The Washington times., 1922-08-08

nOndire B son ana newspaper feps
Hylan, of New York, at city hall
mayor shook hands at the conclui
in Flushing. The approximate cost
of the entire program is $77,000,OOO.
The mayor went on:
I'VE are about to enter upon an
other activity which has . most d.
rect bearing on human affairs In
city government. We intend to
permanently cheaper the cost 0f
living in New York City by the con.
struction OF a system Of terminal
markets.
"Sites have been secured and
plans and specifications prepared
for the construction of market
buildings which are now under con-
sideration by the Board Of Esti-
mate. The board has already ap-
proved the issuance of $500, 900
corporate stock for the acquisition
of a site and for the construction
and equipment of a terminal mar.
ket in the Borough of the Bronx,
and there Is under consideration
request for $5 1000, 900 for a sim
liar terminal market on city-owned
property at the Wallabout Market
in Brooklyn. =. e.
"The plan of the city provides
for one large terminal market in
each borough for receiving ~-d
handling all kinds of freight ana
foodstuffs, both Incoming and out
going, at all hours Of the day and
night.
' Through the establishment,
under municipal supervision, of
open-air pushcart - markets, we
have been enabled TO reduce con-
siderably the cost of produce to
pelling profiteers in the immediate
vicinity of these markets to lower
their prices proportionately.
But these activities on the hu-
man side of city affairs, as numerous
as they are, do not represent all the
social activities that the city should
engage in There are other spheres
in which the city should function
most effectively i'm a humanizing way,
but where II has been prevented from
doing so the fact is due to the
dehumanizing forces that have been
permitted to operate in the body
polite.
Fights Monopolies.
These dehumanizing forces 10
which refer have directed gov
ernmenetal power and govern
mental aid through statute, from
the public to special private in
terests. They have in many In
stances denied to municipalities
the power to engage in certain
activities and to control certain
of their own affairs. These de-
mails are due to the efforts and
desire Of special interests to OBJ
tain or retain advantages beneficial
to them. ...
These fields to which I refer are
those where municipal activity
would be peculiarly appropriate to
make life for the average man or
woman more pleasant, and relieve
the dull and drab monotony of hu-
man existence, to which inhumerable
of our people are daily subject.
Water Power Rights.
Among the dehumanizing forces
in Government are those which de-
prive the people Of the State OF the
great water power rights and turn
them over to private monopoIies.
= by the passage of two laws in
1921 and 1922 priceless water powers
of the State have passed under the
mission has been vested with au-
thority to lease water power righIs
owned by the State to private mo-
nopolies, and also to license the right
OF control over diversion of water
where IL is lodged in the State. They
also have vested in private monopo-
lies the right of, eminent domain TO
enable them to condemn lands for
private use.
These laws prevent Government
from functi0ning in a manner In
which it ought 20 function for the
Improvement Of living conditions.
They present these water power
rights that belong to all the people
Of the State to the private corpora
tions who tax the people exorbitantly
for their use.
There is undeveloped water DOW.
or In New York State capable of pro-
ducing continuously more than one
million horsepower, exclusive OF
potential forty thousand horsepower
that might be produced from canal
waters. .''
att Is conceded that these waters
could generate electricity for about
$40 a horsepower for 365 days a year,
and that n the State had taken over
the development Of Niagara Falls
some ten years ago on the plan Of r.
nancial operation followed In Canada
the entire cost Of the project would
have been paid within the ne9t de-
cade. #.-s .
Under Canadian government own
ership electric current is profitably
sold for less than $40 per horsepower
at the switchboard. This figure in
cludes contributions to sinking funds
TO pay the original cost Of the plant.
Cities In Canada pay an average Of
. cents per kiiowatt hour for cleo
trio current for light. heat and pow.