Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-19
Fuel Administrator Points Out
That Stress Of War Must Be
Met by Drastic Measures or
We Fail,
ALL CLASSES ASKED
TO MAKE SACRIFICES
Sweeping Order to Industries
Framed With View of Dis
tdbuting Burden Equally.
Throughout Nation,

Wv hONNlk0 JOURNAL SPECIAL lEAStp Wtbsl
Washington, Jan. 1S.--Fuel Ad-
minstrator Garfield issued a state
ment tonight reminding the public
that while the fuel restriction order
was drastic, war was drastic and the
order was a necessary war measure.
The statement follows
''The order suspending temporarily
the operation of Industrial plants in
portions of the United tates is drastic
Yes, war is drastic This war is the
most expensive and involves greater
sacrifices than any war heretofore
The American peole, led by the presi-
dent, entered this war deliberately.
They are stalking everything for the
ideal is practical. We know that
democracy must be made reality at
home, as well as abroad that its BEN
efits must beshared by all and its
sacrifices borne by no single class.
Capital and Labor One
Capital and labor are embarked
In this war because all Americans are
in it, and the American spirit cries
out against the least suggestion that
the burden be shifted to the backs OF
any one class, least of all of labor, for
labor has less financial ability to
meet the prolonged hardships of war
than capital. We are realizing the
truth now as never before that capi-
tai and labor are not two but one.
Their problems present merely two
aspects of the same vital question.
The unselfish and patriotic pulses and
the calm look ahead will lead the
country to approve of the order now
in force.
Industry is in an unbalanced con-
dition. We lack many essentials
food, clothing, fuel. We have piled
up enormous stores of things not es-
sential to life, but very essential to
war. We have piled them UP so high
on our docks and in our storehouses
that the ships available cannot carry
them away as fast as they pile up,
For lack Of bunker coal, held back by
traffic congestion, the number of
ships in our harbors increases me-
racingly.
Food Situation Critical.
THE food supply is threatened to
an even greater degree than the fuel
supply. This condition is in large part
due to the congestion that at many
points holds the loaded cars in its
grip.
To single out industries not en-
gagged to some extent in war manu-
facture is to select industries which
IN the aggregate will bring relief only
II suspended indefinitely. To run
close industries except a comparative
~ small part to cease for a few days
quickly accomplished the desired res
suits and permanently INJURIES none.
Inc order as it stands put all industry
on an equal footing, favoring none
avoiding unfair competition, but this
reason alone is not sufficient. This
reason, plus the fact that the order
- N' III tHe einply DlfS OF tne
people, will save coal, will aid in
breaking up congestion of traffic and
IN furnishing an adequate supply of
coal to the people who need it and to
the ships which cannot sail without
lt-these are sufficient reasons and
justify the order.
Traffic Remedy Sought.
only those industries producing
necessary war material that can be
promptly delivered are permitted to
operated during the SUSPENSION
period. To permit industries with a
coal supply on hand to operate would
allow many of the least essential m
continue while some of the most es-
sential would be compelled to stop.
Moreover. to allow those fortunate
enough to possess coal pile to con.
tinue would result in adding to the
traffic congestion, and unless they
also are suspended at later period,
the needed saving in consumption of
coal would not result.
'To have delayed the application
of the order would only have added to
the congestion. 1t is no condemnation
of industry to say that each would
have striven to the utmost to increase
its supply Of coal and other raw ma
terial during the days prior to the
annIira finn If tha nrdoy