The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-19
WHICH ARE NOT NEEDED
FOR THE WAR EMERGENCY
Director-General McAdOO Said That
These Excluded Lines Should
Be Encouraged
CONGESTION is APPALLING.
Mr.. Garfield Makes Further Explanation
of His Order.

Washington, ID. c., Jan. l9.-Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield issued this state
ment yesterday supplementing previous
comment on the necessity for his radica
conservation order:
THE order suspending temporarily the
operation of industrial plants i'll portions
of the United States is drastic. Yes, wal
| is drastic, This war is the most ex.
tensive and involves greater sacrifices
than any war heretofore. The Ameri-
can people, led by the president, entered
the war deliberately. They are stalking
Everything for the realization of great
ideal, and the ideal is practical. We
know that democracy must be made a
reality at home, as well as abroad, that
its benefits must be shared by all and
its sacrifices borne by no single class.
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,
at least of all 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 capital and labor are not two but
one. Their problems present merely two
aspects of the same vital question. The
unselfish and patriotic impulses and the
calm look ahead will lead the country
to approve of the order now in force.
Industry is in an unbalanced condi-
tion. We lack many essentials--food.
clothing, fuel. We have piled up enor-
nous stores of things not essential to
life, but very essential to war We have
piled up so high on our docks and in our
storehouses that the ships available can
not carry them away as fast "a they
pile up. For lack of bunker coal held
back by traffic congestion, the number
of ships in our harbors increases menac-
ingly.
'The food supply Is threatened to an
even greater degree than the fuel sup
ply. The condition Is in large part due
to the congestion that at many points |
holds the loaded cars in it's grip
"To single out industries not engaged |
to some extent in war manufacture is to
select industries which in the aggregate |
will bring relief only If suspended in
definitely. To require all industries ex-
,ept comparatively small part to cease
for few days quickly accomplished the
desired result and permanently Injuries
none. The order as it stands puts all in
iustry on an equal footing. favoring
none and avoiding unfair competition,
but this reason alone is not sufficient
This reason, plus the fact that the order
will put coal in the empty bins of the
people, will save coal, will aid in breaking
up congestion of traffic and in furnishing
IN adequate supply of coal to the people
who need it and to the ships which can
1ot sail without itthese are sufficient
'easons and Justify the order.
only those industries producing neces-
'ary war material that can be promptly
are permitted to operate dur
ng the supsension period. To permit
Industries with coal supply on hand to
operate would allow many of the least
,ssential to continue while some of the
most essential would be compelled to
top. Moreover, to allow those fortunate
nough to possess coal pile to continue
would result in adding to the traffic con-
.estion, and, unless they also are sus-
ended at later period, the needed saw
ng in consumption Of coal would not re-
ut
"To have delayed the application of
he order would only have added to the
II is no condemnation of
Industry to say that each would have
triven to the utmost to increase its
upply of coal and other raw material
uring the days prior to the application
t the order"