The Washington times., 1923-02-14
PLANS ARE
UNDER
WAY
Investments of $4,000
900 to Be Represented in
Big Cooperative Body.
By GEORGE FRANKLIN.

By GEORGE FRANKLIN.
Plans to make Washington the
electrical industrial center of the
country are being carried through
by the Electrical Contractors
Dealers Association Of Washing
ton. Interests representing an
approximate investment of $780,
O0O, 900 are involved. When COM
pleted, Washington's electric inter-
ests will stand as a cooperative
unit devoting its efforts ''to cleo
trifying America"
To Increase Membership.
According to members of the as
ISOLATION this is to be effected by
opening the association to various
electrical interests at present un-
Among the new elements to be
admitted will be the. electrical en-
gineers and electrical manufac-
turers. It is estimated that MEM
bership of more than 100, repres.
enting some Of the largest cleo
trical concerns in the country, win
be secured.
1T is a little premature TO talk
of the associations plans to develop
along the lines under considera-
ton" said C. p. Hill, president Of
the Doubleday-Hin Company, to-
day. while, when carried cut
they win mean increasing the MEM
bership of the association and a
change in its name. until formal
action has been taken at the next
meeting nothing definite as 70 the
scope and character Of the changes
can be made known"
1t was learned that the next
regular meeting OF the association
win be held within a week and
that the members of the associa-
ton delegated to sound out cleo
trical interests of Washington on
their attitude toward the proposed
changes have completed their work
and are ready to report to the as
ISOLATION. So far as ascertainable,
the plan has received the endorse
ment of practically all local cleo
trical interests and viii unques.
tionably be put into effect.
Cooperation Is Aim.
"The principal aim in view is to-
secure cooperation among Wash.
ington electrical interests" said
George p Mangan. sales manager
for the Potomac Electric Power
Company, with the still further
idea Of impressing on American In
terests the value OF electric power.
There il no reason why electricity,
which is really mans greatest
power agency, should not be put to
every use where power il needed.
Why curtail its use?
81 am not an official Of the as
ISOLATION, although a member, and
cannot speak in an official way of
the associations plans, but I can
say that primarily the charging Of
the association is intended to make
Washington the electrical center
of the country and through the as
ISOLATION and the channels through
which it can operate, impress upon
all the classes Of manufacturers,
all classes Of persons, what is evil
dent to all electrical interests, that
electricity IL mans efficient servant
and should be utilized to the great
est possible extent"
Local electrical organizations, in
Guiding electrical contracting con-
Germs, have already become national
factors. Many of them are carrying
on work in distant sections of the
country. They are recognized in
electrical engineering circles as
second to none in the country.
They estimate on all of the largest
operations and secure their share
Of the work being let.
To Secure Recognition.
But Washington. until recently.
was not recognized as one of the
electrical centers of the country.
That was largely due to the abb
sence of an organiza ton, it is as
serted, affiliating all of the electric
interests centered here. In the re-
organization of the Electrical Con-
tractors Dealers Association this
will be supplied
Electrical manufacturers and
electrical engineers are vital factors
in the electrical world, and as such
should be included in the associa-
tion," said a member today. There
is no business in the world, that is,
In the constructive sense, SO thor
ougbly specialized as the electrical
business. There is no business