Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1918-01-18
January goth 1T ag
Your Shovel Day.
school Children to Tag EvcrybHly's
Coal ShOvel.-ldca is for Each
To Save One Shovclful Of
Coal Every Day.

With the idea in mind of inducing
everybody in the United States to
save one shoveful OF coal every day
a National Tag Your shovel Day
has been announced for January 10,
when, all over the Nation, school
children will hang a little tag on the
shovel of every house that can be
discovered. On the tag. on one side,
will be directions for cc0nomizinS
coal, and on the other side is pic
ture Of coal shovel with the words.
Save that shovelful Of coal for In
Gle Sam" a half million of the tags
have been ordered for Oklahoma.
and the interest of the school chill
drcn has been enlisted in the tag
ging, the tags now being in course oi
distribution to every school house in
the state by State Superintendent H.
H. Wilson.
Jas II. Mckinney, coal administr1-
tor for this county. issued state
ment concerning the occasion, which
in part is as follows:
How important il Is that this
shovclful day be saved is shown
from the fact that although a mil
taken out OF the ground in this coun-
, try in o single year was mined AMI
delivered in 1917. yet another mil
| lion carloads were needed. Where
| il is case of physical requirement,
such as It is in mining coal. it is be-
yond human power to make so sud
den an increase in production, and AS
the necessities of the war cannot
wait. the American people must face
a typocal American problem-meet-
and satisfying an unheard OF in
crease in demand for coal, with in
adequate facilities for increasing
such n supply.
The school children will do their
part-it is for us to do ours by saw
ing that shovelful each day. The
boys and girls will not neglect any
coal shovel. no matter how humble
or exalted II may be.
Contests will be arranged in ev-
cry city and town in the United
States to see which boy and girl will
have the honor of tagging the may
Or's and other high officers shOvels.
In Washington scholarship tests are
being conducted to determine which
boy and girl will tag President Will
sons shovel. Needless to say. every
boy and girl aspircs to that honor.
1T has been remarked that any
! worthy cause that cnlists the sympa-
thy of the children is already half
won. for their enthusiasm and eager
ness is spontaneous and catching.
When the 2l.O0O,O0O school children
in the United States start to spread
the word of fuel economy through
out the country. as they will on Jan
30, we may be sure that it will
spread. This message of conserva-
tiOn will hardly be lightly regarded
or forgotten.
at is believed that this tag day
campaign Will not only bring much
Owledge. concerning economy &c
the householder, INT vii prove lib
eral education in conversation to tn,
children themselves. and the result
will b" that not only will the Natior
, save fuel for its own needs. but d
the same time the houses of the lane
will be warmed without waste"
While our production will be so.
600 more tons than last year. th'
Government advised We will need Il
least 10.00O.000 tons more, there
fore We are short 50,0O0,0O0 of tn
amount we will need this year.
This war is a coal war. a war q
mechanics. of engines, of transpor
tatiOn. Of manufactures, a war whic
will he won in the generation of en-
ergy.