Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1918 — Page 3

WHY COAL USERS IN THIS STATE MUST ORDER NOW Mines Must Be Kept Going Full Time in Spring and Summer to Prevent Serious Shortaoe Next Winter. IMMEDIATE ACTION URGED. Who Dana Not Thue Co-operate With Fuel Administration and Railroada Takm Hit Race With the Slacker Who Dodges Service at the Front or R»hioM to Buy Bonds. Greeter cooperation in buying coal at once must be obtained in the West. Southwest a®d sections of the Middle " eat, the Fuel Administration announces at Washington, if the mines are to be k<«)t going full time during the summer months and the danger averted of a serious shortage of coal tn those sections nett fall and winter. Official regxirts to the Fuel Administration show that In the States of Illinois. Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, lowa, Utah. Washington, Colorado, Wyoming s»d Montana consumers of coal are not placing their orders In the volume expected, or In quantities necessary to Insure against a winter shortage. This la true also, though to less extent. In Ohio and Indiana. “Apparently the consumers In these districts have not yet realised the full gravity of the situation,” the Fuel Administration states. ‘The mines In those sections must be kept going. They can be kept going only if coal ordinarily ordered later In the year Is ordered now. The domestic consumer who delays placing his order Is taking a chance of having an Insufficient cold weather supply; the Industrial user who falls to order his coal now is sUrsost certain to far* a shutdown later on. * Buy Now—Everybody! •The man who does not do his part by anticipating bls needs and co-oper-ating wtth the Fuel Admlnlatratlon and the railroads by ordering bls coal now takes hla place with the man who avoids service at the front or refuses to Why Liberty Bonds. Every coal user should buy and store eoal now to meet his requirements su far as he Is possibly able to do so. “Every state and local representative of the Fuel Administration is ready to help the coal consumer in every way possible to get an appropriate and adequate supply of coal. Every day that passes decreases the margin of time in which this assistance may be given. “If you can't get the grade of coal that you have been getting in the past take another grade that you can get It la better to have in your blns coal of a grade slightly different from what you have been using in the past than ta go Into winter without any eoal at all. “Consumers who do not order their eoal now are gambling on the future. There is reason to believe that if every one anticipates his coal requirements and puts In his order now no one will have to do without next winter. If. however, there Is delay In ordering coal It Is more than likely that production during the fall and winter wCI be Insufficient to meet the needs of every one. Better New Kind Than None. “There has been notable neglect of certain grades of coal that are now available In large volume and clamorous demand, In certain quarters at least, for specific coals that various consumers have used for a number of years. While there 11 st the present no shortage of coal In the west, there may be a denial of selection of the precise coal most desired. If you seek to do your part place your order now lor the coal nearest at hand and of which there Is a large available tonnage and get your blns filled Immediately. "The Fuel Administration Is anxious with every means at Its command to secure the hearty co-operation of ti»e public and to move Into th* domestic users particularly their full year's coal supply before the first day of October. Whether It succeeds or not Is entirely dependent upon your own personal attitude and action. “If the anxiety of the Administration seems to you overdrawn proof of the necessity of Its recommendation and the propriety of the warning will reach you in full force during the coming fall and winter, when coal will not be available, and your vigorous effort may result In another failure to secure an adequate supply. The indifferent coal consumer promises to find himself In the ‘coal line’ during the severe Periods of the coming winter and compelled to accept a day to day supply of fuel and possibly be entirely denied.

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