Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-08-28
Must Economic in Use of
Pleasure Vehicles.

classes of automobiles, with few
named exceptions, motorcycles and
motor boats on Sundays until
further notice, as a gasoline conser-
vation measure. Only voluntary
compliance with the letter and
spirit of the request will prevent
the issuance of mandatory order
proh biting the use of gasoline on
Sundays, it was declared at the fuel
administration. Automobiles for
hire are included in the curtailment
program. Motor vehicles to which
the restrictions do not apply were
announced as:
Tractors and motor trucks en-
ployed in actual transportation of
freight.
Vehicles of physicians, used in
performance of professional du-
ties.
Ambulances, fire apparatus, po-
lice patrol wagons, undertakers
wagons and conveyances used for
funerals.
Railway equipment using gaso-
line.
Repair outfits employed by tele-
phone and public service compa-
MES.
Motor vehicles on errands of
necessity 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 gaso-
line for shipment overseas, created
by increased domestic demands and
extensive military operations in
France.
The United States fuel admin
istration considers it necessarC that
limited conservation of gasoline
be undertaken in the States east Of
the Mississippi, in view of the in
creased demand for gasoline for
war purposes and the paramount
obligation Of meeting promptly and
fully, all overseas requirements"
lsaidsa statement issned Jointly. by
sAdministrator Garfield and Mark
S. Requa, director of the oil divi-
sion of the fuel administration.
AN appeal is made therefore,, to
the people of the United States
east of the Mississippi River to ex-
ercise rigid economy in the con-
sumption of gasoline during the
next few weeks as necessary and
practical act of patriotism.
"Wa necessities are being and
will continue to be promptly and
fully met, but this is the period of
the year when consumption of gas
oline is at it's highest, and the in
creased domestic demands, together
with the extensive military opera
tions in France, have rendered nec-
essary, for a limited period, the
adoption of safeguards against pos
sible shortage.
"In view of the difficulty, if not
the impossibility, of ditferentiatlng
between the various uses to which
automobiles are applied the United
States fuel administration believes
that the greatest measure OF econo-
nv can be effected with the least
interference with the business OF
the country through the dlscontin-
uance of the use of all classes of
motor vehicles, motor boats and
motorcycles on Sundays.
''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 the use
of the vehicles above specified in
cluding all such as are operated for
hire, on each Sunday hereafter until
notified that the need for such dis
continuance has ceased"
After listing the exceptions to
the request, the s .tement makes an
appeal to the patriotic men and
women of America, east of the Mis-
sissippi River, to undertake, volun-
tarily, additional conservation IN the
operating of their own automobiles,
wherever possible"