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LAS VEGAS REVI EW JOURNAL P U B L I S H E 0 : _ _ A t ^ 4 A J 9 4 a Commission Ends Farce In demanding tliat the Las Vegas Land and Water company Come up- with a definite program designed to eliminate perma­nently recurring water shortages in the territory .served, the Nevada public: service commission has, at long last, cracked Clown. , v / " ' Lw- : ?. For nearly twenty years each summer , has brought forth the, same situation. For twenty years there has been an annual :rY ° f , waste< waste, waste.'* For twenty years we've had ctiibis instead of performance.- . The only difference befWeen 1949 and 1929 is that this year is much worse than any ones previous; f or scores of fam­ilies are entirely without water for several important hours each day. ' - It has been, said aptly that most corporations do bnly what they re forced tor This would seem to be.the.icase here. The time has come for a definite show-down and indications are the commission intends to have on e..' • :f H | „ r Las Vegq|; Land arid Water cpmpany operates under! j a franchise given by the people. Either adequate service should be provided or the franchise turned over to some, individual, j municipality Or corporation which will undertake to provide that service. | Ifs inexcusable that the ponditiori'- has been allowed to go spupng. Inexcusable on the part of- the. water company, -the c city, "the public service commission and the people themselves It cannot, be tolerated another year. In ..calling for action the commission will have the support ;-sof the entire community which, has grown sick arid tired of the - Htanual summer / farce wherein the company seeks to divert' ; attention from .its own failures by placing the blame on the wasters..