The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-15
Save ON COAL TO
BUYL|BERTYB0ND
Unique Method for Financing the
Next Loan Is Out
lined.
MUCH FUEL NOW IS WASTED
Director of Bureau of Mines Says Av-
erage Citizen Can Save From
$50 to 500 on Next Win
ter's Coal Bill.

Washington.-A unique method for
financing a big slice of the next Lib
erty bond issue practically without
cost to several millions of citizens was
outlined by Van II. Manning, director
of the bureau of mines, department of
the interior, in statement to the pub
lie 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 S100, is as follows:
Americans are proverbially very
wasteful. While it is a figure of
speech that they light their cigars with
ten-dollar 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 fur
mace. He has paid no attention to his
furnace; 1t has never entered his
thoughts that the combustion of coal
is 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 compara-
lively recently coal was very cheap
product.
Here's Where Help Comes.
"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 a 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 Il house
and supplying it with plenty of
warmth, professor at Yale universi-
ty was asked by the bureau to keep
exact costs of heating his ten-room
house in New Haven, Conn, and to en-
deavor to show the best possible re-
suits. This was in the winter of 1912
1913, when coal was yet comparatively
cheap. He kept that house at an av-
erage temperature of 60 degrees for
seven months and ten days at a cost
of $40 for coal and So for cord wood
that was used in a CRATE more for
cheeriness than anything else. He
used nine and two-fifths tons of coal
at cost of S425 a ton.
"That mans cost of heating was
from $50 to S10O less than what was
InI Nv Inrr ,Nf hNtr
holders living in the same locality and
having the same heating requirements.
And it was that much less than thou
sands of other citizens throughout the
United States.
Problem for the Citizen.
"The problem now is that if the
Yale professor by a careful, intelli-
gent firing of his furnace can save
from $50 to S1O0 a year over his
neighbors when the cost of coal was
low, how much can he and other citi-
zens who care to try, save with coal
costing in many instances twice as
much and more? 1 am going to leave
that to the average citizen to actually
work out himself. All l can say is
that the Yale professors record was
true one and that 1t can be dupl1-
Gated by anyone who wishes to give
his furnace the same intelligent con-
sideration.
"Since that time the bureau has
many times duplicated the perform
ance of the Yale professor and knows
that it can be done. In our investi-
cations we have worked out some
rules that must be followed if success
is to be achieved. These have been
formulated into series of cardinal
principles and printed for the benefit
of the people. The bureau will be glad
to give a copy of these rules to any
citizen of the country and to help him
to this saving of $50 or 500, or per-
haps more. The citizen will not only
save the cost of one, two, three, or
four Liberty bonds, but he will also
be saving coal at a time we need it
most. Here is chance to be three
kinds of a patriot, one who saves
money, one who buys a Liberty bond
and one who saves COAL"