Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1918 — SUNDAY RIDES MUST STOP [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY RIDES MUST STOP

FUEL ADMINISTRATION ASKS PUBLIC NOT TO USE CARS ON SUNDAY. Washington, Aug. 27.—The fuel administration today called upon the public in states east of the Mississippi river to cease the using of all classes of automobiles, with a 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 request will prevent the issuance of a mandatory order prohibiting the use of gasoline on Sundays, it was declared at the fuel administration. Automobiles for hire are included in the curtailment program. Motor vehicles to which the restrictions do not apply were announced as: Tractors and motor trucks employed in the actual transportation of freight. Vehicles of physicians, used in performance of professional duties. Ambulances, fire apparatus,, police patrol wagons, undertakers* wagons and conveyances used for funerals. Railway equipment using .gasoline. Repair outfits employed by telephone and public service companies. Motor vehicles on errands of necessity in rural communities where transportation by steam or electricity is not available. The action was taken by the fuel administration, it was stated, to meet a threatened shortage of gasoline for .shipment overseas, created by inr creased domestic demands and extensive military operations in France. “The United States fuel administration considers it necessary that a limited conservation of gasoline be undertaken in the states east of the Mississippi river in view of the increasing demand for gasoline for war purposes and the paramount obligation of meeting promptly and fully all overseas requirements/’ said a statement issued jointly by Administrator Garfield and Mark S. Requa, director of the oil division of the fuel administration. War necessities are being and will continue to be promptly and fully met, but this is the period of the year when consumption of gasoline is at its highest, and the increased domestic demands, together with the extensive military operations in France, have rendered necessary, for a limited period, the adoption of safeguards against possible shortage. “In view of the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of differentiating between the vanious uses to which automobiles are applied, the United .States fuel administration believes that the greatest measure of economy can be affected with the least interference with the business of the country through the discontinuance of the use of all classes of motor-vehicles, motor boats, and motorcycles, on Sundays.” ' After listing the exceptions to the request the statement makes an appeal to the patriotic men and women of America, east of the Mississippi river, to undertake voluntarily' additional conservation .in the operating of their own automobiles, wherever possible.

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