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SAVE ON FUEL DURING PERIOD OF WAR
The pound of coal that you, Mr. Citizen, may save to
day, may contain the last gasp of energy necessary to
drive a shell home true to the enemy, and spell victory in
stead of defat.
The pounds of coal many Mr. Citizens may save today
may forge the shells that may decide the war in favor of a
world's democracy.
The pounds of coal many Mr. Citizens may save on
many davs may hasten the end of the war and save thou
sands of lives.
This is the statement of Francis S. Peabody, chair
man of the national coal board, council of national defense,
in an appeal issued to all of the people of the country in
an effort to have them conserve in the use of fuel so that
there may at all times be a sufficient quantity available for
battleships, the munition factories, the railroads, and all
enterprises that are making materials for use in the war.
“It is not that we do not have the coal in this coun
try," continued Mr. Peabody. “Perhaps no country in
the world is so blessed with such a superabundance, but it!
is a question of digging it out of the ground fast enough
and havingprompt deliveries by the railroads at the places
where it is most needed.
“The less coal the householder uses, therefore, the
more there will be for the essential industries, the men
of which in this industrial war are all soldiers as much as
the man who wears a uniform and marches to the front.
“But the householder asks where he comes in. In the
first place, in many homes throughout the country he can
maintain a less number of coal fires . He can even shorten
the number of hours they are in operation. He can see that
gas stoves are turned off as soon as the cooking is over.
When the weather is cool, he can carry lower temperatures
in his house than he has been accustomed to, unless there
is illness in the house. A temperature of sixty degrees in
stead of seventy is sufficient. Then he can operate fewer
gas and electric lights and see that they are turned off'
when not needed or when he leaves the room.
“And this leads to the suggestion that, if ever there
were need for the introduction of the proposed daylight
saving act throughout the country, it is now. Begin work
an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier. That immedi
ately would take an hour’s burden from the street rail
ways, the electric light companies and the electric power
companies. In compact little England, with daylight sav
ing, they have saved 300,000 tons of coal in a year’s time.
“In time of war the coal wasted in this manner is
‘luxury’ coal, and that leads to the thought that Ameri
cans are the greatest advertisers in the world with theii
brilliantly lighted downtown sections of great cities. It
is all very weil to be up and doing and pushing your prod
uct is a big way in peace times, reflecting much enterprise
upon American methods of doing business. But in war time
doesn’t all this tremendous expenditure of energy from
coal mean the use of ‘luxury’ coal which ought to be
stopped from a pure spirit of patriotism?
“For the time being, let’s save this ‘luxury’ coal that
oge into amusements and extravagances and frivolities.
Some American merchants may call this acrifice, but to
my mind it isn’t sacrifice at all when we think of the Wash
ington widow whose brave son, member of a United States
navy crew, gave up his life when his vessel was torpedoed
by the Germans, the first navy victim of the war. Anyhow,
we all have to make sacrifices in times like these, and as
soon as the country fully realizes this spirit, that moment
we go forward to decisive and prompt victory.
“The largest anthracite operator in the United States
expressed himself puzzled at the present situation of soar
ing prices in authracite coal. He knows that the produc
tion is as great as it has ever been and can only explain
the present situation by saying that it is probably due to
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the national extravagance of the American householder.
Coal, he says, is being stored by over-anxious and selfish
people, disturbing the natural movement of this necessary
commodity and unduly increaing the price. Not only does
it do this, but it is taking the necssary supply away from
the industries that need the coal in the manufacture of ma
terial essential to the successful prosecution of the war.
In this, too, we must be patriotic and unselfish, with the
reward that prices will reach a lower level and we will
have enough coal for the proper conduct of the war.
“To the manufacturer 1 would say that it is the time to
pay a little more attention to your boiler room and see
what your firemen are doing with the coal. Time was in
this country that coal was so cheap, entering so little into
the cost of manufacture that few cared how the coal was
burned. Since that time we have made tremendous prog
ress in the science of combustion, until today black smoke
pouring out of a factory chimney is not a badge of pros
perity, but a badge of inefficiency and of waste. To get
power out of coal you have to burn it, and letting it go up
the stack in smoke is not burning it. Any mechanical en
gineer todav can show you how."—Exchange.
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