In spite of our appreciation of the Commissioners' motives, however,
we are convinced that some form of help from the Government will be necessary. The bold course of treating coal so as to make it yield power and light and by-products and smokeless fuel will really be much the cheapest solution for the nation in the long run. This revolution in our treatment and use of coal will be inevitable sooner or-later, so wiry not hasten the day P But the day, cannot be hastened without casting our bread upon the waters.. now. In other words we shalt probably have to spend money in order to save it. By the process of turning coal into oil money would be saved, not only in the mines but in every other industry,: and there would also be the great saving made by abolish-1 ing our national pall of smoke with all its corrosive and destroying acids and its injury to health..
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