The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1922-06-24
Burnside Notes and Leaks.
By Henry G. Braud.

After a vacation of one week
spent under my fig tree, resume my
skits.
Automobiles kill more people in
the United States than both small
pox and hootch.
The writer was knocked down by
a bicycle recently, at the corner of
Canal and Carondelet streets, New
Orleans. On getting up unhurt |
exclaimed, "thank God!' To have
met death by such a cheap vehicle
would have been like being killed
by the kick of a creole pony instead
Of a purebred Kentucky horse, OF
run over by 4 Packard automobile
The charming Miss Clara Garnet
Cobb, was a visitor at the Saxon
home recently. By coincidence they
had the pleasure to entertain at the
same time C. P Gilmore, station
agent at Geismar
Mrs. T. H. Davis of Dreyfus and
baby girl, left last week for Savan-
nah, Ga, to visit relatives. Mrs.
Davis was the heroine in the I'M
pleasantness that Disturbed the St.
Gabriel High School in the early
spring, being then a competent and
plucky member of the teachers
corps.
John F. Saxon, member from As
cension and vice president of the
Pontchartrain Levee Board, and the
writer representing the Y. and M. v.
Railroad, attended a meeting of the
board in New Orleans yesterday.
They agreed with the others mem
bers present that the high water was
a memory only, and that the funds
Of the board had been used up fol
lowed the going of the flood into the
gulf
There is something rotten in the
oil business. The automobile people
are very much disturbed over-the ad
vanced price of gasoline. Has any
one ever heard the people complain
about the: high price: of kerosene
local oily? No; why? because kero
sene is the poor mans illuminating
oil, kerosene is also used widely fol
power on the farm, particularly fol
driving tractors. In New York ant
Philadelphia the wholesale price OF
gasoline is IA cents gallon. This Il
cents gallon covers the cost of get
y" ting the oil from the earth, trans
, porting it by ship or by rail, in some
instances thousands of miles, rein
l. ing it, and at the same time giving
a profit to the PRODUCES, the trans
portation people and the refiner
to The service station price of gaso
es line in those two cities is 26 cent
n, a gallor--12 cents or more than 8!
u per cent above the wholesale price
d. Now to the point I wish to make
CHI The wholesale price of kerosen
US (Which means coal oily ranges from
he three and one-half cents a gallon, il
It's Chicago to five cents in Philadelphia
lis Its retail price is Is cents, or from
he IT'S to 800 per cent above the whole
he sale price. AS I said in the begin
:. ming, there is something rotten il
h the oil business. The fact that al
;e- oil companies, whether it is the Stan
he dard, the Texas, the Gulf or the Lou
he isiana, sell at the same price Woul
be seem to support the idea that Their
1t is an understanding not only anon
the wholesalers but among the re
er tailers as we'll Whether there is
aw combination or not the fact remain
lat that the spread between the whole
ed sale and retail prices Of oil is to
ck great today and has been too grea
ar- for years. The oil companies, all Q
rs them, like a hornets nest hangin
to the limb Of tree, they are organ
lied. The Sherman act is not vic
lated, the Standard sets the pric
and all the other independent o
Wo companies say me to.
IN. Chief Justice Taft has gone t
rs. Europe to study law. Some Of on
iii legislators, lawyers, who draft law
its for our state should attend the La
Ia department Of Tulane, L. S. U. G
as- Loyola, to study law again. Do i
tlv you may never need more enlighte1
rs. ment to make laws for your STATE
he but it will help you in the practic
of of law at home.
it, Two bootleggers are on the pan
of the grand jury, for the summt
!, :, term of court now being held
~ one of the parishes Of the stat
Ia Can you beat it?