Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-11-09
WANT THREE MORE
COAL RELIEF DAYS
County Representatives Vote
to Ask Washington for More
Aid in Buckeye State.

administration will ask the parent |
fuel administration at Washington to
give the state three more 100 per
cent" coal relief days.
The county forces of the state ad-
ministration acted emphatically at
their first meeting, held on the most
inclement day the state yet has had.
Men representing practically every
county, local fuel committee members
constituting the statewide organiza-
ton of the Ohio fuel administration,
near the close of a four-hour session
in the state senate chamber, voted en-
Enthusiastically to request further aid.
The senate chamber was crowded, and
several women sat listening in the gal
lery.
The meeting adopted a motion to
ask the federal fuel administrator to
lift the lake priority order on three
more days between now and the close
of navigation, the entire production
of the mines on those days to be dis
tributed to dealers for domestic and
other emergency use.
Addresses by Administrator John
son on the stern necessities of the
emergency created by war, and by
Gov. James M. Cox, on the paramount
need for cooperation with Washing
ton and education of the public to
realize the emergency, were received
with every sign of agreement and ap-
proval.
The county committees we're given
by Johnson, Gov. Cox and Senator
Pomerene definite ideas of the exigen-
cies of the situation and the difficult
ties faced by Washington in trying to
solve the problem for the nation as a
whole.
Particularly it was made clear to
them that the northwest need is not
fanciful theory, but that to prevent q
transportation tie-up in the winter
is necessary to get coal to the north
west by lake shipments now.
Several points of significance stand
out as an outgrowth of the meeting.
They are:
1.-The user of coal must abandon
the idea, if he has it, that he can in
the period of the war, fill his cellar
with coal as he was wont to do in for
mer times He will get simply an al
lotment which will be only as large as
his local committee considers equita-
| BILE in making a community distribu-
| ton.
2-The local fuel committees pow
orc will ovtopd OD1u to dictrihIitj0n of
such coal as Washington allows the
state and to fixing of prices therefor,
prices to be determined on the basis
of dealers costs.
3-Any dealer or operator who tries
to "buck" the game is going to run
against the fuel administrations
| clenched fist This was made clear.
If dealer declines to give data on his
costs and profits, he may expect a
price to be fixed so low that he will
| be glad to submit his figures.
! If a dealer won't sell at the price
fixed, he won't sell at all. And if any
contracts are entered into contrary to
the fuel administration law, the cases
will go to the United States district
attorneys.
Firebugs to Be Punished.
The next pro-German caught in con-
nection with an attempt to burn food
repository, grain elevator or grocery
storage place in Ohio will be turned
over to the military authorities at
Camp Sherman.
1t is understood this decision has
been privately reached in the office of
the state fire marshal, the determine
ton being that if it is in any way pos
sible, the next offender, instead of be-
ing tried for arson, will be placed un.
der such charges as will bring him
face to face with the chance of pay
ing the extreme penalty for treason.
The fire marshal's Office is in dead
ly earnest, for the thing it feels it is
facing in unsuspecting communities
throughout Ohio it regards as a deadly
menace
There has been general talk of the
fire marshal linking recent bad fires
that destroyed stored foodstuffs witt
German intrigue, but reluctance il
some few instances on the part of pro
prietors to comply with orders for in
creased fire prevention and the neces
sity for day and night guarding indi
cate there is not yet sufficient realiza
ton of the widespread nature of thu
danger.
1t should not be without signif
canoe to the public that in the tw'
months just past, August and Septem
ber, State Fire Marshal T. Alfret
F1eming's department made more al
rests than had been made in any en-
tire year in the previous history of tn
department with the exception of tw
years ago, the year of the Youngstown
riots.
A number of men arrested and cor
victed have been Germans.
Fewer Saloons in Columbus.
No applications for new saloo
licenses were received by the Franz
lin county liquor license commission
ers who on Oct. 80 granted 351 re
newals, rejected five applications fo
renewals, held up two pending tris
on charges of violations of the laws.
The commission also approved tn
| withdrawal OF SIX SdIOOHKe6perS VII
had quit business because Of the higl
. er cost of operation.
Columbus is entitled to 433 saloons
It has 80 fewer than it is entitled t.
being the only city in the state to ia
below its quota.
Here's Story About Cow.
Among the uniformed police of tn
Capital City who were stationed
: the cattle barns at the national dair
: show was one tall fellow who SCENE
to know considerable about cows. II
. had interested conversations with Sc
. eral visitors regarding this and thu
exhibit. A man and woman inquire
of this patrolman 'where that famou
high priced cow could be found.
:, WELL" said the officer, pointir
= with his club, she's right over there
little Jersey that you'd probab
look at once and then offer 500 fo
But you couldn't buy her for $4,000
Liquor Dealers Denounced.
j.. Liquor dealers who, for financi