The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-24
ARMY GILMORE
Than 100000
TO MAKE PUSH
Indiana S School Children to
Start Advance on Kaiser
with Shovels.

Indianas school children, an army
Of more than 100000, will make
drive on the kaiser January 80 when,
under the direction of Horace Ellis,
State Superintendent of Public In.
struction and the local school authori-
ties, they tag every coal shovel in
each school locality.
The United States Fuel Administra.
lion has fixed January 80 as National
Tag four.Shovel-Day. On that day
the school children will attempt to tie
on every shovel a tag appealing to the
person who uses that shovel to do SO
sparingly and save coal to aid Uncle
Sam in winning the war. On one side
of the tag is the appeal to Save that
sbovelful OF coal day for Uncle Sam"
On the other side Of the tag are the
following suggestions on how to save
coal.
l. Cover furnace and pipes with
asbestos, or other insulation, also
weather strip your windows, or stuff
cracks with cotton.
2. Keep your rooms at IS degrees
tbest heat for health.
3. 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 furnace expert.
). Write to the maker Of your fur.
mace or stove Tor practical directions
for running economically.
6. Save gas and electric light as
much as possible; this will save coal.
Many OF the county administrators
in Indiana are preparing to make Tag
iour.Shovel-Day an occasion for pat
riotic demonstration in which the con-
servation OF fuel and food will be EN-.
phasized In several cities the may
ors are TO permit the school children
70 publicly tag both the mayors coal
shovel and the city halls coal shovel
and the city's chief executive will
make brief address on the necessi'
ties for conservation.
Dr Harry A. Garfield. United States
Fuel Administrator at Washington, d.
c.. sets forth the necessity for coal
observation and indicates what he
hopes will be accomplished by the
school children in the following state
ment:
The United States is mining
record breaking amount o. coal in an
attempt to supply tie record-breaking
demand caused by the war. Coal is
the great force behind the men in the
trenches behind the battleships, the
trensparts, the munition factories and
the railroads.
The war demands a hitherto I'M
heard of amount of coal. The Fuel
Administration is doing its utmost to
supply this emergency demand.
Through the adjustment Of labor
troubles at the mines, the increase OF
the available number Of coal cars and
the 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 its
ask. 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.
LAS result OF all these efforts an
extra million carloads of coal have
been mined this year. This is 50,000,-
900 tons more coal than has ever been
mined before in any year in the his
tory of the United States.
We need another million car loads.
IT. is a physical impossibility to pro-
duce this additional amount at once.
1t must be saved from the coal already
available.
The American people are asked to
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saving shovelful by shovelful in fac
tory and home this additional coal for
war needs.
national Tag. YourShovel-D Day by the
United States Fuel Administration.
On that day school children will tie
tags, bearing instructions for coal saw
ing to every coal shovel in the coun.
try. This tag should remind each man,
woman and child who uses a coal
shovel that every shovelful OF coal
saved means just so much additional
power and help and support for the
American soldier and sailor on the
firing line
The tags for the Indiana public
schools have been sent out by Horace
Ellis, State Superintendent Of Public
Instruction. who has been assured that
the various superintendent are de-
termined to make the tag campaign a
success. Evans Woollen, the fuel ad-
ministrator for Indiana says that he
believes the school children will do
more than any other agency to spread
the gospel Of coal conservation
throughout the state. He urges each
c community to make the most of tag
day 10 the end that each citizen may
realize he has a responsibility in this
war and can do something worth while
to help win.