Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1928, Page 3

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 3, 1928—PART 1. PUBLIC WNERSHP AT BY UTLTES Letters Reveal Concerted| Action Planned to Combat | Government Control Plan. | { Br the Associated Press. Iuformation that * on the part of the utility industry to | combat and stem” propositions for Government ownership of the industry was decided upon at an “eraergency | meeting” of prominent utilities men at | Chicago in 1925 came from two_letters | introduced yesterday in the Federal | Trade Commission’s investigation of | power utilities. { The letters were among the last of the large batch which had come from the files of George E. Lewis, manager | of the Rocky Mountain committes on | public utilities information, and were | both written by him. Lewis completed | his testimony yesterday and was fol- | Jowed by O. A. Weller, secretary-treas- urer of the Rocky Mountain division, | National Electric Light Association, and secretar§ of the Colorado Utilities As- | sociation. After a short examination Weller was excused and the inquiry suspended until June 12, when pub- licity methods of utilities in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas will be looked into. Referred to Conference. Writing to Fred Norcross of the | Home Gas & Electric Co. Greeley, Colo., under date of February 3, 1925, | Lewis said he had “just returned from a_two-day special conference heid in Chicago on the call of M. §. Sioan chairman, national public relations sec- tion, N. E. L. A.; Martin Insull, Com- monwealth Edison Co., Chicago; Aylesworth, managing director, L A; F. T. Griffith. president L A and other leaders in the industry.” concerted effort | utility | ‘The utmost secrecy was main- tained,” he added, “as to the purpose of the meeting. Lewis said “those mentioned above and others” had revealed at the con- | ference “that a group of nh::ical rcpre;» - - sentatives in Washington have banded | three years of effort to establish this together, backed up by the Hearst in- | relationship. It will be necessary to terests, for the purpose of making cap- | capitalize this confidence and friend- stal out of the utility industry.” He told | hip q the TRt fow wears TorChat tions were adopted preliminary to a 'ooC ! drive against “this dangerous tide of radicalism * Held “Educated.” | Lewis said that through his commi! {tee “not only the average citizen but { the legislators, city officials and oths public officers have been educated to a | more favorable attitude toward public | utilitie: and added, “Now these are {some of the things, Kissick, that 1 am {not merely telling you. They are mat- { ters that can go into your talk. You can usz them as you see fit. * * * It you have occasion to use this m: terial, you need not mention its source. The letter also reviewed the “public relations” work of the utility industry, | mentioning “systematic newspaper ad- | vertising,” “educational activities in | the high schools, colleges, universities jand graded schools” and “widespread speaking activities.” These were de- scribed as a “defense wall that, we | know now, constitutes our first line of Second Letter Similar. Another letter. dated exactly a month , informed K. W. Kissick, manager of the I¢e & Electric Co., Dem- . N. M of the Chicago meeting and it had been disclosed that there ever before.” He added: Hen ublic u(g:- ties, agechfly the t and power in- terests.’ “Senators Norris and La Follette,” “and about 20 others of started a concerted ities at the National 16 States and in a | defense.” cities * * * Already | “Without this,” said Lewis, “I ven- i i | ture to say that State, municipal and Government ownership would have been 100 per cent ahead of what it is today.” The Lewis letter also expressed the | opinion that, had the utility industry | “not done the things that it has done {in the past three years we'd all be in | a hell of a shape’ today.” | Ancther document introduced yes- | | terday was a letter written by Lewis | to George F. Oxley, director of pub- licity for the National Electric Light Association, in 1923, in which Lewis | e | said his committee was going “into the { compilation of municipal ownership , 1 d2ta on a large scale.” { Ready to Meet Big Cost. “If necessary,” the letter continued, “it will go to considerable expense, ac- | cording to present indications, to carry {out the plan now being formulated for placing text and reference books in iture of m‘l- | virtually every university, high school Government {and public library in /Colorado, New said that was | Mexico and Wyot . Our activities knowledge.” | in the educational institutions have re- Nebraska and zhci vealed that every university and college Senator Pollette of Wisconsin | in Colorado depends on Delos Wilcox called “the national press agents” | and others of his kind for their data {on this subject. Nowhere have we {found municipal ownership data writ- that “propaganda” by | ten .from the standpoint of the public Norris and la Follette would lead to|utility. Whenever it becomes necessary much progress for the government| for students and faculty members to | within the next|look up a guetsion relative to municipal | unless protective measures | ownership, the only reference that can | here and there and evfl)-ib-, found is that ‘h:ch m‘:m‘nmnl sup- . plied by proponents of mun owner- “Every man in the industry and|ship. every company comprising tite industry| “* * ¢ We realize, of course, that must take a very definite and active| we are going to bite off a big chunk, rt.” Lewis continuéd in his letter 10| but we cannot, st this time, see how . He said his committee would ! we can provide propaganda to offset “leke a leading part in this region.”| that of the municipal ownership advo- adding that it aiready enjoyed “tihe | cates by any broader or more compre- confidence of hundreds of newspapers| hensive means than that contemplated Colorado piag.” in New Mexico 2nd Wyoming 3 “It enjoys the friendship of dozens| Tne circulation of a pamphlet on “th of efitors” he sald “It has taken ! scribed by Lewis. He said this was sent SPECIAL NOTICES, | cal utility managers in his terri- TWIlL OT BE REBPONSIBLE POW AN 2 part of the committee’s fight : hose coniracied by myse municipal ownership, ® e . He defined “income Warrants” as hat are issued by citles which legally binding and which are 0 encourage municipal owner- ip programs. Fought City Ownership, “And in calling them a ‘menace’ you ot 1o diseourage municipal owner- did you th EE! “year or two are ‘where.” (2] REBPONBIBLE POR AN 3 06, smcrisioe iese hadress Box 193, s oF # impartacy i MIDER. 7. | o ORBIBLE VOB ANY | testified that & pamphlet | vernment Ownpersbip Adv | Plan Attack on Private Utilities” | had been circulated from his office to e 1o Lewis from C. A director for the Ala- also was entered by relates 1o efforts of the company Yo get control weie Bhoals, and Lewis sald no effort 4 been made by bim 1 get any pub- ty i matter 3 nzme of Edward N, Hurley was d in some of the Lewls corre- submitted s evidence yes! e was not identified in Healy's Writing from the National nt Association in New York worth informed lewis on in regard v & suggestion Edward Hurley talk to in the eity of Colo- Aylesworth expressed iat Hurley's services could 45 other engagements A officer added: "Mr, who deals with muni- ) as & Eoclalist tendency Mr, Gordon is a fluent merly & Bocialist and pigte Bpeciel raes Pho FOTiomAL DELIVESY Asin LIVING ROOM B Co, D iot owners of The Glenwood |4, % Cemetery will be held in the |27 Blue Room of the City Club,! AP 1320 G St. N.W., on Monday | g ) evening, June 4th, 1928, at 7:30 pam, All lot owners are || carnestly requested 1o be v present, BOARE OF TF ¥ | tad . 1 HIEES WILLIAM K. WISE. Socseinry BUBINIEE BYTRE POR 4 buny tersection, J9n [ Program Included. Rocky Mountain nal” program umen “In hundreds of ores of places sects our public Justified. A trer of the ; res n ner. BYDNEY MECHINGER & Cvis 2w VAR LOALE bex w Kew Yore. Vi Yol south & TRANEYER & STORAGE N Worrd oF POERIT s Boson, B Brass Beds Refinish CATLINS, INC, WPt T DANCING work. Yvi @ t b spers wse the side op- jlice merely brcanse W represtnt & pre- the purt of the * Of Instances the new:- L, cause of inst, the pentiment of wrongfully. b bee been, brought o A BOYE erd oher iniees Py e 88 Celier income warrant menace” was de- | not?” asked the com-! of | . len Hannegan and John G. Urguhart. Upper, left to right: William Wolcott Shea, James Richard Lee, Edward Al- Center, left to right: Edwin Boardman Dexter, Norman Farquhar Garton, E. C. Carusi and John Thomas Kent. Lower, left to right: William E. Howard, jr., and George Hall Moffett. better affairs, The document noted that “a no- ticeable decrease in the effort to create public f.endship and understanding” had come about, and said this was at- tested y the falling off in 1924 of the amount of good will advertising, and in v)mderstandmg of public utility many instances by a lack of co-opera- | tion on the part of utility men who had previously been keenly interested.” i “The other day in Denver,” it con- tinued, “during the course of a con- versation with a utility executive, he made the remark that he believed too much stress was being laid on public relations work. The man was quoted as having said: “I suppose if you public relations enthusiasts had your wa; would actually give away our properties in your zeal to please customers. rosecution of our public relations work,” said the document, “we have a very definite object in view And that object isn't to give away ou properties either. And it isn't merely to please Lhe people, or make friends, as desirable as that may be in ftself.” “Must Mold Public Mind. “It is through public relations work, it continued, “that we must mold the public mind and make it susceptible o | those fundamental changes which we! must make from time to time if we are o continue giving satisfactory service and if we are to obtain the revenue riecessary to provide that kind of service. If we are on friendly terms with the people, they will accept these necessary chang If we are not on friendly terms, will always mest costly and damaging opposition. Public relztions work i a means to an end, not the end itself.” A ‘“new standard in employing people” was advocated for the utilities by Lewis document. “They must cease hiring men and women on the simple basis of how much stenographic, clerical or other work they can do,” | “They must begin to recruit employes | m the basis of how many friends they an make for the company, how well they can, if necessary, explain the fairs of the company and, when neces- ary, ably answer criticism.” In closing the Lewis exam, Healy asked whether the Rocky Mountal commitiee had contributed any money 1o the presidential campaigns and this was denjed When Weller took the stand he tes- tified that $4800 had been provided for the Rocky Mountain division's use resentative Charles A. Eaton, Republi can, New Jersey, head of the industrial relation department of the National Lamp Works. Saying he had spent two-thirds of his time working for the Public Service Co. of Colorado, Weller declared that the activities of the N. E. L. A. division under his charge were not so compre- hensive as those of the Lewis committee. He produced a series of checks showing payments for various purposes by the N. E. L. A division. Healy asked the cimmission to adfburn until 12 so he might examine the checks at his lei- e. He said that Weller might be alled on that date. With this, the inquiry was suspended. Meanwhile subpoenas have been is- sued for C. W. Davis, chairman, and W. C. Grant, director, of the Texa: Public Service Information Bureau, Dallas; 8. J. Ballinger, secretary, south. western division, National Electric Asso- ciation, San Francisco, and Hugh M. Blain, director, Louisiana - Mississippi Committee on Public Information, New Orleans. ZIONISTS CELEBRATING ANNUAL FLOWER DAY Groups Raise Funds to Purchase Land in Palestine for Colonization. The annual flower day of the Jewish National Pund is being celebrated today by Zionist groups throughout the country. Members of the Young Judea and other societies affiliated with the District Zionist organization are selling flowers to raise funds for the purchase of 1and in_Palestine for colonization. The Jewish National Fund is one of | the oldest Institutions connected with | | by the National Electric Light Assocla- | tion for the year ending June 30. These payments were shown in letters 1o ha been forwarded by Jackson Marshall secretary of the zssoclation, from New York. Weller sald the ecucational activi- ties of his division had been confined 1o financing expenses of speakers, and promised o produce a list of the speak- ers,_The only one he named was Rep- CERTAINTEED Cement Floor Paint $1.10 quart, $3.75 gallon Roof Paint, Red 31.50 gallon Porch Floor Paint $1.10 quart $3.75 gallon Certainteed Liquid W. 50 pint. 90c quart. $3.00 H. 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Comdr. Homer C. Wick will depart shortly for the West Coast to assume command of Fighting Plane Squadron 1 of the battle fleet. His successor, Lieut. Comdr. D. C. Wat- son, who has been executive officer of the station for the past year, will as- ‘| sume command of the air station to- WERE USED IN SALES ‘Pch’ce Report Various Stores Were | Robbed by Man Now Held | for Grand Jury. | The mysterious disappearance nf many handbags from various local lug- gage and department stores was solved yesterday, police say, with the arrest of a man who first received orders from his “customers” and then stole thz articles desired by them. The accused, Lewis Penn, colored, 28 years old, 914 First street southwest, was arrested in a downtown department store by members of the Detective Bureau clothing squad, and is said to have admitted a2 number of thefis of hand luggage, the value of the articles taken ranging from $10 to $60. | Penn was arraigned in Police Court yesterday and held by Judge Gus A Schuldt under a bond of $1,000 on one | grand larceny charge and bonds of 8500 each on four separate petty larceny harges. the grand jury on the first charge ara | demanded trials by jury on the four others. | Police say that Penn charged $10 | each for the articles, disregarding the prices asked for them in the stores Four of the bags have already been recovered and more are being sought. The largest single theft was that from the store of G. W. King. jr., 511 Eleventh street. it is said, where fcur | bags were taken at one time. CALL STRIKE VMEETINGS. NEW YORK, June 2 (#).—Calls were issuesd today for strike meetings next Wednesday in the principal raflroad | centers of the United States of Pullman |porters and maids to receive the re- turns of the strike vote just completed. | The demands are for increase above | the $72 monthly scale now prevalling, better working conditions and recogni- ‘nnn of the union. Annual Monthly ROSEB morrow. Comdr. Wick, during his term of duty here, has been firommcntly identified with virtually all major aeronautical activities in the East in which the Navy has had a part. He was in com- mand of the Navy team of racing pilots for the Pulitzer and military plane races held in connection with the National Air Meet at Mitchel Field. New York, in the Fall of 1925 and also | commanded the team of Navy racing | | pllots for the Schneider International | Seaplane Trophy race at Baltimore a He was held for action of | Sale of 2 | short time later. Comdr. 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Jackson was placed under arrest. say/ Edward Jackson, | ¥ |FEDERATION ENDS | SEASON IN TUMULT ‘ OVER MERGER PLAN (Continued from Pirst Page.) | you shou.d have done, Mr. Clayton, was | to stick to those 12 points.” “I did stick to those points,” Clayton replied. Clayton Emig then took the floor and pleaded for peace and harmony and | urged the adoption of the Wale« reso- | lution. Roberts led the opposition to the | wales resolution, pointinig out that its | adoption would be a reversal of the | stand of the federation on the merger | plan. He peaded with the federation to withhold action until the close of the Senate committee’s investigation. Soon after the federation convened | Roberts rose to a question of psrzonal privilage and declared that he had wen “hurt” by an allegation in the trans- cript of the testimony of the merger hearings before the House District Com- mittee to the ect that he had de- parted from the instructions of the | federation. | Carried Out Instructions. | Charles 1. Stengle, who said he at- tended nearly all of the hearings. an- nounced that, in his judgment, Roberte | “carried out, to a large degree, the in- i structions of the federation. I regret | that T cannot say the®same for his colleague,” he added. | The federation approved reports of its committee on highways, parks and | waterways, which urged the removal of the restriction in the District ap- propriation act which limits the price paid for property acquired for municipal use to 125 per cent of the assessed value, and recommended that street signs be hung at a height not in ex- cess of 8 feet. 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