Consumer^ Can Help Prevent
Shortage Next Winter by
Buying Now, Says Fuel
Administrator.
GARFIELD SOUNDS WARNING
Better Borrow Money Now to Bi*"
Than Do Without Later, He Says—If
Your Storage Space Isn’t Large
Enough, Enlarge It.
By HARRY A. GARFIELD,
United States Fuel Administrator.
Every householder, every public util
ity and every industrial user of coal
engaged in work essential to the prose
cution of the war are earnestly ad
vised and urged to place without de
lay their orders for coal to cover their
needs for the 12 months beginning
April 1.
During the past 12 months there has
been suffering among consumers and a
curtailment of essential production by
industries through inability to obtain
necessary fuel after the beginning of
winter. A year ago consumers were
led to believe that they might safely
withhold their orders until later in the
year. They labored under the impres
sion that coal could be bought and se
cUfFti a's'vred L-rtJIie timers another.
They were told that there was plenty
of coal for everybody and that there
would be plenty of coal ears to move
the coal in also.
This advice and its acceptance by
consumers was one of the contributing
causes to the coal shortage, with its
consequent suffering among domestic
consumers and lessening in production
of commodities needed in our war ac
tivities.
rne ruei Aomimsrranon was uoi
then in existence and did not begin its
work until August 23. It was then al
ready too late to undo the harm which
had been done. The Fuel Administra
tion would be negligent of its duty to
the public if it failed to call attention
at this time to the unfortunate results
of the mistaken course pursued by the
public a year ago and to warn all con
sumers in the most emphatic manner
possible that a repetition of those re
sults can be avoided only by accepting
and acting immediately upon the Fuel
Administration’s advice, here given:
Order Your Coal at Once. «•
Let every consumer of the classes
mentioned ascertain his fuel require
ments for the coming year. Do this
at once. Order sufficient coal to meet
those requirements. Place your orders
at once. If domestic consumers have
not sufficient storage space for the
coal they will need they should en
large their bins. If public utilities and
industries engaged upon government
work have i^t sufficient storage space
they should*~at once provide it.
The production of coal in this coun
try is fundamentally a transportation
problem. There are enough coal cars
and enough locomotives to transport
the necessary quantity of coal, only if
every car and every locomotive is
used to its maximum capacity every
day in the year. There are enough
operatives in the mines to get the coal
from the ground if those operatives
can work every day_ in_ the year and if
tlie coal cars and locomotives are
available every day.
The fuel problem is to get the coal
from the first place of deposit to the
final place of deposit with as little de
lay as possible and in as steady and
continuous a stream as circumstances
will permit. The railroads may be
compared to a water pipe, which needs
to run full all the time to carry the
necessary amount of water to its des
tination. If that water is shut off for
any appreciable time it means an ulti
mate shortage. The pipe can carry no
more than its maximum capacity per
day.
Borrow, if You Must.
Inconvenience of paying for coal in
the spring or summer when it will not
be needed until autumn or winter
should not influence any consumer to
delay placing bis order and securing
bis supply. It is far wiser to borrow
money in the spring to pay for one’s
coal than to wait until autumn or
winter, when if the coal has not been
mined and shipped money cannot pro
cure it. '
The Fuel Administration, through
the State Fuel Administrators and lo
cal committees, is prepared in every
reasonable way to aid public utilities,
essential industries, retail dealers and
domestic consumers in placing their
orders and in securing assurance of a
sufficient supply of fuel. All ihose
governmental agencies, however, are
powerless if the consumers themselves
fail to act. Again, therefore, the Fuel
Administration urges every consumer
to place his orders immediately. This
should ordinarily be done through the
medium of supply upon which the eon
sumer has relied in the past. If this
course is followed it may be hoped
that the suffering and loss of the past
winter will not be repeated. If it is
not done consumers will have them
selves to blame.
. ‘Weiworth’
and
‘Wirthmor’
—Words that are NOT in
the dictionary, but we be
lieve that every woman
who reads this can define
them clearly and easily.
—Now, wouldn’t it go
something like this?
‘Welworth’
—an exquisite blouse that
sells at $2, but is well
worth—say DOUBLE!
‘Wirthmor’
—A blouse of distinctive
style, painstakingly well
made, that sells at $1—a
ridiculously little price for
it! *
—Just think of the hun
dreds of thousands of wo
men, from Maine to Cali
fornia, who know about
these wonder blouses—
wear them, appreciate
them for their many ex
cellent features—and look
forward, just as you do,
to the announcement that
follows.
—THIS WEEK’S NEW
MODELS In WELWORTH
$2.00 BLOUSES AND
WIRTHMOR $1 BLOUS
ES ARE IN. LET US
SHOW THEM TO YOU.
Planters Merc. Co.
PROTECT THE GARDEN
“The cut worm is doing a
great deal of damage in the
gardens over the state at the
present time,” says J. S. Knox,
Horticulturist, Extension Divi
sion, University of Arkansas,
and the best way to control
them is to use poisoned bait. In
preparing the bait take one
pint of meal or wheat bran and
add to it one to two tablespoon
fuls of Paris Green. Now chop
up very finely and the rind of
a lemon and add this and mix
the composition well. Next,
make some sweetened water,
using molasses if possible.
Make a dough of the above
material and just before dark
scatter it about the plants in
the garden. When the worms
come out to feed they will eat
the poisoned bait in preference
to the plants. Be sure to keep
the chickens away.
“Early blight is already
showing up in some of the po
tato fields over the state. No
time should be lost in spraying
the vines with 4-4-50 Bordeaux
mixture. Add two pounds of
Arsenate of Lead paste, or one
pound of powdered Arsenate
of Lead, to each fifty gallons
of diluted spray solution for
the control of the Colorado po
tato bug. This is a very ef
Optometrist Here Saturday
W. D. Hinson, the Spectacle
Man, will be in McCrory Satur
day.
Jf you experience any dis
comfort from your eyes or any
impairment of vision either for
distant or close seeing, you
should consult him. Adv.
Mrs. A. N. Middleton arriv
ed today to attend the bedside
I of her sister, Mrs. W. T. Mc
Cain.
Born: To Mr. and Mrs. B. F
Watson, Thursday, April 25,
1918, at Jelks, Arkansas, a
fine boy.
W. W. Raney was in Cotton
Plant and other points in the
southern end of the county this
week looking after the inter
ests of his candidacy for State
Senator.
A barn on Mr. J. F. Barber’s
farm burned from unknown
cause Tuesday night. $35. in
feedstuffs and two calves val
ued at $60. belonging to Mr.
W. H. Burns and corn, hay and
cotton seed to the value of
about $300. belpnging to Mr.
A. Henard was also destroyed
by the fire.
fective remedy if done on time
and the work is done thorough
ly.
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VICTORY’S
FOUNDATION
The industry and the thrift
of American farms, American
factories, American shops,
American homes—the indus
try and thrift of every citizen
in the land—the industry and
thrift that invest in Liberty
Bonds—this is the sure foun
dation of American Victory.
“We must lick or be licked”
Thia Spacm Paid for and Contributed By
L. B. COLWELL
Arkansas
McCrory