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LICHTLESS NIGHTS FOUR
NIGHTS EVERY WEEK
Fuel Director Orem Calls Attention
OF Those Using Lights ut Night
To The Follow ing Instructions.

At the request of His Honor, Ma
yor Earle W. Orem, we republish the
following order from the United
States Fuel Administrator. From
this order it will be seen that lights
in store windows, whether the store
lis open at night for business or not,
are in violation of the Fuel Admin
istrator's order. Also it will be no
ted that all lights are affected; that
is, those obtained by the use Of
coal. gas, oil or other fuel. The at
tention of the public is further di-
rected to the fact that such outdoor
lights as are mentioned in the first
paragraph of the order must not be
| lighted until one-half an hour after
sunset.
| Mayor Orem, who is fuel director
for Dorchester county, hopes that it
will not be necessary for him to take
drastic action to secure proper OBJ
| servance of this ruling, violation of
which will bring those guilty into
contact with the United States
Courts. but trusts that those who
have overlooked the matter during
| the past week will not do so from
now on.
| The order follows:
The United States Fuel Admins
tration has made public an order,
which went into effect July oath, re-
stricting the use of fuel for outdoor
| illumination. Under the order the
use of light generated or produced
| by the use or consumption of coal,
gas, oil or other fuel for illuminat
ing or displaying advertisements, an
nouncements or signs, or for the ex-
ternal ornamentation of any building,
has been discontinued entirely on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of each week, within New
England and the States of New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and the District of Column
bia, and entirely discontinued on
Monday and Tuesday of each week in
all the remainder of the United
States. The order excerpts bona flde
| roof gardens and outdoor restaurants
and outdoor moving picture theatres.
| Street illumination in all cities is
restricted to the hours between sun
| set and sunrise, and the amount of
public lighting in any city will be
reduced to that necessary to safety.
The order charges local fuel admin
istration officials with the duty of ar
ranging with the proper municipal
authorities for the regulation of
public lighting, in accordance with
the provisions of the order.
The use of light for illumination
or display in shop windows, store
windows or in signs in show windows
will be discontinued from sunrise to
sunset, and will be discontinued en-
tirely on the Lightless Nights desig-
mated by the order.
The Bureau of Standards of the
Department of Commerce has advised
| the Fuel Administration that it is es-
timated that about 100000 tons of
coal per year is used for advertising
purposes, including display and show
window lighting in the United States.
Similar estimates fix the amount of
coal used in advertising lighting in
New York city at 5000 tons per
year
With the miners of the country re-
spending Loyalty to the appeals of the
Fuel Administration for increased
production, the weekly output of BIZ
luminous coal is surprising all pre-
vious records. The efforts of the
Fuel Administration, operators and
miners to increase production must
be supplemented, however, by the
elimination of every wasteful or I'M
necessary use of Coal
The order restricting lighting
reads:
1t appearing to the United States
Fuel Administrator that it is essen
tial, in furtherance of the national
security and defense, the successful
prosecution of the war, and the sup
port and maintenance of The Army
and Navy, to lessen and prevent the
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