Show here at last Is a form of governmental benevolence against which no possible objection can caa be urged petroleum has been made to yield gas allue suitable for fuel and and necessary for dyestuffs dye stuffs and high explosives yet the process is tr to bo be given to the public for the benefit io of all tho the discoveries are important and they must be practical or the announcement no would not have been made so definitely by the government but the really notable feature is that thai they are not to be commercialized for individual or corporate profit on one hand nor are they to be by bk the government on the other we have grown accustomed to federal operation cooperation co in agriculture and the seeding of the continent no longel elicits comment for the government to make distinct contributions to the processes of manufacture is newer and it opens a field of possibilities in III which it can render vast service hitherto individual investigators have made imade our discoveries and financiers have exploited them tor for private gain if in tho the future our government shall be able to point the way to now new devel in scientific industry there will be a frank recognition that the tha government really exists tor for the peo pie philadelphia la public ledger |