South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 93, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 3 April 1921 — Page 5

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The mileage a Franklin Car covers without replacements or repairs always impresses a new owner. That is durability the kind Franklin light weight and flexible construction give. These principles mean protection to both car and owner. The following owner results are ihe evidence of correct performance: 20 miles to the gallon of gasoline 12,500 miles to the set of tires 50 slower yearly depreciation National Averages)

Editor United Mine Workers Journal Sees Another Coal Shortage Due to Idleness

hv i;i.lis m:ikll. (Killtrr the United Mine Workers' Journal publication of the United Mine Worker of America.) The year 1520 opened with ftocks ct coal on hand throughout the country. Consumption exceeded production, and factor!??. mill., shop?, railroads and other cor.ru rn?r were compelled to use up what little coal they had on hand. Miners worked (very day that they had opportunity to work, and :hoy produced all tho coal that they ?culd produce under the cireum'an?fs that existed at that time.

Yet this was not enough to meet t hedemand, with the result that prices went soaring to unheard-of figures. Much of the difficulty las: year was due to the failure of the railroads to transport all of the coal that was needed. The railroads are net in any better condition to handle a Iarg coal tonnage this ear than they were last year. They are allowing their equipment to deteriorate, little, If anything, Is being done to keep their rolling stock and power in condition to rruet the demands that are certain to bo made t;pon them. When the time comes

that ccal consumers start on their grand rash for coal, the rallrcads will be unabla to haul encugh coal

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; minute the famine- will Fhow Its I h end. Sounds ' Coal Familie" Alarm. I Samuel Iu!r.n. editor of Railway Age, may be regarded as being about : as well Informed cn railroad con

ditions as any man in the country, and he. the coal famine not very far away, lie has sounded his alarm to the country from the lew-

point of th railroads. In a recent

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j Sinown. Th sanation, demar ds the ! immediate attention of ccal oonumi ers. dealers and the Interstate comI mere commission, i "There has ben a plethora of I propaganda In the past, because the I rairroad rojld no: handle enough ! ckjaI when the people wanned it. Thre 1 nted to make all con- ! cerned ur.derytan.l now that If the : railroads arc not soon given opor- j t unity to ha il more ccal, the situation develop r.tf will bt far mere j acute than iir.y pi e 5ou. y experi- ' 1 enced. The railroads can transport I all th- cdal the country iihi'ih if i given "oppor; unity to handle it in j reasonably uniform volume." j What (uuitry Iiux-s. Ph'il II. Pnna. .cecretary-trf asuri er of the Indiana Coal Operators -! association, himsWf an operator, told j the public a few days ao in an i interview jus: what it is up against. We had in 1011 he wrote, yi:n- , ! mediately following the termination

J I llltr "ill, 4lliti lilt" Vi.4t !-..-' ' government contracts, very little de- j mand. Xo coal was stored. Wlun j thfi revival of business came every- I body wanted coal at once and the railroads did not have equipment ! enough to haul it. That was the ( cause of the condition of 1920 and j just as pure as the pun ri?-es and ' sets we are going to have the same

i condition on the day tho revival i of business sets In in this country i land consumers begin to look about j for a supply of fuel. j ! "The idle freight cars that are i on the sidings now will be entirely

inadequate to take care of any con- j siderabio demand. Those who are ' familiar with the coal trade can

j plainly see the time approaching : jwhen we still have market conditions similar to those of 1920." Approximately 1 Ü per cent, of the

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! comfort, heal'.h and safety in mil-1 j lions of homes. It would be an fasy task for the miners of the country to produce that 15 percent of cal within a very few weeks. if the people would but place their oiders. Once that requirement w re m t th"; average citizen could face the rum-

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of security for he would know that hfs family wa protected. I Approximately CO percent of the ! total output o soft coal is consumed ! by the railroaus of the country. This I CO percent add-d to the 1.". percent: for domestic onsuiuption accounts for 45 percent of tho total production. The remaining percent goes to industries. public; utilities, . shiping and export. ! The average annual consumption j of soft coal in the I'nited States in j the last four yearn was 033,000,000 tons. To meet, this average annual : demand would require a steady out- j put of a litle more than 44,000,000 ' tons per month. Yet we see in the bulletin of tho United1 State gtological survey that the production is

now running m tne neignuornooa of CO.000,000 tons a month. Approachinp: Criis at a (iallop. What more is ne-eded to convince . the public that we are approaching a coal famine and at a gallop? j The railroads May so; the coal operators say so. and the miners say j so. All three are pointing out to the people the imminence of the danger. All three are telling the public how the public may protect itself. The miners want work. They will ; dig the coal if given the opportun:ty. The co.il operators want to keep their mines in operation. The railroads stand reidy and anxious to haul the coal from mine to consumer. There will be no reduction in the wages of miners. There are no j Indications of a reduction in railroad rates. There is no good ream why any railroad, industry, utility or private consumer should wait and . take the chance of facing a famine. ; It Is too serious a matter to be passed with simply a glance.

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SI-END SUNDAY UAIININC Willi US. at the First Methodist .'hurch, ?,::, N". Main st. Hear our chorus chuir. ' Hear Rev. Monger give his sermon "Against the Drift" Are you drifting ; in Morals and Religion? HM7-:;. 1

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