Show I I I CAPITAL CAPIT AL FIGHTS DETROIT PLANS Millions to Defeat Municipal Municipal pal Ownership DETROIT DETROIT March 29 Public utilities of America versus versus the pe people of Dc- Dc De De- troit t. t This is Is' Is Millionaire l Mayor James Couzens' Couzens statement of or the fight of ot the Detroit United railways to defeat his municipal ownership plan at the polls April 5 Detroit Is the largest American merican city to consider owning Its traction system system tem tern and the mayor says the street railway railway railway rail rail- way companies of ot the country are massIng mass mass- massing Ing capital to defeat the proposal here They rhey rhey are spending a week weel says Couzens They know if we win private ownership is doomed in the United States Here are some ways Couzens says they are re spending money Millions of pages of advertising and circulars A quarter million phonograph records records- mocking for free distribution Cook books bOos for Polish women carrying company advertising In the Polish tongue Hired speakers and singers and movie film Detroit amended Its Us city charter to I pro provide for municipal ownership In 1903 When Couzens took office he submitted a aplan aplan aplan plan of I purchase It was defeated defea He said he would present a plan every six months until he found what Detroit wanted This is his third plan The second He wants the city t to build miles of or track In districts not now served and eventually drive out the D. D U. U It R. This plan will cost CORt He proposes I I 1 to try tryout out the new Ford streetcar on the city lines The company did not attack the plan until three weeks ago Now it is spending thousands upon thousands in newspaper advertisements and handbills says Couzens Hundreds of ot song books called caned of the Toonerville Trolley have been distributed free They contain parodies on on popular songs One declared to the tune of Tipperary Tipperary Tipperary Tipper ary that Its the Wrong Wrong Way Vay to Build a Car Line Two hundred fifty thousand phonograph phonograph phonograph graph records said sald to have been made by a man with a voice like Couzens are Ure re declared on their way by special motor I truck train from New York They will make speeches says Couzens ridiculing him and his his his' plan Im anxious to hear them he lie added |