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Show PRODUCTION OF OIL It is of paramount importance1 that there should be no interruption in tine E reduction of oil. The wild cattjer should e encouraged to continue his activity in the knowledge that his reward will' not be circumscribed. The producer should be encouraged and urged to produce and at a price which will return a fair profit upon his investment, keeping in, mind the hazards of the industry. In theforegoing, Mr. Requa, with Infinite In-finite knowledge of petroleum; paints, with true .hand the situation of the na-xt.tion na-xt.tion in regard to its need for crude petroleum.' petro-leum.' He paints,, too, purely by adver-sion adver-sion ,to the position that will be taken by the oil administration in relation to crude Setroleum prices, says the American Oil ournal. . i Production is paramount; price is nothing. A nation needing bread does not .pray for rain.1 It plants more acres. It offers fitting reward to the men who are to toll and sweat in its fields; who'offer their land and their labor against the vagaries of sun and the chances of fortune for-tune to gain the reward. t The way -to get an adequate supply of oil is to offer adequate rewards to those who are to undertake the hazards of finding it The time to get it is now, not later. One of the surest and quickest ways to get oil production at this time is ' for congress to pass legislation 'now pending, which will open up withdrawn fields and give operators assurance that their-investmenta will be respected. Theoretical The-oretical politicians have been blocking western oil development for years and it is high time they were brought to or- der. ,inwmmm The air personnel in the first year of war increased from 65 officers and 1,120 men to one hundred times that number. num-ber. Eleven kinds of schools have been installed. He is a wise man who can avoid evil, and he us a patient man who can endure it; butvhe is a' valiant man who can conquer it. . , u ,,..., tt -i:V |
