Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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instances might be given where municipal ownership lias reduced the price to a level of from fifty-two to seventy-five cents per thousand cubic feet as against twice that rate by private companies. What Is true of gas Is true of electric light. Chicago can give its own experience In this particular manner. The city’s municipal electric lighting plant was started eight years ago. lie-fore this plant was established the private companies exacted as high as one hundred and twenty-five dollars per arc lamp a year. At the latest and most modern municipal lighting station street lamps are operated at a cost of thirty-eight dollars per lamp. In many foreign cities the people own and control their electric lighting plants and find it cheaper and far more profitable than to have private corporations own them. The extent ion of municipal ownership has been stubbornly resisted in t lie I 'lilted States by the wealthy private corporations. Kvery important A merican city lias been within the last few years, and most of them are at this time, afflicted with the “traction problem” and franchise has nowhere proved to l e more than a temporary abatement of municipal ills. The only cities where the “traction problem” has entirely disappeared an the Kuropean cities which have municipalized their tramway services. One hundred and sixty-six cities In Great Britain own and operate their street car systems. Berlin lias given the municipal system a trial and reports are now so favorable that only recently one million dollars has been set aside for the extension of the municipal system. The London County Council Is reaching out to Incorporate all the tramways in the municipal system. There municipal ownership lias given relief to the tax-payers, reduced fares: Increased wages and other equally important results. In Glasgow results as good as those just mentioned were obtained. The city of Manchester owns and operates its own street cars and does it, too, on a paying basis. Street care fare is two cents in Manchester. 2li At this rate the municipal tramways last year paid all expenses and cleared ♦247,350 net. Everyone who has given the question any attention at all knows that gas in our cities is one-third too high: that if justice were done a three cent car fare would come as a matter of course?, and that electric light ciiarges would drop one-half were the evil union between the respectable director and the corrupted boss rent in twain. A demand is being made of the corporations for reduced charges for all public services and for better education, more libraries, tlie addition of public bdtlis, gymnasiums, music and amusements in addition to all the city now provides, and not far away in the near future the old age pension. Chicago about a year ago opened a so-called municipal museum and It is a success, (treat benefits are being realized from the public play-grounds. Eight vacation schools were successfully conducted in Chicago during the summer of 1WM. There was a special camp for crippled children and a department for the blind. The healte of the city and Its cleanliness are interests of all citizens and the beauty of the city should be a common ideal. The success of municipal ownership in the cities of some of our eastern countries has sounded the knell of private ownership of public utilities in the countries across the sea and has produced satisfactory results in nearly every Instance. Municipal ownership has come to our country as to others and it has come to stay. The American | eople are thinking people. What Europeans have done Americans can do. As some one has already stated: “The people of the I’nlted States are determined that their exploitation by private utility corporations shall cease. They are determined that the property and power held for the good of all shall ’be conducted for all. Ana the certain fate of thuse officials w ho continue to defy the people's w ill can easily Is read. They are composing their own political obituaries.

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