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Show URGING MINERS 10 'STAY-vl H M . By A-.C-Mporp, 'li'afi JM -yv jNATip.wido qampjtfgn. begun; a H a- month ago by the American Min- ing Congress to educate miningoper- H at'ors t6 th'o necessity of protecting H ' themselves: against too 'sor lolls Ueple- H tion of manpower through the new H draft, has brought hundreds of in- H quiries from producers of coal, oil and H metals for blanks and instructions H and has resulted in numbers o'fthe H larger mining companies Bonding-, rep- H reBpntatives tp. Washington qtudy H the. situation and talk over with war H department officials the 'possibilities of extending ' oven the 'already ' "liberal H rulings, bo that ithoro may be; ia I more H general exemption of employes,. In H mines of all .classes. . j tjrfX H "The greatest patriot is .the man M who though he may most desire to H go to the front, will go or stay wlier- M ever he is most needed by thd;riation .M at, this, time,' - says 'the MiningwCon- M gress in a series of appeals - to (jem- M plpyers and employes. . "The .country H will be proud' of "the men' behind the M men -behind' : tlie 'guns riii Frailce' and H the American who deserts his- Indus- M trial post where he is;, essential '.as; a H producer of war materialp or fuel , or M food, is a real and not a theoretical H slacker." H The American Mining Congress'iias addressed tlie governors' PC' 'all states H where mlnirig IS an Industry, auggb'st- . Ing that proclamations be ; issued flup- H pementing .those of President; Wilson, 4 urgjrig ' industrialiy, essential men to V nB ask for the' deferred' classiflcatibri'to which they are entitled under"" 'the new draft rulings and has fostered a movement through which .either .he w war department or the Unite.d States fl employment service will issuo.a badge or. other foriri of recognitibn of the moil who'rb'maih ih necessary' iifd'us- tries- by which they will, be .'given t '41 publiCi.'Btan.ding, as mpmbprs, pf ,''Tho 'JM U.,SvIndustriaf Army'a, t( Jy ., ; . 0 ., M |