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Show FUEL RATION NEXT 11IER PROBABLE FUEL ADMINISTRATION DECLARES DE-CLARES STRICTEST ECONOMY WILL PREVENT SHORTAGE. Warning Given That There Will Not Be Enough Household Coal Available Avail-able This Winter if Last Year's Wa$te Continues. Washington. Formal warning was issued from the oflice of the fuel administration ad-ministration on July 7 that the stock of coal may be insufficient to meet the domestic necessities during the coming winter. Only the strictest economy will see the country through the cold season without suffering from lack of ruel. "There will not be enough household coal available this winter if last year's waste continues, or if unequal local distribution is permitted," says an official of-ficial bulletin from Dr. Garfield's office. This final conclusion comes after a series of conservation warnings which have inaugurated a campaign for each householder to care for his own furnace, furn-ace, instead of trusting it to the cave of the occasionally visiting neighborhood neighbor-hood fire tender, whose only interest is in collecting his dollar and a quarter quar-ter a week and who fills up the furnace furn-ace twice a day to capacity, opening up the drafts wide and then going away to forget it util 12 hours have passed. Coal rations tills- winter are practically prac-tically assured. England and France both are on a fuel rationing basis. "The allowance will not be the amount used last year, but only so much as is scientifically found sufficient to heat the house to 6S degrees, providing every conservation rule is observed," says the bulletin. "It will be sufficient suf-ficient for comfort, but the thoughtless and wasteful consumer who finds his allowance gone before the end of the winter will have only himself to thank if he has no fuel with which to heat his house." |