Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Garfield Order Vital. Necessity Wilson Asserts. [ARTICLE]

Garfield Order Vital. Necessity Wilson Asserts.

Washington, Jan. 18.—President Wilson’s statement supporting Fue Director Garfield’s five-day order follows: 'Twas of course, consulted by Mr. Garfield before the fuel order of yesterday was issued, and fully agreed with him that it was necessary. This war calls for many sacrifices and sacrifices of the sort called for by this order are infinitely less than sacrifices of life which might otherwise be involved. It is 'absolutely necessary to get the ships away, it is absolutely necessary to relieve the congestion at the ports and upon the railways, it is absolutely necessary to move great quantities of food, and it is absolutely necessary that our people should be warmed in their homes if nowhere else, and half-way measures would not have accomplished the desired effects. —... .

“If action such as this had not been K taken we should have limped along from day to day with a slowly improving condition of affairs with regard to the shipment of food and of* coal, but without such immediate relief as had become necessary, because of. the congestions of traffic which have been piling up. “I have every confidence that the result of action of this sort will justify it and that the people of the country will loyally and patrioticaly 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 conflict itself.” ,