The Washington times., 1923-11-21

World Farley in London Will
Survey Countries Poten-
tial Energy.
By PHILIP A. ORME.

q Oy 1AlA14E tAs O1SENAAfs
A conference of world powers"
up to date has been mostly an
opportunity for the exercise of
diplomatic wiles. A "world power
conference" is an honest attempt
upon the part of representatives
Of governments and great indus
tries to arrive at some idea of
the globes potential energies
which may be harnessed by man
and # the correct methods for
their Harvesting.
To Be Held InLondon.
Such a gathering will be the
epochal first world power confer
2 ence to be held in London, June 80
20 July IL, 1924. The affair is
being promoted by the British Elec-
trfcaI and Allied Manufacturers As
ISOLATION in cooperation with tech
nical and scientific institutions and
Industrial organizations IN Britain
and other countries.
To this series of expert deIibera-
lions. in all probability. more than
twenty nations and dominions viii
send delegates. Water power in
general and hydro-electric power In
particular will be the leading topic
Of discussion. Representatives OF
the Federal Water Power Commits
sion will represent America at that
conference.
What the people of the greatest
republic. working through their
agents. the members Of the power
commission, have been able to
achieve in conservation Of their
hydro-electric resources and their
development under the rigid domi-
nance OF the Government will be
related to distinguished technicians.
And the exposition should be potent
In advancing the ideal of public
operation of such resources in civil
tzed countries.
Personnel of u. s. Committee.
Representatives of this nations
leading electric generating and
manufacturing concerns compose
part Of the American committee
which has participated in arrange
ments for the conference. They will
furnish valuable data as to costs
and methods in the development Of
great plants and distribution OF
power.
The personnel of the American
committee is as follows: Honorary
chairman, Secretary Of War Weeks;
honorary vice chairman, Secretary
OF the Interior Work; Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace, Secretary OF
Commerce Hoover, Gen. Guy Z.
Trip. chairman. board of direc-
tors, Westinghouse Electrical and
Manufacturing Company; Owen D.
Young, chairman, board of direc-
tors. General Electric Company;
Samuel insult, president. Common
wealth Edison Company; Prof. Les
ter P. Breckenridge, chairman,
United States Superpower Survey;
Sidney 2. Mitchell, president, Elec-
trio Bond and Share Company;
general secretary. o. c. Merrill,
executive secretary. Federal Water.
power Commission: vice chairman,
Fl j. Pierce. president, Washing.
tor Irrigation and Development
Company; secretary. w. NJ. Steuart
director, Bureau OF the Census
treasurer, H. NJ. Addinsell, of New
York: executive committee, Direc
tor Steuart, Peter Junkersfeld, o!
New York: Calvin w. Rice. secre
tsry. American Society of Civil
Engineers: David B. RushmOrc
schenectady; Calvert Townley, Mr.
AddinselI, H. /. Hartman. presi
dcrt. New England Power Com
paEy; John w Lieb, vice presi
dent, New York Edison Company
and Fred r. Low, editor of Power
Meets During Exposition.
The conference will occur stimuli
taneously with the British Empire
Exposition at Wemberly. London
A preliminary meeting of the rep
resentatives of national committees
was held in the English capita
last August and was attended By
Merrill, as general chairman of the
American committee.
The program is wide i'm scope
SBcluding general surveys of ma
tional power resources, water
power, of course. being by far tn,
most important. and application o
power to domestic and industrial
use.
These countries to date have sig
nified their intention of sendinI
delegations to the conference
Australia, Austria. Belgium, Canada
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France
Great Britain, Greece, Holland
india. Italy, Norway, Rumania an,
Sweden.