Show 1 81 THE ITT PUBLIC C BE DAMNED DANN EDIt 1 l oil refiners of tho the united states have a hargo surplus of gasoline on hand will thov reduce the price will the law of supply and demand regu rega aate the cost to consumer as an it is doing in the case of the farmers wheat certainly noti that would interfere with th the pleasing pastime of profiteering r I 1 j so much money they do not know what to do with it would not bo be able to accumulate quite juite so many additional mill 0 o to be left behind for their descendants to quarrel over mid find squander instead of allowing supply and demi demitilo tild to regulate the tho price the ilio ners have voted to close down for it month in order to keep the price up of course the fact that thousands of employees will le fic out of work as an a result of the shutdown count at all they are only human beings and do not share in the tile profiteering cering tuo tile employees may have enough money saved up to feed the babies for a it month and then they may not but the fate of babies is not suppose to interfere with the honorable society of profiteers and the public that trades its shirt for gas to use in its cars and its trucks and its farm form tractors and oilier other forms of commercial activity oil the public be damned let em pay milk lem era dry dryl I 1 thai that seems to bo the atti attitude tudo of the drefin ers true the retailers begged to refiners to reduce the price of gas instead of closing up shop thoy thought the public was entitled to some small measure of pf consideration but damn the retailers tailors re I 1 I 1 to liell tell with the public the honorable society of profiteers thought otherwise they agreed to shut down own and to keep the price up and according to newspaper reports thoy will remain closed for a month or until the public uses up the surplus gas at the present sky prices profiteers must protect themselves even though the damned public is left gasping by the wayside |