Show G HIELO HIS BEASON OR ACTION MOST IMPORTANT TO SEND FOOD AND SUPPLIES ACROSS SEAS HE SAYS the coal needed to send them away Is waiting behind the congested freight that has haa jammed all terminals U statement in of ills order doling closing down the lie industries vast eft st of the tit mississippi river on oil jan nry ary IS 18 to to and 84 on macli monday beginning Ja 28 and continuing lip ill to and including march 23 25 follows fol the most urgent tiling thing to 1 in e lone dolle ll Is to send to the Amer lenti fore abroad tind to the allies the food till inal war s supplies applies which they vitall utility I 1 igei il alvar nr munitions food articles ut of every description lalji lying lit in atlantic ports lit in tens of tona tuns where literally hundreds of ships loaded war goods for our nur tuen inen cannot take tho sons sens because their bunkers bankers lire fire empty of coal the coal to send them un on their way Is walting waiting behind the congested freight lia lias 9 jammed jiun all terminals ships need fuel it Is worse than useless t to liend our to more when what wo we have already aured lies tit nt tidewater congesting ter let n t itil lial alir tit railroad yards lilt side trucks tracks for long distances buck back into tile the country N no 0 po row er ei ou oil eartle can move this trel frel slit gilt into tile lie win war zone where it Is tite needed eded until wo we supply tile the ships with fuel J once the docks tire are cleared of the valuable freight for which our men luen III and lit associates lit in the war var now want lit in then again our energies imil power way inny lie turned to ing more efficient than ever so that it steady nil and uninterrupted or ic vital ITIle may be tills tilli lilt 1111 awer to tile the cry for help lik lp excess production blamed it ha lins been excess of production in ili our ahrie speeding up till that lint lint lilt ilone dolle so 80 Il litell to cause on oil our railroads that hint lins filled tit alir i relight yards to overflowing jig that lint hils lincir lin sir cluttered uttered tl the docks ot of our atlantic i 1 ports with goods waiting tri tn RO go at tia tidewater evater tile the tioga of hii ha s stopped the ships were unnie to complete file lie journey from our factories to ft aliu tit war depots le pots behind tin the line added to tills this tills lins been tile lie biffl fulty fully of coal for our own f dotti domestic estle meds on top of those these biffl qa cuttles linn bah como come one of tile lie most teri bibly severe winters rs we have kno known wit lit in yeara weather works havoc the wheels were choked tind stopped zero weather and trains teri ninnis congested bors with shipping frozen in rivers auld nl canals aur seabie it wits wa useless if lo 10 continue manufacture und and pile billel con coll fusion on top of confusion f A clear line fitin from tile lie t lug to tile the sell holit and beyond that was tile imperative need ay it was like soldiers ohl huam hing tu 1 fist w i f front the nien lit in the lie foremost ranks must have room to tn move libove more than it shock was ans nep dl ti i clift finlie lie it a vily through that 1411 p stion 1 f at t the avi aind on oil allu lie docks sit MI uli that lint tile aid so no vitally v needed ly by tile allies could ket get through mines lie idle A tile incidental effect of it llila 14 i i situation on oil coal it r i 1 10 oil litia been there Is and nl al wily anys lits him beell tY of ft fuel it I 1 but I 1 it t call not lu lie morad to those j where it Is so badly needed while I 1111 all y road hues and terminals lire are clinked 1 throughout tile coal li elis scores even hundreds of mines lire are lyans adl ri lecuse lc I 1 cuse of railroad inability to d HIP cars ft to varr curry y awny their product coal gittles jea operate without cars curs cars cannot lie bp st 1111 led i J the are crip crippled by the pre cut freight frel Klit j VII bell kaps lille idle curi cars lying useless tit in um freight yards I 1 I 1 in till lu past art werk the lie oi of v coal lilt leiis lieen been 1 ift reports in some soine bitses lieve chown po ym per cent of the mines lit in ll allds ds closed for luck lack of it vara MII r r tills I 1 it enri wha whatever tevor the coit co ans it t jive iv must imy so that in ill the alie 17 aiice bick of tile lio enemy alere call never lie the allot we held linck baek from froin loing our ruit full inre those ships with out our aup 1 piles lilies or of rooi food for men and food 1 l gulls illuce hilve coal alad put ft to sell ien 1 I |