P. S. PLEASE KEEP SENDING IT

...For example, there are two articles in it that rate three line heads in big, black type...

...But to anyone who knows about the hundreds of successfully operated public systems in Colorado, the prominence given to the story is entirely justified...

...The only other story rating a three line head deals with the "most devastating flood in Oklahoma's history...

...Why is it, you will say to yourself if you read this Goebbelesque propaganda, that the same engineers who display such incomparable genius when they build dams for the power trust, can suddenly become insufferable dolts when they go to work for the government...

...No one will be able to give you a satisfactory answer to your question, but if you read enough of this kind of bunk you will finally get the idea that public ownership somehow contrives to produce floods in the Grand River Valley and drouths in the Tennessee Valley...

...Please Keep Sending It By MILES McMILLIN SOMEONE has been kind enough to put me on the mailing list, deadhead or otherwise, of Publie Service, a publication dedicated to Wendell Willkie's expressed aim in life—the perpetuation of private ownership of public utilities...

...Because the catechism is slanted toward the big business viewpoint it is difficult to tell where it leaves off and the jokes begin...

...It turned out that the officers couldn't answer the simplest questions about the Constitution and knew even less about education...

...Obviously on the grounds that it is the old story of the dog biting the man...

...Needless to say, I am grateful to whoever is responsible, but I am a little surprised that anyone should consider my views on the subject so benighted that it requires a major propaganda wallop such as Publie Service packs to set me straight...

...One would think from the screaming head over the story that Center, Colo., is "fiAe only city in the whole world that had public ownership and that its inability to make its system pay in the first year of operation is the proof conclusive of the failure of public ownership...

...Constitutional Catechism There are several other articles presented with equal objectivity, all calculated to make Willkie's dream come true...

...This flood, obviously the worst that ever occurred anywhere, including the one that made Noah famous, was simply and exclusively due to the flood control dam that the government has built on the Grand River in northeastern Oklahoma...

...I hope that whoever my benefactor is he won't be too disappointed if I fail to show any signs of immediate conversion...

...The object of including a primer on the Constitution is not hard to guess...

...It is news when a municipal system has to raise rates...

...Apparently the editors of Public Service intend to avoid another debacle of that nature...

...However, I want to assure him that he has taken a step in the right direction and drop here a subtle hint that his crusade stands a much better chance ol advancement if he will include subscriptions to Public Utilities Fortnightly and Electrical World...

...It tells, with ill-concealed horror, about a small publicly owned utility in Colorado that found it necessary to increase its rates after one year of public ownership...

...Several years ago the officers of the Constitutional Educational League, a reactionary outfit that had the support of the power trust, were summoned before the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee to answer some questions regarding the organization...

...A Dog Bites A Man But getting back to Public Service, here is propaganda at its best or worst, depending on how you look at propaganda...

...I happen to know of a couple of cases in which private utilities have raised rates in the past few months, but the editors of Publie Service, shrewd news judges that they are, fail to mention them...

...The magazine concludes with a short catechism about the Constitution and a page of jokes...

...The first one, appropriately enough, is written by a guy named Hoover...