Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-30

Delegates From Every Sec
ton of U. S. to Attend
Convention.

| The Water Power League of America
will hold a convention at the Washing
ton Hotel Thursday and Friday of mex,
week. Users of water power, developers
of water power and state officials and
\ delegates from every section of the
United States are expected to attend
this national convention.
1t is considered by officials of the
league that this convention will be the
largest and most important meeting ever
held on the subject of the nations I'M
used water powers. Unlike previous
meetings for the discussion of this sub
ject, this meeting, it is stated, Will be
composed of manufacturers and busl-
ness men who want immediate develop
ment of water powers without regard TO
| the private benefits that may accrue to
| certain developers and without consid-
Grafton of the many theories OF puollc
| ownership and similar questions Whirh
have been fought over in and out OF
| Congress for many years.
| West Urges Action.
| 1t is stated that the western resi-
dents are interested because of ~ per
cent of all the water power in the
country is in the west and has been
retarded because of the lack OF any
! fixed policy. Interest in New Eng
| land is also great because that SCI
+, league state, has been suffering par
| tial industrial paralysis for years on
account of the difficulty of securing
adequate fuel supplies. More than e.,
100000 horsepower will be developed
and more than $1,000, 100000 expended
| if the improvements demanded by the
league are carried out.
Prof. George F. Swain, head OF the
Harvard Engineering School, Har-
ward University, will preside over the
-; ,1,
o'clock in the morning. October Z;
Morning and afternoon sessions VIII
| be held both days, with banquet
Thursday evening, at when the I'M
portant subject of financing water
power development under the present
| hin will be the principal topic Tor
discussion.
Immediately after the opening address
| of President Swain next Thursday Sec
rotary of War Newton II. Baker. cnair
man of the federal power COMMISSION;
| will deliver an address. to be followed
| by o. C. Merrill, executive secretary Oh
! the commission. with an address on:
| 1.-THE Federal Water Power Act and It's
Administration. Lieut.. Col. William
Kelly, engineer officer of the commits
sion. will follow with an address on
| Relations Between Navigable waters
and the Federal Water Power Act"
Discussion to BE Open.
| From that time on the convention will
be resolved into an open discussion of
| the subject which has drawn the dele
gates together. Alexander T. Vogel-
lsang. first assistant secretary OF the
| interior, will talk at the afternoon SEES
sion on water Power DEVELOPMENT in
the Public Domain Col. w. B. Gree
ley. chief of the forestry division of the
agriculture Department, and Thomas
H. Macdonald, chief of the bureau OF
public roads, will take part, and all of
/, them will submit to the question and
answer discussion which will be carried
on.
Two of the most important numbers
| on the program will be the address of
William S. Murray, chief engineer Of
the super power survey, and that of
Prof John w. Dorsey of the University
| of Manitoba, who will deliver an adj
dress on his new discovery in power
| transmission, which is expected to revo-
lutionize long-distance carrying Of high
| tension current.