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Show From Nation Over Come Coal ! Saving Plans to Fuel Head Mr. va-tti y . , V ysT V "fears cf- i k?c yy Jsanl -PTir ) ' C y'-'Q Thousands of Letters Received 1 V. ,.' ' v Vll by Garfield, Some Humorous, HsiiaaBaaaaaaVHHH . ix , Others Queer, but All Show- ' Ny" ing Evidence of a Sincere De- , U L ; 1 - j sire to Help. V YTTy One thin the U. S. FuM Admln-lstratlon'fl Admln-lstratlon'fl efforts townrU the economical econo-mical use of fuel has brought out, I and that Is that once the need for Raving was understood und appreciated, appre-ciated, the people rallied to Its support sup-port with heartiest will. From every nook and cranny of the country letters are pourlnu In on Dr. Garfield with IUntlo)l as to how fuel may be saved. While some of these suggestions have a humorous tinge, there Is bactf of nearly all of them the evidence of a sincere and earnest purpose to holf Some of the writers have ends of their own to serve, but that does not mntter much when the .ingestion .inges-tion Is as naively made as It Is by a younc:er from Edenton, South Carolina, who writes: "Dear Dr. Garfield I like your ldears ery mnoh In saving fuel at this time. Tou could save more by closing Edenton Ora.lr-d Schools so I could go hunting. hunt-ing. "Your friend, "Master Clydo X. Copeland, "9 years old." Equally queer may seem the suggestion sug-gestion of a patriot to Dr Garneld that much fuel might be saved by doing away with Ironing. Tho writer specifically mentioned the nrticlcs of clothing that might Just as well be orn without Ironing and added: "I believe that many of our people would be willing, will-ing, even eager, to make thi sacrifice of eye-pleas-uro and which Is not otherwise other-wise a deprivation, during the further period of war stress." This seemed to be rather farfetched, far-fetched, but when an expert In th FuM office put It down in figures, an.! announced that failure to Iron underclothes, handkerchiefs, socks, napkins, shoets and pillowcases Involved In-volved the savlnir. throughout the natli.n, of work on more than 1,-600.000.000 1,-600.000.000 pieces. It was to be een that the saving might be no mean thing. The writer of the letter let-ter estimated tbe non-Ironing coal saving at $1.000 000 a week, but to even the most optimistic these figures fig-ures seemed a trifle too cheering. Then comes a letter from an engineering en-gineering expert of repute who urges that the blowing of steam whlstks be prohibited ad to save fuel This may seem a IH1 leak' ol power, though steamship captains cap-tains realize full well what it means, but the expert says: "When we realize that thousands of factories blowing their whistles six or tin times a day about 20 seconds each time or from two minutes up a day, say 300 factories blow a continuous con-tinuous whistle for 12 hours. necessitating an average two-Inch pipe, the fuel to produce this steam sums up into thousands of tons a total loss." Did you ever hear of the village of Chisolm Ir the State of Minnesota? Minneso-ta? If not. will let you know It is on the conservation map. f?y a formal resolution Chisolm ha declared de-clared Itself within the boundaries of the territory embraced In tly Fuel Conservation order and went on. to some pun ose. with: "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, RE-SOLVED, That the m-xt ten Mondays shall be declared de-clared holidays In the village vil-lage of Chisolm and that the entire male population of the village shall be assembled as-sembled on those days for tho purpose of going Into the woods and gathering: fuel." Which Is a fine and patriotic exemplification ex-emplification of faith In the text, "Belief without works Is deaV" The careless, fuel-wasting cooks of the nation have a warnlnc sounded for them by the Acting Quartermaster-General of the United States Army where they are training cooks In trie saving of fuel. The Acting Quarterma-ster-G en-rral en-rral says: "All student cooks are given special instruction iu the use of kltcl cn ranges. 1 The result of tbls special training shows remarkable remark-able results in savin . fuel by systematic use. In one cantonment, t" e records show that In 576 kitchen ranges, 4.466.000 pounds of hard and soft coal were used or 25s pounds of coal per range In e. h twenty-four twenty-four hours. Experiments with trained cooks show an v average use of coal per range In twenty-four hours to bo 128 pounds of coal or a saving of more than fifty per cent." Of course thre have been many orts and conditions of pleas to ha (J. S. Fuel Administrator to allow tho '.heaters to run and stay heated, but the unique plea come from a well-known proprietor of "minstrel-musical "minstrel-musical comedy productions" who urges: "It It is not too late, and the night could finally be changed to Wednesday as closing day for the theaters, thea-ters, this would enable THOUSANDS OF THEATRICAL. THEA-TRICAL. PERSONS, hungering hun-gering for an opportunity to attend CHURCH MEETINGS MEET-INGS to which they very seldom get to go." Nor must one overlook the com plalnant who finds a misuse of coal la the District of Columbia where, according ac-cording to his ubrrrvatlon, th'-rr- is j a wilful waste of electric lUht In J Tovernment buildings. Added to j these are dozens of letters from conservationists con-servationists who would have all street lights In cities shut off on moonlight nights. Varied and seemingly eccentrlo as some of the hundreds of suggestions sugges-tions arc that reach the ofllce of the U. S. Fuel Administrator they are tremendously hop.-'ul and helpful in this: Thoy show that through tha rders of the Fuel Administrator the peorle of the United States, even In the most remote sections. hav been aroused to the importance of economy; they have been brought to see that tbe wrtr Is not all to ba fought by our soldiers on the fight-Ing-llne, but that every Individual j may In his slnule strength support the hands of tho President and dc-hls dc-hls humble part Id brlntrlnr his I country to the state of Its highest efficiency. |