ELECTRIC POWER LOBBY AT CAPITAL
Ramsey, Donald
Electric Power Lobby at Capital Utilities United to Wage War on Public Ownership; Propaganda Campaign Used By DONALD RAMSEY (Reprinted from Labor) WHAT is probably the most powerful lobby that...
...The object of the lobby is three-fold: 1To educate the public concerning the virtues of private enterprise and the evils of public ownership of any kind...
...They will furnish perpetually renewable sources of wealth to coming generations...
...2To turn over Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam to the power trust and to thus prevent the people of the United States from discovering what the people of Canada have already discovered, how ridiculously cheap electricity can be produced with water power...
...No plan for dealing with floods can be successful, believes Mr...
...Next, the lobby is preparing—in fact, has already started—to semi a corps of speakers through the country to aeldress all kinds of civic organizations...
...It is important, too, that we remember the money so spent must not be looked upon in the same light as money for levees or spillways...
...How faith-ully she tended its small activities...
...Chief Propagandists GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, once private secretary to Roosevelt, now head of the Consolidated Gas Company, is the chief of the lobby, which he has christened "The Joint Committee of National Utilities Associations...
...So well is her office organized that a large part of the work is now being done by her devoted subordinates, and Mrs...
...Fixing" Newspaper Writers THE lobby is now concentrating its attention on its educational program...
...Behind supplementing the levees or other structures that must be built, we set back to the land...
...Therefore, fire protection of the forests on the headwaters of the river is essential, both as a measure of flood control and as an economic necessity...
...No detail escapes her...
...And all this they can do while they are fulfilling their great primary purpose of holding the soil in place, reducing erosion and mitigating the destructive effects of floods...
...3To induce Congress to sidetrack the proposal of Walsh of Montana to investigate the Power Trust...
...To furnish ammunition for its writers, the lobby is issuing a number of pamphlets, proclaiming the failure of public ownership, and denouncing Norris, Pinchot and every one else "who has ever uttered a word of criticism of the trust's activities...
...We have got to formulate a vast, thoroughly correlate 1 scheme wherein the engineer, the forester, and other experts shall give their best toward devising effective means of taming once for a!' the turbulent Father of Waters...
...In that connection she had to grapple with the economic causes of war...
...Put in plain English, the Power Trust is seeking to corrupt the newspapermen...
...Every gas and electric light company of any importance in the United States is contributing to the "jackpot," and associate corporations are lending a hand...
...Trees and the Mississippi Flood "A GREAT river rising in its angry wrath has broken our man-made levees as a summer's shower carries away the mud toys of a little child," says Mr...
...These forests, federal and state, are themselves capable of important money returns...
...OBSERVATION'S National Prohibition Commissioner Doran tells Chicagoans that wearers of hip flasks are in no danger...
...But, still Chicagoans will have trouble in making their hip flasks ride easy with their automation...
...During July, August and September the oil companies "distributed" 273,753,669 gals, of gasoline in California...
...Her judgments are swift and sound...
...Presently she became a leader, a very retiring leader, in the Peace Movement...
...Then a crushing sorrow closed the doors of her public life...
...The northern portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin are but little suitable for agriculture...
...Winslow is free to give herself to field work...
...Millions will be required to finance the elaborate plans of the lobby, but...
...As the years pass they should pay back every penny expended...
...But Josiah T. Newcomb of New York, some times referred to as "Colonel" and sometimes as "Senator/ is the active director of the Washington office...
...And oh, she is lovely to look upon, with a slight form like a girl, with radiant coloring, and with eyes which seem to emit an effulgent glow...
...And can a better fate be imagined for one of the-small folks than to be a humble member of her staff...
...the-money will be easily raised, Ibecause it will represent only an infinitesimal fraction of the profits of the concerns interested...
...And we should not fail to restore, as far as it may be done, the natural storage and protection from erosion that may be derived from common sense and natural wisdom in our everyday use of land...
...The men back of the lobby are far-sighted...
...Packs thinks, "and state ownership are the immediate solution, the first step towards translating these wasting assets, these potential forces of destruction, into acres of perpetual productivity...
...Then tame the World War, and she was one of those who stood for peace...
...But things happen whenever she puts her hand...
...Hughes may be the next President of the United States...
...And withal, the serenity of her temperament, welling up from the depths of her being, makes- her comradeship an inspiration and delight...
...It was by the deeper laws of her own nature that she moved through peace and through economics to tend the fires which generate and make glow the inner, the spiritual life...
...Pack, which does not include a reforestation program...
...Here, if the land is protected from fire, nature will keep the source of the Mississippi clothed with forest vegetation...
...Workers seem to rise from the ground to address envelopes, to fold and to assemble, when such is done...
...the suffrage, call invaded her privacy...
...Her executive ability takes one ihe more by surprise that in all her ways she is so supremely still...
...He was close to Charles E. Hughes when the la'Uer was governor of New York, and Mr...
...Word has been passed among the army of correspondents in Washington that those writers who are willing to boost the trust's gams by writing articles for the papers they represent will be "treated generously...
...For a time she was the Executive .Secretary of the League for Democratic Control...
...Who can wonder that her husband and her children, now tall lads and a maiden, adore her...
...I have a conviction that war ought not to be," she used to say, when urged to explain where she stood...
...Colonel Newcomb will tell you there is no trust, and his heart bleeds at the very thought of a Senatorial committee investigating something which is non-existent...
...But she returned, not however, to put her hand again to the old tasks...
...Federal ownership," Mr...
...Propaganda Campaign Used By DONALD RAMSEY (Reprinted from Labor) WHAT is probably the most powerful lobby that ever besieged Congress has moved into Washington and opened headquarters in the city's most beautiful office building just across the street from the Treasury and a scant block from the White House...
...She has no talk, no hustle...
...C. L. Pack, president of the American Tree Association, in his recent booklet on "Floods, Forests, and the Future...
...Politicans out of a job—ex-Senators and ex-governors preferred, men whose names will command attention—can get on the payroll for the asking...
...Of course, the majority of Washington correspondents are not that kind, but there are plenty of "weak sisters...
Vol. 19 • November 1927 • No. 11
