Show STOP THE WASTE Mr rr Carnegie in his recent address ss before the convention of governors at Washington mado made the following statement statement state state- ment meat Of all the coal burned in the power plants not more than 5 G to 10 per cent of the potential energy is actually used The remainder is absorbed in rendering tho the smaller fraction available available avail avail- able In actual work In ordinary electric elec trie light plants hardly one fifth of 1 per cent cent cent- one cent one ue hundredth five th part part part-of of tho the energy of the coal is actually util util- util- util iz d It has been been- calculated b by experts that the coal supply of the American continent will m be exhausted before the thc end of ot another century The production last year ear was four hundred and fifty million tons At the tho present rate of increase it will bo be twice that in 1917 The problem seems to be to stop tim the waste aste If there is a definite limit to the coal supply and if coal is an essential in the work of the world and if only one hundredth five part of the potential energy of the coal is utilized util utilized util- util then some somo means must be de tie- to get more good out of a ton of coal Thero There is another means of relief Some Somo man i is going to find another power What hat it will be bc cannot well be told toM Electrical energy derived from waterfalls will be one The people peo peo- pl plo are not always going to permit I their rivers simply to run down and run into the sea They are arc going to get the last atom of or possible power out of that providentially pro provided agent But th that t will cill not go far tar toward the greatly increased increase demand of another century Down in th tho earth somewhere somewhere some- some where there is fire possibly fire possibly an active electrical energy Wo Yo believe bellevo that when the coal and the oil of the earths earth's crust approaches exhaustion the tho power that no now and again expresses lt it itself lf in earthquakes will bo be Harnessed and made to do the work of ot man just as the electricity in the air has bas already been mado made a a. servant Prudence Prudenco forbids an unconcern for forthe forthe the tho age ago that Ls Lq coming after But Dut the I age that comes after is going to bring resources with it quite as certainly as demands And the marvels of mans man's conquest in the past have havo not reached the splendor and the triumph of or what the they will in the future futuro Coal run may go as the forests have gone Oil may be burned up and all the hc gas gaa exhausted But Dut the tho g good od old world will provide prO for tor her children children If l If only the men ruen of or tho the future futuro can rise to their obligations as the en of the past ha have havo e done And of that there can be bo no reasonable reasonable reason reason- I able doubt The question is Can Sam Godman beat the Kearns crowd In the city council Mayor Maor Bransford cant can't And it will bo be very funn funny It if a n clerk In tie the the auditors auditor's office shall prove more powerful powerful power power- ful tuI than the mayor Mrs Irs Thaw read what happened to Anna Gould when she got a n divorce divorce- anti and promptly dismissed her petition She couldn't do worse worse An And 1 thatis that thatis is where hero Anna had bad the ad advantage of he her V |