French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-24

m1n1StraJOf GdTlSlu, WhO0OE
further directs that industry and bust
ness generally, including all normal
activities that require heated build
ings. shall observe as a holiday every
Monday for the next ten weeks. The
purpose of this drastic measure, &C
cording to DR.. GARFIELD, is the relief
of an impending fuel famine. Not
only factories, but stores, except for
the sale of drugs and food, places OF
amusement and nearly all Office build
ings are to be closed on Mondays. The
stem was taken without a moments
notice to anybody and caused a storm
of protest from every section OF the
territory involved. But DR.. GARFIELD
declared that the order was made i'm
~perative because of the fuel and
transportation crisis.
The order of the Fuel Administra-
tor stipulates that all persons selling
fuel in whatever capacity shall in fill
ing their contracts OF orders now on
hand give preference to necessary cur
rent requirements of railroads, dOmes-
tic consumers, hospitals, charitable in
situations, army n navy canton
ments, public utilities, ~by-product
coke plants, telephone and telegraph
plants, manufacturers of perishable
food or food for necessary immediate
consumption, munition plants, county
or state government for necessary
public uses. Until these preferred
| shipments have been made no Other
orders or contracts may be f1lled-for
sIove or money!" Only industries do
ing imperative war work are exempt
ed from the order and partial paraly-
sis of industrial activities will natural
ly follow. But the country is advised
that terminal facilities are already
congested with finished products I'm
able to move forward for lack of Goa
to supply steamships. While thous-
ands of w~age-earners at home will b
idle two days out of seven each week,
for a time, it is believed that the plan
will enable the government to furnish
guns, food and clothing to III soldiers
abroad quicker than would otherwise
have been possible.
Necessity for the Garfield order is
deploTed beyond expression the coun-
try over, but We are in war and must
cheerfully submit to the mandates of
those in authority who are taking
every ~precautiOn to safeguard the in
~terests of every class and condition
throughout the land. The sentiment
of the people of North Carolina is, we
believe, well and truly expressed in
Governor Bickett's response to an in
quiry from the New York Tribune.
(Which asked him for an opirion
touching the Fuel Administrators ac-l
tom, when he said: "In order to form
an opinion worth anything upon the
wisdom or U~nwisdoM of the order of
the FUEL Administrator closing down
certain enterprises for a period of five
days, one must know as 1miIcn as the
Fuel Administrator knows, as much as
the Secretary of Wal knows, as much
as the President knows about the facts
that, in their opinion, made this nee
I am not in possession of the
facts, and, therefore, patriotism re-
quires me to walk by faith and not bv
sight IN the wisdom of the men select
ed to safeguard the highest interests
of the nation in this emergency" That
was spoken like a man and patriot.
for Governor Beckett is one hundred
per ent American. Those who abuse
'T Garfield now are mighty apt to re-
alize the wisdom of his action later
On. Mark it.