The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-09-20
Use of Gasoline On Sunday

ToCouuty Fuel Administrators: = You
viii please Immediately appoint suf-
ticisnt number of assistants, to be sta
Toned at bubble placesin your commun.
ity on each Sunday to which the Presi.
dents request applies as to therunning
Of autos This will continue for many
Sunday one can say how many.
While thus on duty these assistants
will wear a badge, u. S. Fuel Admin
istration They will stop each car
ard IN a polite manner obtain the in
formation called for on the card which
you will furnish them. This card
calls for number, name, etc. Have
them also get the number and name, if
possible, of any car failing to stop ard
give the desired information.
Those cars which you feel were run
ming within the spirit Of the President
request will be excused. and no report
made to me or elsewhere. You will
furnish this Office with list Of those
v inch yol feel were running in viola
tion Of this quest | will take sucn
action as The situation may demand.
BE careful 10 appoint only level-head-
ed men who viii know how to approach
people in way that is not offensive.
Do not appoint hot headed, unpopular,
or over.zealous men.
Please call on thelherriff and request
ann and his deputies to act as a portion
Of your force. Let them wear the
same badge that your other assistants
wear. | am enclosing a letter to your
sheriff to this effect. You will appoint
more deputies than the sheriff and his
force.
The situation is now so grave in
France that we are short on gasoline
for ambulances to take care four Amer
lean wounded, and fer our munition
trucks, and hundreds of other gasoline
war uses.
Below explains the Presidents re.
quest:
Save gasoline to save lives of our
A merican soldiers ia France.
The United States Fuel Administra-
Ion calls upon the people instates east
Of The Mississippi River to cease using
automobiles, motorcycles, and motor
boats, including such vehicles for hire.
Oh Sundays during the next few weeks
az a gasoline conservation measure.
VICTOR vehicles to which the restrictions
90 not apply were announced as:
% Ambulances, fire apparatus,
police patrol wagons. undertakers,
wagons AID convey anees used for fun
erals.
90 Vehicles of physicians when in
performing professional duties.
90 Tractors and motor trucks en-
Jloycd in actual absolutely vital trans
1ortation, such as canuot possibly be
.yne on any other day.
"a Railway equipment using gaso-
inc.
90 Repair outfits Employed by tele.
phone and public service companies.
(6) Motor vehicles on errands of
extreme necessity which cannot be done
on any other day, where transportation
by steam or electricity or horse power
is not available.
This refers to errands caused by
sickness or death, or similar situations.
raxicsb owners should not use their
cars on Sunday, except on errands
caused by sickness or death or similar
situations, or where it is too far to
walk and no other means of transpor-
tation is possible. Gasoline is the life
olood 10 France, and taxi owners should
not attempt to coin the blood of our
American soldiers into money by run
ming on Sunday.
The spirit of the Presidents request
in regard to going to church on Sunday
is this:
That our people either use street cars
or walk to church, unless the distance
is so far as to make it beyond their
strength, or use buggy or farm wagon.
Hundreds Of patriotic people all over
Tennessee ratified to church on last
Sunday in the old farm wagon for God
and country. They were better Chris
,ians for so doing. IL it is too far to
walk, even by using due energy, and
no other means is available, and the
conscience of the church-g oer iustifies.
the auto may be used.
/ desire batour people attend church
but expect them to reach church in
the way God-fearing patriotic people
should do, 10 this hour of gasoline scare
ity.
Very truly yours,
W. E. NYER,
U. S. Fuel Administrator for Tennessee.
To E. A. Maddox, United States