The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-06-27
PEOPLE MUST SAVE COAL
TO AVERT PR|vAT|0NS
STATE FUEL ADMINISTRATOR
WARNS PEOPLE OF THEIR
PRESSING DUTY.

The fuel budget for the season
l91S-1919 has been completed by the
United States fuel administration We
know the worst of bad situation. A
detailed survey of the coal required
during the present coal year for war
purposes, to keep our industries run
ming, and for domestic consumers,
foots up to about 80 million tons more
than was produced last year. This is
the figure on June /, says f. r. Good
ing, fuel administrator for Idaho.
AS our part in the great war in
creases, we are confronted from
month to month with unexpected ad-
ditions to former estimates of fuel re-
quirements and to greater demands
on the man-power Of the country. so
that those responsible for the conser-
walton of fuel do not feel safe in as
Stunning that the increased demand
will be only. 80 million tons, no. in
assuming that it will be possible 10
obtain from increased production
more than one-half of the deficiency.
Conservation must provide for unex-
pected contingencies affecting both
figures of production and of consump-
ton.
Adopt Extreme Measures.
What is the answer? There is only
one; it is saving coal. 1t is the an
swer Europe has made in a similar
situation-saving coal in every way
possible and by all of the people. If
we were to avert the privations and
disaster attendant upon shortage of
coal much greater than last year, the
most intensive measures of fuel econ
omy must be carried into every activ-
ity of industrial and domestic life and
the cooperation of every man and
woman in the country must be 100
per cent.
The fuel administration has fore
seen the situation represented by
these figures and through it's conser-
walton division has organized fuel
saving campaigns reaching out into
every department of our national life
where fuel is consumed
Practice Economy in Firing.
Every American citizen will be ask
ed to clean his furnace, keep it in re-
pair and study economical firing. In
structions prepared by the highest au-
thority will be furnished by the fuel
administration.
If every one joins in this movement
from the owner of an industrial plant
to the householder with his furnace
and cook stove, if houses are not over
heated the furnace hampers properly
adjusted and the ashes sifted, it will
be possible to save from SO to rs mill
lion tons of coal without serious in
convenience to the American people.
Economy Viii Win.
A saving of 60 million tons OF coal
is the one possible avenue of escape
from national disaster. Necessities of
war must be supplied The coal de-
felt must inevitably come out of the
necessary fuel for non war industries.
lHeSe lHuuStTleS eHlpioy HillllOHS VI
our population and furnish the back
bone Of our national wealth. Factories
will shut down and men be out of
work in proportion to the coal deficit
Every ton of coal saved will keep so
workmen from idleness and permit an
additional creation of several hundred
dollars worth Of national wealth.
The fuel administration has frankly
given to the public statistics of an
alarming fuel situation. 1t desires to
state just as frankly and with all the
emphasis possible that 1t is in the
power of the American people through
fuel economy to save the country from
the effects of the coal famine.