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Show 0" THE MURRAY EAGLE We'll Have to Stretch Fuel If We Want to Keep Warm How to Save Heat- ?- $ -, ' Z : l H 'jit. Serious Shortages of Coal, Wood and Oil Make Practices Necessary "for All. JJ I Coal, coke, oil, gas or wood whatever you burn for fuel will be short in supply this winter, as they all have been for the last three years. They may be even scarcer. The reason is familiar enough it's the war. There are fewer men mining coal, or making L'.. musutM . ""ni ' fii it ffif lYftiiiifr coke, or cutting wood. On the other hand, industrial uses of all fuels, and particularly soft coal, have doubled and wMllfcllfflM SKI; THAT ALL storm sashes fit tightly. Keep the storm windows closed as much as possible. m Ink- ' trebled. Transportation ;f . SEAL UP ALL air leaks with compounds made for the purpose. Cracks In the smokepipe and the Joining of the pipe and chimney should be filled. i AIR FILTERS ON forced air heating systems must be kept clean, or the free circulation of warm air will be Impeded, XSt - if 1 fa- cilities further complicate a bad situation. Overburdened railroads cannot haul the us ual volume of fuel, and war plants get the first chance at what does come to market. - Mi k It is estimated that we will be short 38 million tons of coal this winter. Wood will be extremely scarce. So will coke, charcoal and of these prigas all mary fuels. While the production of crude oil will be 15 per cent higher than last year, very little of it can be spared for heating. Most of it will have to go to the gasoline refineries. Nevertheless, nobody needs to be cold. There will be enough fuel to keep everyone warm, if it is intelligently used. This means that all leaks that cause loss of heat will have to be closed. The best possible combustion methods must be used to get every possible heat unit out of the fuel. One way to spread the available coal and wood on an equitable basis among the 45 million families of the nation would be to ration these fuels. This has already been done with oil. But the government believes it can avoid this step. As an alterna-- i tive, a fuel conservation campaign is being launched by the War Production board, the Solid Fuel administrator, the Office of War Information, and other agencies. Booklets, advertisements, feature articles and radio programs will be employed to instruct householders in ways to get the most out of their coal, wooa or oil. Expert Advice. The heating industry, which includes 35,000 dealers and jobbers and many thousands of manufacturers, is volunteering its help. Drawing on their years of experience with heating problems, many manufacturers have prepared booklets on fuel saving. The War Troduclion board recently announced that raw materials are being made available for the production of automatic temperature controls thermostats and similar devices on the basis that the fuel saved will more than compensate for the small amounts of steel and other materials necessary to The automake the instruments. matic controls will make possible fuel savings of 15 per cent on the average the government agency said. Enough materials to make 850,000 residential, commercial, Institutional and industrial heating plants have been released for the third and fourth quarters of 1944. One company, the Minneapolis-Honeywe- ll Regulator Co., has made 70,628 electric, thermostats in the first three Cfuartcrs of this year, compared with an average production of about 25,000 over the same years. period in avarage peace-timThe "electric janitors," for use on hand-firecoal heating plants, save up to 20 per cent on fuel consumption b(v accurately and automatically maintaining temperatures at the level selected by the householder. How to Rare Fuel. Some of the ways to save fuel are the following recommendations of heating engineers: Have your heating plant thorough- - 'f Ji KELP SrtAbL;, Venetian blinds and drape drawn at night, and as much as possible during the day. Warm room air chills quickly when It comes In contact with colder window mirfares. JrrH M L 1 II c old J,,- - 1 rr ! i. 'aal. i .if . VOI R ITRNACE thoroughly ( leaned at the beginning of the eaon. Vou ran do this yourself with a stiff wire brush. WE Remove all scale from heating surfaces in furnace or boiler. Clean the stack and chimney. Every two or three weeks be sure all soot and ash is removed from boiler flue surfaces. Soot deposit of inch thickness results in 34 per cent waste. All air leaks in heating plants should be sealed or caulked after connec cleaning. Seal smoke-staction with chimney. Repair insulation on hot water and steam pipes as well as boilers. Be sure chimney is in good repair. Periodically throughout the heating season remove all air from radiators in hot water systems. You can do this by opening the air valves. In a steam heating system make sure the automatic bleed valves are in working order. Use your fireplace but see that fireplace dampers are closed when not in use. If the temperature at the bottom of the casing in the vicinity of the cold air return on gravity warm air furnaces gets above 75 degrees, a baffle should be installed in the furnace to eliminate heating of the cold air return. This will promote bet ter air circulation through the furnace and thus make your home easier to heat. Be grateful to Cod that you can take an unfortunate child or two into your Keep Air Filters Clean. Air filters on forced air heating home, and give a waif uhose life might otherwise be blighted a better chance. systems must be kept clean. A By KATHLEEN NORRIS good rule is to change the filter evRESENTFUL t,6ke all sorts accumuThe that dirt year. ery lates on the filter even in com- TROUBLES this strange Childless women generally of ours; paratively clean neighborhoods inyearn for children. Barbara is terferes with circulation of the three-fourtof the wives of such a one. She has a fine warm air. the world are in constant aphome and a loving husband. In any warm air system, keep of having children Six years ago they adopted a rugs and furniture away from warm prehension e air delivery ducts and cold air re- too fast. The other twenty-fivbaby girl, Babsie, who satisfied per cent is even more Barbaras maternal desires for turns, so that free circulation of air can take place. This may seem miserable because the babies a time. Then she wanted anelementary, but it is disregarded won't come. other. They obtained little in many homes. Barbara White is in the latwho was also very love-ablSonia, Insulate the heating plant if the ter category; her tragic letter With two" children Barbasement of your home is warmer lies before me as I write. bara's heart was filled. rooms. You than the upstairs will and I have been married thus save heat which otherwise is be- 11 "Benny two After years, however, years. After five years, with no Babsie's demanded her mother ing wasted. hint of a coming, I persuaded Cut off heat in unused rooms. If him to baby to child, and Barbara reluctantly We both adoption. agree rooms are subject to temperatures had gave her up. Ever since Barhoped for children, we had evbelow freezing, have a plumber bara has been trying to get another blessing life can supply. ery drain the radiators. Shutting off In health, friends, fortune, devotion other unwanted baby. Several registers in a warm air system to each other, but our hearts ached she has come close, but times disturb the distribution of heat for one more. may each the mother changed time to other rooms, particularly in a "Six years ago we adopted a delimind. her forced air system. In this case, cate, unwanted baby, six weeks old. have your dealer the sysThe unsuccessful quest is afUnder my love and care she grew tem. fecting Barbara's whole outto be an exquisite little creature All glass in both regular and look. She is envious and rewhose charm made even strangers storm window sashes should be tight In the street notice her. When Babsentful of women who achieve and should not rattle. Keep the sie was two we a little sisadopted motherhood, although they are storm sash closed as much as pos and for her, Sonia, dark-eyeter and often obviously sible. vivacious, a lovely contrast to the undesirous. So bitter is she Experiments of government fuel older girl. For two years Ben and conservation agencies prove that becoming that she falls into I revelled in happy parenthood, then storm windows are an important fits of despondency. She is came the blow. Babsie's mother aid to fuel saving. Miss Norris for advice asking had married again, was prosperous, Seal all chimney openings not in in this personal crisis. Our her child wanted state back. use. The women of the household .in "ii i in. !iipi:!iv cnoiieh. inmay object, but remind them that sists that the real mother shall know less considerable heat loss can be saved Joy of motherhood has roused who has her child, and Babsie's in me so deep a resentment, so by closing the kitchen ventilator for mother came straight to us, and painful a sense of the Injustice of the winter. we gave her up. life that I am becoming unbalanced; Sleep With Windows Closed. "Parting with her had all the bitnot that, really, but given to fits Many people prefer to keep the terness of death, especially as the of despondency I cannot seem to bedroom windows clpsed at night real mother is a careless, selfish break. For the sake of a wonderful and close off the heat supply. This type wholly unfitted for the care of a husband and a lovely child I ask really conserves fuel and after all, sensitive, precocious child. I have your help." if the windows are opened for a few not seen Babsie since, though I minutes before retiring there will be loved her as I believe few mothers That help must come from within, a sufficient fresh ajr supply wITH loye their own children. Barbara, only you can cure yournormal infiltration to last through"We then applied for another self. But I am sure that a wider out the night. child, a long slow process, for chil- look at the situation will help you If bedroom windows are left open dren available for adoption are few. to philosophy or rather to simple all night, doors should be closed and Finally we were promised one; boy common sense. The world is in a the space under the doors sealed. or girl, we did not care, nor did we bad it will take millions of way, The cold air passing under doors know, for this baby was unborn. capable and warmhearted women will cool the rest of the houfe and The unmarried mother, 18, had like yourself to cure it. Countless require the use of more fuel, A come a long way from home to women have been roughly separated felt strip which can be attached to have her baby in secret, and had from their children; countless othbottom and sides of doors can be determined never to look upon its ers suffer the agony of seeing those purchased in most hardware stores. little face nor know who took it children bewildered, hungry, homeTurn o.l all radiators and close warm "One whole burning summer day less. Mothers are working in men's air registers. I waited at the hospital for my jobs, homes are broken by divorce, Keep shades, Venetian blinds and child and when it came the young the sum of has juvenile delinquency drawn at drapes night and as much mother drew it to her heart and reached unprecedented heights. as possible during the day. Warm said with tears that she never would True, many women who bear chilroom air chills quickly when it with it. cost the telling of her dren constantly are totally unfit for part comes in contact with colder win- secret what it might. Seeing my motherhood, and many children livdow surfaces. disappointment the hospital authoriing in underprivileged homes are Maintain as low a temperature ties promised me another baby, soon less fortunate than those you might as consistent with health. Uncle to be born, But here again the adopt. Sam figure I that you will have to rnolhcr, another young But take a wide, far look at the girl, refused kerp jour house at 65 degrees, un-- me, and I came home empty-armed- . situation, and be grateful to God that drr average conditions, if you arej "That was a year ago. Once since you can take an unfortunate child or going to have rm ugh fuel to last then I made in attempt to find a two into jour home, and give a all winter. Tests show that each; child. A friend in another city told small waif whose life might otherthe is decree raised me of a poor woman who already wise be blighted a better chance. temperature above 65 degrees results in a 3 per has five small children, who Is Forget your own humiliation in havcent increase in fuel consumption. obliged to accept chanty, and who ing humbly to beg for children from If you heat your home with stoves dreaded the burden of another, as women far inferior to yourself, reyou cm still apt'ly most of this ad- it means the sacrifice of a good Job. member only that you can give Joy vice with benefit. A But she merely laughed at the Idea and safety, love and care to the howe will save a great deal of heat. of adaption and said that somehow hel less creatures who so need It, And by keeping the house a little she could manage. Whether the woman who actually less warm than you ere accustomed "The efTect of this on me has been bears a child dcs that child a fato. jou can stretch out your furl very bad, I have everything now vor is a disputed question. But there Is no question of the benefit beconsiderably. If we all follow the that I ever had. Including a beautiprocram of fuel conservation, we ful girl of four. But to know my- stowed upon some forlorn little derewill get through the winter in com- self sterile and to be obliged to beg lict by a woman, can give It a safe fort. of these luckier women the price- - and sheltered childhood. ly cleaned. P k ill-fitte- Production Hate of Coal Mines More Than Doubled Since 1918 If it weren't for the efficiency of the liiM.v mechanized imUiMry, the fuel situation this year would be a I t more desperate than it is. If wo had to depend on IP 18 rate, for instance, we'd have to through the win-i- t r. In a war year, it required M 2,0:10 npii, winking 18,319 mires, to dig 573.000.0(H) tors, t.mt 400.000 miners produced Sfi!),. 000.000 tons, fioin 6.072 mines. The total output of coal, mostly coal-minin- jit )rr bituminous, of course, is estimated at 616 milium tons for the year. Soft coal production has been running at the rate of about 12 million t"t,s a week during l!M. The riation has teen burning about 11.4uruXMj tor s a week so far this year. o production . i iion slightly ahead of This would lock like a Muiod and afe situation. But it isn't. The squeeze conges because of several reasons. Despilo the did job the railrt'.ids and water car Symbol ci-suirt- j riers arc doing, the great volume of freight they must handle forces them to sidetrack coal shipments for days and week. Thus many localities may le in need of ccal. but unable to get it quickly. Another factor is the uncertain but huge demand of the armed forces. 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