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Show THE GAS STATION K V' ' Li " L 1 pSlf I OIL 25 itg&SQsmmJi FREE. AIR P-gg . ... , -!MSS!!ik s 1 The gasoline pumping station is the very keynote of the American scene. 2 The United States Is really a large body of people entirely surrounded sur-rounded by gas stations. 3 There are more gas stations In the country than there are churches, schools and libraries. 4 And they have decidedly better locations. 5 Once upon a time there was quite a distance between them. You could walk two or three blocks and not see one. G This seems incredible, but it Is true. 7 But today they are thicker than frankfurter stands and waffle restaurants. restau-rants. Which Is plenty thick. 8 It looks like a great plot by the oil Interests to eliminate all old-fashioned residences, especially the corner cor-ner sites. 9 The minute a gasoline baron hears of a fine old American home with spacious lawns In a nice residential resi-dential .district with birdies and posies all around It, he becomes seized with a maniacal determination to tear it down and replace it with a Spanish mosque with six pumps, free air and a rest room. 10 Why he behaves this way Is hard to understand. It can't be from mercenary Incentives, because there are more gas stations new than there are automobiles. 11 But there are signs that the tide Is turning. The other day a couple of American home lovers bought up a gasoline station, tore it down and erected a colonial homestead home-stead on It with lilac bushes around it and with iron deer on the lawn. |