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Show fllll WHAT A LAWYER fill VOULD DO. jj 1' A lawyer was given this problem fill ' wor ou; (111' "I you wero nIre1 DV tne city com !! f missloners to make a defense of their lllii Boning away of the city'3 gas and I! ?il&ht franchises and if you knew tho 'lillil officials were open to severe censure, Jll Avhat would you hit upon as the best jfJII possible excuse?" Hill The lawyer scratched his head and ijjlll answered: ja "I would remain silent, or plead illllii extenuating circumstances. I would seek to convey tho idea that long-term franchises were necessary to provide funds for needed extensions and point to the reduction in gas rates as a part of the benefits to be derived. K questioned as to tho immediate reduction re-duction In rates, 1 would avoid going into the subject of whothor that reduction re-duction was an obligation due the people regardless of franchise extension. exten-sion. I would place great emphasis on the gas to be supplied tho city frco of cost, speaking of it as 100,000 feet because that sounds much, larger than Its equivalent expressed In dollars, dol-lars, which is 100. I would employ much hocus-pocus and very few facts, or give the whole task up in disgust and advise my clients to throw themselves them-selves on the loniency of the court" |