been used with terribly destructive at sea. effect in war and it has proved the greatest of A still more curious thought is that the secrets of nature are apparently inexhaustible. But few months pass that some secret of nature is not wholly or partly laid bare. And yet science is but ladeling out an ocean with a thimble. For centuries and ages the process will continue and every generation from now until doomsday will transform man's world. One wishes to live a thousand years hence so that one may see the wonders of that day, but a thousand years is as nothing. Man is really in his infancy. He has . self-sufficie- nt la: self-suffici- ent COURTESY TO PERU Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge of the Senate Foreign Relate Committee has favorably reported a resolution authorizing the pointment of a commission to represent the United States celebration of the first centennial of the independence of Peru. adtf legislation is in line with the determination of the Republican istration to foster in every proper way friendly relations betfff the United States and the republics. Latin-Americ- an life-save- rs . i (A Half a League the Democrats were asking fur to have got into the Valley of Death all right. That A Scotch scientist says the world will some day1 be by big lizards. Perhaps the lounge lizards. sef fliaMf . Mr. Hughes says we will do nothing to irritate the allies. the trouble. If we do nothing it will irritate them. fcc |