Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1936, Page 42

FARM PRODUCTION PERIL DISCOUNTED Wallace Sees Little Chance of Chemistry Replacing Food and Clothing. BY the Associated Press. Chances that chemical laboratories might displace the farm as producers of food and clothing were termed remote yesterday by Secretary Wal- lace. “There is no possibility either that chemistry will solve all the farmers’ difficulties overnight or that it will do away with the need for farms,” he said in a report to the President. Wallace explained chemical dis- covery depended on economic as well a8 technical factors. Diverse Uses Uphold Price. Corn stalks and straw have value as live stock feed and fertilizer, the Secretary said. so0 that it has'paid the farmer to sell them for industrial processes only when he receives more than they are worth as feed. Chemical discovery often is not an “unmixed blessing for the farmer,” Wallace continued, with development of new uses for one product some- times hurting the market for others. Cites Rayon Steock. As an example, he said, use of sugar cane residue, or bagasse, for making rayon may diminish demand for cotton. Similarly. he added. soy bean oil production may come directly | into competition with cottonseed and | other vegetable oils. The Secretary said that while| chemical discovery in farm products temporarily may benefit some lines | of production to the disadvantage of others, usually “the final balance was | in favor of the farmer.” Many discoveries in the files of the | Agriculture Department were described | as technically successful. but not utilized commercially because oosts were too high. BUS VENTILATION TO BE IMPROVED Capital Transit Co. Letter Advises Commission as Result of Complaints. Promises of improvement of the ventilation of its busses have been made by the Capital Transit Co. in & letter to the Public Utilities Com- mission in response to a number of complaints of overheating and other faults. The commission several days ago wrote the company asking that bus operators be more carefully instructed in management of heating and ven- tilating facilities which can be man- ually controlled, and warned the| company that busses not required to be equipped with such systems should not be brought into the downtown area. | To this E. D. Merrill, company vice | president and general manager, re- | plied “We are calling this to the atten= tion of our supervisors and have also been working on & full set of in- structions covering all of the differ- | ent types of heating and ventilating | apparatus in an effort to bring about | & more satisfactory condition. | “The matter is complicated by the | combination heating and ventilating systems involving the requirement that 10 cubic feet of air be intro- duced into the bus (per minute per passenger seat). Efforts are being | made to provide additional thermo- | stats of satisfactory type, which will permit the operation of fans without | the use of heaters. In some cases manual control is provided, and we | are making every effort to fully in- | struct our men.” COAST GUARD TO AID ICEBREAKING ON BAY But Commandant Declines to Re- ocondition Cutter Now at Baltimore. BY the Associated Press. Commandant R. R. Waesche in- formed Senator M. E. Tydings, Mary- land Democrat, yesterday the Coast Guard Service would be “of every practicable assistance” in keeping the Chesapeake Bay free of ice this Winter. The Senator had urged Waesche to seck funds to recondition the cutter Carrabassett, now at Baltimore to be decommissioned, and that the ship be used as an icebreaker. Waesche estimated $80,000 would be needed for this work, and in his letter to Tydings today said: “In view of the needs of economy and the policy followed by the ad- ministration in the matter of ice- breaking by the Federal Government, this office could not properly urge an appropriation for funds to provide ice- breaking service in one particular lo- cality to the exclusion of other sec- tions which feel they have an equal claim for such service.” SEE NEW SIGHTS Excu/sionAd. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 PHILADELPHIA $3.00 Chester $3.00 Wilmington $2.75 Leove Washingten 7:40 a. m. or 11:45 a. m. Choice of 2 tr returning seme doy. —— BALTIMORE $1.25 Round Trip Saturdays and Sundays $1.50Round Trip Daily—Good for 3 days Details from any 8 & O Ticket Agent o Talephone: District 3300, National 7370 BALTIMORE & OHIO RR. WE ADVERTISEMENT. CLEAN FALSE TEETH NEW EASY WAY NO Brushing—Recommended by Dentists. Approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau. | Kieen pow- | f water. 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