Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — Got a Nice Fat Check But Has Wrong Idea. [ARTICLE]

Got a Nice Fat Check But Has Wrong Idea.

Remington Press. Charles Parker is a good fellow and we rejoice with him over the Christmas gift of a check for SB6 from the Standard Oil Co., representing ten per cent of his past year’s salary. That is all right, but incidentally with the issuing of the checks to their employes or a short time before, the Standard people raised the price of gas two cents per gallon. Now as we said, Charley is a good fellow all right, but he mustn’t be too all-fired grateful to the Standard Oil Co. for. the check. He must get it out of his head that the company is giving away anything, for they are not ‘built that way, but we, the people who use the gas, are the ones who really put up the coin on that check, .though, without doubt, he would have waited some time for it before the people would haVe donated it in any other way-