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Show OIL THE COMING FUEL The coal strike has served to bring home forcibly to the general consumer the immediate possibilities of oil as a fuel substitute for coal. It is known that manufacturing plants, department stores, owners of apartment houses and even private homes arc now investigating eagerly the cost and advantage advan-tage of using oil as fuel in place of coh!. The fleets of the world and particularly our own, have spectacularly blazed the way that has led to a now almost universal univer-sal understanding of the possibilities of oil as fuel. American railways are rapidly turning to oil. Likewise the largest manufacturers. manufactur-ers. The steel mills are equipping for ga and oil as fuel. There is practically no labor cost with an oil burning system properly installed for the reason that nearly all labor is done away with. Together with the saving sav-ing incurred by the non-handling of ashes, ash-es, and the fact that a larger quantity of inn rimy no "RTOVttl in Uie sunic p brings the total amount saved to a considerable con-siderable amount in a year's time. These facts simply emphasize the necessity ne-cessity of a national policy encouraging to increased development of the oil industry in-dustry so it may meet the rapidly growing grow-ing demand. ft M ft |