Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — Sixty-Eight Degrees Is Temperature Recommended In Heating of Our Homes [ARTICLE]

Sixty-Eight Degrees Is Temperature Recommended In Heating of Our Homes

Up to now, Americans have befin a» wasteful of coal as of other resources, largely because coal has been abundant. It will be abundant no longer untill this war Is over, says Thomas R. Shipp, in the World’s Work. It Is clearly up to the domestic consumer to give time and thought to the conservation of coat Statistics are usually . hard reading, but some of the statistical proof offered by the fuel administration makes one think that perhaps, after all, Mrs. Partington might haver swept back the sea if she had only persevered. Here are some of the statistical epigrams : If every housekeeper in the country would save one small shovelful of coal each day at the end of a year the saving would amount to 15,000,000 tons. If every housekeeper during the six winter months would save one furnace shovelful of coal a day, it w’ould amount to 25,000,000 tons'of coal. These savings combined would amount to 40,000,000 tons, which would almost wipe out the national shortage of 50,000,000 tons. The fuel administration offers practical instructions for the economical use of coal In stoves and furnaces. Oil stoves and fireless cookers are recommended as coal savers. There you have the practical side of coal conservation during the war. But with that sort of economy the fuel administration has linked up the conservation of health. It has long been a source of reproach, on the part of visitors to us from other shores that we have always overheated our homes. The advice of prominent physicians and surgeons has been asked, and the consensus of this oplnon Is that we should all be healthier, hardier, and more comfortable if our houses were kept at a temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit