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Show (ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo TO BREAK UP THE OIL TRUST. I Secretary Wilton Will Try to Do It with Potatoes. Washington Socretary Wilson Is taking tho first steps toward tho establishment estab-lishment of a laboratory for tho testing test-ing of apparatus for the use of denatured de-natured alcohol. Ho Is establishing It on tho assumption that It Is his duty to assist In tho discovery ot burners that will conBumo that kind ot fuel nnd do it lu such a way that thoro will bo a permanent market for tho denatured product. Tho secretary 1b a firm believer In tho theory that an American farmer lu a fow years will bocomo a rival of tho Standard Oil company lu the markets mar-kets of tho world. Tho npparatus for tho burning ot alcohol al-cohol will bo tested In n scientific manner, with but llttlo cost to tho Inventors. In-ventors. Thoro Is n big demand for burners that will bring out all tho heat units contained in nlcohol. Tho experiments made In Europe have not resulted In tho most efficient burners Imaginable. Secretary Wilson bollevos that American Inventors will bo able to solvo tho problem ot how to burn alcohol In a way that will mako It a competitor with oil, but the inventors will need oncouragement and he la getting ready to give It. Potatoos are the vegotablo from which tho secretary expects tho farm-era farm-era to mako the alcohol that is to drivo farm machinery, light tho houses ot pooplo not living near gas and elec-trie elec-trie light plants, and furnlBh tho fuel that will bo cheapor than gaa or coal. Thoro la a varioty that Is not odlblu ! that Is nald to bo rich in tho matorlals that will mako alcohol, and with that tho department will also conduct ex-porlments. ex-porlments. Tho denatured alcohol law goes Into effect on Jnn. 1 and tho treasury do-partmont do-partmont Is making regulations for tho now Industry. |