OCR Text |
Show PLEASURE DRIVING BAN ASSURES GAS, FUEL FOR WAR The ban on pleasure driving now in -effect in seventeen states and the District of Columbia is intended in-tended to assure an increase in the already dangerously low supplies of petroleum products along the Atlantic seaboard. While the reasons for the ban may not be explicitly stated by responsible re-sponsible officials, the people affected af-fected can safely assume that it is connected with the war emergency. emer-gency. Naturally, we would not expect the chief of staff to advise our enemies that our troops abroad lack necessary gasoline and fuel. The probability is that the gasoline gaso-line ban is also associated with the serious shortage of fuel oil and the health danger which accompanies ac-companies colder weather. There may be Americans who would prefer pre-fer to have their pleasure driving, while other Americans, including women, children and sick persons, suffer from excessive cold weather but we are sure that they are few and far between. |