FACTS TO SILENCE PRIVATE POWER PROPAGANDISTS
KING, JUDSON
facts to silence private power PROPAGANDISTS By Judson King Director, National Popular Government League anrTK HAVE Just returned from aa, auto" mobile trip of 4,500 miles digging up facte...
...119) on treatment of revolutionary soldiers...
...Since cities are legally only chartered corporations for the conduct of a part of the states' affairs, this has been until recently one of the most powerful reasons for the inefficiency of city government...
...Five cents...
...will cost you $6.25 In Columbus and $3.81 in Lansing, both net...
...little plants being /iorbed into big systems, but prices the jjpeeple pay don't go down very nottceFaWy...
...It has marked Western civilization to a large degree especially since the Industrial Revolution and the rise of commerce...
...Ob yes!—TWO (J) PERCENT pay 4 cents and _ •____» EIGHTY-THREE ($3) PERCENT PAY AN Avenge at 1J eases and Average for the What* Frwriace L87e par K.W.H...
...I call on one of the new appointees, Mr...
...Eventually the great inverted bowl which is Imperial Valley became mostly dry land through evaporation, leaving only the Sal ton Sea as a reminder of the complete Inundation of earlier years...
...Making Too Much Money" LONDON...
...Bimba, it will be observed is often careless In labeling his plunder...
...He states that "there is undoubtedly a tendency toward collectivism in urban life...
...Here Pickett's men gave the western world its most sublime example of courage in conflict...
...MONTREAL...
...These figures are taken from the official Report for 1936...
...However, he does advocate without equivocation the erection of a dam at Boulder Canyon...
...It supplies power to the big docks at the harbor...
...A few months ago rumors began to circulate that it was in grave danger...
...Thompson quotes M. Vandervelde, Belgian Socialist, and Schmoller, the German sociologist, to the effect that "The countryman is a conservative while- the city resident is liberal, progressive and social-democratic...
...Marx also pointed out the military solidarity of the South from the beginning of the struggle which the North did not have...
...Following the above statement is this one...
...Four other small towns get juice from this station...
...Small town...
...He apparently concurs when Vandervelde says that the chief political Influence of the cityward movement is the growth and dissemination of socialistic sentiment...
...Add all these offenses to those I enumerated in my review and the evidence is overwhelming that he has pilfered my book and has often got the citations wrong...
...But rates remain high...
...Money Is no object...
...In 1926, 2.9c...
...CONNEAUJ, OHIO...
...On page 54 Mr...
...We spent little time in Ontario—but things just would turn up...
...Fordney...
...Many a battle between granite and water has been fought along those precarious levees, ton after ton of rock disappearing Into yawning chasms...
...today Well over half of the people In this country reside in cities and towns of over 2,500 population...
...Good news...
...Marx expected Lincoln to "cast aside the domination of......the border states...
...A Man to Watch COLUMBUS, OHIO...
...It did...
...In my opinion all this will take another turn...
...It made the redaction right after it had won a five-year fight before the State Utilities Commission and the State Supreme Court, alleging its necessity to charge 10c per K.W.H...
...From this quarry trains are loaded with granite, and there u^gmoment throughout the year when a solid tralnload of rock does not stand in readiness to be rushed to a danger point...
...We camp at the splendid municipal camp grounds under some big maples and get busy...
...My disappointment at your reaction to Bimba's effort is the deeper because of my memory of my use of your book as a text in college classes in the years before the war...
...The plant is worth a million and a quarter...
...There is great deal b?ing said on the question of the democracy in the city that is unfavorable...
...This is a sample of tactics last July...
...We grease the automobile and start for Maine via Toronto and Quebec...
...It is as if by miracle, except to the geologist, that a quarry of granite juts from the sand close to the river...
...Going Back To Marx He cites a quotation from Marx against me on the border problem of the Civil War...
...But all over Michigan in the power field consolidation is going on as far as in Pennsylvania and Ohio...
...Then there are other absurdities of Interpretation which may be added to those pointed out In my previous review...
...I said that I passed up some of his absurdities...
...Here is the statement of Marx...
...But It so happens that the statement of Marx supports my view, not Bimba's...
...From Arthur Calhoun My dear James Oneal: Are you game to publish this letter In The New Leader...
...MISSISSIPPI RIVER Did you know that Ontario has a Mississippi River...
...King took a snapshot...
...Cost of current In Perth in 1919, 6.2c per K W.H...
...Last year the Cleveland Illuminating Co...
...Top rate, 8.6c...
...Have not our propagandists been predicting disaster for the last ten years...
...I call on my old friend, former State Senator H. H. Tlmby, who is an active citizen and one of the best book men In the nation...
...Has owned its electric plant since 1888 and has been selling commercial juice since 1908, so that it hardly got the idea from Moscow...
...I held that Lincoln acted Intelligently In not Issuing his Emancipation Proclamation at the beginning of the war...
...TORONTO...
...Plant value, last official report, 7,137.935 of which $3,947,100 has come from bonds and $3,200,800 out of net earnings of the plant with all obligations paid...
...Palmer denied it...
...On p. 60 of his book he again repeats this offense by lifting from my book on page 144 a citation from Thorpe in the "Magazine of American History...
...I predict new light from Ohio...
...Eighty miles...
...For example: Some Freeh Ontario Items WalkervUle,—opposite Detroit—where we cross on the ferry, has the largest consumption of electricity per family of any place in the world...
...140) from McMaster's "With the Fathers...
...nearly two years later when It was safe for Lincoln to issue his proclamation...
...Before, it was a man from the Smithsonian at Washington...
...I examined the manuscript of Bimba's "History of the American Working Class" and recommended its publication...
...No, Cleveland Illuminating—we get the same rates as folks In the big burg...
...He can select one, I the other, and the two a third...
...Half at Million Ahead ASHTABULA, OHIO...
...The people thought the plant sound, financially...
...V The City Is Criticized ! "In short, it Is claimed that urban Ufe and urban environment are unfavorable to the maintenance of liberty, equality and democratic self-government...
...that the relatively ignorant and propertyless masses In the cities afford a fertile field for the propagation of radical and subversive ideas, and thus are subject to the mob spirit, and Inclined toward extreme and unrestrained action and toward political Instability...
...It remained for th4 next Continental Congress in May of the following year to "lay the foundation" and even then a whole year passed before a final break was declared...
...We saw everybody from gas men to Governors...
...Is selling domestic and commercial lighting at THREE AND ONE HALF CENTS, NET, per K.W H. Compare that with the EIGHT CENTS PER K.W.H...
...Seems ridiculous, but it is true...
...Municipal plant...
...In 1905 the Colorado broke from its accustomed "banks and for 18 months flooded back Into Imperial Valley and carved new channels which remain as reminders of the terrors of a river at flood rampaging beyond control...
...wanted to buy the plant-but the City Fathers said, "No, thank you...
...A Challenge Repeated The latest book on the border problem Is by Professor Smith, "The Borderland In the Civil War...
...Bimba declares inj his Preface that he has paid "partKular attention" to "those phases of the subject which have been neglected-by the historians of our labor movement...
...Some More Evidence More pilfering...
...But was the plant in bad straits...
...It don't do us much good," slyly remarks the man at the gas station, 'iWe pay 10 cents per kilowatt just the same...
...Comparing the Coats GETTYSBURG, PENNA...
...being paid by the people of Blrmlngton, Alabama, to the Alabama Power Company, also using water power for generation, and Blrmlngton is no exception...
...Not much better than the private plant at the Ohio state capital, Columbus, which sells at Sc....must be corruption here and too much city "government in business/' Told you so, politicians cant run a business, say you...
...The power question is in the air...
...King says: "The next time you complain to your private company of the high cost of electricity, and you are suavely informed that It cost so much to distribute the juice around so many small domestic consumers, that's why—just ask the man Why is it, then, that the Item of "distribution cost" for the little city of Psinesville, Ohio, is only $.00298 per K.WJL "Mr...
...Important to Socialists To those who have been greatly worried about the lack of Interest In political affairs, Thompson has two answers: "We have conclusive evidence...
...Let me give some tid-blts of the sort of thing we want to place in the hands of Congressmen and before the country this Winter...
...And some DO pay at Ugh as in the United States...
...a month's bill...
...R. M. Evans, able and energetic City Manager, who keeps cost accounting, gave me the figure and you can find it and all the rest of it to the annual report for 192...
...This is exactly what I said and what Bimba Ignored In his book...
...This rapid growth of cities has of course not been confined to this country...
...On the sliding scale when Columbus drops to 5c, Lansing drops to 3c...
...By John Glffen Thompson...
...A single nigger regiment will have a remarkable effect on southern nerves...
...ALSO—fifty municipalities have pais} off their bonds and are wholly out of debt on their local distributing systems...
...Cities and Socialism A new book (Urbanization, Its Effects on Government and Society...
...In Ashtabula, after the first 80 K.W.H...
...They Won't Sell Out In addition, the town has had around $35,000 of free street lighting...
...Before that, a man from the Department of the Interior...
...962 K.W.H., cost -$15.01 net—or 1.6c per K.W.H...
...If" this and that happened, then, bingo 1 Presently it developed that the Celevland Illuminating Company was trying to buy the plant...
...We camp by the lake...
...Will have net surplus of over $200,000 in a year or two and don't know what to do with it...
...A month's light and power bill shows...
...This attitude has been carried ¦ sVHm to the present, and we have such poetic phrases as "God made the country, man made the town...
...This is evident in his letter to me...
...On this same page of his book is another example in a citation from my book (p...
...I have recently come from a tour of the project In which I visited the site of the proposed dam, the Imperial Valley and the Mexican territory /through which the present irrigation canal passes...
...Dutton, $6.00) is the first in which an attempt is made to view practically every Important institution in modern society In terms of how it has been affected by the trend of the city...
...More than twice the -wrvice—less "than half the cost...
...On page 133 of my book I quote from Von Hoist a statement by Washington and Bimba lifts it for page 57 of his book, again following his practice of citing my citation...
...He is to agree with me that the findings shall be printed in The New Leader and the Daily Worker...
...Later, I had some work done at the REO GARAGE in London, Ontario, and likewise got...
...While a tappet valve is being adjusted at the RBO GARAGE, I talk with the owner, Mr...
...Another highly respectable investigator from the states has been in Ontario, was treated decently and has gone away and published falsehoods which are now being retailed over the United States...
...The T-*MtrT folks took the bwrtntss away from the private interests years ago, when Trotsky was* a boy, because of poor service, nigh rates and medcqtng In politics...
...Hardly...
...THREE: That a private company, generating by coal, can make big money, prosper and grow on 5c per K.W.H., at least in a large city...
...The Governor appears awake to the power question, knows the people are being gouged beyond a fair return on honest capitalization and that the "regulation" has been a farce in Ohio...
...More of Psinesville later...
...I cannot stop even to list the topics here...
...My article was already too long...
...Cleveland Illuminating Co...
...We cross the state line and enter Ohio...
...J. H. Morton and his daughter who furnished the bfH used to illustrate the bulletin entitled, The Value of Muscle Shoals to the South.** Miss Morton has added an Ice aneeenhe and other electrical equipment of late...
...It be waged around Muscle Shoals and Boulder Canyon...
...7%c top rate...
...The author has even investigated the effect on preparedness for war, and fin-** that urbanization has been a help toward bigger and better wars...
...The Northerners were from the beginning dominated by the representatives of the border slave states who also pushed McCleuan, that old partisan of Breckinridge, to the top...
...They have elected legislators who have proceeded to strangle cities financially and administratively...
...We have Inherited an attitude toward cities and city Inhabitants which was espoused by writers In a predominantly agricultural society...
...Walt a minute...
...First Stop...
...The President says that "every other possibility should be exhausted" before the government becomes engaged in the power business, but he does not suggest what those possibilities might be...
...Her hill for'June 16 last, was 27.26...
...It has a unified military leadership...
...The long and the short of the matter seems to me to be that such wars mast be conducted in a revolutionary manner and that the Yankees have hitherto tried to carry it on constitutionally...
...to demonstrate beyond doubt that interest in politics, as measured by participation In public affairs, has greatly Increased, instead of having diminished since early days...
...That year they cleaned up $64,006...
...I had looked forward to a glorious time mulling over his tremendous stock of second hand books...
...Copies can be furnished...
...prices the people psy don't go down very noticeably...
...H; also shows that the decline in voting percentage since 1896 has been more apparent than realAll Socialists should be particularly interested in the affairs of the city...
...President Coolidge in the message which he has presented to this Congress says "legislation is desirable for the construction of a dam at Boulder Canyon on the Colorado River, primarily as a method of flood control and irrigation...
...The companies have been playing politics and gotten their kind of men on the Commission...
...Such data will be needed...
...Bringing down with it each year enough slit to cover the District of Columbia three feet deep, the river gradually formed a bank for itself which In the end resulted In shutting off the great valley, then part of the gulf, sending the river current down the east side of the valley on a bed a trifle above sea level...
...37) where Nathaniel Bacon appears as "Nathan" Bacon...
...Bumming up net results of this trip to the Northeast, in comparison with a trip last year to the Northwest, two things stand out: first, the interest of the people' In the power question has doubled...
...Instead of saying "quoted by Oneal from Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries" he quotes direct from Hart but gets in bad by copying my citation...
...He Is on record in his book and letter and I am on record In my review and In this article...
...Beware of the falsehoods being circulated about the Cleveland Municipal plant...
...The situation at present Is unquestionably a critical one...
...Our thinking about matters relating to cities has fallen behind our actions, just as it has in economic, industrial, and International affairs...
...As we drive on I asked Mrs...
...My challenge to Bimba Is repeated...
...The top rate at Ashtabula is the same as In Cleveland, that Is, 5c per K.W.H...
...To this was added a Declaration of Rights which enumerated the "rights" of Englishmen under the British monarchy and protested that these "rights" had been violated...
...and making too much money...
...I assert that not only is Bimba's book worthless but that he evidently has not learned how to think...
...The biggest fight over utilities and conservation this country has known is just ahead...
...Rates were low...
...A college professor, this time...
...But—she used 2.777 K w H. for the two months...
...Bimba is unable to answer but quotes from Marx in the belief that Marx supports Bimba...
...He has ability, poise and courage and does not accept a thing as so because some official of a private utility tells him it is so...
...To other examples of Inability to copy direct from my book may be added my citation (p.60) from the late Miss Salmon where it appears in his book (p.17) as "Solomon...
...Political scientists, publicists, and government officials have noticed their concern about the evils of city life...
...Both garages patronize super-power systems...
...at the 5c rate, there is a drop to 4c and finally to 2c...
...In trying to explain some of his absurdities he Indulges in more absurdities...
...It is a tremendous Job and one which seems t< have been done -with a seal to get at the root of the question of the comparative merits of .city and country in various matters...
...E. V. Buchanan, London Hydro Manager, la worried over finances he tells me...
...Brookwood, Katonah, N. Y. Boulder Dam—What Is It Coolidge Says It Should Be Built By Chester "Wright A GAIN the Swing-Johnson bill for the construction of Boulder Canyon Dam has been Introduced in Congress and will be one of the biggest fighting issues of the session...
...oTssMghbarly eonntry''____ HAMILTON, wa eaO...
...one private, the Metropolitan 1 Edison Company, the other public, the Ontario Hydro System...
...The South, on the contrary, acted as one from the very first...
...The admitted trend toward socialism in urban centers" (p...
...Conneaut is the first town...
...The most powerful lobby...
...I repeat that he has not considered one neglected phase and that he has neglected all the new material that has accumulated in ten years...
...The Index, Invaluable in a work of this kind, takes up a tenth of the book...
...Into this valley the Colorado once poured Its waters, the valley then having been a part of the Gulf of California...
...Another article in this new series wul appear next week...
...Not unless the people are fools and X don't think they are...
...It has...
...A trifle ¦Safer ONE CENT PER K.W.H...
...It's the calm before the storm...
...Cities likewise prosperous...
...The assumption is that all these bodies were all In the hands of the conservatives, it was only the executive and judicial departments that were in the hands of the British partlslans...
...He did even better than Marx anticipated...
...We do not even need professional historians although I would have no objection to them...
...By acting nearly two years later he prevented the border states from siding with the South...
...Now Marx was on the other side of the Atlantic and his judgment is not infallible and he could easily be mistaken...
...This body old not meet in August It met In September...
...Although not correct in detail, Marx here shows excellent knowledge of the border states and their strategic position between the North and the South...
...My readers will remember our difference on this matter...
...The cities have contributed to the rise of democracy, helped civil, economic, and religious freedom, increased Intelligence and initiative, and efficiency in government...
...Then this Congress did not lay down "a national foundation" for the revolutionary groups...
...Then, on the eve of the Revolution, on August 1, 1774, It convened the First Continental Congress and laid down a national foundation for Its political power...
...Amount used, 401 K.W.H...
...I have just gone through the book again, and in spite of your criticism, I am satisfied that the book does, in the large, convey a valid, instructive, and impressive picture of the fortunes of Labor in the United States...
...Take this: with aU obligations paid, the plant Is now worth $638,164 more than it has cost in bonds...
...It rushes down from mountain, slopes through rock canyons in a terrific plunge to delta land which Is not stabilized by rock formation, but through which the river may and does carve new channels with an abandon and a 'destructlveness that its amazing...
...Every statement that has ever been recorded on cities seems to have found its way into this book, and facts have been dug out of strange places to throw light on some aspect of the problem...
...They are not the unhealthful places they have been painted and the moral consequences of urbanization have not been unsatisfactory...
...Would the" power combine like to acquire the city plant...
...If rates go much lower the people will begin using electricity for air-heating and there is not enough power in aU the rivers, including the St...
...Domestic Juice sells all the way from lc to 10c per K.W.H., according to the lacality and other factors...
...I recalled that -iwre had been no Vare election scandals 4a Ontario since Hydro was started in 1910...
...Lincoln won these states for the Union...
...The large majority was southern in sympathy...
...Nor will Senators Willis and Fess be spilling in Washington any new facts the new Commissioners turn up...
...I have pages and pages of figures...
...If you want a rare old book, Timby will get it for you...
...It is most unkind...
...King how far it might be to Cleveland...
...Since 1919 it has been charging 5c per K.W.H...
...A levee break today means that the Colorado, with Its tremendous torrent of rushing flood water, must break back into Imperial Valley, its old home, filling again that vast bowl of tropical productivity, devastating a prosperous empire, restoring the Gulf of Mexico to Us ancient extension over this whole vast territory...
...It is for this reason that Governors frequently dissolved them...
...from power magnates to their most interesting customers—the housewives in the homes...
...Certain bankers and politicians and the only daily paper in the city, the Star Beacon, solemnly advised the sale...
...We challenged Mr...
...He points out that the white population of the border sections was nearly as great as all the eleven seceding states...
...In flood time an engine stands^arith steam up ready to move instantly upon alarm...
...Bimba to submit his book and my charges to any competent committee...
...Amount used...
...We crossed it and Mrs...
...James W. Huffman...
...The same thing occurs in his book (p...
...facts to silence private power PROPAGANDISTS By Judson King Director, National Popular Government League anrTK HAVE Just returned from aa, auto" mobile trip of 4,500 miles digging up facte about power and popular government...
...The North did not...
...Its wanderings through desert sand are like the meanderings of an inebriate, but much more devastating...
...But Sir Herbert Holt, the bluff and enterprising president of the Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company, which uses water power...
...On page 59 of his book Is another citation from Woodrow Wilson from my book on page 144...
...In those days, we could take a man's contribution and use It gratefully, yevesv tho' we might have picked flaws in it...
...AH through Ohio we found power consolidation in progress...
...He ignores this invitation...
...IX" from Hart but had he copied more carefully he would have_seen than it is Vol...
...This stream of such attacks on city life from persons who are assumed to be in position of authority has strengthened the rural populace in their determination that the big city is a hot-bed of vice and crime, and assisted by the belief that the residuum of virtue yes in the country districts...
...Yet, his company is prosperous—stocks quoted at 230 when I was there...
...It merely adopted four addresses, one to the people of the colonies, one to the Canadians, one to the British people and one to the King...
...Look at your map...
...Milwaukee, Reading, Buffalo, are only beginning l so this is history...
...In Marx's opinion "all this will take another turn...
...It's up to you, Bimba...
...Insall has been In Maine and we are anxious to learn the results...
...Moreover, I assert that his 15 page letter in which he tries to explain carries still more absurdities...
...Cleveland nominating has grown in 20 years from a 10 million to a 90 million dollar concern and is selling Juice to 103 small cities, towns, hamlets and farm districts all over Northern Ohio at the uniform rate of 5c per K.W..H...
...He believed that they "from the beginning dominated" the situation and largely determined northern policy...
...Here the great battle of the Civil War was fought...
...In spite of propaganda...
...TWO...
...The Colorado River Is perhaps the wildest and most undisciplined river In the United States...
...Bimba writes that in the American revolution the bourgeoisie "First of all captured the legislatures of various colonies, the courts, the city councils...
...Watch this young man...
...Here Edison made his first community experiments...
...In the past four years the net earnings amount to $505,272 which have been put into extensions...
...In a day when the farming class was the real basis of the state, its importance was great and its attributes were praised...
...The North will Anally carry on the war seriously and resort to revolutionary means and cast aside the domination of the people of the border slave states...
...Lawrence, to heat Ontario...
...To be sure there are Incidental flaws, as is to be expected in so vast a Job, but I doubt whether any of them are of a sort to spoil the total picture In the minds of the people for whom this book Is intended...
...On page 112 of my book I give a citation from Wendell Phillips' "Speeches, Lectures and Addresses" and Bimba lifts it for page 42 of his book by again citing direct from Phillips...
...A few big companies in control—all linked with the national combine centering In New York...
...87) may lead them into a position of vantage: they should prepare now through research into city conditions and study of methods of Increasing the efficiency of city government so that when such a position Is attained they will be able to mcfee the most of It...
...City plant...
...Palmer, Superintendent of the city plant, favored the sale...
...It would but It haant a chance...
...In copying this citation he again goes wrong for he reprints It as the "Magazine of History," leaving the word "American" out...
...Again In 1922 about 40.000 acres of the Palo Verde Valley 'were submerged.' Imperial Valley lies adjacent to Ox Mexican border in California...
...IS CITY-LIFE DEMORALIZING...
...He gives this citation as "Vol...
...I knew that the book was not the last word on the subject: but I was sure that it represented a great advance...
...miles to the west there is a small hydro power plant* built In 1919...
...The gist of the matter was put into two articles I wrote for Labor, the newspaper of the 16 allied railroad unions with a national weekly circulation of 500,000...
...100 K.W.H...
...The paper refused to print his denial...
...This was another reason for Lincoln being careful not to drive the border states over to the South by hasty action...
...But^Huffman won't get a fat Job with the power companies after his term on the commission, as so many have done all over the country...
...When settlers went Into Imperial Valley and developed the present irrigation project they strengthened the river banks with levees which now extend some 30 miles into Mexico...
...The regulating effect of public competition with a private company...
...Arthur W. Calhoun...
...painesvtlle, OHIO...
...The Provisional Commission did a $20,000,000 business with the munlcpalitles and farm districts last year and came out $565,000 ahead of the game with ail obligations paid...
...King interviewed the women and fried the bacon...
...Moreover, Hart's work is one of the most familiar of the documentary collections and one acquainted with it at all knows that it is complete in four volumes, not nine...
...This paper published a scarehead, front page story that Mr...
...8UNBURY, PA., prides itself on being "The Birthplace of the Electric Light...
...City losing money —will soon bust up, or be a burden on the taxpayers...
...It Is below sea level...
...All through Pennsylvania I found conjatttjtlBn going on...
...By an analysis of campaigns and votes from early times to the present, he proves that when the voters hove some matter of real Interest they do vote...
...Louis, 650,000 population, served by a private company from the Keokuk Dam built some 20 years ago on the Mississippi River fen the United States, the people pay two and three times as much...
...Coal production...
...It is too bad that another spirit prevails today...
...But win the town sell out...
...That they had no strategic plan was clear from aU the maneuvers of the Kentacky army after the conquest of Tennessee...
...Selling juice at 1.5c per K.W.H...
...Instead, I ran into a power fight...
...In his letter he admits some of my charges, makes half-admissions in others, apologizes for others, denies a few, and does some squirming that is positively painful...
...Average monthly use in 1926 was 209 per K.W.H...
...Ashtabula's "taxpayers" should sleep sweet onlgbte...
...Bimba pilfers this, changes it a little to disguise it, and runs it on pages 18-19 without credit...
...second, there is a deal more vitality to '"democracy" than the easy chair writers know about...
...Lincoln would have been stupid to issue his proclamation when hostilities opened and thus drive these people into the arms of reaction...
...Opportunities for Socialism in Cities Found to be Most Promising By Clarence O. Senior AT THE beginning of the national perlod in the history of the United States, urban centers contained less than three per cent, of the population...
...She looked at the map...
...Win someone explain how Sir Herbert can get by...
...Municipally Supplied "Juice" Cheapest— Tour Through States Reveals That "High Cost" of Distributing Electricity Mr...
...Ashtabula owns its light plant (steam) and has a monopoly...
...In a series of articles it Is my purpose to set forth what I saw on this tour, merely as a recording of observations on the part of one person...
...Coal plant...
...Lansing Also Wins ¦ North to Lansing, Mich...
...Cleveland's 3-Cent Light Plant The story of Cleveland's municipal 3cent light plant will richly repay the study of any person interested in the posrer question...
...University specialists are to be sure, entitled to apply their own standards...
...See the town of Perth...
...The Seven Billion Dollar utility combine has decreed that Norris and Johnson shall not pass their bills...
...on Rett...
...Bryce, De Tocqueville, Roosevelt, Hoover, Carver, Plnchot, and a host of others have feared the effect of city life on -democij ry and its forms of government...
...On page 47 a case of pilfering is found by taking an Item In my book (p...
...While I did not take time to check up on details, I was satisfied with the evidences of exhaustive study...
...I Interviewed the men and pitched the tent...
...The South leaves the producUve labor to slaves and could thus lead its entire fghting force unhindered into the field...
...Something wrong...
...the most expensive machinery for propaganda on the part of the power combine are already at work In Washington...
...In St...
...of 10c per K.W.H...
...They are spending many thousands...
...Cost, $35.00 net—or 8.7c per K.W.H...
...I challenge him to submit the whole matter to a committee of three, no member to be a Socialist or a Communist...
...The Cleveland experience Droves: ONE: That a large city can successfully run a steam generating light and power plant and sell to the people at 3 cents per K.W.H...
...The difficulty of maintaining these levees on a desert sand foundation is fully appreciated only after the condition has been observed...
...The North Itself has transformed slavery into a militant force for the Sooth, instead of turning it against it...
...Bimba- is unable to understand the very quotation from Marx which he submits against me...
...For several decades the legislatures were controlled by those who brought about the revolution...
...More Flaws In Bimba's "History of Labor" By James Oneal Vf7E have received a letter of fifteen typewritten pages from Anthony Bimba, whose book, "A History of the American Working Class," ' we criticized In the New Leader some weeks ago and which we declared to be a compound of pilfering, plagiarizing and Inability to copy from others correctly...
...Governor Donahey, has gotten two men on the State Utilities Commission, he tells me, he "can trust...
...In cities like Washington, D. C. No evidence of Ontario Hydro blowing up or corrupting politics...
...I go down to the city auditor whose accounts are audited by a certified accountant...
...Compare that with the average monthly use in the United States of around 35 K.W.H...
...net per K.WH...
...I stop a citizen and ask, "What do you pay for electric light here...
...Remember, less than THREE MILLS...
...Incidentally, they have 28 miles of rural line In operation...
...On page 77 of my book I summarize data from Bruce's "Institutional History of Vlrglna" on militia training and carrying weapons in relation to slaves in Colonial Virginia...
...Private ownership town...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 26
