The Washington times., 1924-02-05
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.
China's Future Is In Goal.

VHTHEN you say the Future of any nation win be de-
w termined by it's Ideals, by it's Blood, by it's
Religion, or by this or that, perhaps you
right for the of growth in living thing be it
Mouse Man, or Nation, complex and obscure
Growth, development evolution, is matter the gods
for themselves, and can but partially CO.
remains forever among the arcana of the Infinite
But Engineer met some time ago in Picking gave
The of China is Mud People live in Mud houses,
sleep in Mud by night eat on it and walk in by day.
Mud and Manure the trade marks OF poverty gnor
ance, coWardice and superstition.
European civilization once in the same plight.
Medievaism the of the glory Of Monarchy and Art
and the Churh in Europe has been described as cVlza
ton upon a dung heap"
That is what China is today, great, proud, capable
wise and wonderful race sitting in unspeakabe Mud and
breathing intolerable stenches.
What China needs, said the Engineer, is OIL
Steam got the West out of the Mud Steam threw millions
OF hoser stable boys and stage drivers out OF jobs and
reemployed them firemen brakemen conductors sta
ton agents, clerks and engine drivers
In other words, Steam lacked up humanity off the
ground, raised the level of universal living.
Oil, or Gasoline, would do that for China.
Oil comes from Coal. Coal is growing thing in Ma
ture It begins with the Peat Bed; stored away in
Natures laboratory this becomes first very low grade
COAL then btuminous COAL and until the final stage,
anthracite, which is almost pure carbon and ash.
During the process Nature has been extracting volatile
oils and gases and storing them in those great pockets
from which draw out petroleum and natural gas.
soft O Of
China is full of young COAL That is, coal yet i'm
pregnated with oils.
Those oils can be cheapy and easily extracted from this
coal and gasoline be sold for IL Is cents gallon
Now every gallon of gasoline sold in China comes
through the Standard Shell Oil Company who both get
their rakeo and that is why the oil costs from IS cents
to dollar gallon.
Oil cannot profitaby be extracted from the young coal
in America because natural oil is too plentiful and cheap
China has enough young coal to last her for thousand
years. Some of her known coal beds 400 feet thick
When China gets cheap Oil, she will soon have the
Flivver Then will come Good Roads, The present Roads
of China horrible They the worst in the whole
world
Some of them have been worn down until cart going
along them is invisible at little distance the whole high
way being deep chasm.
Gasoline will change that.
Gasoline Steam and Electricity these the material
and physical requirements for getting the human up
from the ground.
Gasoline will take the coole away from his rckshaw
and put him behind the steering Wheel
It Natures design that her dumb Giants-Oil Coal
Steam Electricity Water Power and the like-do the
worlds dirty work. and release the human for
higher and worthier tasks.
The degree of advance of the always be told
by the condition of it's lowest class And the problem of
the world is to get it's working class up into decency intel
hgence and self-respect.
So Henry Ford and the Electric Companies that
utilizing Japans water power, and my Engineer that is
proposing tap the of Chnas vast coal supply
all are working the welfare of the race along with the
Missionary the Educator and the Publcist.
by the Newspa Syndca