WHY COAL USERS
IN THIS STATE
MUST ORDER NOW
Mines Must Be Kept Going Full
Time in Spring and Summer
to Prevent Serious Short
age Next Winter.
IMMEDIATE ACTION . URGED.
Man Who Does Not Thus Co-operate
With Fuel Administration and Rail
roads Takes His PJace With the
Slacker Who Dodges Service at the
Front or Refuses to Buy Bonds.
Greater co-operation In buying coal
at once must be obtained in the West,
Southwest and sections of the Middle
West, the Fuel Administration an
nounces at Washington, if the mines
are to be kept going full time during
the summer months and the danger
averted of a serious shortage of coal
in those sections next fall and winter.
Official reports to the Fuel Admin
istration show that in the States of
Illinois, Michigan, Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, New Mex
ico, Iowa, Utah, Washington, Colorado,
Wyoming and Montana consumers of
coal are not placing their orders in the
volume expected, or in quantities nec
essary to insure against a winter short
age. This is true also, though to less
extent, in Ohio and Indiana.
“Apparently the consumers in these
districts have not yet realized the full
gravity of the situation,” the Fuel
Administration states. “The mines in
those sections must be kept going.
They can be kept going only if coal
ordinarily ordered later in the year is
ordered now. The domestic consumer
who delays placing his order is taking
a chance of having an insufficient cold
weather supply; the industrial user
who fails to order his coal now is
almost certain to face a shutdown
later on.
Buy Now—Everybody!
“The man who does not do his part
by anticipating his needs and co-oper
ating with the Fuel Administration
and the railroads by ordering his coal
now takes his place with the man who
avoids service at the front or refuses
to buy Liberty Bonds. Every coal
user should buy and store coal now to
meet his requirements so far as he is
possibly able to do so.
“Every state and local representative
of tlie Fuel Administration is ready to
help the coal consumer in every way
possible to get an appropriate and ad
t quote supply of coal. Every day that
passes decreases the margin of time
In which this assistance may be given.
“If you can’t get the grade of coal
that you have been getting In the past
take another grade that you can get.
It is better to have in your bins coal
of a grade slightly different from what
you have been using In the past than
to go into winter without any coal at
all.
“Consumers who do not order the4r
coal now are gambling on the future.
There is reason to believe that if ev
ery one anticipates his coal require
ments and puts in his order now no
one will have to do without next win
L
Tar. If, however, there is delay In
dering coal it is more than likely that
production during the fall and winter
will be Insufficient to meet the needs
of every one.
Better New Kind Than None.
“There has been notable neglect of
certain grades of coal that are now
available in large volume and clamor
ous demand, in certain quarters at
least, for specific coals that various
consumers have used for a number of
years. While there is at the present
no shortage of coal in the west, there
may tie a denial of selection of the pre
cise coal most desired. If you seek to
do your part place your order now for
the coal nearest at hand and of which
there is a large available tonnage and
get your bins filled immediately.
“The Fuel Administration is anxious
with every means at its command to
secure the hearty co-operation of the
public and to move Into the bins of
domestic users particularly their full
year's coal supply before the first day
of October. Whether it succeeds or
not is entirely dependent upon your
own personal attitude and action.
“If the anxiety of the Administration
seems to you overdrawn proof of the
necessity of its recommendation and
the propriety of the warning will reach
you In full force during the coming fall
and winter, when coal will not be
available, and your vigorous effort may
result in another failure to secure an
adequate supply. The indifferent coal
consumer promises to find himself in
the ‘coal line’ during the severe pe
riods of the coming winter and com
pelled to accept a day to day supply of
fuel and possibly be entirely denied.”
CAMP PIKE NOTES
Never has the Y. M. C. A.
at Camp Pike made a stronger
appeal to the men that it did
on Mother’s day and never has
it met with a more marked
response. Special meetings
were held in each of the twelve
“Y” buildings, and the city of
Little Rock contributed much
to the day by sending to the
camp its most talented musi
cians and great quantities of
flowers. A careful record of
the attendance shows that
more than 7,500 attended the
special programs, and the out
going mail was much heavier
than usual with the bulk of the
letters going to some “Mrs.”
which in most instances meant
“mother.” The secretaries also
say there was an unusually
large number of men who came
to the desk for personal inter
views after the close of the
service.
Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife
of the Secretary .of War, sang
to the sobers of camp Pike re
cently. Mrs. Baker is a fine
singer an was well received.
The boys are getting to see and
hear quite a number of cele
brities these days.
Some of the rookies, as the
new-comers are best known,
do not appreciate the amount
of work that is being done to
make Camp Pike a place ol
beauty and the obstacles are
being patiently overcome. One
of the colored boys tried to
climb a small tree in front ol
his barracks and the guard
went after him in a hurry.
“Nigger! We hangs men who
pulls one leaf offen that tree
What dat sarjunt would do to
a nigger who breaks dat tree
down, I hates to even whisper
to you.”
Lieut. Picard of the French
army was in Camp Pike for a
week &nd Addressed the men
at each of the Y buildings.
Here are a few quotations tak
en at random from his various
| talks:
“One reason why it is so
hard to teach discipline to
some in the army is because
of the foolish women back
home who weep in their let
|ters over every little hardship
,that comes to Willie.”
i “Democracy will prove a
failure unless the people are
i willing to consider their duties
before insisting on their
rights.”
“Men are safer from the so
called social evils while in the
!U. S. Army than in the average
town at home.”
“Discipline must be taught
the people at home as well as
the men in the army.”
| “No enlisted men of any
army are turned loose in Paris.
American soldiers may stop
only at authorized hotels.
! When the 346th Infantry
.went to the trenches last week
for practice work, the Y. M.
C. A. went with them and two
|secretaries from building No.
136 were on the job all the
time. They opened a canteen
and sold soft drinks, candy,
crackers, etc., and furnished
stamps and paper, and carried
!on much the same work as
though they were in camp.
The service was appreciated
much by the men and one of
them said, “I don’t mind going
anywhere so long as the Y
men stick with us.” And the
casualties from Europe show
that they stick with them right
to the firing line.
Red, white and &lue hat
cords, the special insignia of
the students in the officers
training schools, are again
iwith us in large quantities, for
the Fourth Training School is
now well under way. Fewer
of the men fail to make good
i than in the first two schools,
owing to the fact that the
candidates for commissions are
nearly all enlisted men with
from one or two to eight
months experience. They are
;in fine physical condition and
that makes the strenuous work
easier for them.
A recent inquiry came to my
office with regard to the water
supply of Camp Pike. A local
I rumor said that there were
'many cases of typhoid fever
here, due to impure water. Ty
phoid fever is unknown at
;Camp Pike. The water used
in the camp is received directly
from the Little Rock city mains
land is the same that the citi
zens there are drinking. Camp
jPike requires 1,250,000 gal
lons of water daily and the
'tanks have a storage capacity
;of a million gallons.
At the railroad terminals
at the Base Hospital, the Red
j Cross has built a waiting
room for the use of persons
who are visiting relatives and
friends in the various hospital
wards. With the advent of
ihot weather, it wrill relieve the
strain for many an anxious
mother or wife, wffio is com
pelled to wait for the train, and
'will also serve as a bureau of
information for those who do
not know how or where to
find the soldier or hospital
employee for whom they are
searching.
The report of the Y. M C
A. work done-in April shows a
very gratifying increase in all
departments despite the fact
that there has been such short
age in secretaries. Attend
ance at the meetings in the Y
buildings increased nearly 30
per cent and more than 300,
000 envelopes were given free
to the men. Religious work
has been especially gratifying
and there is very concrete" evi
dence that the men are res
ponding to the pleas for clean
living and higher moral stand
ards.
When a colored driver of
one of the light trucks from the
quartermasters area was re
monstrated for his recklessness
in driving and his evident de
sire to make some of the sol
diers clear the street in a hurry
he grinned and said:“Boss, das
jes de way dey used to make
me hop befo I got in dis heah
army, de shoe am on my foot
now an I sho gwine show dem
white men dat a rollin stone
gathers no moss/’
Cash river is out of the banks
and the road from Jelks to
Fakes has become impassible
for cars, however, the road and
bridges have not been washed
away.
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