The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-07-17
SAVE ON FUEL DURING PERIOD OF WAR

The pound of coal that you Mr. Citizen may to- day. may contain the last gasp of energy necessary tO drive shell home true to the enemy and spell victory n stead of defat.
 The pounds of coal many Mr. Citizens may today may forge the shells that may decide the in favor of worlds democracy
 The pounds of coal many Mr. Citizens may save on many days may hasten the end of the and 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 of fuel that there may all times be sufficient quantity available for battleshpS the munOn factories the railroads and all enterprises that making materials for use in the war
 Tt is not that we do not have the coal in this try" continued Mr. Peabody. Perhaps no country in the world blessed with such Superabundance, but it is question of digging out of the ground fast enough and havngprompt deliveries by the railroads the places where 1t 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 are all soldiers much the man who wears 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 less number of coal fires He shorten the number of hours they are in operation He that gas stoves are turned off as soon as the cooking is When the weather cool he carry lower temperatures in his house than he has been accustomed to- unless there is illness in the house. temperature of sixty degrees n stead of seventy sufficient Then he 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 there need for the introduction of the proposed daylight saving act throughout the country it is Begin work hour earlier and quit an hour earlier That mmed aely would take hours burden from the street rail ways the electric light companies and the electric power companies In compact little England, with daylight ing they have saved tons of coal in years time
 "In time of war the coal wasted in this manner is luxury coal and that leads to the thought that Amer the greatest advertisers in the world with thei brilliantly lighted downtown sections of great cities It is all very well to be up and doing and pushing your prod uct big way in peace times refectng much enterprise upon American methods of doing business But in time doesn't all this tremendous expenditure of energy from coal mean the of luxury coal which ought to be stopped from pure spirit of patriotism?
 "For the time being let's save this luxury coal that Oge into amusements and eXtravaganceS and frvoties Some American merchants may call this acrfce, but to my mind isn't sacrifice at all when think of the Wash ngton widow whose brave son. member of United States navy crew gave up his life when his vessel orpedOed by the Germans the first navy victim of the Anyhow we all have to make sacrifices in times like these and soon 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 ing prices in anthracite coal He knows that the produc ton is as great has been and only explain the Dresent situation bV saving that it probably due