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Rh The world now needs it as never before, and Mexico needs, as never before, the outside help that this magnet of wealth can bring to it.

The English have thoroughly experimented with fuel oil and demonstrated that, used in a Diesel engine, one ton of oil, or 6.8 barrels, does the work of six tons of coal; and the normal price in England is about five dollars per ton for each, although present war prices are nearly double. Burned under boilers three tons of oil equal six tons of coal.

The demonstration was clear that the Diesel engine ship can be operated at fifty per cent of the cost of the coal burner. The war has interrupted the conversion of the world's ocean tonnage from coal to oil, but the future of oil on land and sea has been proved and can be seen from the pressure gauge on Cerro Azul; and from the same point can be seen the redemption and regeneration of Mexico, the moment a brotherly hand can be extended to her.

England and Germany both see it, for in these countries business and government work together for national development and the uplift of the people. In time Mexico and the