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Show OIL PHILOSOPHER SAYS PUBLISH LIS! Believes Names of Dealers Selling Short Gas Measure Meas-ure Should Be Known. The gnlal Oil Philosopher was a much perturbed perpon. He relieved his overburdened soul thusly: , L.ive a. newspaper reporter an inch ami. sure as mud. he wilt take a I mile. In oilier words, jrive him the I smell of s . "story." as it is eallrj. and you e:in hi't your bottom dollar he will stretch It c-nouph to make It j a good one. What I have in mind is a stury that appeared in a Friday evenliif; paper 1 in regard to the Kasoline rrtnnps i ' Salt Lake. It lead that "Nearly all the pumps are giving short measure," meas-ure," and quoted State Inspector H. (-. Smith as its aulhorilv Personally, Per-sonally, I doubt (hat uch a statement state-ment wyis ever, made ! Mv Smith but if it was. Mr. Smith should be turoed to produce the facts In the case. In my wanderings aiound town I linve had the pleasure of meetinc most of the dealers in the citv and 1 can Baicly say that the maiorlly are doins business absolutely on the square. It is possible that' a few are not. but. these few should not be per-m.Ued per-m.Ued to dislurb the comidence of the iniblic. It Is for this reason that the dealers deal-ers to whom I have talked -would wel-come wel-come a published list that covered the enure siluai,.n. In fact, there ii son,- talk of lorcin- Mr. Smith to 'uiii-r .-nlv or retract bja statement. roUocd ,:e ms r-orrcctly qotcd by tiie i'm-r in rpiestlon. And there i's -s sookesman lor a few of I he uciuci-s I would siiecst thai Mr uib.i niake a puhli,- statr-ment of " " WB fn"d when Hie puiniis were bin. tested. |