Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, December 19, 1940, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Textl NO! I pipe Lines W©N J ’T Give You I Cheaper Gasoline!! II In an effort to secure your influence and the favorable action ■ If the Legislature the gasoline pipe line companies would have ■ lou believe that pipe lines will bring you cheaper gasoline. To HCreate this impression, they have resorted to hints, hearsay and ■Juniors. But, the fact remains that neither the gasoline pipe line ■Jiecple nor their owners, the oil companies have ever given you ■pNE DEFINITE PROMISE of cheaper gasoline prices as a result Ilf the proposed gasoline pipe line. ■I They haven't made any such promise because they CAN'T Iftnake any such promise . . . because they DON'T INTEND to ■let you, the buying public, share in any savings they might ■■secure. The oil companies are vitally interested in pipe lines ■■because THEY, AND THEY ALONE, WILL REAP THE PROFITS! ■J Do you think that these oil companies would spend a tre ■linendous sum of money to reduce the cost of transportation, Bljust to pass this saving on to you! I a/ia the tf-acti: I Gasoline pipe line companies do not deal with the general | I public; they transport gasoline for their owners—the oil com- | I panies—only, and hence have nothing to say or do about what ! I the public shall pay for that gasoline. I Whether the gasoline you buy is transported by water, rail, ■ hmck, or pipe line, it is the oil companies, NOT the pipe line I companies that set the retail price . . . and here's what the oil I companies say about savings in transportation costs. ... ~ | In a hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission the I General Traffic Manager of Standard Oil testified as follows: "What we save in transportation ... I do not mind telling you ... we put it in our pockets; we do not pass it on to the consumer." . ■ Similar statements have been made, time and time again, by officials of other oil companies. These oil company spokesmen have stated, in no uncertain terms, that if savings are made by the use of pipe lines, those savings will go NOT TO THE PUB LIC . . . oh, no, for the oil companies aren't Santa Clauses . . . but will go to these oil company owners of the pipe lines as ADDED PROFITS! , Not only this, but countless actual examples show that retail gasoline prices are mainly determined by two factors: (1) Inde pendent competition, and (2), cost of gasoline at the refinery plus rail rate to destination. This has held true of the gasoline you bought in 1925, it is true of the gasoline you buy today, and it will be true of the gasoline you buy in 1945, pipe line or no pipe linel Notwithstanding the fact that gasoline consumed in Savannah largely moves into that port by water (the cheapest of all forms of transportation) nevertheless gasoline ordinarily sells at a high er price in Savannah than it does in Atlanta. Why is this true if the oil companies give the public the benefit of transportation savings? Even in Port St, Joe, Florida,; the port now being used by the Southeastern Pipe Line, the price of gasoline is higher there than in Bainbridge or Macon. , What about tyausi Pipe line advertising talks about the motor fuel fax. The f truth is, that tax is your money, not paid by either the railroads or the gasoline interests. More than that, last year the State of Georgia paid the gasoline people almost a quarter of a million dollars of your tax money for accounting for these taxes which they collected from you in retail gasoline salesl Last year the railroads in Georgia for each of their 5,797 miles paid an average of $457.00 per mile in state, county, municipal and school taxes. This amounted to $2,662,321.97. If gasoline pipe lines become a reality, it is liberally estimated that the pro posed Southeastern Pipe Line will pay for the approximately 350 miles it wtfl operate in Georgia, only $97.00 per mile in yearly taxes for the same purpose, or an estimated $34,000 only. If that company and other pipe line companies are permitted to condemn YOUR property as well as property belonging to the state for their lines, the income and value of railroads in Georgia will decline so drastically that they can no longer pay the mil lions of dollars in taxes that now help support your state, county and local governments. When this happens, the taxes paid by the pipe lines will be but a drop in the bucket compared with the taxes which the railroads now pay but which they will no longer be able to pay. 'llou'U Pay the, Sbijlesieace! Who will pay the difference to make up the loss in your taxes? YOU will, if you pay taxes at alll Besides the serious injury to the railroads and the loss of thousands of jobs by railway employees, besides disastrous financial losses to the port cities of Savannah and Brunswick in depriving them of practically all of their gasoline tanker ship ments, besides the endangering of the $540,000 annual rental of the state-owned W & A Railroad and the tremendous devalu ation of this $18,000,000 property, besides the loss to your state in taxes, purchases, and payrolls . . . remember that you, as an individual citizen and taxpayer would gain acsolutely nothing 1 The facts are unavoidable ~. their records prove that expect ing lowered gasoline prices from gasoline pipe lines and their rich oil company owners is like reaching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow —it makes a mighty pretty picture, but you never get your hands on it! This is your fight, so be sure your members of the Legisla ture know how you feell Baokleii QunUt&i 'WntU to A. B. Gon<feSi r RAILROADS GEORGIA 1314 22 MARIETTA STREET BLDG. • ATLANTA. GA. Safety Posters Too Cai°< in Skeggs, chief of the ' crnia state highway traffic, has fcoa e removal of all card p]" rd “children” that have been m ? . at intersections to warn cl to be careful. Skeggs de ed* nT ex P er ience had demonstrat than 6y were “ more of a menace lif e ,, a Sa feguard.” They were so n ea , e ’ he declared, that motorists tfvinn ran down live children while * ‘° avoid the dummies. Tuberculosis in Chickens Chickens sometimes suffer from a form of tuberculosis for which there is no known cure. She Was— And Wasn’t The most famous empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, was neither Russian nor named Cath erine. She was born in Stettin, Ger many, and was christened Sophia. I Santa rfptx Comes Pien*e : (7joo j Bij Jules Sevan *P OLD MARIE didn’t quite understand about Santa ! Claus, but her little Pierre j did. Pierre went to school with the other boys while Old Marie sewed dresses in the sweat shop. It had been that way ever since Jacques died, two years after they left sun ny France and came to Now York. ‘‘Mamma!” little Pierre would ask her at night, ‘‘Please, Mamma, will Santa Claus bring me the violin from Rubens’ pawn shop this Christ mas?” Then he would stare expectantly while Marie tried to find an answer. She usually promised him Santa would, for little Pierre wanted the violin so badly. But as Christmas grew nearer the groceries and coal Pleez, M’sleur, a penny! She cried to the passers-by. ) and shoes used up all her savings— there was nothing left for Pierre’s violin. Marie was usually stolid, but she felt sad when she left the sweat shop Christmas eve. Little Pierre would be home waiting for Santa Claus and the violin. Pierre had seen it in the window at Sam Rubens’ pawn shop only yesterday, a big five-dol lar price tag tied around its neck. How sad he would be if this Santa Claus fellow forgot him! Marie was swept along in the Christmas Eve traffic, downhearted.' But despair gave way to triumph, for a plan suddenly came to her amid this confusion: She would beg for alms like her gran’pere had done back in Paris! These Americans— > they seemed happy enough to help her on Christmas eve! ‘‘Pleez, m’sieur, a penny!” she cried to the passers-by on Broad way; ‘‘A penny for my leetle Pi erre’s violin!” Marie had collected seventy-eight cents before the big Irish policeman saw her. ‘‘Here now, old gurrul!” he pro tested. ‘‘Don’t yez know ye can’t panhandle here? Come along now to th’ station!” A few minutes later old Marie was pouring out her story to the gruff desk sergeant. She was confused. “Thees panhandling,” she com plained. ‘‘You say I cannot do it. But I only try to get money for the violin, so your Santa Claus weel come to my leetle Pierre. See?”— she held out her money—“l only need four dollars and twenty-two cents more!” “Well, now, that’s different,” the sergeant replied. ‘‘Come boys”— he addressed the policemen gath ered around his desk—“let’s kick in the five dollars to buy a violin for Marie’s little Pierre! Sure now, and where’s your Christmas spirit?” A few minutes later a grateful old Marie was hurrying down the snow covered side street to Sam Rubens’ pawn shop. But alas! Sam was just handing the violin to a well-dressed old gentleman as Marie stormed in. “Pleez, m’sieur!” she cried. “You mus’ not buy it. The violin, she is for my petit Pierre. See? I have five dollars!” The white-crested purchaser was dumbfounded. “But madame,” he answered. “I have just bought it for my grand son’s Christmas.” “N’importe!” Marie protested, ad amant now. “You mus’ sell it to me. The policeman, they have giv en me the money, see? My leetle Pierre, he will be so disappointed!” The old man looked at Sam. “Have you another violin?” “For seven dollar I got a better one.” Sam’s eyes lighted up. It looked like another sale. “All right, madame,” the gentle man spoke to Marie. “Here’s your violin. Give me the five dollars.” “Merci, m’sieur!” Old Marie cried. “My Pierre, he will be so happy!” With that she dashed out into the night, happy at last. Pierre was asleep when she ar rived home, but he found the violin on the table next morning. It glis • tened like new inside the weather beaten case. “Mamma!” he cried with glee. “Mamma! The violin! But how— where—who gave it to me?” Old Marie’s eyes filled with tears. “Santa Claus brought it, Pierre. Of course—Santa Claus. Then there was the policeman and the kind f gran’pere ...” i But Pierre didn’t hear the last. . He only knew Santa Claus hadn’t . forgotten! (Released by Western Newscaoer Astronomers Do ‘Looking* With Camera, Says Doctor ij This is going to break the hearts ij of all the amateur astronomers who ever dreamed of glueing an eye to the largest telescope in the world and ferreting out comets, stars, suns and nebulae without number. For it seems the scholarly gentle men who work around the Mount Wilson, Calif., telescope, whoso 100- inch mirror is tops at present, turn knobs and twist screws and fiddle with gadgets—but practically never look through their huge instrument. That is the disillusioning word Dr. Paul W. Merrill, member of the Mount Wilson observatory research staff, brings to the 1940 conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at the University of Washington. “We don’t spend any more time looking at the stars than the chem ist does looking at the bottles on his shelf,” the astronomer said. “In fact, the visitors to the observa tory do more looking than we do.” The observatory staff, Dr. Merrill explained, does most of its “look ing” with the aid of cameras, be cause better work can be done and because the film can "see” farther into space than a human eye. To tell the truth the observatory isn’t more than passingly interested in discovering new stars. They have enough trouble trying to find out about the ones they have now. At the Mount Wilson station alone, more than 30,000 spectrograms of stars have been made with cam eras. Light from a single star is passed through a prism to make a spectro gram, Dr. Merrill explained. And, once a spectrogram has been made, the observers have a star by the tail, Dr. Merrill ex plained. By studying the film, they know the chemical makeup of the star, its direction and speed. \ Benjamin Franklin Not So Honest, Says Teacher Prof. Thomas P. Abernethy, in one of his volumes dealing with tech nical topics explodes a belief that men like Benjamin Franklin, Pat rick Henry, Robert Morris and George Washington were as honest as we would like to believe they were. These men had deep interest in the financial returns they expected to earn from speculations in western lands. Washington, he states, was the “Peer Gynt” of that period. Morris often used his official posi tion to further advance his private interest, he points out. “The idea that Morris financed the Revolution out of his own pocket is purely mythological,” Professor Abernethy writes. In dealing with the versatile Ben f jamin Franklin, the professor is dis tinctly an iconoclast. First of all he indicates the early interests of Franklin in the ill-fated land com panies of that day. Franklin estab lished a close relationship with Silas Dean, an active intriguer and also .employed as his secretary, Dr. Ed ward Bancroft, one of his associates in the land promotion schemes. Dr. Bancroft was known at that time to be active as a British spy. Self-Milking Cow The first self-milking cow has been produced by a research scientist of the American Husbandry council. Dr. Jafton Barottome devised the technique, which is based on the fundamental discoveries of the Rus sian physiologist Pavlov, on the for mation of conditioned reflexes. In training a cow to be a self milker, Dr. Barottome places the milk pail in the appropriate posi tion and simultaneously injects un der the skin of the animal’s back a potent substance which has the ef fect of relaxing the sphincter mus cles, thus causing the milk to flow from all four teats at once, says the Rocky Mountain Herald. This procedure is repeated three times daily, the dosage being slowly di minished to zero. Eventually a new habit, or condi tioned reflex, is established, so that the mere placing of the milk pail causes an immediate evacuation of the udder. The nature of the sub stance injected has not been di vulged, as further research is being done in the attempt to find a selec tive relaxant which will act on the udder sphincters alone and not on the other sphincters. Pituitary Extract Dangerous In a report on paralysis in chil dren resulting from injury of the brain at birth, Dr. George J. Gar ceau and Dr. George W. Gustafson of Indianapolis told the section of obstetrics and gynecology that in 13 per cent of 185 cases they investi gated the paralysis and brain injury were caused by the use of pituitary extract to hasten labor. “Unfortu nately, pituitrin is too widely used i for induction and augmentation of la bor, in spite of continuous warning from obstetric teachers,” they said. In contrast to other reports, their i paper declared that anesthesia and ■ pain-deadening drugs played little ■ part in causing the injuries. Labor was short in the greatest number ol mothers, they reported, and there ■ is an increased tendency to injure the brain when the birth process . lasts less than 12 hours. Eighty . three of the infants were delivered ‘ spontaneously, they reported, indi -1 eating that normal forces of labor may be responsible for the injuries, . which in some instances might nol t be preventable. Many more boyi than girls were injured because ol their larger size at birth. “ 1 PHILCO PHOTO-ELECTRIC RADIO-PHONOGRAPH Plays Any Record on a Beam of Lightl times longer. Glorious new purity of f 1 tone. Automatic Record Changer. New vj aT jlll 11 • |>' pi Tilt-Front cabinet. PLUS new Philco Sra Slj Ij l|■’ Si Hi Choose from ■ 2 1 ‘3' val - U L 1941 <t7/l QC si4.va IsrVdTa $74 - 95 models l g invention*. McLendon auto co. Phone 57 Perry, Ga. 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Gives semi-indircct light. mayonnaise attachment. 1 White with black trim. ! AUTOMATIC CORN POPPER f ! tdQR S< down X / V, ! $1 MONTHLY : 5 Fun for all! Automatically jjfe. . ■Wkfa \ pops corn without stirring or -Sl shaking. You can watch the vv&r i, com pop through the clear glass top. Made of heavy jr 4 j aluminum; has chrome base. \- 1| ! Quebec’s Historic Carriages ‘ Old as the city itself are the his ' toric caleches or picturesque horse drawn carriages still to be found J throughout the Canadian city of Quebec. Cabbies or "carters” were , 5 not considered properly attired un- | less they wore an arrowed sash 1 f around their waists. These tradi- | f tional sashes were made by the * “Habitants” wives after designs 1 borrowed from old Indian days. Modern generations, however, have ’ lost the art and the colorful sashes, ■ made from sheep’s wool colored by vegetable dyes, are seldom seen nov/adays. e r f e Odd Monuments e At Enterprise, Ala., there is a s monument to the boll weevil; in ■- New York city one is erected to an d amiable child, and at Mont St. i- Michel, Brittany, there is one com r memorating an omelet. At Little Compton, R. 1., there is a monu ,t ment to a hen; at Winnipeg there s is a monolith to wheat, and at Llan ,f dudno, Wales, there is a statue of the famous white rabbit. Synthetic Motor Fuel A new fuel, carbogas, produced from brushwood and having all tho requisites for use with gas produc ers installed on vehicles, has been developed in Italy by a leading chemist. Chemical analysis shows the same results as those obtained from coke, producing 8,100 calories per KG., when supplied in cylinders. Another Italian chemist has devel oped a process for obtaining fuel from agaves, wild figs, prickly pears and eucalyptus. This synthet ic petrol has been successfully used in experiments with motorcycles. Novel Dinner Table A table, 200 feet in diameter, was erected in Windsor castle, England, at which the Knights of the Garter were entertained at the king’s ex pense in the Thirteenth century. Dividing the World In 1807, by treaty of Tilsit, Em peror Alexander of Russia and Na poleon divided the world between them. Alexander was to rule the east and Napoleon the west.