MMWWMPmMH?1 1 ''-- VOL. XXII $1.50 A YEAR A Country-Wide Coal an d W ood Famine ARE YOU DOING YOUR BIT TO PREVENT IT? EXTRAVAGANCE SHOULD CEASE. State Fuel Administration Of fers Twelve Ways In Which You May Help Solve This Situation; It Is Important. The following pamphlet was hand ed us for publication by Mr. Thomas D. Peck, chairman of Warren Fuel Conservation committee. The text of this pamphlet should be widely read and its contents will be beneficially read by Warren people. The pamphlet was issued by. State Administrator McAllister and contai: thi- foreword: 'Experience and observation of the State Fuel Administration of North Carolina, bring out several facts A interest: (1) the fuel situation is not beinjr relieved at any points so far, except temporarily, and assumes a more and more serious aspect the nearer we approach cold weather; (2) the State Fuel Administrator, thru the Department at Washington, D. C, has not been able to do more thrm merely to direct shipment of sufficient coal where most needed so as to obviate up to this time, actual suffering anywhere (3) those places that are short of coal, and that are now living from hand to mouth, are probably going to have to continue to do this throughout th vv inter, and the conservation pfcont therefore, '-ec mes of first importance and imperative; (4) the municipal wood yard is exceedingbeyond expec tations wherever it is being tried, and the number of cities and towns ti-at are engaging in the wood business as an emergency business, is constantly iicreaLing. Th:s natter of fuel conservation is vegarded as so important that the State Fuel Administrator has prepar ed a set of twelve questions and an swers as a sort of catechism on th2 subject for distribution to the local .mmittees, and for dissemination thru - .press and schools of the state. You can help by passing this on o your newspaper for publication, or by placing it in the hands of some schoc teacher, or by handing it to your neigh bor. "A shovel full of coal is equivalent in value to a half a loaf of bread." Herbert Hoover, FederalFood Admin istrator. ' It will require the fullest co-operation on the part of both producers and consumers to avert a fuel shortage, which may mean not only suffering, but a serious hampering of war prep arations." H. A. Garfield, Federal Fuel Administrator. Question 1 Is tVere a coal short age, and what are the reasons for it? Answer 1. If coal shipments were to stop, North Carolina would be ut terly barren of domestic coal in less than a week. The reasons for the coal shortage are as follows: (1) The government coal requirements are 6, 000,000 tons, or 200 percent in excess f normal, and a state of war has re sulted in a net increased annual con sumption by the country cf 50,000,000 tcms; (2) many dealers, manufactur es, and even railroads, did not renew their coal contracts in the spring and summer of 1917, with the result that the deliveries at this date, December, are far behind the normal; (3) ,he War basis which the country is on Js reducing the transportation facili !es of the railroads both as to locomoT (1Ves an(1 cars for the carrying of coal: ' the increased demands which war Preparations are making upon railroad ""aportation nave resulted in a great lJ lnCTPneo . . ' i A j, cunsumption Ol coai aim r e, Wnolesale confiscation by som roads of coal sipped to dealers and nufacturers, which they are' prop y Permitted by the government to ake When it is needed to keep their 0n ms inning. With the public short tak' t0 begin with' and the railroad be n g a large part of that which can thp ,urpd to relieve this shortage, lhe PuUic is in a bad way. . (TUESDAY) A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND Is Seriously Question 2 How does the enserva- tion ox coal concern you, and what good will it do? Answer 2. Coal is one of the neces sities of life just as food is, and for economic reasons the conservation of one is as necessary as the other. Gov ernment regulation keeps the price from being prohibitive, but is pwer less to supply the shortage. What does it avail you if you can pay the price if you can't get the coal? If there i3 not enough coal shipped to go around, is there anything that will make it go around except the careful, economical use of it by everybody concerned ? You cannot expect your neighbors to con serve coal unless you do it yourself. It is an enterprise in which everybody will have to lend a hand if we get any where. If the coal we have, and can get, is not used intelligently and care fully, somebody is goirfg to suffer, and why not you as well as the other fel low? Our country needs coal to win the war. This call on you to use coal with care and thrift is the call of the country. It is your chance to do your bit. If you are patriotic, if you love your country, heed it. If you want .o give aid and comfort to the enemy, pay no attention to it. The average sav ing of one ton of coal to a family for the entire country this winter, would meon a saving of 33,000,000 tons, or 550,000 car loads of 60 tons each nearly enough to offset the increased consumption of army, navy, munition and manufacturing plants this year. Will yu study this catechism and learn hw to save coal, and try to do your part? Question 3 How can you save coal ? Answer 3. There are many ways: . y x tr J i I u; IO" can as iar as possiDie, usCoal supply? '' wood in the place of coal; (2) youcan . let your furnace go unfired in mild weather, using your grates and stoves instead; (3) you can place thermome ters in your homes or offices and avoid waste of heat by holding the tempera ture down to 70 degrees at most, and G8 degrees is better still; (4) you can have your chimneys, flues and furna ces cleaned of soot and kept clean: and thereby obtain an increase of heat with a decreased consumption of coal: (5) you can exercise care in the use of lights, turning them out when they are no longer needed, and bearing in mind always that every unnecessary light means s much coal wasted; (6) you can pass on to your neigbhors and associates these hints for the saving cjd q && & patriotic service of coal and you can talk coal conserva- - Question nWhat about the muni. tion wherever it is needed, and wher- j cipal wood y&rd? ever you see coai wasted anu me x uics infringed, yu can tactfully call at tention to the fact and to the teachings of the Fuel Administration, and you can do it in such a way that it will be appreciated and acted upon. Question 4 What are some of-the causes of losses of heat in the con sumption of coal? - - Answer 4. The principal losses are (a) the Toss through the grate to the ash pit, (b) the loss on account of ra diation to the firing room or the other parts of the building not intended to be heated, (c) losses up the chimney, (d) loss through lack of regulation, (e) loss on account of atmosphere be ing too dry. Question 5 How can loss through the grate be prevented? Answer 5. By care in building the fire. The fuel next to grate should oe of a coaser kind, lump coal or wood, and after the fire is started, the finer coal can be put on top with little, if any, loss. A very satisfactory method for the use of fine coal, or even coal dust in an ordinary coal grate, is to make first in the botom of the prate, a wood fire, and after the wood has been thoroughly charred and about half burned, then put on the coal dust. The heat from the wood will cause it to coke or run together and will mafce a very satisfactory fire, furnishing sat isfactory heat and burning slowly. Coal should never be unloaded on the -round, b.s the coal dust sifting thru to the bottom is thereby lost to a large extent. Coal dust can be burned ann has enouj gh heat to make it worm ing, Question o xiuw .. TTr winir j IOSS Oil count of radiation oeavumcu . , Answer 6. ay seems t sufficient have sumcieno ViAater ar.d the piping YTuvsed covering and that there are nj -f parts. -Excessive raaiantm xj.v" , WARRENTON, N. C, TUESDAY DECEMBER 18TH, 1917 Threatened. Asmoke pipe connectnig the heater with the chimney .may be corrected by chati gmg the damper, such as to effect better regulation of t.ne drate. Question 7 How may losses up the chimney be corrected? Answer 7. These losses, which arc mure important man others, can be corrected by "more frequent firing of the furnace with smaller charges of coal, fang before the fire becomes too low, covering only a portion of the fire bed with fresh coal, and giving atten tion to proper regulation of ash and fire door dampers," these losses up the chimney being largely due to too much air, with very thin fires, holes through the fire bed, and open fire doors. Question 8 How can loss thru lack of regulations be prevented ? Answer 8. By maintaining as con stant a temperature as possible. An automatic thermstat serves this pur pose best, but where you do not have that, careful attenion to the fire so as to prevent wide fluctuations in the house temperature will prevent an un neeessary consumption of fuel. Question 9 How can loss on ac count of atmosphere" being too dry be avoided ? Answer 9. These losses can be av oided by humidifying the atmosphere, resulting in a state of atmosphere that is essential to neaitniuiness, a pro tection of woodwork, and an economy in the use of fuel. The room temper ature, in order to make the occupants comfortable, has to be higher in a dry atmosphere than in a humidified at mosphese. A dry atmosphere, there fore, means a waste of heat. Question 10 If you are a manufac turer, how can vou heln conserve the I " Answer 10- You can see to it tnat your boiler plants are kept up so that "greater efficiency may be obtainen therefrom," that soot and scale are nor allowed to accumulate on boiler tubes, that there are no leaky baffles noi' leaky brcikwork of boiler settingsthat economical methods of firing are em ployed, that no more boilers than nec essary are kept in operation for given load, it being "economy to run fewer boilers at their foil capacity than to keep in operation a large num ber of boilers running unloaded," that accurate daily records be kept of the amount of coal burned and that your engineers are impressed with the "ab- solute necessity of the most economi Answer 11. If the local wood deal ers cannot adequately supply at a rea sonable price as much wood as can be used, advocate the establishment of a municipal wood yard by your city or town, and if anybody wants to raise the issue of socialism, tell him that you will not have time for academic discussion until the war is over. If any city or town of North Carolina that has wood in reach fails to lay it in, if that city or town should find it self unable to get coal this winter, that siuation of improvidence is going to be anything but comfortable for who ever is responsible for it. If Ashe ville can furnish its citizens with wood cut, spit and delivered at a reasonable price, why cannot other cities and towns do the same thing, if they will take the trouble and exercise the re sourcefulness to do it? Question 12 Is there any other way by which you can help the fuel situa tion ? Answer 12. You can help by your co-operation, by co-operating with the State Fuel Administration and your cal fuel committee who are endeavor ing to render a difficult public service without reward or hope of reward. You can put yourself in their place you can be patient and forbearing you can refrain from knocking yoa can no more afford to be a knocker than you can afford to be a slacker you can be an enlisted man in the con servation of coal. PENSION MONEY IS AT CLERK'S OFFICE. pengion money for the veterans rmd widows of Warren county is now -u,,: v,a ftw reaay ior awinuuM clerk of Courfc R Rodwen. THE THRIFT AND : i WAR STAMPS A Letter to the Boys and Girls ' of Warren County From the Warrenton Post Mistress. The time has come when our coun try needs the help of all the children. You have heard grown up people talk ing of buying Liberty Bonds. Many have seen the necessity of letting the Government use as much of their money as they could spare and have taken the Bonds. as a guarantee that what had been borrowed, would be returned after a period of years. But there are many who could not buy ihese bonds, and for them another plan has been devised. In every postoffice War stamps are to be sold, to give all who will the opportunity to invest a smaller sum. I During December and January a $5 War stamp may be bought for $4.12, one cent being added to its price in every month of the year 1918. It cannot cost more than $4.23. The Gov erhment will use this money and after five years (1923) will return $5.00 lor every War stamp purchased. But there are some who cannot buy a $5.00 stamp and for 'them pretty green stamps called Thrift Stamps, which cost 25c each, are provided. A heavy envelope and a card to, which the stamp is attached are given with the first stamp bought. When the card has sixteen stamps, it represents $4.00 and by paying 12, 13 or 14 cts., never more than 23 cents extra, the owner may exchange it for another card bear ing one big $5 stamp a War Saving Certificate, and begin to buy Thrift stamps for another certificate. Even the children may help in pro viding the things our soldiers must haVe and every penny will be returned and others added when the five years shall have passed. Try to understand thit it.is is no sense a gift, but just a loan to the Government. To save pen nies, dimes and quarters is not the chief thing in life, but to save them for the use of our country in its need' is to show patriotism and obedience and these qualities are among tne things worth while. Let the young people of Warrenton learn the lessons of self denial and thrift and be examples of what can be done for the help of the cause. The War certificates and Thrift stamps are for sale .at the postoffice and the banks. The sooner we set ourselves to the work of saving andbuying, the' more help we shall be to our country and to ourselves. MRS. W. H. DAMER- ON ENTERTAINS Friday Afternoon From 3 to 5 at Floating Reception In Mrs. J. A. Dameron's Honor. Mrs. W. H. Dameron was hostess at a floating reception last Friday af ternoon from 3 to 5 p. m., in honor of Mrs. J. A. Dameron, Jr., and her home guest Mrs. Barker Dameron, of Nash ville. The home was tastefully decorated in ferns and potted flowers and was convincingly inviting to the guests as the front doors were thrown open and each guest was made welcome by Mrs. A. E. Jones and Miss Josie Dameron. In the receiving line were: Mrs. W. H. Dameron, Mrs. Barker Dameron and Mrs.John A. Dameron, Jr. From the receiving line the guests were ush ered into the dining room by Mrs. V. F. Ward, and here were received and entertained by Miss Sue Williams and Mrs. W. W. Taylor. In the dinning room the guests were served block Neopolitan cream and fruit cake, the enjoyment of which was accentuated by the smiles, pleasant repartee, and graciousness of Misses Crichton Thorne and Agnes Henderson who served each guest. The afternoon was a pleasant one for social Warrenton, and Warrenton society was delighted at this opportu nity of meeting and welcoming Mrs. J A. Dameron to its midst, and of be- coming acquainted with Mrs. Barker Dameron, who was the pleasant home guest of Mrs. W. H. Dameron. (FRIDAY) WARREN COUNTY THE RED CROSS AND CHRISTMAS The Purpose of the Membership Drive; Warren Homes Ask ed to Exhibit Red Cross. The following excerpts from a Red Cross bulletin are produced for-they speak in eloquent terms of Red Cross work and the purpose in securing a larger number of members. . "I write as a brother. "We are a large family. "This world war Made in Germany against which we are fighting has sent our incomes down and our expenses up. "The pinch hurts, but it is hot going to. kill us. "We still have enough and some thing to spare. "Though we feel poor, don't let' us be impoverished by selfish fear. "Let us save in food, in service, in clothes, in luxuries, but not in money. "Let us use it by giving it to save the wounded, the suffering, our friends our country. "Let us keep Christmas this year by keeping up the Red Cross. "Then it will be not a poor Christ mas, but a rich Christmas in our hearts," this is a message to those who feel poor from Dr. Henry Van Dyke. The War Council of the American Red Cross has conceived that a great National purpose will be served by hav ing membership in the Red Cross al most as universal as citizenship. Although pledged as a Nation to the National . purpose during this great crisis, it will not be granted to a large percencentage of us to play a part in the fighting branches of our country's service. All of us, however, can be identified with the Red Cross, which in these times, when whole Nations are organ ized for warfare, is big enough and strong enough to carry some of the burden for our soldiers, our sailors and our Allies. We want a Red Coss of fifteen mil lion members. We want the strength and support that will grow from this army of members. We have set Christmas time to at tain this goal, because we believe that the Red Cross and Christmas spring from the same spirit, and we wish to bring together these two great sym bols of mercy, sacrifice and cheer. To this, our first Christmas in the war, we want the Red Cross symbol to add not a spirit of dejection, but the thought of serious purpose and sacri fice which through accomplishment it represents. We hope that from this Christmas campaign of 1917 will grow a perma nent custom which will increase the significance of both Christmas and the Red Cross. The American Red Cross has pro vided a transparent paper bearing a Red cross for each home which is re presented by a member of this order. Every home and place of business is urged to exhibit these crosses from their windows for each member of the family who is also a Red Cross member little red flags are to be plac ed around the Cross. It is hoped thai: many people will fall in , line with this national idea. As one of the most striking features of the campaign, closing here with the Community Christmas tree on the twenty-fourth, is "that every home in Warrenton and every place of business is to be marked with this emblem be hind which at 7:30 a lighted candle will be placed in each window, and in this manning giving expression to the universal aspect of the Red Cross. Tiie church bells of Warrenton are to be rung at 7:30, and the Red Cross work ers of the county will gather, 'round the tree later and sing carols of Christ mas time. The work is of great moment and every effort is being made by the local chapter for a thoroughly success ful gathering here on Christmas Eve. A PLAY AND CHRISTMAS TREE AT EMBRO. A play at Embro High School on Tuesday, December 25th at 7:30 p. m., "Jumbo Jum" and other dialogues and monologues will be given. Proceeds for benefit of school. On Friday December 28th a Christ mas tree will be given in the behalf of Sunday School of Prospect M. E. .Church", Embro. Others invited to come and bring presents for friends.' Number 132 Sc. A COPY NOT OVER ELEVEN CENTS FOR SUGAR Food Administration Asks For Report On All Who Charge Over 11c. For Susar. The following letter was handed us by Mr. W. G. Rogers for publication. It contains information straight from headquarters, and shows that at this crisis in the Nation life that the Food Administration is looking toward the comforts of the people, and is ready to punish the middleman who is making and unwarranted profit: Raleigh, Dec. 1917 To all County Food Administrators; Gentlemen : We have had complaints from several points in the state of exorbi tant charges for sugar and other food products. We feel that 10 or 10 l-2c. a pound for sugar affords the dealer a fair profit, but until present condi tions are relieved Mr. Paga has fixed 11c as the maximum that might b charged in North Carolina. If any merchants in your county are charg ing more than that price for sugar please warn them that they must pat their prices within that figurt and if they persist in profiteering after hav ing received warning from you pls report their name and the circumstan ces to this office promptly. We desire to call your attention t another condition. We have had in formation from one county that a num ber of consumers have purchased suf ficient flour to last them until next harvest. The. Food Control Law is de signed to prevent, and does forbid. hoarding by consumers and individuals as much as by dealerg, and this office desires any definite information it can secure regarding this practice. kjt course, the producer of wheat or an r other food product is privileged t; have it ground-and keep it in his hands as long as he desires but after it pas -es from the hands of the producer ir is under the control of the Food Ad ministration and it is imperative that no hoarding be allowed. Food com modities, where held by consumers or lealers n amounts greater than their requirements for a reasonable period. re subject to confiscation and we do not hesitate to say to you, and yo i need not hesitate to pass the worU along, that those who attempt to hoard foodstuffs and to disarrange the whole food situation in the country will b dealt with promptly and vigorously. In any expression regarding this ma ter be careful to make it clear that the actual producer is excepted insofar as those products raised by himself are concerned. Trusting that you will keep your self informed and to keep this office informed of conditions in your county vith regard to food prices and sup plies, we are Yours very truly, U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION, Per John Paul Lucas, Ex. Sec'ty. CITY TO HAVE A WOOD YARD For Emergency Cases Only; Peo- pie Are Urged To Proeure Wood As Far As Needed. "Warrenton is to have a Municip! woody ard for emercency cases only.'' said Mr. A. G. Elliott, who is to hav this matter in charge, Monday morn ing. "Only a half cord of wood will b sold to each individual, and that wiil only be done after investigation has been made to determine whether he has tried any other source," he co- inued. The town establishes this wood yard after the apparent neccessity for such action hai been brought to their av tention by Warren's Fuel Conserva tion Committee, consisting of Mr. T- D. Peck, chm., R. B. Boyd and V. F. Ward. However, the wood yard is only for emergencies the town is not entering it as a business, but as a means of service to its citizens. The ..wood is to be stored in te building next to the Episcopal chureh. where Strickland's Garage used to be. Mr. Elliott is making every effort to provide wood immediately, but the out look doesn't seem favorable for a de livery until after Christmas. ! I' r

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view