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Show CHAOS WOULD RESULT The public, schools take a vacation of three months every year and nothing noth-ing happens. The police force and fire department depart-ment go on their annual picnics and balls and things run along as usual. The city paving isn't improved over long periods, or the public library li-brary may close or the public parks allowed to go to ruin and the public isn't injured. But let the electric lights go out for a few hours and there is actual suffering and much crime. Let the water works stop and soon there are parched tongues and disease. Let the telephone suspend and there is chaos and loss of business. Let transportation trans-portation in a city stop and thousands thou-sands are thrown out of work and , the hardship is intense. Turn out the gas and we go back fifty years in our , civilization. |