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Show COMMENTS OUTDOING ALADDIN The most common things in life are often the most essentia!, es-sentia!, although few people realize it. The war has brought this fact out in bold relief and prove that our everyday n -cessities are more valuable than gold. For instance , a sack of flour, a ham, a quarter of beet or a ton of coal, have a value far beyond gold they will sustain sus-tain life, gold will not. Bituminous coal, for example, means power and heat-primary heat-primary necessities in sustaining life. ' Coal has become such a dramatic part of our nations Me that a motion picture has been built up around it, tilled "Power Unlimited." TUa ,.-Warr1! of modern chemistry have created more magic from a lump of coal Aladdin had ever dreamed of. Coal dust has been turned into diaphanous gowns. Soot has been transformed into a major ingredient of the most delicate perfume. Drugs, cosmetics,' dyes from the lowly lump of bituminous coal. |