White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-24
Citizens Committee
Against Power Bill

AI III 1 l EN pIool tudt Initiative O@
w is the vehicle by which the Pub
lie Ownership League of America
hopes to establish itself in the State
Of Washington is proven in letter
just mailed from the National office
of that organization in Chicago by
Carl D. Thompson, its secretary. says
statement issued by the Citizens AS
sociation Against Initiative 81, as pub
lished in the Town Crier, Seattle. The
letter, addressed to all members in the
United States, says in requesting
funds:
1--WE need money to print extra cop
les of the September issue to help
carry the Bone Initiative Power Bill
in Washington which goes to referen-
dunn vote next month, November 4.
with six great hydro electric and
steam power plants in two of the larg
est cities of the state and 200 miles of
transmission lines already in opera
ton, Washington offers the best OPP
portunity for putting a public super.
power into actual operation of any
place in the United States at this
time.
Meanwhile the superintendent of
Seattle's municipal light plant wires
that the Washington Public Owner
ship forces are short of money. We
ought to help at least to the extent Of
putting out a few thousand copies Of
our magazine.
Besides the above, something is
needed for Office and overhead ex-
penses of the League"
, Carl d. Thompson helped put over
, program, for which $1,00O,O00 in ex-
ira taxes is being levied by the
State Government for 1926 to make
up operating deficits in public enter
prises, the sta tie m emit continues.
Thompson was member of the Ad-
visory Board of the notorious Peoples
College, at Fort Scott, Kas, of which
; Eugene W Debs was chancellor.
Thompson was recently brought to
this state by the Erickson super-pow-
: er league, but the farmers were so
hostile to Thompson and his program,
t which advocated the principle that all
3 taxes should be placed on land alone,
: that he was hustled out of the state
t by the present Bone Bill hackers.
Now Thompson shows up what
r says the citizens committee,
4 Bone and Ross have been denying
8 namely, the hidden plan, if Initiative
So passes, to not only condemn the
private tax-paying plants in Seattle
n to destroy the competition which
i serves as a check upon the politicians
4 but to take over the light and power
; properties aggregating $S00,O0O.000 in
: other parts of this state.
: No other state In the Union has
any legislation similar to the Bone
Bill except North Dakota. California
; voters rejected the Bone Bill princi
t pie last year by vote of ~ to 1,
Los Angeles and San Francisco Civ
J ing big majorities against 1t on the
s ground that it would mean highe,
e taxes, higher light and power rates
j. and political monopoly.
|, WALLA WALLA.-"Lapse Of mem
= DRY" was the explanation given by
e the sheriff's Office recently in an
b nouncing the finding by Professor w
J. T. Baldwin Of Walla Walla College, Of
Y his automobile, which he reported
l. stolen from his garage. Baldwin said
l. he had used his machine, driven II
n into his garage and an hour latel
j. couldn't find it. Sheriff Springer sale
Il indications were that the professor
|, forgot his machine and walked home