Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS [ARTICLE]

PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS

Of the Fuel and Food Conservation Rules Section 17 of the Lever Act Is particularly interesting to the person who believes that he doesn’t have to co-operate with the government in its war program as it deals with food and fuel. This section of the law reads as (follows: “That every person who willfully assaults, resists, Impedes, or interferes with any officer, employee, or agent of the United States In the execution of any duty authorized to be performed by or pursuant to this Act shall upon conviction thereof be fined not exceeding SI,OOO or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.” A dealer or a person who is disposed to hoard coal when a fuel administrator Is endeavoring to keep a community from freezing should be interested in knowing that their action may bring a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. Both dealers and persons should realize, too, that the fuel administration is a part of the war work of the nation and that any hostile act toward it is, in fact, disloyalty to the United States government in its war measures. The offense is against the United States government and not the state government, and L. Ert Slack, district attorney for the U. S. government,

repeatedly has said that the most vigorous prosecutions will be made where there is evidence justifying the auction. The investigations now being made by the Federal Fuel Administration of firms and persons who have Ifailed to co-operate with the county fuel administrators in the distribution and conservation of coal, may lead to .the publication of the names of such firms and persons so that the several communities may know who are and who are not she friends of the govF. FENDIG, County Fuel Administrator.