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Show CHILDREN TO AID COAL PRODUCTION GRBENSBURG, Pa., Oct. 18 Sixty thousand Westmoreland county school children are to be enrolled In the coal production campaign. Every hoy and girl in the public and parochial schools of the district were today urged by teachers lo use their influence to keep every miner at work six days each week and to appeal to their fathers, brothers and friends to produce a greater coal tonnage. I Sixteen hundred public school teachers teach-ers today received a request from Robert C. Shaw, county superintendent, superintend-ent, asking them to urge the cause of coal production in the schools. Similar Simi-lar letters went to parochial school teachers from Father Gilbert. In every ev-ery school in the county an appeal from James S. Amend, district production pro-duction manager, was read to the children. chil-dren. Each child was asked to take home the appeal for increased production produc-tion and tomorrow be asked the result of his appeal. Then will come daily production talks by the teachers. teach-ers. These appeals to the children will be made throughout the school year. "While you cannot go to tho trenches, you can do something right here at home to help win the war," Amend said in his appeal to the children. chil-dren. "Your government has asked every miner in the United States to use his pick as a weapon to defeat the Kaiser. Every ton of coal means more soldiers to France to fight for a free world. Every ton of coal means that your brothers and fathers and friends who are fighting over there will keep warm aud be properly red tills winter. It means clothing,' fuel and amniunitlQn for the guns. I "If the children of Westmoreland county do their duty in this war, they will help defeat the German rule that has meant suffering and sorrow to hundreds of thousands of children in Europe. If you fail, tho big brothers, the cousins and fnlhers who are fight- ing over there must wait for food that doesn't come food that Is delayed because be-cause there is-no coal for the ships. It means your brothers and friends in the American army must retreat a word the American soldier has never learned and all because there was no coal for the munition plants. "When you go home tonight, ask daddy to dig a little more coai tomorrow, tomor-row, to work a little harder for you and for America. Ask your brothers and friends to work harder, too. Ask them not to stay away from tho mines because idleness today means suffering suf-fering for the boys and girls of France and Belgium and Italy tomorrow. Talk about it at supper in a good-night kiss and at breakfast. Ask mamma to help, too. It is your chance to be a real soldier. Ask daddy to hit the Kaiser with his pick. The pick in the mine is the best attack for America. This 13 your chance to fight in an appeal for coal more coal. Don't stop until the war is won." oo |