Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-29
NOTORLESS SUNDAYS
Owners Of Pleasure Cars Here Expect
ed TO Comply With Request-lf Ap-

/ Owners uf Pleasure Cars Here Expect
ed TO Comply With ReGuest-lf Ap-
peal Proves lnsuiii-,ent Courulsion
viii Follow
George +. Wariield, chairman Of rhe
local Fuel Administration Commission,
today received telegram from II. f.
Eyrd, state fuel administrator, Of
Richmond, Va. directing attention to
the request of the National Fuel Ad-
mlnstratiou for the conservation of
gasoline in connection with the oDserv-
ance of "motorless Sundays" begin
lrg next Sunday.
The local fuel administration feels
satisfied that every patriotic citizen
will comply with the request restrict
ing the use of pleasure cars on that
day. In the event the desired results
are not Obtained it is proposed to put
into operation drastic orders for the
enforcement of the request.
IF this decrease is not sufficient to
Indicate that patriotic response will
meet to the need for quick economy to
maintain proper shipments of gaso-
line to the armies at the front.
compulsory regulation will be estab-
Iished and enforced as asserted in the
original publication of the appeal.
But this compulsory order, if it
should he found necessary, is not like
ly to take the form of one motorIess
cay a week. it WAS intimated at the
Fuel Administration yesterday after
noon. The difficulties of preventing a
violation of an ordc~ prohibiting Sun
day motoring. with all the attendant
difficulties Of necessary and compli
Gated exceptions, would indicate q
simpler and perhaps more drastic
course.
What this course might hc could
not he learned specifically ut the Fuel
the officials taking
the attitude that it probably would
not be neccssary, expressing high
4n~rcc Of confidence that the Ameri
ran people would make willing and
complete response - the need. based
merely on patriotic appeal.
But it was emphasized that badly
needed conservation could he obtained
Guickly by mand@te. if exIgeney
should require, through some such
as adopted in England; that
Is. ry priority scheme carried out
ri;,ough gasoline ration cards ,rlipiting
each individuals consumption to an
amount previously determined on the
La.s ,of how essential his need OF gas:
oine might be for the wining nj the,
var.
That this was contemplated by the
Fuel Administrations was denied; it.
mc:ciy was cited as one means of ac-'
Il conservation where
c,:1cr means might fail. But the ad--
ninstration does not expect the aio-
ncai to fail; ror does it intend to fan
n the conservation, by any means;
tfat was made unqucstionahle. r
Showing how much might be saved
~ very little denial by motorists
one day week, the Fuel Admlnlstra-
ticn announced that the conservation
should amount of 100000 gallons
of gasoline each Sunday. This estl-.
mate was based OF the census of'4,-
0p0. 900 pleasure ears i" the territory
affected allowing a CUSTOMARY CON
.umn,ion If two gallons to each car.
This moderate allowance, which Wonlo
mean only about twenty-five miles
ear was considered small enough 10
compensate for the fact that many
cf the ears would not he used anyway
IS most Sunday drivirc is consider
abIv more than twenty-five miles
Il is understood that the vo!untar?
abstention from motoring Sundays
will he necessary at least seven weeks
virtually the remainder of the motor
irc season.