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Show -COMMENTS- q9 MR. JEFFERS A good deal has been said here and there about Mr. Jeffers the rubber czar one man said to me today that! he heard ft Mr. Jeffers talk in New York recently, and said he "I was - surprised at the vocabulary Mr. Jeffers had at his command. I would have taken him for a man who had attended the best colleges instead of one who had worked his way up from the pick and shovel." Needless to say that the man in question ques-tion was one raised in the effete east and was not aware that out in God's country the West it was not thought derogatory to have labored even with a pick and shovel. A man who sat in the senate and was respected for his views was Honorable John B. Kendrick, at one time just a cow-a cow-a common cowpuncher, now he occupies the position of pres-puncher. pres-puncher. B. B. Brooks, ex-governor of Wyoming, was just ident of the Casper National bank. Those are but two examples exam-ples of the men of the great outdoors, there are many more. One such is the man from Omaha, Nebraska, he knew alcohol alco-hol was needed for synthetic rubber, but he also knew that there was a shortage of material to erect plants so he secured secur-ed the ground next to a power plant where there were boilers boil-ers used only two or three days in a year; used pipe conveyed convey-ed theisteam, pumps were secured from the old mines of the Rockies; alcohol was made and a good supply was guaranteed; guaran-teed; but when he presented his plan to the brasshats in Washington, his plan was turned down because he had made use of second-hand materials instead of spending a million or so and not getting anywhere. It just boils down to this, that the average eastener never will understand the will of the westerner who goes ahead and does things with what his hands finds, and beside that he uses the gray matter in his head that the good Lord placed there. L. DAVIDSON. |