Popular Science Month fy 



535 



Carbolic 

 dcid 



Interior 

 at will. 

 Would you 

 put mil- 

 lions in a 

 water- 

 power 

 plant when 

 at one 

 stroke one 

 man could 

 render the 

 investment 

 valueless 

 by cutting 

 off your 

 right to 

 operate ? 

 This re- 

 strictive 

 legislation 

 we passed 

 some time 

 ago when 

 many were fearful of the formation of 

 a waterpower trust. While there may 

 have been some danger of it at times, all 

 semblance of such tendency has effectively 

 been dispersed by the thoroughness with 

 which waterpowers are bound up at 



CrdO^it*? pci> 



Lump of 

 coke 



present. All hands 

 have promised to 

 be good if only 

 Congress will open 

 up the way a 

 little. 



At present there 

 is a bill before 

 Congress sponsored 

 by the Administra- 

 tion and designed 

 to allow the proper develop- 

 ment of our waterpowers. 

 It took the pressure of a tre- 

 mendous coal shortage to focus 

 national interest on the sub- 

 ject. To prepare the bill, all 

 interests collaborated. Pre- 

 viously a solution had been at- 

 tempted by proposing three 

 bills, one each for the three 

 governmental departments 

 having to do with waterpowers. 

 The new bill has the country's 

 best thought behind it, and if anything 

 will help relieve our "coal shortages" via 

 the development-of-waterpowers route, 

 this evidently should. 



A striking instance of what the develop- 

 ment of waterpower can do in the way 



Showing wastes 

 which go up the 

 stack in many 

 present plants. 

 By-product coke 

 plants will re- 

 cover all these 



Courtesy IT. S. NatioDal Museum 



The hard and the soft coal areas of this coimtry. Material inroads have been made on our 

 hard coal stores. However, three to five trillion tons of soft coal remain in our lands 



