The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-08-14

great success. The net profits Of the
lines from the beginning Of operation
in December, 1912, to August 81, 81
1916, amounted to $456,876.8O, accord
to a statement issued by the board 81
public works. Receipts from all
sources for the period of nearly four
years amounted to $4,851,754.68, and
the total disbursements to $685. 100
81. The gross operating expenses OF
the road for the period mentioned was
So, ,3O8.11. In addition to the oper-
ating expenses the railway paid $1,13O
20 on accident insurance; 81, 1857 on
outstanding indebtedness; $545,529.5a
interest on bonds; $780, 600 for the re-
demption Of bonds, and $34,2O3.85 for
injuries and damages. The income al
50 covered the payment Of $172,135.9 80
for various extensions and improve
ments on the lines and $728 ,856.47 for
depreciation. Thus, after covering all
costs Of operation of every kind. in
GLIDING the interest on bonds and pay
ments for the retirement of. bonds, de-
probation and extensions, the San
Francisco municipal railway made d
clear profit Of $456, 876.8O in less than
four years. OF this net profit 100000
was put aside in an investment fund,
$53,250.58 in injury insurance fund,
$22,913.20 was paid as interest on
bonds, leaving a cash balance on hana
Of $18O,713.80
The public owned light plant of
Cleveland, Ohio, is saving the people
Of that city over $1,OOO,O 900 annually.
It sells electricity at three cents q
klowatt. The rate under private own
ership is usually about ten cents.
The municipal electric light plant Of
Holyoke, Mass, has been selling cleo
tricity at four cents a kilowatthour.
Edmonton, Alta, Canada, owned and
operated municipal telephones, street
car lines, water works and electric
light and power plants. All the sur
plus earnings on all the utilities after
all expenses, including depreciation
and capital charges were paid were
$34,597.25 in 1917.
The average charge for local tele-
phone calls on our privately owned
telephone systems here in the United
States is a little over two cents. In
other countries, under public owner
ship, the average is a little over one
cent. In other words, it costs nearly
twice as much for local telephone calls
under private ownership as under pub
lie ownership. Long distance service
costs from two to ten times as much
under private as under public owner
ship. . %
It appears that there were other
'isms"besides Townleyism which were
leading factors in causing he-gossip
Lee to move from Antler. For In
stance there was Leeism and investi-
gationism, too much of the latter for
Lee apparently. -.
The National Security League
(Which wishes to hold America for the
Big Biz plutes) is sending a. letter
throughout the country a part Of which
reads: AS part Of this work we are
instructing school teachers in methods
of imparting Americanism and main
tanning constitutional government.
We reached three thousand teachers
last year, whom we are supplying with
millions of pieces of inspiring litera-
ture. We will continue to advocate
Universal Military Instruction and
training.
A nice, bunch this is to be teaching
"Americanism" to the future men and
women of this country. The main rea-
son for the ~existance of the Security
League is the desire of Big Business
to shackle the United States. with mill
tarism. They like the Kaiser, are war
lords. Like the Kaiser in Germany,
before and during the great wal, they
control the United States and feel
their greedy grasp upon the people
slipping. As a consequence they de-
SIRE a military organization with which
the people can be downed when they
rise in their anger against the profit
GERS. Who was it that appointed this
organization of ~autocracy lovers and
boosters to instruct school teachers in
methods Of imparting Americanism ?
None other than Big Biz. And their
teachings are not Americanism, but
are kaiserism and a~utocracy. The
following from the REPORT of the In
National Security League" by a spec
ial committee Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives in March 3, 1919 is Of es-
pecial interest to farmers: ut will be
impracticable in q report Of the length
to which, Of necessity this must be
confined, to take up all Of the foreign
entanglements" Of the o~riginators of
the National Security League. How
ever, sight must not be lost Of the fact
that it was conceived IN London by an
attorney representing sugar, steel and