Abstract

A MERICA is confronted squarely with the problem of increasing her productivity per man power without, at least, increasing the cost of production per article. This in addition to any economies that may be effected through national obedience to the slogan Produce more, save more and waste less. Such increased productivity per man power must come about through more efficient utilization of fuel, water power and machinery. I propose in this article to deal specifically with conservation of the two great articles of fuel-coal and petroleumand more particularly with coal, for scientists agree that the days of petroleum as a commercial factor are numbered. From The Energy Resources of the United States: A Field for Reconstruction, by Chester G. Gilbert and Joseph E. Pogue, volume 1, bulletin 102, of the Smithsonian Institution (United States National Museum), I quote as follows:

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