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as coordinating and summarizing the work of several years, contains 

 the substance of the two preceding papers and of an earlier one on 

 coal published last year, together with an introduction and a con- 

 clusion that coordinate the details of the discussion and draw forth 

 the -main issues. It is concluded that the whole matter involves the 

 threefold problem of fuel supply, power supply, and transportation, 

 and that the entire field may be cleared by (1) providing a common- 

 carrier system of electric transmission lines which will {a) lead to a 

 balanced development of coal-power and water-power, and (b) serve 

 as a coordinating influence in stimulating by-product recovery from 

 coal in central power stations and especially in municipal public 

 utility fuel plants; and by (2) applying a constructive economic 

 policy and appropriate legislation to the conditions surrounding 

 petroleum production, so as to bring the method of production into 

 conformance with the geological occurrence of the resource. It is 

 believed that these measures would affect economies offsetting, in 

 large part, the cost of the war, 



Mr. Wyer in " Natural gas : Its production, service, and conserva- 

 tions," aims to analyze the cause of waste of natural gas — the least 

 appreciated, and, consequently, the most abused of the mineral re- 

 sources in popular use — with a view to pointing the way to adequate 

 remedial measures. 



Assisted by Mr. Lubin, Doctor Pogue prepared a paper, published 

 by the Fuel Administration and the War Industries Board, entitled 

 " The prices of petroleum and its products during the war," in which 

 is included an evaluation of the price factors peculiar to the ex- 

 ploitation of petroleum; a commercial history of the petroleum in- 

 dustry, and a detailed record and interpretation of the run of prices 

 for petroleum and its products from 1913 to 1918. 



The three papers solely by Doctor Pogue were published through 

 other than Governmental agencies. Doctor Pogue gives a detailed 

 analysis of the motor-fuel problem in An interpretation of the en- 

 gine fuel situation in the Journal of the Society of Automotive 

 Engineers for April, concluding that the automotive engine must so 

 adapt itself as to gain higher thermal efficiency and to use less vola- 

 tile fuel. In "A review of the motor-fuel situation," appearing in 

 Automotive Industries of June 12, 1919, he reviews the limitations 

 and possibilities of the various fuel sources, discusses the interrela- 

 tion of engine and fuel developments, and comments on the essentials 

 of a research organization needed. In his third paper, " The engine- 

 fuel problem," printed by the Society of Automotive Engineers, 

 Doctor Pogue analyzes the motor-fuel problem and urges the forma- 

 tion of a motor-fuel research organization with the threefold function 

 of economic analysis, laboratory research, and industrial coordina- 

 tion. 



