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��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

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���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

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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

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