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Show DR. SEARS ! I (Continued from first page) tried and been found wanting. jThey are opposed strongly by our 'present administration, j -For the past fifteen to twenty !! years our laws favored the util-'lities util-'lities and the holding companies. "iThey had the laws enacted, j "Taxes on my home amount to $130.42 per year. My electric i telephone, and gas bills $220.32 i per' year. In other words, for I $220.32 per year, I get service i from only three utilities, where- as, for the taxes of $130.42 per 1 year I get fire and police pro-tecti'on, pro-tecti'on, garbage collection, sewer i connection, street construction 9 and maintenance, street lighting, i I health and recreation service and a multitude of other municipal services, including city schools. J "In addition to these, a por- Hon of that $130.42 goes for support of our County ana Government, including courts, . hospitals, penal institutions, county police, building and maintenance main-tenance of county roads, and last but not least, a portion goes to maintenance of public schools in the County. Aren't these rates out of proportion? "Our Consumers' Welfare League Lea-gue is the enemy of private monopoly mon-opoly helping the consumer in many ways. It is .in good company. com-pany. We are fighting side "by side with Senator Johnson of California, Senator Norris of Nebraska, Ne-braska, Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, (Secretary Ickes of the Interior, and that indomnit-able indomnit-able fighter, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. They call us . Reds, Radicals, Radi-cals, Facists, and what not. "There 'are several thousand municipal light and power plants in the United States, yielding i splendid- revenues. One cut the J taxes from $1.12 per hundred to forty-three and one-half per j hundred, and some have nearly made the towns tax free. |