The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-11
EXPERIENCES ARE EXCHANGED DURING
 INFORMAL SESSION
Georgian Elected President of Association of Railway and
 Utilities Commissioners
By Associated Press

Washington, November 10.-Railway and utility commissioners laid aside their formal convention programme to- day and held an "experience" mee pg over the problems of street railways and enforcement of the service stand ards on public utilities. Members of various state commissions who are at tending the annual convention here gathered in a round table conference to hear suggestions for improvement.
 The talk covered effects of incr eased fares on street car traffic, the service at cost plan and the possibility of re- taining the short haul passengers through 5-cent fares. Henry R. Trnm- bower of Wisconsin said ways sho i'd be found to deal with motorists who use their machine 10 months and ,'reet cars the rest of the year. The occa- sional street car passenger he said, should pay fixed sum greater than the regular patron. He thought this might be reached by selling monthly tickets at a reduction from cash fare.
 Edward Flad of the Missouri com mission urged the zone plan, with basic rate of cents for the cong es.ed districts of cities.
 E. l. Lewis of the Indiana commis- sion, chairman of the conference, e n-
 tended that no general policy could be laid down as conditions varied in cif-
 ferent cities.
 RESENT COMPANIES EFFORTS
 w D. B. Ainey or the Pennsylvania commission resented efforts which he
 said had been made by the comoaiies
 to throw responsibility for the plight
 of street railways on regulatory ccm- missions. The problem, he asserted,
 were not regulatory, but manag erial
 due to corporate history and local .1n- ditions.
 Speakers generally appeared agreed that increased fares had not materially lrednced passenger traffic.
 Discussion of service S andsrds was taken up largely with the quality of service given to telephone subscribers. Lack of labor. ahd increased cost of materials, 1t was said, accounted for inability to keep telephone and gas Icompanies up to e-war standards. Extension of public utilities to ura) communities as a means of keepil g people on the farm was advocated ly A. l.. Freehafer, president of the Idaho commission.
 An address by Interstate Commerc
 Commissioner Clyde B. Aitchisen on the railroad ear shortage situation brought a question from Frank 8. Funk
 of the Illinois commission as to she au thority of the state bodies over car
 distribution He said MT. Aitchison' g speech had some vague reference" to
 federal authority over car distribution, but also contained plea for state CO.,
 operation. The subject was made a special order for discussion tom o--ow
 PERRY ELECTED PRESIDENT R. Hudson Burr, chairman of the Florida railroad commi ssion, in plN.in s James 4. Perry of Georgia in nomna~ > ton for the president of the Assocla tion of Railway and Utilities Commis- sioners today, declared MT. Perry as
 man of the new south," and son of the old south" MT. Perry was unanimously elected.
 q am going to name man from Dixie,'' said MT. Burr in making the nomination. Henry Grady called it the new south l am proud of our l new south I am glad I have lived during the building of the new south, to which Mr Grady referred; but I was born long enough ago to have deep seated love and reverence for the tra- lditions of the old soutn.' I am lad that l have lived to See the sons Of the old south volunteer with the ons of the north under the Stars and Stripes in the Spanish American war under the leadership of General Wheel CT and Colonel Roosevelt to fight Tor the freedom of the Cuban republic. q am glad to have lived" he cons tinued, ''to see our boys of the new south join with the boys of the north, of the east and of the west, and in France, undersOld Glory bring victory to a losing fight. Many of them have fought their last fight, and today lie buried where they fell on the battle fields of France, or rest in watery i grave. l am glad that l have lived 10
 see men from all states stand with a solid front for the preservation Of those rights So dear to the sons of tne old south and the new south