Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-28
GOODBYE SUNDAY
Joy RIDES EAST
OF MISSISSIPPI
Uncle Sam Puts The Kibosh
Upon Use OF Gasoline And
Oils For Pleasure Trips
ALL MOTOR BOATS AND
AUTOS ARE AFFECTED
Chug Of The Above-Water Ex-
haust Will Not Disturb
Sunday Morning Maps

No more will the. sleepy Annapoli-
tan be disturbed in the early hours of
Sunday morning by the chug-chug of
the above-water motor boat exhaust,
no more will the noisy honk-honk of
the neighbor's automobile as he gets
an early start to make ready to take
his family on an all-day Sunday trip,
cause the sleepy-headed, stay-a-bed to
cuss under his breath. This is one
side of the governments latest war
time conservation plan. The other
side is the weeping and wailing of
those people who like trip. on the
water or day in the country on Sun
days.
The Fuel Administration yesterday
called upon the public in States east
of the Mississippi river to cease the
using of all classes of automobiles,
with a few named exceptions, motor
cycles and motorboats on Sundays un-
til further notice, as a gasoline con-
servation measure. Only voluntary
compliance with the letter and spirit
of the request will prevent the issu-
ance of mandatory order prohibit
ing the use of gasoline on Sundays, it
was declared at the Fuel Administra-
ton. Automobiles for hire are in
cluded in the curtailment program
Motor vehicles to which the restric-
tions do not apply were announced as:
Tractors and motortrucks employed
in actual transportation of freight
Vehicles of physicians. used in per-
fO T,0a Of J,,t;ac
Ambulances, fire apparatus, police
patrol wagons, undertakers wagons
and conveyances used for funerals.
Railway equipment using gasoline.
Repair outfits employed by. tele-
phone and public service companies.
Motor vehicles on errands of ne
cessity in rural communities where
transportation by steam or electricity
is not available.
The action was taken by the Fuel
Administration, it was stated, to meet
threatened shortage of gasoline for
shipment overseas, created by increas-
ed domestic demands and extensive
military operations in France.
THE United States Fuel Admins
tration considers it necessary that a
limited conservation of gasoline be un-
dertaken, in the States east of the
Mississippi river, in view of the in
creasing demand for gasoline for war
purposes an dthe paramount obliga-
ton of meeting promptly and fully all
overseas requirements" said a state
ment issued jointly by Administrator
Garfield and Mark S. Requa, director
of the aoil division of the Fuel Admin
istration.
"An appeal is made, therefore, to
the people of the United States, east
of the Mississippi river, to exercise
rigid economy in the consumption of
gasoline during the next few weeks
as necessary and practical act of
patriotism.
War necessities are being and will
continue to be promptly and fully met,
but this is the period of the year when
consumption of gasoline is at its high
est and the increased domestic de-
mands, together with the extensive
military operations in France have
rendered necessary, for a limited per-
iod, the adoption of safeguards against
possible shortage.
in view of the difficulty, if not the
impossibility. of differentiating be-
tween the various uses to which auto
mobiles are applied, the United States
Fuel Administration believes that the
greatest measure of economy can be
effected with the least interference
with the business of the country
through the discontinuance of the use
of all classes of motor vehicles, motor
boats. and motorcycles. on Sundays.
1.-The United States Fuel Admins
tration therefore requests that in the
section of the United States east of
the Mississippi river there shall be
discontinuance of use of the vehicles
above specified, including all such as
are operated for hire. on each Sun
day hereafter until notification that
the need for such discontinuance has
ceased"
After listing the exceptions TO the
request the statement makes an ap-
peal ito the patriotic men and women
of America, east of the Mississippi
river, to undertake voluntarily, addi-
tional conservation in the operating
of their own automobiles, wherever
possible"