Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
Invention of New Methods
RevoIutionizeS Modern Prao-
tees in Business World.
PRODUCTION OF SUGAR
IN LOUISIANA is CITED
Analysis of Conditions There Re-
suits in Large Gain in
Annual Crop.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Few Amer
lean business leaders can match B. J.
Dahlberg of Chicago in youth, energy,
optimism and achievement. He thinks
the scientist can be of great use In
developing an industry. Here Is the
way he expresses his belief:
THE scientific approach-that'S what
every tagging business needs. Think Of
Louisiana producing but $4,000 tons of
sugar in 1925! Scientific men were
was diseased and dying. 1t had inbred
too long. The ground was analysed and
found to be all right. But the sugar
cane was not. We started cleaning
house. A year later, Louisiana produced
90 900 tons. Last year 1t yielded 100000
tons and we expect $4,000 tons this
industry"
What about Florida" I inquired,
knowing that the most ambitious plans
in the United States for sugar growing
are being undertaken there by him.
I'VE have now 10000 acres in sugar
cane there, and we've got another 10000
acres ready. This year, for the first
time, we're doing all our work, planting,
cutting and manufacturing. with mod
ern machinery. We work day and night.
Our results are astonishing. Florida
should produce 100000 tons of cane
income of $500, 100000 year. What
oil is to California, sugar will be to
Florida. Dream? Just a plain state
ment of fact, based on science and in
dustry," said this sugar capitalist.
His own plans in Florida call for a
production of 100000 tons within the
| next five years.
Canadian Enterprise.
Arthur E. Sproul Of New York, be-
means the ignorance of the people OF
America concerning the most obvious
| facts of Canada.
How many Americans he asks, know
the. port of Halifax increased its ton
mage by 40 per cent last year, and that
this little Canadian city has the largest
dry dock in the world? How many
Americans would answer that the largest
port of the Atlantic Coast after New
York is Montreal, located 1000 miles
from the Atlantic Ocean? Who Of US
know that at Sault Ste Marie the
canals carry more traffic than the SueZ
Panama and Manchester ship canals
combined?
In the larger fields, he tells us that
Canada leads all the nations in the
production of news print, nickel, asbestos
and cobalt; that she Is second in the
production of wheat and automobiles;
and third In the output Of lead and
gold; and that as an exporter she stands
sixth among the nations Of the world.
All true-"we do have quite q neigh
Dor up north"
Great Falls Project.
The American Institute Of Architects,
supporting the Capper- Cramton bill,
which provides $21 ,000 900 for the con-
struction of a national parkway on both
sides of the Potomac from Mount
Vernon, Washington's old home, to
Great Falls, Md, wants the beauty Of
the falls preserved as it Is today.
When the power interests declare that
failure to develop fully all phases of
the Potomac River, the architects reply
that the estimated savings on the
differential in cost between steam and
power are extremely problematical."
They point out also that the Southern
California Edison Co. recently announc-
ed that it would now concentrate on
steam power instead of water power
because of its cheaper manufacturing
cost.
There is no reason why a Govern
ment as rich as ours should have to
barter away to private interests any
such natural rights or beauty spots as
the gorge of the Potomac, simply for O
financial consideration" says the in
stitute. THE area has far greater value
to the Nation in its present condition"
One can hope that this particularly
choice beauty spot, so near the Capital
of the Nation, may be left unmolested.
Thomas A. Edison Is always interest
ing. One of the most inspiring business
leaders in the Nation, he refers to ex-
perimentS which he expects to complete
five or six years from now, although the
famous inyentor has already reached SO.
When asked how long 1t would take him
to get rubber in. commercial quantities
out of goldanrod, the plant he chose
out of Ia 900 varieties as the most prac-
ticable for his work, he replied:
"Oh, five or six years, maybe. I'm
going to make one unit at Ford. place
up near Savannah, and I expect to try
to make the first working establishment
up there"
When that work is finished, he will
be 81 or 88. But that doesn't mean a
thing to him.
That's really what makes him so
youthful, so useful, and interesting
always working for new worlds to
conquer.
Antitrust Law.
Would an amendment to the Sherman
antitrust act, making the words "tn
restraint of trade" mean "only such
restraint of trade as having due regard
to the interests of producers. workers
and consumers, shall be to the detri-
ment of the public" help to clear up
the situation in this field?
A National Civic Federation COM
mittee, studying antitrust legislation
for two years, believes such an amend.
ment might help.
Rush C.. Butler, chairman Of the
American Bar Associations committee
on commerce, also a member Of the
National Civic Federation's antitrust
study committee. raises the question
whether the United States Supreme
Court would hold the Sherman act
amended by such an amendment valid.
The court" Mr.. Butler says, might say
that it always has taken the interest OF
the public into It's decisions"
Arthur M. Gary, Western attorney, a
champion of the farmer, believes other
wise. He thinks until regulation has
proven effective 'the people are not
going to stand for any liberalization of
antitrust laws"
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