The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-07-19
H~0USEH0LDERS WARNED
OF SHORTAGE IN COAL
Fuel Administration Says Supply
May be insufficient for Do
nestle Necessities.

IHe average person is giving no
thought of the cold days coming in
November but the United States fuel
administration is checking the situa-
ton up for future welfare.
Another warning has been issued by
the administration and was given out
in Glasgow this week that the stock of
coal may be insufficient to meet the
domestic necessities during the COM
ing winter. Only the strictest economy
will see the country through the cold
season without suffering from lack of
fuel.
"There will not be enough household
coal available this winter, if last
years waste continues or if unequal
local distribution is permitted" says
an official bulletin from DR.. Garield's
office. This final conclusion comes
after a series of conservation warn
ings, which have inaugurated a CAM
paign for each householder to care for
his own furnace, instead of trusting it
to the care of the occasionally visiting
neighborhood firetender, whose only
interest is in collecting his money each
week, and who fills up the furnace
twice a day to capacity, opening up
the draughts wide and then going
away to forget it until twelve hours
have passed.
RatiOning Assured.
H~ouseholders also have been warned
to wrap their furnace pipes, clean the
pipes and fues so all the heal will be
available for heating and to watch the
damper and draught adjustments care
fully.
Coal rations this winter are prac-
tically assured. England and France
both are or a fuel rationing basis.
1.-THE allowance will not be the amount
used, last year, but only so much as
is scientifically found sufficient to heat
the house to GO degrees providing
every conservation rule is observed"
says the bulletin.
ut will be sufficient for comfort but
the thoughtless and wasteful consum-
er who finds his allowance gone before
the end of the winter will have only
himself to thank if he has no fuel
with which to heat his house.
Under this system everyone will
get his fair proportion of coal. The
hoarder will be eliminated. The plan
involves a department of coal allot-
ment in connection with every fuel ad-
illustrators office. Its important
features are
All Coal Orders Censored.
"First-A censorship of every or
der for coal received by any dealer,
each order being compared with a fuel
rating on the house where the coal is
to be used. This rating will be obtain
ed by the application of a simple for
mula fixing the amount Of fuel needed
by a structure of any given size and
outside exposure under any given eli
matte conditions.
"Second-Actual inspection of any
doubtful cases and a checking up
through inspectors of statements made
by householders as to the coal on hand,
the space to be heated and the heating
system used.
"Third-An effective refusal to SUD-
ply M householder more coal than a
scientific analysis shows is necessary
if the requisite arr is taken in heat,
ing the house"
Prosecution Of anyone who through
fraud or Misrepresentation secures
more than his proper allotment of fuel
is threatened.
That the home which gets it's win
ter coal into the basement while sum-
mer is with us is the abode of wise and
fortunate people is the conclusion to
be drawn from a review of the fuel
situation. While the most extraordin-
airy efforts are being made to induce
miners to work regularly instead of
indulging in frequent vacations, and
while the enforced idleness due to cal
shortage is being avoided in many Goa
centers, and with production in June
going on at the rate of 643, OOO. OOC
tons a year, the private consumers
only assurance of a winter supply lies
in buying it now.
where's all this coal goine?" II
would be almost needless to answe,
this question. There's the iron anG
steel industry, for example. The pro.
duction Of coke is this year larger thar
ever before, and still the blast fur.
naces cannot get all the coke the,
need: Furthermore, it must he re-,
membered that every ton of coal con.
verted into coke has been counted II
with the figures of coal production
The large tonnage of cokine coal con,
stunned by the blast furnaces should
therefore be deducted from the amoun'
! available for other industries. tn,