The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 11, 1915, Page 5

THE-NONPARTISAN LEADER PAGE FIVE How They Do Thing in Glascow, Scotland GLASGOW, Scotland is probably, in the municipalization of | class of perhaps 200 boys from 10 to 12 years old studying the public utilities, the most :advanced city in the world. For: > nearly fifty years the world has been aware of that city’s social .and economic advance. Wherever men discuss municipal betterment Glasgow is known .and pointed to with pride. . : In ‘Glasgow, if you take @ ride on a trolley, you pay 1 cent for any ordinary distance, while even the longest rides costs but 2 cents. . .- If you cook ‘or light your house with gas, you pay 60 cents for a thousand feet. In many American cities you pay $1.50. Glasgow owns her gas plants, her light plants, her trolleys; markets, harbors and ferries. Glasgow has seven municipal lodging houses, where good, clean beds may be had at 7 to 9 cents-a night. She has public baths, that accommodate 1,500 persons daily and “washhouses” where any woman may have the use of all modern laundry ap- pliances at a cost of 4 cents an hour. The question is often asked, “Why does not Glasgow give up her municipal enterprises like many American cities?” A very pertinent question, that. The answer is best given by a well-known engineer who recently made an inspection tour of Glasgow. He says: I went out to the water works one day. There I found a nec DOLLAR SIEGE AT JUAREZ. Carranza. When the Villista comman- dant ‘got ‘wise to the plot he refused to “execiie the bribe takers. He is El Paso, Texas, Nov. :6.—If 8ome- body :asks who is the best paid soldier in the world, right away you’il think of the poor -cuss in some European trench, who must get a whopping salary Tor playing pzek-aboo with 42- centimeter shells and such. But no! *The best paid soldier in the world to- day iis the Villista soldier of -Juarez.; He toils not, neither does he fight, but he does get the dinero. Juarez-is one of the few Mexican cities where Pancho Villa -can still - hang his - hat. Carranzista agents, working on the theory that the dol- lar is meore afficacious than the Mau- ser, secretely have -been-slipping.the: short of ammunition. Instead he rais- ed their pay. Carranzistas saw him and raised. The bidding Became spirited. £ It 48 no uncommon sight mow .to see a ragged, barefooted fighter stroll, into a cantino and pay for his three fingers of mescal with a $20 Ameri- can William. And the battle of dol- lars 'still rages. A loafer outside a saloon One ‘evening ‘started to spoon; When a maiden passed by ‘He blinked his north eye. He'll he out.of the hospital soon. .. Villista. garrison a few.shekels, as.an A T inducement. ‘to. turn the. city. over. to ... .Bubsecribe. for the Leader. (THaT's ™HE > Hanik! system. Another day 1 went to the sewage and purification plant. I found another big «class of boys studying that system. One day I asked a little fellow about a transfer on the street car line, and he told me .everything one could know about the whole transfer system. I couldn’t understand how he happened to know so much about it, and suggested that perhaps his father was an official. But no—he explained that his class was required to pass an examination on the subject. What is the result of this early training in the details of the public utilities? Why, the result is that when these Poys become of a voting age they are experts on these civic problems; they know the needs of the public utilities, and the city gets what it needs. So. Glasgow has left nothing to chance. It is not enough to show the grown-ups that municipal ownership is a good thing; to give even good, substantial bank-account proof of it. These grown-ups will grow old and drop off by and by: so to pre- pare for this day, they educate the boys-and girls in the ad- vantages of municipal ownership. As a result of this education no glib-tongued henchmen can button-hole them into a corner and jolly them into turning over their own best interests to franchise grabbers. The lesson taught here is that education is one of our big essities, for ignorance is the barrier to advancement. WOULD FIND OUT ANYHOW, HE TRIED The two British sailors had s»cured tickets to the dog show and were so much hair that it looked more like a woolen rug than a dog. “Wich end is ’is“ead, Bill?” asked ‘one. ¢ “Blowed if I know,” was the rsply: ‘““ere Ill stick a pin in ’im adn yon look w’ich end barks.” J. Fuller - Glodm: talk the more thorougk¥; I convince arguing.” gazing upon 2 Skye terrier which had “The longer I; myself of the conclusiveness of my/ arguments and the eloquence of my |hard 'nuff to keep | World. The dinner was given by a colored man named Ebenezer White, and the . guest of the evening was George Washington Green, chief deacon of ‘|'the little church ‘that White ‘ocea- sionally atiended. ‘Grace, of course, was -eloguently said, and at its conclusion Mr. White began to carve thec hicken. . Then Deacon ‘Green became facetious. “Brudder White,” *he ‘smilingly re- marked, “do-dat nex’ do’ meighbor ob you'n keep -chickens?” F “No, sah,” came ‘the prompt re- sponse of Mr. White, “but he try ’em!”—N. Y. | The best test of a big crop is a big, price. : Subscribe. for the Leader. 5