The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-09-26
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2s, 1910

the time when the defense program is swinging into
faster tempo, and the draft will take goo, 1000 men
from actual or potential employment. But the extra
costs will be passed along, either to the Govern
ment or civilian buyers-all of part Of the growing
overhead costs of doing business.
Auto Motiv-Gasolines and oils that millions of
I. S. motorists use in their cars, as well as materials of
which the cars are built, owe much of their develop
ment to Furnishing tests made upon them under condi-
tions that no ordinary motorists would ever inflict
upon himself, or his car. And the stories of these
tests often read like sports-page thrillers. 1t now
comes out, for instance, that an an-aluminum, four
wheel-drive racing car, built by Harry Miller to use
pump" gasoline and standard automotive lubricants,
and piloted by George Barringer, in one day this
summer established 33 international and American
speedy notwithstanding marks set chiefly by cars
using highly "doped' and alcohol-blended fuels. Over
Bonneville Flats at Great Sale Lake, Barringer aver
aged 1929 miles per hour for a 5OO-mile stretch, we'll
avobe the 117.2 miles record for the Memorial day
5OO-mile grind at indianapolis.
Gold Peril?-You hear quite a bit of talk about
all of Uncle Sans vast hoard of gold becoming USE
less in case Germany wins the war and forces all
world trade to go on a barter basis. But according
to Harry Scherman, president of the Book of The
Ninth club and author of the best-seller of a few
years ago, "The Promises Men Like By" the fear
of that happening is a case of Nazi propaganda being
echoed by careless or uniformed American COM
mentators. In a small new book called 'The Real
Danger In Cold, he analyses the gold problem in
simpler terms than anyone we have ever heard or
read. He says that if the Nazis should win economic
domination of Europe, and establish a favorable bal
ance of trade for themselves, they'd be the first to
scrap the barter system. It's far too complicated
a subject to try to cover here, but to get to the
ultimate point, Scherman maintains that the "real'
danger in our gold is that it affords the easiest way
to wipe out-on paper only the rising government
deft by drastic devsluation which would bring on
the initiation SO long feared in this country.
Swift Thrift-Several hundred million dollars a
year could be saved if American counties would follow
the lead of Henrico County, Virginia, in undermining
its administrative machinery, according to Mrs. Mel
vile Mucklestone, president of the National Con-
sumers Tax Commission. In a report going to the
quarter-million NCTC women in as states, the Com
missions leader declared that by adopting the rela-
lively simple principles of efficiency which cities are
widely using, Henrico has accumulated a reserve of
$25o,000 in only five years, despite several reduc-
lions in taxes and greatly augmented services.
Things To Watch r-Anot phase of using
attractive odors in advertising-a blower-flag arrange
ment for soda fountains which watts sweet essence of
vanilla, chocolate or what-you-wil, as desired, at the
customer while waving a flag advertising that flavor
of ice-creann.