The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-01
Assistant State Fuel Admins
traitor for Ohio Publishes
Figures Showing Amount of
Coal Used by Brewers.
ONE POUND OF COAL
TO PINT OF BEER
Fuel Wasted by Brewers SUI
ficient for 726 Round Trips
OF Vessel Size of Lusitania
Carrying Over 23,O00,0 900
Tons of Supplies.

Are you worrying where Won arr
soihs 70 get your winters supply of
coal?
rs everyone knows, the coal situa
ton mas becou ne so acute in this conn
ny mat the president found It neces-
s1lE 10 appoint a coal administrator.
thousands upon thousands of peo-
PIE are facing the winter without a
pound Of coal In their bins. No
amount OF money, no mat4er how
large In many. localities is big enough
70 buy. ton OF coal for the s,mpls
reason that there lis no coal on hand
Under such circumstances, how do
the following figures. made public nv
t. ID. Leach, assist ant state fuel ad-
rn'nistrator of Ohio, strike your He
says:
II the Lusitania were now float
Ing the seas. the coal used an
nuaiiy in the manufacture of beer
In this country would furnish fuel
for 72s round trips for the giant
snip and transport 2S59B,o0o tone
or supplies to The allies.
Coal usrd by the manufacture
OF Hssr in ohio alone would fur
hish more than sixty round trips
ana carry nearly 100000 tons
OF supplies year.
1t requires 1870, 900 cars OF coal
or three trains. to move the raw
material TO the hreweries
We have heard n great deal
about the grain In the beer and
about the sugar I'm the beer. but
we have heard little about the
coal In beer.
Coal Is one of the principal In
gradients rT TAKES ALMOST
EXACTLY A POUND OF COAL,
BEER.
SO here is further evidence OF the
brewers criminal waste, Mr.. Hoover
has rna6e- public staten which
shows that the brewers waste grain
sufncient to make 5000. 900 pound
loaves OF bread a Day. They are vast
ing literally tons OF sugar every wear,
And now 1t In discovered that they
are wasting Thousands OF tons OF coal.
Could II be any worse than this7
Coal In needed to carry our ships
across the ocean bearing supplies and
munitions to our allies and our own
troops In France. Coal is needed TO
transport supplies and munitions
across our own country And here
are the brewers. many of whom are
members of the Germa n A merfcan
alliance, an organization that stands
under strong suspicion Of being strictly
pro German, worse than wasting this
precious commo dity that Is so abso-
lutely recesssrE for a successful PROS
ecution or the war against the Hum
And then. too the coal that goes
into the manufacture Of beer Is doubly
effective in assisting the kaiser This
is the way IL works. Coal operators
tell MS that the biggest hindrancs they
are meeting In working their mines
fun capacitv is ca used nv booze The
Pennsylvania operators have gone so
far as TO ask that dry zone be cast
around the mining districts. The
brewer takes the coal uses a pound
In the production OF one pint of beer,
thereby keeping that pound from
useful service; send the beer back into
the coal mine district. and the beer
further reduces the coal supply of
the nation by interfering with mining
operations.
II is a double action arrangement
fire for the ka iseri
What patriots these brewers are
Isn't II tire that the government put
" stop to this reasonable business by
closing every brewery in the United
Statess