The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-10-18


soldiers as much as the man who
wears a uniform and marches to the
front.
Householder Can Save.
But the householder asks where
be comes In. In the first place. In
many homes throughout the country
he can maintain less number of coal
hres. be can even shorten the nun
her OF hours they are In operation
He can see that gas stoves are turned
on as soon as the cooking is over
When the weather is cool, he can car
ry lower temperatures In his HON,
than he has been accustomed to. IN.
less there Is illness In the house. A
temperature Of 60 degrees instead Of
20 Is sufficient. Then he can operate
fewer gas and electric lights and see
that they are turned of when not
needed or when he leaves the room.
And this leads to the suggestion
that, II ever there were need for the
Introduction of the proposed daylight.
saving act throughout the country. /,
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.
er companies. The owl car would be
an hour earlier. People would be
sleeping instead Of using lights gen.
Grated by coal. In compact little Eng
land, with daylight saving. they have
saved 10000 tons Of coal In year.
I'm time Of war the coal wasted In
this manner is luxury coal. and that
leads to the thought that Americans
are the greatest advertisers In the
world with their brilliantly lighted
downtown sections of great cities;
the mammoth electric advertising
signs blazing for miles. and their
elaborate White Cities their Coney
stands and their 'Dreamlands.' II Is
all very well to be up and doing and
pushing your product In big way In
peace times. rejecting much enter
prise upon American methods of do
ing business. But in war time doesn't
a'l this tremendous expenditure. Of
energy from coal mean the use Of
luxury coal which ought to be
s,npped from pure spirit Of patriot.
isml
Saving Luxury" Coal.
"For the time being, let's save this
luxury coal that goes into amuse-
ments and extrayagances and frivoli-
ties. Some American merchants may
call this sacrifice, but to my mind It
isn't sacrifice at all when we think Of
the Washington widow whose brave
son. member Of a United States navy
crew, gave up his life when his vessel
was torpedoed by the Germans. the
first navy victim Of the war. Any
how, We all have to make sacrifices
In times like these.
''The largest anthracite operator In
the United States expressed himself
as entirely puzzled at the present sit
uation Of soaring prices In anthracite
coal. he knows that the production
is as great as 1t has ever been and
can only explain the present situation
by saying that 1t is probably due to
tde national extravaganza Of the
American householder. Coal, he says,
. being stored by overanxious and
selfish people, disturbing the natural
movement Of this necessary com.
modify and unduly increasing the
price. Not only does 1t do this bat
It is taking the necessary supply AMY
from the industries that need the coal
In the manufacture Of material essen
tial to the successful prosecution Of
the war. In this. too, We must b -
triotic and unselish. with the reward
that prices viii reach q lower lsv6