The Washington herald., 1919-03-31
NATIONS NEED
| OF CAS- PROVED
Holland Says By-Product Of
Petroleum Has Been
Industrial Spur.

there seemed to be no way of util-
king, commercially, gasoline. MI.
Bostwick was one of the leaders
in the Standard Oil Company. His
interests in the development OF by
products from petroleum was al
ways very great and IL was this
which led him to wonder whether IL
would not be possible to find some
way by which gasoline. at that time
an absolutely waste product follow
ing the refining of petroleum. could
be put TO commercial use. After
many inquiries and much investi-
CATION Mr.. Bostwick was thrown
/ into association with a man who
was of a scientific turn of mind and
who was convinced that gasoline in
stead of being an absolutely waste
product could be so captured and
utilized as to become perhaps quite
| as important as any of the by-proo-
ucts from petroleum
J This man made investigations and
! experiments and at last discovered
f.. that gasoline could be economically
and adequately employed in driving
an internal combustion engine. He
established a plant at Bridgeport,
! Corn, where gasoline was made use
of in driving motor boats. Mr..
Bostwick was rejoiced- He was
confident that In a short time gaso-
line would command a worldwide
market Then came the automobile,
which might not have been develop
ed to such an enormous extent as is
the case. had the FIRST manufactur-
ers of automobiles not taken a hint
from the builders of motor boats
and adapted the internal combustion
engine SO that gasoline could be
used as the explosive force in dri~-
ing it
| Natural Resources
Having been invited by the Rotary
Club Of Miami. Florida, to deliver an
! address to its members, DR.. E. g.
1 Acheson. who has been sojournins
/ this winter at Miami. accepted the in
/ vitation and spoke briefly but i'm
! pressively to these club members, The
organization represents men who
/ think. men who have been active in
! our Industrial and commercial life,
including some men OF financial repu-
tation. Reports that tell of this meet
. ing reached New York today.
/ In the course of his address DR..
! Acheson spoke Of the necessity OF
conserving our natural resources
inent. He was able to say something
which would have rejoiced Mr.. Bost-
wick were he now living, for he told
his hearers that gasoline was COM
/ rncnly thought TO have been, next
! to munitions. the most voluminous
and valuable product we supplied to
our allies For several years DR..
Acheson has made a careful study
Of our oil resources so that he was
well fortified with facts and figures
with which to emphasize the various
points which he made.
| He told his hearers that IN 1917 we
sold TO the allies 500, 900 600 gallons OF
/ gasoline. We were using in the same
| year at home many millions Of gallons
| of gasoline, the magnitude OF the fig
| ures not having been understood by
the people until the so-called gasless
Sundays Of last fail demonstrated the
| enormity Of our use Of It These facts
| Justify the prediction made by Mr.,
Bostwick in the early so's that gaso-
line would become one Of the most
valuable OF the by-products Of petro-
leum-
Buy Millions of Gallons
Enormous as has been the use
of gasoline and great as has been
the export of 1t to our allies. still
| II does not equal the amount OF
lubricating oil which our allies
bought OF us. In 1918, DR.. Acheson
said, we sCld to our allies four
hundred million gallons Of lubrl-
eating oil. Some OF the statistics
! which DR.. Acheson was able TO put
before his hearers caused astonish-
meDt, according to reports received
1 80
approximately one-tenth of the pc
troleum produced in the United
States distills off and refnes into
lubricating oil That being the case
the three hundred and forty-rve
million five hundred thousand bar
rels Of petroleum which were pro-
duced in the United States in 1918
! furnished thirty-four million Eve
! hundred thousand barrels Of lubrI-
eating oil and that is quantity in
| excess OF any other liquid excepting
| water. The importance of oil to the
| civilized world can best be grasped
| when IL is known that the clothing
we wear, all the articles on our per-
son, the houses we live In and
practically every article in the
houses would not exist were there
no fabrication.
: This statement or one somewhat
similar to II was made g few days
ago in an exhaustive article upon
cur Oil resources. the article going
SO far as to say that civilization as
we now know II could not be main
tanned were II not for fabrication.
1 DR.. Acheson told his hearers OF
the Rotary Club that II the in
formation he obtained be correct
the United States produces approx
! in'ately so per cent of the Pc
troleum Of the world. II that be
so we must be producing more than
/ so per cent of the lubricatinE oil.
because much cf the petroleum
found in foreign countries is Of a
very heavy, thick character and is
best available for fuel II is likely
I, that many other deposits of Pc
| troleum viii be found in the world.
DR.. Clapp. who is one OF the four
leading authorizes On the world pc
troleum production has recently
| published q series of articles in
which he has pointed out the vast
resources of petroleum which exist
in South America.
Petroleum supply.
There seemed TO be a clear intims-
ton in his article that the United
States may be compelled by reason Of
the possible exhaustion Of our petro-
leum. some of the experts saying that
this may occur within sixteen years,
to import more and more petroleum
from Mexico and from South Amerf-
ca When II is recalled that for a