"WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT"
Cohen, Joseph E.
"WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT" By JOSEPH E. COHEN When public utilities fail out ¦U paMfc gets a peep behind the scenes. This is happening vails tha Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company aad the...
...That we fail to fit you to your entire satisfaction...
...Of this there can be no doubt...
...This i»,« JJrexeJ-Stotesbury-Morgan subsidiary...
...To this the spokesmen for the electric company replied: "The Public Service Commission pursues tha wise policy of refusing to permit competition in a territory where the existing compary provides adequate service at reasonable rates...
...Remember, these are for high-grade garments—exactly »s we explained above—with our full guarantee covering •very point enumerated, or the Payment of $500.00 to you or anybody...
...KNowget ready for a surprise —our prices...
...What will happen...
...It claims that the betterment with the Philadelphia Transit Company has been but 17 per cent in the same time...
...As such, it is promoting a super-power development on the Susquehanna River at Cononwingo...
...straight forward dealings and 0ur fight against the sd-called clothing trust to maintain these Ppnciples, which needless to »*y, is all in your interest, Ml your co-operation, or It *»»t, the slight trouble of in-fwtigating the facts before...
...But to let the electric company dam the river aad the "development there for its ewn selfish monopoly is much worse...
...It is a battle of bullion...
...The banker...
...It has teeth only against Labor...
...Uying anywhere...
...S.—If you believe in fair gay, honesty in advertising...
...The city had to use its money to build the last elevated road and is constructing the new subway...
...11th St...
...Federal action alone would suffice...
...On the other hand, what is wrong with the conservation policy of keeping and making the natural resources of the nation the property of the people...
...Possibly the Public Service Commission will be stirred into examining these figures, as well as those offered as counter by the traction trust...
...But is it no', clear that the time has passed for dallying with the evilT If there be remedy short of public ownership, this is the time for the Governor to propose it and for the Legislature to adopt the measure...
...The Philadelphia Electric Company boasts that its net income has increased U6C per cent in six yean...
...Many of the suits come with two pairs Of trousers, we may add...
...If here again th* ro operation of th* companies toward securing really effective regulation in the public in tercet ehould be refused, then the companies themselves may force the people In self-defense to turn to the only remaining possibility, which is public ownership...
...Only $24:88, 130.69 and $34.88 for either suits or top coats...
...As in every pugilistic scrap, tha aasctators foot th* bill while th* principals divide th* swag...
...Needless to say, the hour has long gone when the Sherman Anti-Trust Law can be invoked to any useful public purpose...
...are tp tap the waterworks to the tune of several million dollars...
...Why must electrical energy run the gamut of evils parallel with other industrial enterprises before it is rescued in the $500 IS YOURS WITH JUST ONE "IF" And that "if" is simply this: That we refuse to refund your full purchase price, if after buying a suit or top coat at our whilesale factory price, you are not absolutely convinced you have bought better and much more economically than mywhere, even after wearing either of the garments for a period of five days...
...To foist the load of such excess charges against the power system is bad enough...
...FINKELSTEIN & MAISEL •10 B'way, opp...
...Better than that, the commission actively connives with it to restrain competition and limit trade...
...It has been salvaged from financial ruin by sharp curtailment of service ar <¦ steep increase in fares...
...And a monopoly it will hav...
...Naturally, the consumers will foot the bill when they purchase current...
...If co-operation is withheld or impossible, .then the next and the Inevitable appeal •is to Federal regulation...
...So far as the transit company goes, little need be said...
...But trustification having been consummated in the electrical light and power field, there is imperative need for drastic public action...
...Dream of Eaglaear* Now, it i* evident that such interstate corporations as the Philadelphia Electric Company, tapping the Conowingo project in Maryland, and supplying current in several states, cannot be effectively dealt with by a Pennsylvania commission...
...Curiously enough, each makes its appeal for, support in the public press upon the contention that higher dividends will be forthcoming should euch support be voted...
...The dream of the engineers is to empty all coal and water-made electrical energy into a common pool, from which consumers can draw at will...
...Each modestly abstains from pointing out that bigger returns can come only with reduced value to the consumer...
...Their slogan could I very well he: Less service, more I dividends...
...That the woolen's or worsteds used in the manufacture of our suits and top coats are not absolutely of the highest grade...
...But if the commission is here accurately reported, then the electrie company is now a trust with monopoly privileges...
...Take our spring styles, for instance, as an illustration...
...The emergency is hare...
...This is a grave danger in several respects...
...The bast Fifth Avenue shops show no better—all the newest fabrics and in great variety— bought only of the best woolen mills, as an inspection of our books will show...
...Thus, the Philadelphia Transit Company threatened to build its own power generating plant...
...Such is the finding of Governor Pinchot, in submitting to the Legislature the able report on giant swwar of his board of survey, lays I he: "The development of the network as* interconnected Hoes 1* so rapid that a delay of even f*e year* m establishing effective public control will bring Pennsylvania and the Nation face to faae with th* isnme diate threat of aa overwhelming and almost uncontrollable electric monopoly...
...This is particularly addressed to those men and young Ipen who are accustomed to paying high prices for their clothing—who are exceptionally fastidious as to style—that desire that custom, hand-tailored mien so difficult to be had in ready to wear garments...
...Also note nJ2iil"iLour n*me and address...
...Similarly is it in th j more or less edify-fja dispute between the two financial erowda in the City of Brotherly ¦pea and Intense graft...
...In a word, you are buying direct from legitimate clothing manufacturers—saving the retailers generous profit plus many other savings, including *n inexpensive upstairs factory, exceptional purchasing •Wantages and the like...
...The extra tall Wan, the very short man, the extra stout man, as well as the regular model, will find we can easily fit him, or, if necessary, make him a suit to order at a thy slight increase in cost...
...Both crowd* accuee each other of mismanagement, wholesale looting aad sundry other malpractice*, loth prove their ease...
...What matters more is the status of tha Philadelphia Electric Company...
...This is happening vails tha Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company aad the Philadelphia Electric Company are -octitling each other's management of being brunette...
...Giant power also implies service at such reasonable rates as to make electricity as accessible to the small home as to the large industry for purposes now done by manual labor...
...The dream of the engineers is sure to be realized...
...a,'1** Akow WaoamalMr'* * Kf ' H., SaterSaia lit* r, H...
...Only a financial acrobat can tell how well these figures have been juggled...
...That is the only way it could be done...
...Will anything be done...
...This is what is meant by giant power, as against the super- or extra-power of individual companies concerned only with their selfish earnings...
...Sapor-Power Gang Action .The interest of the public is really more than local...
...Commission Aids Monopolists Unncessary to say, the Pennsylvania commission has been very liberal in allowing the utilities to set the rates...
...It is far behind in passenger requirements...
Vol. 2 • April 1925 • No. 15
