The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-16
Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not Square
With The Views Of The Forum
The Youths Companion.

Inc I ouths companion.
1t is a characteristic Of human nature that
when we have escaped serious danger we are
careless rather than cautious in the face Of
recurrence Of it, There signs that it may be
so with the threatening shortage Of fuel. If it
is there will be serious and widespread suffer
ing in the coming winter.
To meet the demands of the will take near
~ l0OO00,O00 tons Of coal more than mined
ana transported last year Increase. in produc-
tion and better transportation facilities cannot
possibly make up more than half Of it. The other
5O,OOOOOO tons we have got to save.
Fuel, especially coal, is the very foundation
Of all our activities. 1t takes coal to smelt
iron ore and coal to make steel and coal to
build ships and more coal to them. and coal
to move trains that haul coal and still more coal
TO keep the factories going and make ammuni-
ton. One threeinch shell takes 20 pounds Of
steel and that 20 pounds Of steel takes 80 pounds
Of coal Think of the millions of three-inch
shells that must be madeI Then remember that
a three-inch shell is only a little boy in this war
and see what 1t means.
Chiefly It means that we-and that is you, too
must save every pound Of coal can. Begin
now, by having the furnace or other heating
apparatus put in order Have the fire box and
the flues cleaned SCOT is a better non conductor
than asbestos Cover the pipes, so that they
will not radiate heat where it is not needed Have
the seams Tecemented.
When the cool weather comes, get on with
little fire Of wood in stove instead Of a coal
fire in the furnace. Lay in wood now, if you
get 1t. Large chunks Of hard wood are al
most as good as coal Save the limbs that you
trim from Your trees and all the dead and
down timber about your place. When the cold
weather comes, use only the rooms you really
need, instead Of the whole house. Lincoln grew
up in one-room cabin heated only by wood
fire and there Is no evidence that it injured him
in mind or body. Be content with with 65 or IS
degrees of heat instead of 70 or To- Learn how
to fire your furnace and how to regulate the
drafts. Heating engineers in the service Of your
local fuel administration will show you how if
you ask them. Put weather strips on your win
dows md doors get a fireless cooker, and sift
Finally, do not think YOU are saving coal by
substituting gas or using more electricity. Gas
Is made from coal. and electricity is usually made
by dynamos that are run by the power In burn
ing coal
There are many Of US who are too old or too
hut there are very few WHO cannot belong to the
order Of the Coal Shovel
The New York Times:
King George according to the veracious report
of four Canadian editors who heard him stimuli
taneously made of location not often met
with in royal utterance. In speaking Of the
American army, the king said:
The Americans are very wonderful. It is
an inspiration and an earnest of victory simp
ly to look at them. Their great height, their
perfect physical fitness, their fresh young
faces and their bOundless enthusiasm are
very stimula ting" to who have had to en-
dure four years Of the brunt and the horror
Of war. What the Americans have really
done for US is perhaps best expressed in their
dlom. They have put pep into us.
They have given to us and to the French of
lose this war.
Kings have to be accomplished linguists, so it
may be that the royal lips really did shape them
selves to this phrase of American origin and use.
In any event, King Georges appreciation of the
exact quality of the moral reinforcement which
we have given to the Allies is strikingly sup
ported by the expression of General Maurice the
day before:
1t would be impossible to overrate the value
Of the infusion of fresh and vigorous life into
the Allied ranks in the fifth year of war,
when it the natural tendency Of those
who have borne the heat and burden Of the
day to go stale. The Americans emanate
keenness and vitality which is infectious.
There is no reason to doubt the sincerity of
these tributes to the spirit Of the American army
At the same time, it is well to remember that
pep" is not unknown quality even in the Old
World The French troops who rushed to the
rescue Of the British Fifth army late in March
the Scotch and English divisions who stormed
the key positions protecting the German line N
the Marine salient in July were able even after
four years of war to put into the conflict some
thing that might accurately be described as pep |
or perhaps even jazz.