Show OLD KING COAL A FEW years ago experts were worrying out the coal supply they said its consumption was so great we would soon be out of fuel and the one who takes enery pessimistic report seriously actually worried for fear a lot of people might be frozen to death but now such reports are not taken so seriously even in the face of a coal strike word goes out that the supply ahead Is tar far greater than the demand and that there need be no suffering on this score anywhere in the country during the coming winter more and more the big industries are deserting coal for crudi crude oil as fuel tor for their boilers this means adre coal for the individual consumer others are building ng homes in which oil instead of coal Is is us used ed lor for heating steamships and locomotives too are now using oil so the old familiar threat of a coal famine cause alarm any more it Is pretty good proof that there I 1 is 5 always something to take the place of something else |