Show the Con conservation ion 0 of f coal here in ill utah a state containing some of the greatest deposits of coal in the world we know what is meant by a scarcity of fuel caused by inability of the railroads to make adequate deliveries this is going to be one of the great problems to be met and overcome by the government in the struggle now before it it is the duty of every person who enjoys the liberties all and the benefits of the freedom accorded by our nation to do his or her bit in conserving the supply of coal the mining review takes pleasure in presenting to its readers reader the following plea from the coal board of the national defense council and in suggesting that they give careful consideration to the points brought out therein and act accordingly the pound of coal that you mr citizen may save today may contain the last gasp of energy necessary to drive a shell home true to the enemy and spell victory instead of defeat the pounds of coal many mr citizens may save today may forge the shells that may decide the war in favor of a worlds democracy the pounds of coal many mr citizens may save on many days may hasten the end of the war and save thousands of lives this is the statement of franciss peabody chairman of the national coal board council of national defense in an appeal issued to all of the people of the country in an effort to have them conserve in the use of fuel so that there may at all times be a sufficient quantity available for battleships the factories the railroads and all enterprises that are making materials for use in the war question of delivery it is not that we do not have the coal in this country continued mr peabody perhaps no country in the world is so blessed with such a superabundance but it is a question of digging it out of the ground fast enough and having prompt deliveries by the railroads at the places where it is most needed the less coal the householder uses therefore the more there will be for the essential industries the men of which in this industrial war are all soldiers as much as the man who wears a uniform and marches to the front but the householder asks where lie he comes in in the first place in many homes throughout the country he can maintain a less number of coal fires fir es he can call even shorten the number of hours they are in operation he can can see that gas stoves are turned off as soon as the cooking is over when the weather is cool lie can carry lower temperatures in his home than lie he lias has been accustomed to unless there is illness in in the house A temperature of 60 degrees instead of 70 is sufficient then he can operate fewer gas and electric lights and see that they are turned off when not needed or when lie he leaves the room need of daylight saving and this leads to the suggestion that if ever there were need for the intro introduction introduce duct 1011 of the proposed daylight saving act through out the country it is now begin work an hour earlier and quit an hour earlier that immediately would take an hours burden from the street railways the electric light companies and the electric power companies the owl car would he be an hour earlier people would be sleeping instead of using lights generated by coal in compact little england with daylight saving they have saved tons of coal in a years time in time of war the coal wasted in t this is manner is luxury coal and that leads to the thought that americans are the greatest advertisers in the world with their brilliantly lighted downtown sections of great cities the mammoth electric advertising signs blazing for miles and their elaborate white cities their coney islands and their dreamlands Dream lands it is all very well to be up and doing and pushing your product in a big way in peace times reflecting much enterprise ter prise upon american methods of doing business but in war time all this tremendous expenditure of energy from coal mean the use of luxury coal which ought to be stopped from a pure spirit of patriotism save the luxury coal for the time being lets save this luxury coal that goes into amusements and extravagances and frivolities some american merchants may call this sacrifice but to my mind it sacrifice at all when we think of the washington widow whose brave son member oi of a united states navy crew gave up his life when his vessel was torpedoed by the germans the first finst navy victim of the war anyhow we all have to make sacrifices in times like these and as fully realizes this soon as the country spirit that mo moment I 1 ment we go forward to decisive and prompt victory the largest anthracite operator in the himself as entirely united states expressed situation of soaring puzzled at the present he knows that coal prices in anthracite it has ever the production is as great as the present situation been and can call only explain by saying that it is probably due to of the american extravagance the national householder coal lie he says is being n stored by overanxious over anxious and selfish people disturbing movement of t this his necessary the natural necessary ing the e price increase unduly and comm commodity edity taking but it is bui not only does it do this the necessary supply away from the industries that need the coal in the manufacture of material essential to the successful prosecution of the war in this too we must be patriotic and unselfish with the reward that prices will reach a lower level and we will have enough coal for the proper conduct of the war to the manufacturer to the manufacturer I 1 would say that it is the time to pay a little more attention to 0 your boiler room and see what your firemen are doing with the coal time was in this country that coal was so cheap and entered so little into the cost of manufacture that few cared how the coal was burned since that time we have made tremendous progress in the science of combustion until today black smoke pouring out of a factory chimney is not a badge of prosperity but a badge of inefficiency and of waste to get power out of coal you have to burn it and letting it go up the stack in smoke is not burning it any mechanical engineer today can show how |