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Show Chambers of Commerce have taken up the question of reviving chrome ore production In our country on a large scale. F. 9. Uramwoll. a prominent western west-ern promoter of large Industry, has been employed to start the ball rolling. roll-ing. He has just attended a conference in San Francisco of western chrome I miners at which plans were oulllnen ror a movement that will result In resumption of chrome mining. During Dur-ing the war the owners of chrome ore i A TIMELY LESSON ! I Our wartime plunge into government govern-ment ownership has averted a peril which otherwise at this time might have been imminent. We know now what government ownership and operation op-eration of public activities Is. We know what it means to the utilities and t the country. We know it, not from theory, but from practice. On x large and comprehensive scale we mm i i liuvo tried the experiment tried it on our railroads, on our telegraph lines, on our telephone lines and on our ,J trans-oceanic cables. fl Even in those states of the middle 1 west where, prior to this beneficent the eovrrnmfl kh. b ship idea hAdJpfrttrongest root, lC J the drearr hits now dissolved. Wera J 8 a To(e taken today in these rery U jRtates where, piior to the war, sentl- . ment was strong and growing for this form of Socialism, the result would j J be an overwhelming defeat for the ! proposition, a proposal to put our ' " basic utilities under government Jfi ownership and operation would be Jfl snowed under in all sections of the X I'ountry. |