To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

It is with the same feeling which caused Cicero to proclaim "O! tempora, O! mores!", that I would like to make a protest against the board of editors of the CRIMSON including a student with the profound ignorance of the writer of yesterday's editorial on "British Oil".

He has strayed so far from any common sense view-point that I think it hardly necessary to refute his blatant and bombastic outburst in a communication of this kind,--necessarily brief. But I would like to point out that he has not only distorted what facts he has given, but has written from an essentially short-sighted and illogical point of view. He has compared the present production of American and English companies, not the future potential supply controlled by them. Then, too, he has failed to see that American ownership of a controlling interest in Imperial Oil and other British companies merely entitles this interest to a percentage of their earnings. It comes far from bringing this oil within the control of the American government. A mere cursory reading of the articles of incorporation of these concerns would show where the control actually lies.

Far be it from me to urge an American national program for aggrandizement in the search for oil. But let us stick to the facts! Look the problem in the face! The recognized importance of the problem of future oil supplies demands that in our consideration of it, we at least start out with a sound hypothesis. WM. W. GOODMAN 1L., March 11, 1921.