Evening star., 1924-05-23

accessories of modern life. those
emancipations Of drudgery, the cleo
trio washer, the vacuum cleaner, the
electric iron and the like. The re-
suit is that the farm daughter is
unwilling to stay on the farm, be-
cause of the drudgery of the farm
work, as compared with the work In
the city. And If you expect to keep
the farm boy on the farm you must
see to 1t that the farm girl is con-
tent to stay there. Electric
service available to farm use, seems
a most promising means of answer
ing this demand"
Secretary Hoover, speaking in his
private office in the Department of
Commerce, addressed his attention
to the problems Of governmental and
state control OF the ether-channels.
so as to safeguard the ways for gen
eraI use, preventing monopolistic
abuses.
After stating that "interconnection
or local radio broadcasting stations
by telephone wires had begun only a
few months ago" he pointed to inter-
connection of electric power plants as
now. the road of our great electrical
march to more economical expansion,
which will ramify into every
field of our economic life.
This new vista in progress" said
Secretary Hoover. has been opened
to us by the perfection of the trans
mission of electric power up to 200 or
even 800 miles, and higher mechanical
eh1c1ency of our generators up to
10000 horsepower in a single machine
With these twin developments comes
the opportunity to generate power in
much larger and more economically
located stations. to harness our wa
ytyhi ioh tD0 En- f-,-
use even ten years ago. and to bring
them into the field of population
Herein do we have elements of often
miscalled 'superpower.'
Pointing to our 5000 isolated cleo
trio power plants in the United
States. Secretary Hoover forecast the
interconnection of all or of groups,
whereby. instead of getting 20 per
cent Of their efficiency as at present,
so per cent would be available, more
country, without increasing invest
ment.
I'm the northeastern states" said
Mr.. Hoover, where little has been
done. the annual savings are ,esti-
against a construction cost of a bill
lion and a half, with an annual con-
servation of 50,000,000 tons of coal by
Secretary Hoover disclaimed any
sympathy with either socialistic gov
ernment control or private monopoly,
but emphasized the need of govern
ment and state regulation. 1--WE have
special problems before u.s." he said,
''in the development of the St Law
renee and of the lower Colorado River
and in the development Of Muscle
Shoals but he added, "as being one
who believes that the progress of our
nation can come only by preserving
on one hand that vital initiative and
enterprise of our people and on the
other an equality of opportunity to
all, I necessarily do not favor the
strangulation Of both by the hand Of
bureaucracy and politics. No bu-
reaucracy with a board Of directors
Of 531 congressman and senators,
coveries of the last fifty years. or
pioneered their application. Our po-
litical system has not yet developed,
and will not for generations to come,
to a point where it will have either
the, capacity to choose skill or the
assured probity to operate these inn
plements."
The audience Of 1000 upon the pier
largely composed Of electric ex-
perts-app1auded the above quoted
expressions against government own
ership, in favor of government super
vision for general public good. The
rest Of the 100000 listeners-in could
not give expression to their views,
but perhaps the 5000 was cross
section average OF the public.
tCQyrixht. 1924. By Paul Y. CoutnsS