Show OF OP IIO IRON Quite Quie a n stir hn has been hen mac made In the business world h by the current curren r report port portor of or Consul General Mason rason of oC P. ls Paris who predicts thaC that the United States is goIng goIng go- go Ing to run short hot of Iron within lh the courso 1 of ot the century and recommends that cnn coal be hi sold old In taking Iron In Iii exchange 1 He lie says rs there Is a continual continual con con- nh absorption of 35 toss tons of ot 01 I lion on annually and adds The world has hns only tons lon of Iron ore Or available a Germany ermany I Hm 13 and ant I Prance France each N po possessing more mor than this country countr In the thE comp com com- p pai Ison of coal qualities the tw advantage antage of ot North America O CI European countries coun coun- tries Is overwhelming o and tat tl t nt with wih what I Is now known th the present tons annual output l o of Ameri Anicil- American can enn bituminous coal can Can be maintained for 01 oi hundreds of oe years tars without exhaustion lion tion ton while wile coal fields nr are i tinning mining OU out It II m look Ionic like horl trouble But nut that 1 Is th tiLe the wa way first Crt I regarded O the prophecies of men mel 11 declared the forest orest oest supply would soon l t hJ-t exhausted xh n It I Is the view taken by bythe bythe th the public of the natural gas aR belt when that era ra was WaR young Waste Vastl of or the most prodigal and and- a astounding extent 9 a Indulged And nd today the natural natura as aR In the richest st belt in tho the world hos ho d almost t utterly But flut If It It there Is a 0 tacit lack of what may lay bo be 11 called alc the visible it i should l le remembered that thi p very ry little of tl the e epo po sn le producing territory has hs been l invaded add There There are hills his h by th the thousand thou thou- sand nd ind nail and acres by the million milon with Ith l' l certainty of f Iron 1101 treasure within them that have never ne been drawn upon Let et th the good people who do In not want k t to lc see Eth thu let metal 1 supply exhausted tu turn n thir attention to the de of t. t 1 mountains mountain's o ot Of ito I West Vest and the thc of dia l' l will wi to doubtless s bo be be set sl fOr ard forward for fot Another ih r consular report suggests the tt s li tl g though hOU h In lii il n a different direction It I is noted that Germany proposes to penetrate the Mesopotamia mia aHa country east and north of old olt Palestine It I Is stated in II th the warning from con consular ulI agents that the region mentioned 1 H is very ety 1 like k t that hat of the Untied Slates In II lulls Its Its soil joll and character mid aiki A America neca I Is warn d that I If It G Germany Ger Ger- m many n secures this r region glon as a n result Sll of liS at the conf conference con con- f ference il it l will wi close Sf the tho markets ot of tl thi roid ohl told to lo the tho products of tho United the United States anti and nl take tah-e this from from rom tl republic Its Us World t i e dominance i u the h. h the same ane in will wi heal f cAse se se to too Wh When J all 31 tho the productive pro pi-n- I c r resources of ti th the United States h have ve been heen developed America shall have ha given glnn t to tp itt Its own land laid th the tho attention that right l and H justice d de demand m mand inand nd there will wil be no 0 need to complain com coni- plain oC of the advantage ad nn any other oIlier region region re re- re- re gion slon wi s secure secure cule Little Litle cause can be he fell felt for protest nt at the advancement of T other govern govern- ments TIle The ono thing for oL 0 America to iu to follow the policy marked out In the lie Irrigation systems thu that have o i lt been n so to o h happily stalled to de develop delo lo 1 the thc mining r resources the Western country countr holds in such ch amazing richness h to get gel the maximum of ot j productivity from Crom the thc I with iii the present presen bounds of the lie nation an and gIve a n fair fati chance fOIth for fOI forthe th the colonial This process S of growth In ill lands now our own own wi mo more c than keep keel pace pact with wih the advance advance- of o either foreign competition or oi 01 consumption on As 8 tho the nation t i x wIIl more than meet tile the Irh problem n of commerce And nd In iii the end enda a n nation noton grounded In lii l numbers Is I's and power at at hC home H vIli wi dominate even more markedly than at nt present rc ent the he H ln throughout the world rJ d I For For W 0 vill wi have o ha Iron enough and ancl enough for tor au all al th the rest rent of ot ott the the- world t |