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Show WORK TO GET IT THIS WAY What public ownership of utilities has done for a com. munity is wonderfully well illustrated in the case of the town and people of Bartlett, Texas, a town of 2000 people. A live young man from a neighboring town came there to live Having been used to public.'ownershipiin his home town he began agitating for it in Bartlett. SoonHie was elected Mayor and started out to get what he Jwanted. The PowerCo. had an injunction issued against him He called the people to vote on the proposition and they sustained him 4 to 1. They soon got their plant which makes enough torelieve them of taxes. |