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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1918
THE COAL SITUATION
The coal question is largely a mat
ter of figures. That is, Italy produces
no coal and turned to England to get
it. France produced, in normal times,
less than she used. Then she lost part
of her mines and turned to England
to get the balance. Those countries
which produced food for England
needed coal to carry their food to tide
water. and, naturally, turned to Eng
land to get it.
Then England, making the identical
mistake that America is now duplicat
ing with so much sagacity, (trailed her
coal miners into the army end began
to lost1 coal prodmtiou at Ihc very
moment when the call upon her was
the greatest.
England, having no other place to
go. ha turned lo Amerh a for coal. We
must produce it or llie world is going
to run short.
II becomes, then, a simple matter of
liguc. io tell what ihc coal situation
really is. Those figures concern them
selves with: How much does the
world need? How much is America
producing? What is the difference?
That difference between supply and
demand will tell the coal situation bet
tor Ihan could be done in a volume.
Wc have not the complete coal
luidgt i ol the world. Neither have
wc a. dependable record of American
a pply, because it is going up sharply
one M" lt and falling precipitately tho
ilex!. However, we can come pretty
close to it.
I In- American budget calls for about
2.40b.ouu tons a day of till kinds of coal
anthracite and bituminous combined.
The production of bituminous has
twice been up to 2,100,000 tons a day,
and the production of anthracite is
pretty steadily at better than 300,000,
ooo tons a day. Therefore, on two oc
casions the daily production of coal
has equaled the budget. Most of tho
time we have fallen short of the Amer
ican budget alone. We have a sizable
deficit of coal staring us in the face -
unless i< happens that the budget fig
ures are wrong.
This takes no account whatever ol
the foreign demand. This will meas
ure easily 300,000 tons u day. Some
of it will go to Kurope direct. Other
tonnages will go to South America to
move the crops to save us from the
annoyance of having to supply much
larger quantities of food
So. tit our best, we are short by
300,(ton tons a day of meeting the de
mand upon ns for coal. Those are
the figures. They are ugly. Hut bal
ance sheets, which show in red, are
never pleasant sights. We must look
at this one squarely because it may
mean that we will have to default in
some of our serious war obligations—
obligations to supply material to men
who are fighting at the front.
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WHAT YOUR LIBERTY BOND
WILL DO
If you buy a $100 bond of the
Fourth Liberty loan you are lending
the United States government money
enough to feed a soldier in France a
little more than seven months. Ot
you have furnished enough money to
give him a complete outfit of winter
and summer clothing, including shoer
and stockings, and slicker and over
coat and blanket, with enough lefi
over to arm him with a good revolver
You have done that much to beat bad
tho Hun.
It takes $35 more to arm him with a
rllle with a bayonet on it, and if ym
buy a second $100 bond you furnisl
him this rifle and 1,000 cartridges foi
it: and there will still he enough o
your money left to purchase a good
sized bomb to throw in a dug-out, or
demolish a machine gun. together
with the Huns operating It.
The effort to separate Liberty Itond
holders who are not familiar with
stock and bond values from their Lib
erty bonds has taken a new turn. The
manipulators, instead «f offering to
buy the bonds at inadequate prices,
offer in exchange for them stocks and
bonds of various wildcat corporations,
the face value of which is large but
whose actual value is little or noth
ing.
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A GREAT WALL AROUND GER
MANY
Recent dispatches from the Ger
man cities indicate that the German
people are becoming seriously wor
ried about the conduct of the war If
this is so. it is because they have
been shaken out of their apathy by
tin* reports of the allied advances,
Until lately it seemed that the plain
people In Germany hail become apa
thetic. Being unable to puzzle out
the real facts of the war, they had
stopped trying to think at all.
"A brooding fear has settled over
the German masses." wrote tho Am
sterdam correspondent of the New
York World a short time ago. They
l-.avc grown utterly indifferent."
Another writer says: "They have
become so dulled that they pay no
more attention to the clash of arms
than they would to the ticking of a
familiar clock."
This stodginess of mind has been
largely caused by the intellectual
barrier which has been built up
around Germany by the imperial cen
sorship. Real news has been reach
ing the people not at all. or only in
a doctored and falsified form. Not
until the great wall of silence around
Germany has been battered down will
the Teutonic people reawake to take
a place in the world of enlightened
nations
Great Lakes Training Station Is Doing
Tremendous Amount of Work
Bj WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. Former PreUlenl oI the United Stnta
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It is interesting to compare what the navy lias
done in its one great eantonucmt at the Great Lakes
Naval Training station, north of Chicago, with the
many cantonments built and used by the army. The
navv had 25,000 men to drill and train and this can
tonment was therefore about the same size or a little
smaller than the average army cantonment.
It is a great permanent station, with accommoda
tions for 30,000 to 35,000 jaekies in training. The
buildings are somewhat more stoutly built. They are
painted and constructed on somewhat different arelii
tod urn 1 lines, both of which make them a little more attractive to the eye. j
They have also what the army has not, two large drill halls. They gave
me a review of 7,000 jackies in one drill hall, and it was evident that .
these halls had been of great advantage for needed training in large :
bodies.
Another diiTerence was the difference in the age of the men. 1 he
men wen* reallv between eighteen and twenty-two, and in their naval uni
form they looked like cadets of a high or preparatory school. They were |
under excellent discipline, as one could see. They needed no instruction
as to saluting. The)' were not as well aide as the older men to withstand
llie test of my long addrc.-M-, and I thought 1 discovered a little more j
somnolence among them than 1 did among the drafted army.
The army law should he amended so as to authorize the president to
increase the army from 1,500,000 to 5,000,000 men with the colors, or
more. We must win the war, and we should now lay our foundations
abroad so as to make that inevitable.
Of course airplanes, artillery and other instruments of war nre neces*
sarv in a modern campaign, and we should increase the supply as far
us our resources will permit, but in the end this war, as other wars, must
be won by trained man power. We should look forward with large vision
and make ample provision so us to strengthen our allies, give confidence
to our own army and convince our enemies now of our determination
to win the victory.
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