Show THIS IS WAR IS GARFIE'S GARFIELD'S r Most Important to Send SenJ I Food and amI Supplies Supple Acro Across Seas He lIe Says l I Washington Jan 17 Fuel Fuel statement In At t 1 j I of at his mel follows conservation or I J JI The Time most urgent thing to be beIs doj I I Is to send enc to tho the American iv fot abroad and to the allies th tho th tOo food a atar II war tar supplies which they vitally aly c It al dj War ar ar munitions food manufactory articles o of every description lying I I Atlantic ports port In tens tons of thousand t ej cr tons tont where literally hundreds of loaded with lh war ar goods oo s for tor our 73 7 l and the allies alies cannot take the p mj b because cuse their bunkers are arc empty coal coal The coal to send them on tbt c oa way Is waiting behind the tho freight that that has jammed all al p I IJ Need Xee t Fuel f It I I is I worse worM than useless to L h UI LV when what wo O have already lies at tidewater con congesting t minal facilities jamming the tt II yards and side tracks for tor Ion long d tancos back Into the tire country countr No Noon pot po on earth larth can an move o mo this tints freight It ki I the war zone where it Is needed un us unwe we oc supply tho the with wih fuel tueL 1 On Once en the tho docks are cleared of ot tl it r valuable freight for which our a aa U. U e U and associates In the war now wanti nt b vain th then n again our energies power ma may be turned to U Ing Ins more efficient than ever so th th a stead steady and uninterrupted str stream am tf ct vital I supplies ma bo be this G Ia may 1 an answer to the tIre allies allies' cr cry for h help lp l n Production It I has been excess of t production in our war time war speeding up that hu hit hudone h done one so much to cause congestion o oa G i our railroads that has filled fied th l the freight ht yards to overflowing that hu haj ha cluttered the docks of ot our Atlantic ports with wih goods waiting to go 10 abroad At tidewater the flood of or freight liar u stopped topped The ships were unable t to to complete the thc journey journe from our lac fae fac 1 tories to the war Avar depots behind tb ir firing tiring lne line j J Added to this has been tho the dit of at transporting coal for Cor ouri own domestic needs On top of ot these theme difficulties has come one of ot the most mod I terribly severe ere se winters we wo have known In years ears Weather eather Work orlI I Havoc DT Ot The wheels were cre choked and flopped top stop 5 ped pC zero weather weather and snowbound trains terminals congested arbors arbor with shipping frozen In rivers sad int canals It It It was cas Uc to continue manufacture and arid pile confusion tort con tn- tn fusion on top of confusion A clear clear line lne from the In Ing establishments establishment to the seaboard and nd beyond that was the imperative neiL need It I was like soldiers marching marchin to the ti L front The The The- Themon men mon In tho the foremost t rant ranks f I must have hove room to move mo e. More than a shock was wal needed to to tomake t neet mal make o a way war through that congestion 1 at the terminals and on the docks doks so o that the aid so vitally needed b by the th q allies ales could get through t l Mines Mine lne Lie LIt tribe Idle Tire The incidental effect of or tins this trans tran transportation situation on on- coal production has hns been disastrous There Is and a aU 81 ways was has ha been plenty plent of or fuel fuel but I Ican It Itcan IV can not be moved to those places place when her It Is BO so ball badly needed while railroad d lines and terminals are choked choked Throughout the tho coal fields scores score scort oven even hundreds of or mines are lying In Idl f because of or railroad Inability to supply supply I Ithe the cars to carry aw away their product i t Coal mines cannot operate without cars Cars Car cannot be supplied while i the tho railroads are crippled by the pres pres- emit cut freight congestion which keep keels r idle lillo cars lying useless In the yards t tIn In ln the past week tho the production of coal hn has been disastrously reduced reduced Rt- Rt l r 1 ports In irr somo some cases cae have shown SO 0 O p pf cent of ot the mines In certain Il closed closel completely for or lack of ot care care This Is s war var Whatever the cost cost w 1 must roust pay so that that In the face tace of ot o th it Ih cne ny th there re can never meYer bo be the tire that we held back from doing our out fall J j. j share Those ships laden Inden with wih oaf our r supplies of or food for lOr men mn and food fod fot j- j r guns must have coal and put to UJ j r f hae t |