Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-09-04
NO SUNDAY JAUNTs AUTOIsTs.
Action by Fuel Administration for
Conserving Gasoline Supply.

| "dSHlHSlOH, aug. It.-lHe Fuel
Administration to-day called upon
the public in States east of the Mis-
| sissippi river to cease the using of all
classes Of automobiles, with few
named exceptions, motorcycles and
motor boats on Sundays until further
notice, as a gasoline conservation
measure. Only voluntary compliance
with the letter and spirit Of the re-
quest will prevent the issuance of
mandatory order prohibiting the use
Of gasoline on Sundays, it was de-
clared at the Fuel Administration
Automobiles for hire are included in
the curtaflment program.
List of Excepted Vehicles.
,Moto rvehicles to which the re-
strictioIs do not apply were an
| nounced as
Tractors and motor, trucks en-
| ployed in actual transportation of
| freight.
Vehicles Of physicians, used in per-
formance Of professional services.
Ambulances, fire apparatus, police
| patrol wagons, undertakers' wagons
and conveyances used for funerals.
Railway equipment using gasoline.
Repair outfits employed by tele-
phone and public service companies.
Motor vehicles on errands of ne
cessity in rural communities where
transportation by steam or electric
| ity Is not available.
The action was taken by the Fuel
| Administration, it was stated, to
meet a threatened shortage of gaso-
lnie for shipment overseas, created
| by increased domestic demands and
extensive military operations in
| France.
"The United States Fuel Admins
tration considers it necessary that
| limited conservation Of gasoline be
| undertaken In the States east Of the
Mississippi river. In view of the in
| creasing demand for gasoline for war
purposes and the paramount obliga-
| ton of meeting promptly, and fully,
all overseas requirements, said
| statement issued jointly by Admins
| TRAITOR Garfield and Mark S. Requa,
| director Of the oil division of the
Fuel Administration.
"An appeal is made, therefore, to
the people of the United States east
! Of the Mississippi river to exercise
rigid economy in the consumption Of
| gasolil. during the next few weeks
! as necessary and practical act of
patriotism.
Safeguards Are Necessary.
! War necessities are being and
Will continue to be promptly and
! fully met, but this Is the period Of
the year when consumption of gaso-
line is at it's highest, and the increas-
ed domestic demands, together with
the extensive military operations in
| France, have rendered necessary,
for limited period, the adoption Of
safeguards against possible shortage.
In view Of the difficulty, if not the
impossibility, Of differentiating be-
tween the various uses to which auto
mobiles are applied, the United States
| Fuel Administration believes that
| the greatest measure Of economy can
be effected with the least interfer-
ence with the business of the coun-
try through the discontinuance of
the use Of all classes of motor vehi-
| cles, motor boats and motorcycles on
Sundays.
"The United States fuel admins
tration therefore requests that in the
section of the United States east of
the Mississippi river there shall be
| discontinuance OF the use of the We
| hicles above specified, including all
such as are operated for hire, on
each Sunday hereafter until notified
that the need for such discontinuance
has ceased"
After listing the exceptions to the
| request, the statement makes an np-
peal ito patriotic men and women Of
| America, east Of the Mississippi
| river, to undertake, voluntarily, ad-
ditiOnal conservation in the operat-
ing Of their own automobiles, wher-
| ever possible"
DON'T SCOLD, MOTHER
THE CROSS CHILD