The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 24, 1946, Image 5
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1946
THE
sufi
1VER AGAIN!
Little kids will whimper with cold - old people will suffer - and even the strong may sicken and die
from it - all for lack of COAL! Coal, the most abundant of all our natural resources - uncounted
billions of tons - that can’t be mined - all because our Government can’t deal with just one man!
The letter reproduced at the right is our
reply to another Bureaucratic “order”.
We have no wish to sound off or appear
uncooperative in an emergency but we
believe “orders” should be directed to
quarters that can accomplish things. Our
letter was written and is being published
in the hope that you—and You—and
YOU! will wake up and see what is hap
pening.
With the nation on the very brink of ruin
the Government “directs” and “orders”
little retail coal dealers like us to do thus
and so with the meager stocks we have
when just one simple “order” properly
enforced would produce all the coal the
country could possibly need.
The combined stocks of retail yards to
day are not a drop in the bucket and
wouldn’t run industry for twenty four
hours, but instead of concentrating on
John L. (bottle neck) Lewis expensive
personnel, offices and ‘‘bureaus” are be
ing set up to tell retailers what to do with
a mere shirt tail of coal!
Farmers Ice & Fuel Co.
HEAT WITH COAL
NEWBERRY S. C.
May 10th, 1946
Solid Fuels Administration,
294 ^2 Peachtree Street, v '
Atlanta 3, Ga.
Gentlemen:
We have just received your letter of May 9th
in the form of an “order” covering delivery of
Coal now on our yard.
Although this “order” tells us at some length
just what we can and can not do we hereby in
form you we will deliver what Coal we have
exactly as we see fit without reference or regard
to you.
When the United States Government, from
the President right on down, develops enough
guts to give “orders” to John L. Lewis we will
listen to them also; but until this development
takes place you need not communicate with
us further.
To be sure you receive this letter and learn
exactly what at least one company feels toward
Government bungling and pampering we are
forwarding it by registered mail.
Yours very truly,
FARMERS ICE & FUEL CO.
ELLIa E. L. LOWIE, President
Although we make reference to John L.
Lewis in the letter at the left and else
where on this page we do not personally
blame him for the coal situation today.
The United States Government, including
the President and the twerps and jerks
in Congress are solely to blame.
Lewis may be likened to the neighbor
hood kid who has been allowed to run
wild. Who wouldn’t become a hellion if
allowed to? Who wouldn’t like to be a
dictator if he could get away with it? Who
wouldn’t get all puffed up with import
ance and big ideas when the entire Ad
ministration bows to his every wish?
The kids old man tames him in short or
der, and no more is heard of him. The
Government CAN tame Lewis just as
easily!
Citizens of Newberry — of EVERY
WHERE—demand of your Government
that Lewis be tamed! Wire your Senators
and Congressmen today urging legisla
tion to curb the power of any one man
who can ruin the Nation!
Yes, unless a veritable miracle happens, Newberry will shiver again this winter. We have struggled to keep
you warm during past winters, always hoping for the end of this senseless coal shortage, but we will have
it again and we might as well face it. We will be in there pitching for you, though, and all we ask is that
when coal is short you remember it is through no fault of ours. Oh yes! there, is one more thing you can
do! Remember to help us in this fight - urge and urge that Senator and Congressman.
Farmers Ice & Fuel Company
Newberry, South Carolina