The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-01-28
DALTON CITIZEN FlAYS
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
Facts of Vital Interest to
Everybody in Georgia
Selfish Interests Exposed
in Timely Editorial

The fight, never-ending it seems,
being waged by certain Atlanta poll
ticians and lobbyists against the Geor-
gia Railway and Power Company, is
growing somewhat of boomerang.
There are . few people in Atlanta
who live for no other purpose it
would seem, than to cbstruct and con-
denim every move tho power company
makes.
They want it to deliver service
without any increase in rates for
Eight, power, and gas, regardless Of
costs. They fought every advance
the company has asked for when ev-
cry reasonable and sensible man
knows that pre-war prices mean bank
ruptcy for public service corpora
tions.
We are coming now to the kernel
Of the nut. There are numbers Of
people in the state who are Begin
ming to feel that certain selfish in
terests in Atlanta want rates far be-
low cost. They want the Georgia
Railway and Power Company to give
them these cheap rates and then make
1t up by levying very much higher
rates outside the city Of Atlanta,
which is exactly what is not going
TO be done, because the Atlanta fight
Is being watched.
In order to ascertain whether or
not the rates asked for by the power
company in Atlanta are too high, an
audit Of the company's books was
suggested. The power company
quickly agreed to 1t, and offered to
pay one-half the expense Of the au-
dit. Did Atlanta agree to it? No,
she did not. She refused to help pay
for the audit, and is still doing it.
All of which goes to show there is
somewhere in this affair q lot Of
hypocrisy, demagogy and insincerity.
II the rates the Georgia Railway and
Power Company are asking for are
too high for the service, why does not
the city Of Atlanta prove to the con-
| trary by an agreement to help pay
for an audit for the purpose Of ascer-
| tanning the true facts?
All OF the buncombe put forth by
the so-called Municipal League" Of
the state is fight against the Geor-
gia Railway and Power Company.
"The state should act" say the bulle-
tins. Certainly it should, but when
ever it does, it will not act just as
Marion Jackson, Jim Key and John
Eagan want it to act. And if it did
there is not a municipality in the
state of Georgia able to vote enough
bonds to build an electrical plant with
facilities enough to render the service
now supplied by the power company.
We are now speaking Of those cities
using wholly the service supplied by
the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany.
Dalton has had her experience with
a municipal power and light plant
! and at time when there was very
little of the current used for anything
except lighting.
And Dalton and her industries pre-
fer to deal with a power company
sufficiently capable of delivering the
goods.
Atlanta should quit nagging the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
for at least awhile, and give it an
opportunity to finish up some of the
power Developments it started before
| the war.
They are sorely needed in the state
as means of improving service.
1t is service the people want from
the power company, and If it develops
that it is charging too much for it,
| 1t will then be time to show it up,
and let the Railroad Commission,
which has supervision of it's rates,
say what is right and proper.--Ths
Dalton Citizen. -