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LAST JiDlTION ONE CENT, CITY OFFICIAL GOES AFT&R LIFE CLASS At ART INSTITUTE PLJN RAISING MONET FOR THE JOBLESS ZEPPELIN DEFENDS AIRBOATS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Gochran, , gMPfev Telephones: Editor and Publisher. , -ggg' Editorial Monroe 353, 500 South Peoria St , ,39t' CirculalMffl Monroe3826. VOL. 4, NO. 112 , .aijcago, Monday, Feb. 83915 ONE CENT; REP. LEWIS TELLS HOW U. S. CAN OPERATE PHONE SYSTEM Farnous Congressman, 'Farther of Barrel Post" Outline . J Plan To' SpeaSfc , aV'Orchestra Hatf, Fleeting ,. Tonj$hfc-Bir Fight TxJJ Be OpenedTo A " ; JPrevSiiPlone Merger t. i -i The reaiiieasons why all Chicago I newpgspera are oausing-ou. jxiw ueny. about thle Penny Pho1e Jeague anfi( public ownership af telephone, cape outwciearly in, statements by Cba- Ifchen actfen. is .fin&IIy decided oja. it gressman David J. Lewis to a.SBay, I$0okrepqrter at the' City club thfe noon. Lewis' said that his biff nro posing federal ownership of ad tfele phonesystems in the country will be paad by congress "whe.n it is re spoasibly'put up to congress " He was asked, "When it gOQB. through. Via the Change be made- as orttty pad rapidly asthe --change to a. parcels post,?" He; repfled: -' r ' ."Th& change can be made in lees time than with -the parcels post. wintake only a few months foe the go?erBmBt to acquire all the properties-of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., besides Indepeadent tympanies, ana operate a- nationwide wire cjqtntaunication service. Ml would "say decisively that ihe plair is as practical, and if anything tpote immediately practicable, than tte.rjArfcete.pc 10M(s We; what