EDITORIAL. 
TOWN PLANNING.—‘* THE LIGHT” JOURNAL. 
With genuine pleasure we draw attention to The Light, a journal to 
be devoted to furthering interest in town planning and housing. ‘The 
South Australian Town Planning and Housing Association has rendered 
useful service to Australia in securing prominence for the movement 
which it has inaugurated; and if it has not succeeded in accomplishing 
all that it had hoped to do at this early stage of its existence, the 
Association can console itself with the reflection that the way of the 
reformer, as of the transgressor, is hard. The regular publication of 
accounts of its activities and its aspirations must tend to make progress 
easier. Apathy, lack of imagination, and the freedom given to the 
speculator, may retard the adoption of progressive ideas, but there is 
no better way of Sere of these hindrances than by well-directed 
propaganda. Australia, probably more than any other country, is in 
a position to benefit from a well-ordered, scientific, and attractive 
system of civic improvements. Great Britain, Germany, and. the 
United States offer numerous instances of life made more pleasant by 
the improvement vf housing conditions, and it must exercise a bad 
effect upon our national growth if we in Australia are to remain indif- 
ferent to modern developments in this direction. We have sunlight, 
fresh air, and space in abundance, and the aim of the Town Planning 
Association is to utilize these for the promotion of the happiness 
and contentment of city workers; to insure economic construction; and 
to eventually rid the cities and suburbs of some of their ugliness and 
squalor. In the country, also, conditions of life can be made more 
attractive by closer attention to fundamental principles, so that there 
lies before this new journal an enormous field of important and profitable 
work. The offices of The Light ave at Alexandra Chambers, Grenfell- | 
street, Adelaide. 
POWER-ALCOHOL. 
Some interesting facts in regard to a substitute for petrol made with 
aleohol distilled from molasses have been published by the Cuban Secre- 
tary of Agriculture from information which is based upon a report 
to the Planters’ Association made by the Agricultural Company of 
Maui. A large portion of the molasses produced yearly in Cuba is 
now entirely wasted, only 60 per cent. of the total production in 1918, 
of approximately 150,000 tons, being used. The average price in 1918 
was 35s. per ton. ‘The Maui Company produces 350 gallons of alcoliol 
daily, with only three men, and claims that a plant to produce 3,000 
gallons per day would need no larger force. The alcohol, modified as a 
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