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Show CHAOS WOULD RESULT The public schools take a vacation of three months every year and nothing happens. The police force and fire department I go on their annual picnics and balls and things run long as usual. The city paving isn't improved over long iKU'ibds, or the public library may close or the public parks allowed to go to nun and the pubic 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 in a city stop and 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. Well sustained public utilities mean a happy and prosperous eommunty. They pay taxes while politicians increase tax burdens. |