The Green Forest tribune., 1917-06-15
Householder Can Save.

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 can even shorten the num- Der of hours they are in operation. He can see that gas stoves are turned off as soon as the cooking is over. When the weather is cool, he can car ry lower temperatures ill his home than he has been accustomed to, un- less there is illness in the house. A temperature of 60 degrees instead of 70 is sufficient. Then he can 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 1 that, if ever there were need for the i is.troduction of the proposed dayl ght- saving act throughout the country, it is now. Begin work an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier. That imme- diately would take an hours burden from the street railways, the electric light companies and the electric pow CT companies. The owl car would be an hour earlier. People would be sleeping instead of using lights gen erated by coal. In compact little Eng i land, with daylight saving, they have saved 100000 tons of coal in year.
 'In time of war the coal wasted in i this manner is luxury coal, and that leads to the thought that Americans are the greatest advertisers in the world with their briIliantly-lightcd i downtown sections of great cities the mammoth electric advertising signs blazing for miles. and their elaborate White Cities their Coney islands and their 'Dreamands' It iS all very well to be up and doing and pushing your product in big way in 1 peace times. rellecting much enter prise upon American methods of do- ing business. But in war time doesn't all this tremendous expenditure of energy from coal mean the use of luxury cout which ought 10 be stopped from q pure spirit of patriot | ism?
 Saving Luxury" coal.
 For the time being Iet's save this luxury coal that goes into amuse- ments and eNtravaganceS and frivoli- 1 ties. Some American merchants may call this sacrifice but to my mind it 1 isn't sacrifice at all when We think of l the Washington widow whose brave son, member of q United States navy ! l. .1 was torpedoed by the Germans, the first navy victim of the war,= Any how, we all Save 10 make sacrifices in times like these.
 "'Fhe largest anthracite operator in the United States expressed himself as entirely puzzled at the present sit- l uatjou of soaring prices i'll anthracite coal. He knows that the production is as great as it has eyer been and i can only explain tIe present situation 1 by saying that if is probably due to l the national eXtravuguuce of the l American householder Coat he says i is being stored by overanXious and selfish people. disturbing the natural 1 movement of this necessary com modity and uuduy increasing the price. Not only does it do this but it is taking the necessary supply away from the industries that need the coal in the manufacture of material essen sliaI 10 the successful prosecution of the war. Tn this. too, we must be pa. trlotic and unSeltish, with the reward that prices will reach a lower level and we will have enough coal for the proper conduct of the war"