The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-16
TAG YOUR SHOVEL"
TO Be OBSERVED
ON JANUARY so
January 10, 1918.
Special Circular "a"

The United States Fuel Adminlstra-
tion has announced that January 30,
next, will be National Tag-Your-
Shovel Day. The twenty-one million
three hundred fifty thousand school
children of the country will perform
the patriotic work OF tagging the coal
shovels in American homes.
In this extra effort to save coal for
war purposes, the government seeks
the widest publicity through the CO.
operation of the daily, weekly and
periodical press, motion picture thea
tres and individuals.
Tag Shovel Day falls on We'd
nesday, and it is expected that gov
ernors, mayors and teachers will unite
in arranging for a school holiday
one of the few special national school
holidays ever proclaimed. Two great
printing plants are now turning out
the tags and posters, and it may be
taken for granted that all the children
everywhere except those who are un-
fortunate enough to be down with the
measles or mumps or something, will
be on the job January 80, for Uncle
SAM
The tags, on the face, bear this
wording: Save that shoveful of coal
a day for Uncle Sam" On the reverse
are these hints on saving coal:
1. Cover furnaces and pipes with
asbestos, or other insulation; also
weather strip your windows, or stuff
cracks with cotton.
2. Keep your rooms at 68 degrees
(the best for healthy.
8. Heat only the rooms you use all
the time.
4. Test your ashes by sitting. II
you find much good coal, there is
something wrong with your heater.
See a furnace expert.
S. Write to the maker of your fur
mace or stove for practical directions
for running economically
6. Save gas and electric light as
much as possible-this will save coal
for the nation.
The Fuel Administrator points out
that this tag day is different from all
other tag days. Instead of asking for
cash contributions, the school chill
dren will demand that householders
save money-save money for food, for
war savings stamps, for liberty bonds,
and at the same time add to the gov
ernment's coal pile.
A million car loads of coal more
than ever was taken out of the ground
in this country in a single year will
have been mined and delivered in 1917.
Another million car loads were need
ed, but no human power could make
so sudden an increase in production
where the bare physical requirements
were on so vast scale. But the ne
cessities of the war cannot wait and
the American people must face a
typical American problem, meeting
and satisfying an unheard of increase
in demand for coal with inadequate
facilities for creating increased sup
ply
The school children will not ne
glect any coal shovels, no matter how
humble or exalted they may be- Pres
ident Wilson's shovel at the White
House will be tagged, as well as the
shovels of governors, mayors, million
aires and wage-workers.
In the minds of the Fuel Admins
tration officials and the boys and girls
of the schools Tag-Your- Shovel Day
will be a serious occasion It's main
purpose is to help supply the machine
power to help the man power win the
war.
Special Circular "B.'
Statement by United States Fuel
Administrator Harry A. Garfield on
Tag-Your-Shovel Day:
"The United States is mining a re-
cord-breaking amount of coal in an
attempt to supply the record breaking
demand caused by the war
Coal is the great force behind the
men in the trenches; behind the bat
tleships, the transports, the munitions
factories and the railroads
The war demands a hitherto un-
heard of amount of coal. The Fuel
Administration is doing it's utmost to
supply this emergency demand.
Through the adjustment of labor trou-
bles at the mine, the increase of the
o'ohAooAO VI wal anu Tue
speeding up of coal transportation
the Fuel Administration is endeavor-
ing to supply army and navy needs,
and to keep factories running and
homes warm.
The miners are doing their part to
aid the Fuel Administration in it's
task. They are mining more coal than
ever before. The overburdened rail-
roads are graphing with the problem
of transporting this unusual quantity
of coal in addition to the great amount
of war freight which is congesting
their lines
AS result of all these efforts an
extra million carloads of coal have
been mined this year. This is 50,-
100000 tons more coal than has ever
been mined before in any year in the
history of the United States.
We need another million car loads.
1t is physical impossibility to pro-
duce this additional amount at once. II
must be saved from the coal already
available.
The American people are asked to
do their part in this emergency by
saving shovelful by shovelful in fac
tory and home this additional coal for
war needs.