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Show OIL MEN SEEK I NEWJRKETS Uniform Grading and Low Freight Rates Are Principal Aims i KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 24. A1 resolution condemning the '' ported activity of certain old line fire insur- ance companies In seeking to djrlve out 01 busim reciprocal Insurance com-1 panies w.is adopted by the annual Na Hon il 1 troli urn oongress Wednesday The congress pledged Itself to combat, such activity by Insurance companies. Oil jobbers and rstaileri were advised ad-vised by Li V. Nicholas ol Omaha, N'eb to carry side lines of merchandise. He, predicted that In tho future the sue-; cessfull filling station would have a show window comparable to that of a corner drug store. RAILROAD RATES I The possibility of perfecting brands of e.i sol in, l oil to be ad vert I , ,1 ami sold nationally bv independent oil deal- era was discussed Informally. I In discussing The Future of the Railroads,'! Clifford Thome, of Chtca- I po. general counsel for the American I Independent Petroleum association. ! I said SO per cent of the oil and paso-' I line used In the United States east of 1 the Rocky Mountains was produced in Kansas. Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Louisi-ana. He asserted that hlrrhcr railroad rates had worked a haid.shlp to the independent in-dependent dealer and Urged that the Independents Organise to oppose exorbitant ex-orbitant rateH. ! Mr. Thome read statistics tendlnp to show that proportionally the accident F rates of oil commodities Is low. Forty I times the Quantity of pa.sollne is car-! ried on railroads as of other recoenlz- n led explosives, he said, while the prop-. I erty loss caused by gasoline explosions! Is only 27 times and the death r ate Only twenty times that caused by other j explosive commodities, he said. |