Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1937, Page 9

Utility Issue Brought Into Focus David Lawrence. Morgan Statement Con- firms Suspicions of Wrecking Advocates. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HALL the Government of the United States destroy the $12,- 000,000,000 private power in- dustry or shall there be co- operation between the Government and the private investors so that legiti- mate investment shall not be im- paired? This simple al- ternative is now projected into full view and con- stitutes perhaps the most impor- tant single issue to be placed be- fore Congress and § the country as a fundamental question of na- tional policy. Until now it has been vigor- ously denied by supporters of the Roosevelt administration that there has been any remote thought of in- Juring legitimate investments. Presi- dent Roosevelt has publicly given such assurance to the American people, who were asked to believe that only the public utilities which had committed grave abuses would be punished. But there has been revealed to the Nation an amazing appeal by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In some respects it is the frankest statement on power policy that has been made by anybody in the controversy for the last three years. It is objective. fair- | minded and challenging. Dr. Morgan's tone is conciliatory and his attitude reflects a sincere desire to bring peace | as between the Government and the public utilities so that the war which is costing literally billions of dollars in pent-up demand for expansion and extensions shall begin soon to give work to the unemployed and business to the suppliers of raw materials used in such great quantities in utility con- struction. Bares Suspicions. But Dr. Morgan's statement dis- ! closes what has been suspected before | but never confirmed officially, namely, |- that there exists in the administration | a group which wants ruthlessly to | destroy utility investments and launch | the Nation on an extensive public ownership program. If the Ilatter group is right, then their logic would some day apply equally to Government ownership of facilities that produce or distribute or furnish other neces- | sities of life ranging from food and | clothing to medical care. The penetrating question of whether | the Government shall take over func- tions now performed by private insti- tutions and businesses or whether there shall be co-operation between Government and private interests with a certain measure of governmental regulation to prevent abuses is the central point in the controversy now brought to a head by Dr. Morgan's statement. Here is how he phrases it: “A very important decision is in- volved in the treatment of the power issue in T. V. A. territory. Shall there be an effort on the part of public officials to work with the private utility companies to remove abuses, to insure maximum service at mini- mum cost, and to insure opportunity for public ownership where it is de- sired; or shall men who administer | public projects drift into an atti- tude of a fight to the finish against the private power companies, which | might have natural and perhaps | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, News Behind the News Runciman’s Visit Held Not Purely Social—Advance Expected in Treaty Talks. BY PAUL MALLON. GOOD friend of the President was chatting with him last week about the peculiar state of the world, including the people in it. The friend remarked that .John L. Lewis, the Labor Titan, lives in an Alexandria house of ancient lineage. it was built of wood by the physician who attended George Washington in his last illness. The friend recalled that George’s end was probably due to the fact that the physician, in accordance with medical custom of the day, bled the first President to death. The President is supposed to have hesitated a moment, chuckled and then replied: “Let us hope there is nothing allegorical about the house.”. The social circle of the White House seems to be ez- tending at a significant rate. It has just been announced that President Runmciman of the British Board of Trade is coming to see the Presi- dent on a purely—just purely —social visit. It was not announced, but e society circles have the idea that e aid the President would have enjoyed the company of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain equally as well Mr. Chamberlain is well versed in the lighter topics of the drawing room, including the war debts, gold movements and reciprocal tariffs. However, Mr. Chamberlain has the reputation of being a hard-boiled egg. In fact, some Britons classify him as a 10-minute egg, which indicates he is decidedly overdone, even for the British. The social arrangement of the existing situation, therefore, did not include him. President Roosevelt, however, may yet be surprised. Trademaker Runciman is classified by some as a 20-minuter, which is just about the ultimate in eggs. Size, rather than amiability may have had something to do with the choice. Runciman is less political, far more powerful in a quiet way. Conversations about an Anglo-American trade treaty, involving debts but probably not de facto stabilization, have been going on for a year, but not getting anywhere. Mr. Runciman’s visit is expected to advance them to the preliminary stages of negotiation. A definite settlement is said not to be imminent. Note—The social excuse for the Runciman visit may not be as far fetched as appears. It is quite possible that Mr. Runciman remarked, in the presence of Ambassador Bingham, that he was coming to Ottawa on his vacation, whereupon Mr. Bingham may have insisted that he drop off in Washington to see Mr. Bingham's good friend, the President. Such things usually happen that way. The White House, however, passed the matter off as if Runciman always came to see the President on his vacation, leaving the inference that he ran over here every vacation time., The fact is, he has never been here before. The new interest which Agriculture Sccretary Wallace is showing in the social condition of the South is attributed to a quiet inside reorganiza- tion of men behind the farm pro- gram. The old dominant group which ran the A. A. A. is slipping. A new clan is being established, centering in the young, ambitious personality of Paul Appleby, Wal- lace’s secretary. For three years the A. A. A. crowd practically ran the Agricul- ture Department. They included Chester Davis, Tolley, Paul Porter, Oscar Johnson, M. L. Wilson et al. 1t was this group which successfully purged the department of the left-wing influence of Tugwell, Jerome Frank, Francis Shea, etc. The Appleby group then was close to Tugweli, and took a shellacking, but was not purged. It is not generally known, but Mr. Appleby was very near the bottom of the Chester Davis resignation, and since that time has been coming strong. The new head of resettlement, Will W. Alez- ander, has become an Appleby man, as is Milo Perkins, a former Wallace secretary, now heading the largest R. A. division, rural rehabilitation, This is why you have been reading more and more lately about the social side of the farm problem down South. Emphasis has been changed distinctly from the old line of soil and crop speech-making propaganda. This also is why official New Deal propagandists are predicting that rural resettlement will gobble up the A. A. A. and become the dominating force in all agriculture. If Secretary Wallace knows the intense rivalry developing as a conse- quence, he either does not consider it important or has decided to go with the wind. e The whole tale of reorganization difficulties is told in the fact that Chairman Cochran of the House Ezpenditures Committee did not want his own committee to handle the legislation. He urged the creation of a special committee. He favors economy, but his committee will not let him report out bills to accomplish it. Mr. Roosevelt has lately developed a trend toward black four-in-hand ties. He usually wears them with a white shirt, soft collar and any D. C, MONDAY, HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Aviation Needs Supermen Air Crashes Indicate Man’s Nature Must Be Disciplined More for Air. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. INCE the last airliner crash, in which Martin Johnson lost his life, I have spent many hours with aviation reporters and trained fiyers, asking the question: Why do these accidents happen? What is to blame? Conceivably they may be laid at four doors. the machine, the in- | struments, the weather, the man. All my inform- ants agree in exonerating the machine. As a cause of accident the airplane can be as generally eliminated as the construction of the modern au- tomobile. Once engines failed, as once automobiles steering gears broke In an emergency, or almost-new tires exploded. But to- day the great gleaming metal birds function with god like precision. Me- chanically, the domain of the sky is red. co::igeme instruments to blame? Does the radio fail? Is the weather respon- sible? Are accidents “acts of God?" The official statements issued by the companies operating the lines usually divide the blame between the two: Instruments and weather. Icing conditions, thunder storms, radio beam off course or silent, radio re- | ceivers failing. We have heard all this many times. Instruments a Factor. No instrument in the world is al- ways, under all conditions, 100 per | cent perfect, but the pilot flies with | the ald of many instruments, devised | with incredible subtlety to supple- | ment, check, offset and correct each | other. There are two or three radio sets in each airliner, with two or| three types of antennae, each set| checked at the end of each flight. Sets do go dead; radio beams do bend; static under certain weather condi- | tions does interrupt the constant Morse code tick in the pilot's ear- | phones which tells him that he is flying the beam and flying in the | right quadrant. But even a bent | beam can be followed to a safe desti- | nation. And the pilot is never en- tirely dependent on radio. He is not | unprepared for ice. And, curiously, | the worst accidents have not occurred | in the worst weather, as the worst au- tomobiles accidents do not occur on | the worst roads. Call them contribut- ing factors, they are not, thereby, the cause. The Department of Commerce re- ports on accidents on the mail and passenger lines place most of the blame on the elements. But the air- | craft accident reports in the military services tell a quite different story. They say: Ninety per cent of acci- dents are due neither to machines nor | instruments nor weather. They are Dorothy Thompsen. colored suit. (Copyright, 1937.) compacts and, where interstate, by the | they ought to be lending to utility | son4 what the Army says about its ac- | train. So say the candid aviators. Federal Power Commission. | companies now and in the future. This plan would include a Govern- Dr. Morgan's statement is a states- ment lending policy by which the manlike approach to a difficult prob- Government underwrites the risks in- . lem of government and while one may volved in utility expansion and in re- differ with his proposals here and turn exercises a control over rates so there, the pronouncement in general is that economies of financing present | in such excellent spirit of mediation due to men. Character Basis of Safety. ‘The military reports are not cagey. | cidents, the most disinterested ex- perts whom I have been able to find | say about all accidents. Your chance of getting from Newark to Los An- geles in safety depends chiefly, over- whelmingly, on the two men up there in front and the personnel on the | inevitable consequence of disruption | securities are passed on to the con- | that it could well be adopted by both ' ground. It depends not only on their of the private systems, the destruction | of legitimate investments and of eco- | nomical service, and the sudden, if unexpected, throwing of great power systems into premature and unpre- pared public ownership.” Wants Investments Protected. Dr. Morgan wants fair play and says that “in the process of transition from k private to public ownership, there should be respect for legitimate in- vestments in the utility business.” There’s the issue. On the one hand are those headed by Senator Norris of Nebraska and David Lilienthal, gen- eral manager and one of the directors of the T. V. A, who want a finish fight with the utilities, and Dr. Mor- gan and the public ownership advo- cates who want a transition and try- out period. But both groups inside the Roose- velt administration envisage public ownership of utilities as the ultimate goal and the difference is on how to accomplish the result. One would be a slow process of strangulation, but with a chance to salvage some of the investments at fair value, while the other would mean a ruthless destruc- tion as soon as such a result could be effected by the use of governmental authority and funds. President Roosevelt is in an awk. ward position. He can hardly take sides without antagonizing some of his most. ardent supporters and friends. Likewise if he keeps a $12,000,000,000 industry hanging between life and death he retards recovery and perhaps even starts a deflation. Permits Airing of Views. It is my impression that the Presi- dent leans toward Dr. Morgan's views or he would not have sanctioned the issuance of a public statement by the chairman of the T. V. A. which out- lines so frankly the existence of a controversy inside his own adminis- tration. The rumors for several days have been that David Lilienthal would win out. Mr. Roosevelt has a convenient exit if he chooses to use it. He could, of course, place the matter before Con- gress and let the people’s representa- tives, who are supposed to be elected for that purpose, decide such ques- tions of fundamental policy. There are many bills pending. The utilities are not taking sides as between Dr. Morgan and Mr. Lilien- thal for the very good reason that they see little difference between im- mediate destruction of their busi- nesses and the huge uncertainties that accompany a slow transition period in which the goal is definitely public ownership. ; Four Choices Possible. Fortunately, however, the alterna- tives are not just the two involved in the dchate between Dr. Morgan and Mr. Lilienthal. There are really four possible policies: Pirst, Government, ownership of the sources of power both hydroelectric and generating plants, existing prop- _erties to be taken over at fair value on appraisal, and the Government to " confiné the utility companies to trans- "mission and distribution with rates to be fixed by State commissions, State [ ‘ ! sumer. | the President and the utilities as a Second, Government purchase of basis for a common sense settlement existing systems as individual entities of one of the most costly controversies and not by using Government funds that has ever arisen between the to encourage the subtraction by hit- Government and its citizens. It prob- or-miss method of large cities from ably will not be so taken, but will present private systems which would | prove in reality mostly a means of mean disintegration. | testing public sentiment. ‘Third, destroy all the private systems | (Copyright, 1937.) by using Government subsidles for outright competition and then taking over what is left without regard to whether investors lose. Fourth, finish construction on exist- ing projects and perhaps add more as the country needs them, but assure | the ptllmu of an opportunity to buy power at the dam and leave the transmission and distribution to pri- | vate companies or municipalities to compete for either by contract or lease but with a definite limitation of Fed- | eral encroachment or invasion. 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ADAMS, WONDERS FOR TH ENOU WHY DON'T YOU SHAVE OLD TOP AND COME QUT FROM BEHIND Aspirub is ntaining Aspirin—it's protected by U. 8. Patents— children like it. SPIR 4 | complaint is commonly made by air- vidualist, but & co-operator. The race of birdmen is not yet bred. Man has got himself wings, but it hasn’t made him an angel. He can manage the most grandiose machine, the most subtle instruments, better than he can manage himself. He trusts his wits, his skill, his flair, his luck; he will not always subordinate himself to discipline, not even the dis- cipline of his instruments. So say the candid pilots. “Present-day scientific airline equipment has eliminated all expected failings except human in- competence, disobedience and poor judgment,” said Bill Taylor, a fiyer, | in The Sportsman Pilot last May. The Human Touch. If a pilot forced by storm into & long detour makes a forced landing in an unlikely spot because his gas is out, when did he last refuel? Not at every station. It would delay the flight. He shares the blame with the administrative personnel. If he chis- els in on his fellows by reporting that he will arrive earlier than he knows he will, at the rendezvous before the airport, whence all ships are or- dered into port; if by this false report he gets himself ahead of the line, only to keep some one else up in the air and circling around with gas failing—well, he gets in on time and gets the kudos. Perhaps the other fellow doesn't. This men. If a pilot with a full load of passengers, his radio not functionin and gas to spare, tries to come through the ceiling in the middle of notoriously mountainous country and pancakes on a hillside, are the mountains, the radio, the ceiling to blame? Or is it human judgment? “Don't fly with veterans,” says my mentor. “Choose for a pilot a pink- faced boy. He may belong to the future race. He doesn’t sit around swapping yarns of the time when fly- ing was flying, he doesn't brag of miraculous flights, he doesn't get glor- jously drunk the night before he is going to fly. He isn't a barnstormer. He is a member of a guild. “When all the war flyers are underground and the romantic tradition of flying is definitely past, then, perhaps, we shall have flyers whose wings become them.” Lindberg hates publicity. Perhaps he senses deeply just why. Perhaps he knows that personal glorification may negate personal skill. Others called him “the Lone Eagle.” He wrote a book called “We.” Politics and Commerce. | Consider not only the pilots. There | | are executives bent on holding the | mail subsidies, lost or diminished if | | the mail is entrained. There are pol- | iticians in and out of Government, bent on whitewashing their own bu- reaus, or raising publicity for lhem-l selves in flashy “investigations.” There | is competition, in which the schedule | as well as safety is reckoned. There) are all the rules that are not enforced | and there is the insufficiency of rules | that are universal, too many of them made by bureaucrats with too little collaboration with the men who ac- tually fly. And there are the pas- sengers whining and complaining to the company when the flight is inter- | rupied and they must go part way by When they telephoned you that your son was in the hospital with compound fractures, and his car a wreck by the roadside, was the car to blame? Was it the slippery road? ‘Was the traffic light not functioning? | Or was he taking a curve too fast or disregarding the light, seeing no car in sight and “knowing this road | 50 well?” If men hate law on the ground will they love it in the air? Training an Essential. The good aviator is, to start with, an outstanding individual. He must have ebullient health, a sense of ad- venture, a willingness to take risks of training.- Not by nature pedestrian. And that man must be taken and his individualism, so great an asset, must JANUARY 18, 1937. - This Changing World HIS is the season of good-will ambassadors’ migration. Like in 1933, after the election of President Rcosevelt, fcreign representatives alent of our Secretary of Commerce. Sir Walter is a clever and astute gentleman, who furthermore is a personal friend of Mr. Roosevelt's. tle to do in the international eco- nomic field. The fact that he will currency stabilization will be taken out of its cotton wool-lined box. Debt Talks Expected With Runciman and New with official or unofficial missions will be flocking henceforth to ‘Whether he will be able to achieve much in the economic field is difficult to be followed by the famous Sir Otto The chances are that they will French Envoy. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. I ‘Washington. ‘The British are sending us this week Sir Walter Runciman, the equiv- say. Until the political crisis in Europe is over, there is mighty lit- ¥ SaLwe W = Niemeyer of the Bank of Eng- land lends color to the stories that look at it and decide to put it back, until more favorable times. Xk Georges Bonnet, the new French Ambassador, will arrive late in February with a bag of problems to tackie while he represents France here. Bonnet is a financial expert and an economist. It is a pity that his English is about as good as Secretary Hull's French—college English—because Bonnet is an enthusiast on reciprocal trade agree- ments. One can easily imagine what a feast he and Mr. Hull would have—they could talk to each other without an interpreter. Mme. Bonnet speaks excellent English, but it is doubtful that she will be called to act as interpreter between the two men. The French still are of the opinion that women ought to keep out of public aflairs. * x ¥ x ‘There is no doubt that the debt question will be discussed by both, Sir Walter Runciman and Georges Bonnet. The discussions will be purely academic; the time to reopen this thorny question is not ripe yet. In fact, the debt problem is a sword with two edges. For the time being there still is a good deal of resentment throughout the country because of the failure of the European nations to meet their obligations. But this resentment is dormant, since the minds of the people in this country are occupied with other more pressing problems. Should the debtors raise the question of a settlement—at 10 cents on the dollar—there would be undoubtedly a serious resentment through- out the United States. And the signal for such a resentment will come from the Senate. It is safe to predict that there are not 20 Senators who would accept such a proposition. The President knows it, and for this reason he does not encourage the idea of France and Great Britain making us a definite offer. Of course. there is always the possibility of resuming “token payments.” Later there might be a possibility of settling the whole matter by canceling the portion of the debt representing the accumulated interest. * kxR ‘The Mussolini-Goering talks have ended with a fencing match be- tween the two leaders: the corpulent Goering was an easy target for the more agile and slimmer Italian dictator. Outside this, nothing has happened which will revolutionize the history of Europe. As it has been jorecast by observers before, Italy and Germany still stick to tke same tune: “Yes, peace in Europe by all means, provided all the western nations join the chorus and sing ‘down with the Communists’” To the French this song means nothing but an invitation to France, Great Britain and Belgium to hop on the authoritarian bandwagon, or at least give a moral in- dorsement to the present forms of government in Germany and Italy. The supposition is that Great Britain would not mind doing this for the sake of peace. But in France, where the jockeying for political posi- tion and where the struggle be- tween parties is still strong, this idea is most unpalatable. Leon Blum, of course, could not dream of accepting the suggestion of entering into an agreement against “Communism.” Not be- cause he himself is a Communist, but because, like most French politicians, he sees in this move of Hitler and Mussolini a trap to iso- Thus, there is every reason to bax}:\'u; tr.;xr::“\(et;e Rome conversations resulted in nothing more than a reatfirmation on the part of the dx.ctalors to continue the support to Franco and hasten his victory in Spain, be tempered by social disciplines, ' seum, hardened into obedience, elevated into 8 p.m. responsibility. Before he gets to a P school for aviators he has gone! Luncheon, Women's National Press through the public schools and been | Club, Willard Hotel, 1 p.m. influenced by the habits of the so- | 3 = ciety about him. How good is his | preparation? After all, the question is part of the whole social problem. ’rhep:wenu'eth\ Luncheon, Central Housing Com- centux;y]is upon us, bright, swift and ‘mmee, Mayflower Hotel, 1 p.m. werful. But man, - TG ?gn. i x:nfacsx.;ltg?bil::t?ur;e HLuncheon, Lions Club, Mayflower quintessence of dust. otel, 12:30 p.m. (Copyright, 1937.) Tenth and Constitution avenue, Luncheon, Credit Men's Association, Raleigh Hotel, 12:30 p.m. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, Jacoby Society, Lafayette Hotel, 7 p.m. | Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Optimists Club, Mayflower Hotel, 12:30 pm. Dinner, Craftsmen Club, Lafayette Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, Oklahoma Young Democrats of Washington, Mayflower Hotel, 7 pm. ' Banquet, Presidential Electoral Col- | lege, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Yankee Division Club, La- | fayette Hotel, 7:30 p.m. | Reception, New York State Demo- | cratic League, Mayflower Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner, National Business Associa- | Meeting, American Gold Star tion, Mayfiower Hotel, 7 p.m. —_— Mothers, Raleigh Hotel, 7 pm. TOMORROW. Meeting, Anthropological Society of | Meeting, Zeta Beta Chi, Raleigh Washington, Room 43, National Mu- Hotel, 8 p.m. Luncheon, Civitan Club, Mayflower | Wallace-Ickes Feud Fed by Report It is a Brownlow Reorganiza- tion Plan May Spike 1940 Ambitions. EHIND Roosevelt’s shrewd real- istic and dramatic plan for reorganizing the Federal serv- ices lies some of the dirtiest roads that Washington has seen in years. As things now appear, the “palace politicians™ of the New Deal have tri- report was the work of Messrs. Brown- low, Bulick and Merriam—that is to say, it represented the best effort of the Rockefeller-controlled interests ‘Washington. It's a good job. Unfor- tunately, this column happens to re- member what happened in 1920 when the Rockefeller crowd tried to reor- to turn an institution of the higher learning into a plant for the whole- sale manufacture of Yale spirit. It was a mess, but since then Yale presi- The idea of putting all Government employes under civil service and the merit system will go bitterly against the grain. To abolish the controller nents of Federal efficiency of their pet monkey wrench. The suggestion that the President rates six healthy, ener- getic and altruistic assistants will of that breed is a phenomenon. A Good Plan. But this is not the point. good plan behind the plan. Harry Hopkins seems 1o have edged out Miss Perkins and Harold Ickes, and will run the pro- posed department of social welfare, means that Miss Perkins will remain as Secretary of Labor. She held the right hands at the White House, so now Ed McGrady, her able assistant, appointment. Harold Ickes has taken another bad licking. His beloved P. W. A. is go- ing to be amputated and transferred | works, but Ickes will not be allowed to head it. | ~Jesse Jones, head of the R. F. C, is gunning for the job of secretary Wallace-Ickes Battle Due. At the same time Henry Wallace is to be deprived of public roads and | steered into a head-on collision with | For Ickes is to be allowed to re- | christen the Department of Interior ]i—nurwr_\' of the Ballinger scandals [of Conservation. This proposal so ‘enraged Wallace that he once ap- peared before a congressional com- mittee and argued bitterly against it. | battle between Wallace and Ickes—the two big Republican New Dealers—for control of the forest service, soil con- | servation, land-use program, etc. mittee on Government Reorganiza- tion, a pretty mangy pup when they were persuaded to sponsor a proposal by which the two most vigorous, | bers of the Roosevelt administration could be jockeyed into a fierce battle. 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