WDA FOCUSES ATTENTION ON POWER: BECKER
WDA Focuses Attention On Power: Becker "The Wisconsin development authority (WDA) has done a great deal to focus public attention on the importance of electric power," John A. Becker, general...
...We are doing the best that we can for the public interest," Becker said in summarizing WDA's activities...
...Admitting that WDA's promotional and educational work has been "seriously handicapped" by lack of state funds, Becker emphasized that since WDA is a non-profit agency "any funds left over from business transactions are used for the promotion of public and cooperative ownership of electric facilities...
...Becker referred to the fact that WDA, a non-profit corporation established by the last Progressive administration, is still operating as a private agency despite the 1939 legislature's attempt to "choke off" the organization by repealing the WDA act and state appropriation...
...We arc now a private agency with a public purpose but no public funds," he said, after recalling...
...Terming WDA's objective as "cheap and plentiful electric power to Wisconsin farm families, housewives and business men," the WDA chief claimed that, this power agency "stands as a living credit to the 1937 administration...
...WDA has helpcu to awaken public Interest in electric light bills, in municipal ownership, and in the electric co-operative movement," Becker pointed out...
...You will remember that there was an election in November of 1938 which resulted in a complete change of state officers and a coalition legislature...
...We have followed up that educational and promotional approach with practical application, and have organized electric co-ops, promoted municipal ownership, and built electric lines...
...WDA Focuses Attention On Power: Becker "The Wisconsin development authority (WDA) has done a great deal to focus public attention on the importance of electric power," John A. Becker, general maanger of WDA, declared in a radio address here last week...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
