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iWomcii or Cabinet appeal to "Womoxi of the Cfoimtry
"Order Your Coal Now !
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I - W4 fefcffltf -ifllpj U55Z1 ,?fy A
TIio solution of the world's win- pvoblom intiKt dcpciul
iijon tlic solution America's fuel problem. - Fuel, the
driving force of the war, must lie available in quantities
sufficient to insure victory. 'Without fuel the vast and
intricate machinery of war industry must stop; railroad
and steamship traffic will be clogged, and the steady pro
gress of our armies will be halted. ; All of the great war
machinery depends on fuel.
Now, in midsummer of the nation's second war year, it
i.s wrtuin that the nation's enormous deumnda for f..el,
cannot bo fully met. Although seven hundred thousftiid
mineis work to the limit, and the transportation ageneim
of the country strain every nerve to facilitate, distribu
tion, the war demand for fuel will inevitably outstrip the
possible output. , . t a 'SilXHl
livery time, a fifteen thousand ton troop ship.carrie;!v;:
American soldiers to the fighting front in France it eon-
.".nines about three thousand tons of coal or 12,000 barrelti j '
of fuel oil. .More than four million tons of coal are eoii-v; ;
sumed in a year in trnnsprtating the supplies which must ;
go forth ina continuous stream to maintain a single army.
Our present shipbuilding program will demand fim'te.ou ; ,. :
million tons of coal merely to manufacture and trauspavt . '
the steel to be used in ship construction; and, in building
eight million tons of vessels we will use nearly five tons
til coal for every ton of shipping that leaves the.Avays,
I.Overy three-inch shell fired from an American gun in the
war against liutocmcy rejjresents eighty younds of coal' '
used hi its manufacture, and these shells are manufactured , ;
by the million. ' '
Willi this enormous war demand added to the normal
coal consumption of our railroads, industries and people, .
the United States is confronted with the.neeessity ofsup-
plying approximately 7:ii),000,000 tons of coal diiring.the
coal year from April 1, 1918, to April 1, 1919.' Of thi s
amount' about 100,000,000 net tons a maximum yearV
i production come from the nnthracite fields and will go '
. liU'gely ,to. keep tin! people warm;; The remaining (&$-.
00,000 tons must come from the bituminous, fields., The
, production of bituminous coal in 1917 Was !5!)-l ,000,000
Ions in 19 Hi it was a little more than TiOO.OOO.OOO. The 1
.. .gap: between last yeui'!s production and this year's de-' ,
mauds (at least 80,000,000 tons), must be bridged.
; , Two factors limit the production of hituminous coal.
The first of these is transportation. Bituminous coal e.au
not Ijc dug from the ground and stored at the mine. Kvery
" hour that a mine porduees coal there must be availablont
the mouth of the mine railroad ears to carry the product
; away. If the ears -arc not there, production stops. .The;
. tremendous pi'essure on tlie railroads for the transporta-.
tion of war supplies and the consequent-congestion of all
eastern carriers which characterized our first year's war
activities operated to slow down the movement of coal cars
' and therefore to limit production.
It aip't the individuals ? . ,
Nor the army as a whole,
But the everlastin' team work
Of every bloomin' soul.
Kipling.
Your Duty - and Coal
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You owe it to your family to lay in next winter's supply of coal
' NOW, while there is no. difficulty about getting it. You owe it
; to your country to help the railroads, by letting them haul your
.coal from the mines. NOW, before all the cars and engines are
needed to move the crops.
You owe it to yourself to buy the BEST Coal
Aberdeen
or-
Black Hawk
Quality in Coal means economy in fuel bills.
Sawyer
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Holmes
PHONE MAIN 17
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Don't Buy a "MAY BE"
You c.xpoct chnai) conl and plenty
of It. Tho ovornmont 1h KlvlnK
. you clioup conl cIiCiHU undflr tho
circituirilancoH, ufl you will .jioo It
you jiimpaio piusout and pre-war
prices ot that commodity nlongnldo
pifisont. and pro-war prices ot var
ious o'hor coiniiioilillon; or - tlio
Aniorloan prices .with European
prices. But high prices sllmulutp
production, and in keeping the
pilco conipaiutivuly low the Oov
ornmcnt. forgoes that stimulation.:
IIIkIi prices Induce economy In
connuiupllon too. In Itoepins prices
companitlvoly low tli Kovornment
1 must ip,ly on voluntary economy.
. Arc you volun'toorliiK? Have you
really done anything aliout next .
: wlntor' fuel supply except to bad; ;
ger tho coal man and orlticizo th
Fuel Administration? Havo you
overhauled your furnace? Have,
you cot an ash slft'er? . Have you
considered whether . It . Is really u
good plan to throw the dampers
open until the house Is stifling and
then open tho windows?
Tho Fuel Administration has not
brjon perfect. ,Hava you? You are
a fuel administration too, While
preparing to advise the Fuel Ad
ministration at Washington do not
forgot that It can give you somo
good . advlco, Saturday - Evening
I'OBt.
Buy Your Fuel NOW!
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Buy a "CERTAINTY"
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