The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-28
SAVES ON COAL
TO BUY BONDS
Yale Professor Devises Method by
Which Saving in Fuel VIII
stake Up Liberty
PAPER

unique method for financing a
big slice of the next Liberty bond
issue practically without cost to sew
eral millions of citizens is outlined
by Van. H. Manning, director of
mines, department Of the interior, in
statement to the public on how to
save coal bills. His proposition,
which is a startling one and which
he claims will result in the average
citizen saving this next winter from
$50 TO 500, is as follows:
Americans are proverbially very
wasteful. While it is figure of
speech that they light their cigars
with $40 bills, in reality it comes to
be almost true. The average citizen
in the past has thrown coal into his
furnace with little or no idea of the
cost, of the wastefulness, and of his
carelessness as to whether he was
burning his coal or choking his furn-
ace. He has paid no attention to
his furnace; it has never entered his
thoughts that the combustion of coal
is a chemical process requiring exact
conditions and a certain amount OF
care the only sane realization he
has had has been the payment of his
coal bill. In the past even that hasn't
troubled him much, for until COM
paratively recently coal was a very
cheap product.
Much Different Now.
''Now it is much different. With
coal costs mounting, he is beginning
to look into the question with much
earnestness. And here is where the
bureau of mines may do him much
good, help him to serve his country
by buying Liberty bond, and save
enough coal to insure not only ample
supplies for ourselves, but also to
our suffering allies.
'In the bureaus search for the
truth as to just what can be done by
a household furnace in heating a
house and supplying it with plenty
of warmth, a professor at Yale uni
versity was asked by the bureau to
keep exact costs of heating his 10
room house in New Haven, Conn, and
to endeavor to show the best pos
sible results. This was in the Win
ter Of 1928, when coal was yet
comparatively cheap. He kept that
house at an average temperature OF
So degrees for seven months and ten
days at a cost of $40 for coal and
s8 for cord wood that was used in
a crate, more for cheeriness than
ANYTHING else. He used 2-5 tons of
coal at a cost of $425 ton.
Cost Of Heating Less.
"That mans cost of heating was
from $50 to 500 less than what was
expended by a large number of house
holders living in the same locality
and having the same heating require
ments. And it was that much less
than thousands of other citizens
throughout the United States.
"The problem now is that If the
Yale professor by careful, intelli-
gent firing of his furnace can save
from $50 to 500 a year over his
neighbors when the cost Of coal was
low, how much can he and other
citizens who care to try save with
coal costing in many instances twice
as much and more?
II am going to leave that to the
average citizen to actually work out
himself. lfAll I can say is that the
Yale professors record was true
one and that it can be duplicated by
anyone who wishes to give his furn-
ace the same intelligent considera-
ton. Since that time the bureau has
MANY times duplicated the perform