Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-22
PRESIDENT WILSON
AND DR.. GARFIELD
ISSUE STATEMENTS
Former Declares He Was Con-
suited About Fuel Order and
Supported It-PIan Is De-
tended by Administration

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-Presiden
Wilson issued a statement last nigh
supporting DR.. Garfeld's order closin
down industries Of the country. TIL
president says he was fully consulte
before the order was issued.
The presidents statement follows:
Il was, of course, consulted by
Nj. Garfield before the fuel order
of yesterday was issued, and fully
agreed with him that it was neces-
sary, much as l regretted the neceS-
sity This war calls for many sac
rifices, and sacrifices of the sort
called for by this order are in
definitely less than sacrifices of life
which might otherwise be involved.
1t is absolutely necessary to get
the ships away, it is absolutely
necessary to relieve the congestion
at the ports and upon the railways.
IL is absolutely necessary to move
great quantities of food and it is
absolutely necessary that our peO-
pie should be warmed in their
homes If nowhere else, and half
way measures would not have &C
complished the desired ends.
"If action such as this should
not have been taken we should have
limped along from day to day with
a slowly-improving condition Of al
fairs with regard to the shipment
of food and coal. but without such
Immediate relief as had become alb
solutely necessary because of the
concessions of traffic which have
been piling up for the last few
months.
81 have every confidence that the
result of action of this sort will
Justify II and that the people Of the
country will Loyalty and patrioti-
cally respond to necessities Of this
kind as they have to every other
sacrifice involved in the war. We
are upon a war footing, and I am
confident that the people Of the
United States are willing to observe
the same sort of discipline that
might be involved in the actual con-
nict itself"
Dr. Garneld's Order
Fuel Administrator Garfield also is
sued a statement last night remindin
the public that while the fuel restriC
ton order was drastic, war was dras
tic, and the order was a necessary wa
The statement follows:
The order suspending tempora-
rily the operation of industrial
plants in portions of the United
States is drastic Yes. war Is dras-
tic This war is the most exSen-
sive and involves greater sacrifices
than any war heretofore. The
American people, led by the presi-
dent, entered this war deliberately
They are stalking everything for
and the ideal is practical. We know
that democracy must be made a
reality at home as well as abroad,
that its benefits must be shared
by all and its sacrifices borne by
no single class.
Capital and labor are embarked
in this war because all Americans
are in IL and the American spirit
cries out against the least sugges-
ton that the burden will be shifted
to the backs Of any one class, least
Of all labor, for labor has less
financial ability to meet the pro-
longed hardships Of war than capt.
tai. We are realizing the truth
now as never before that capital
and labor are not two, but one
Their problems present merely two
aspects of the same vital question
The unselhsh and patriotic i'm
pulses and the calm look ahead will
lead the country to approve of the
order now in force.
Industry Is in an unbalanced
condition. We lack many essentials
food, clothing, fuel. We have piled
up enormous stores of things not
essential to life, but very essential
to war. We have goods piled up
so high on our docks and In our
storehouses that the ships available
cannot carry them away as fast as
they pile up. For lack of bunker
coal held back by traffic conges-