Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-01-25
WILSON BACKS
CARFIELD'S ACT:
Vital Need to Coal 250 Ships
Loaded With Supplies for
General Pershing.
IS A NECESSITY OF WAR.
Objects Are to Put Coal In Homes,
Fill Bunkers of Supply Ships anG
speed Up Work in Munition
Factories.
is A NECESSITY OF WAR.

.- washington. - TTeSluenL WuSOu
backed up the Garfield order closing
down the industry Of the nation east
of the Mississippi for five days and
declaring ten Monday holidays, during
which theaters, barrooms, Offices and
stores are to be cut off from the use
of fuel.
. The President stood. pat i'll the face
of tie action of the senate, which, by
vote Of so to 19, had adopted reso-
luton requesting Doctor Garfield to
suspend the coal order, for five days in
order that protests might be heard.
1t can be stated authoritatively that
President Wilson is satisfied that the
order suspending certain forms of in
dustrial enterprises is right and prop
er. He believes it will be effective in
correcting conditions that, left un-
touched, would work a national calam-
ity. He is standing squarely behind
the action Of the fuel administrator,
which was taken only after an eX-
tended conference participated in by
the President, Doctor Garfield, Secre-
'tary Of War Baker and Secretary Of
the Navy Daniels. He believes that
three great objectives will be achiev-'
ed:
First that the population of the
eastern sections will be kept warm
and given the means of cooking their
food.
Second, that the hundreds of ships
now awaiting coal will be enabled to
carry their supplies to American
forces and Americas friends abroad.
Third, that industries directly af-
fecting war preparations will be
enabled to proceed under full steam,
as all the important ones in this class
are specially exempted from the OPP
erations of the act.
The administrators attitude may
be defined as regarding the order as
a check up en- the use of. coal by
non-essential industries, which action
had been advocated for some time!
The difference is a difference of de-
gree and not Of principle, in the view
of the Presidents advisers Instead
of specifically singing out industries
that are not to be coaled, the terms
Of the order indicate those which are
to be given full allotment. In other
words, the terms are stated positively
instead Of negatively.
The administration gave considera-
tion to these points in issuing the or
der:
That the President stands behind
it unqualifiedly.
That it is an act necessitated by
war and as such it will be accepted
by the nation cheerfully and with
out pickering.
That it will Immediately and
favorably affect our war prepara-
tiOns.
p. That it will save the people from
hardships; coal and food ships for
France; give fuel to needed indus
tries. and, of first Importance, clear
the railroad congestion.
That a careful examination Of the
act will show it to operate only
against enterprises which in time
of necessity can most readily be
spared.
That by increasing production it
will bring about great synchro-
nization between production and dis
tribution, which has been interfered
with by the blocking of the railroads
and the ships
And, finally, that the order is ir-
. reyocabFe.