New Britain herald., 1928-09-20
UTILITIES BUY
 HO0vER'S SPEECH Light Association Disppss el
 @,M Copies

Washington. Sept. % (UPNLit- erature distributed by the National Electric Light association in it's cam paign to sway opinion against fed eral regulation of utilities included an address by Herbert Hoover, re- publican presidential nominee, &C., cording to testimony on fle with the federal trade commission today. Its utilities inquiry was in recess today until tomorrow.
 The Hoover speech Why the Pub lie Requires State Rather Than Fed eral Regulation of Electric Public Utilities" was circulated in 1925 after %s,5o0 copies had been bought for $S2s46 from Harold Phelp. Stokes, former Hoover aide. accord ing to testimony offered late yester- day.
 Telling of distribution of the Hoover address. George F. Oxley. publicity director for the N. E. l.. A., said: Tt was 50 good that it ordered large quantities sent out to our peo- ple."
 Candidate Cleared
 At Hoover's headquarters here. it was explained he had nothing to do with sale of his speech, but that any persons interested were always able to buy copies of his talks.
 In his speech. made before the 1925 convention of tho National As- sociation of Railroad and Utilities commissioner. Hoover pleaded for continuance of state regulation of utilities. Describing proposals for government regulation as "beau- cratic," Hoover said he did not be- lieve the people ''are ready to sur render control of their most intimate concerns to paternal government at Washington, however wise or however powerful"
 Testimony yesterday was studded with names of persons prominent in public life who received money from the N. F.. l.. A. for expenses, articles or speeches. Among these were Will liam Allen White, Kansas publisher. who got $500 for speech: Mrs. John D. Sherman, former president of the General Federation of Wom- ems clubs, and Bruce Barton, adver- tising man.
 Mrs. sherman, it was testified, was paid $500 each for a number of articles she wrote on rural living standards for publication in small town newspapers. Barton received $33s expense money for attending the N. E. l.. A. 1925 convention in San Francisco and also 45,000 for 'inspirational pamphlets" sent to consumers with their bills. The pay ments to Mrs. Sherman came from 8 $100,000 fund for rural paper publicity.
 Spent in Display
 This fund was handled by the ad- vertising firm of Lord. Thomas X Logan. New York, which acted as advertising counsel" to the N. F.. l.. A.. OMey testified. Most of the money was spent in display adver- Using, Oxley said, but payments were made to Mrs. Sherman and others for articles which were published in the News columns.
 Other checks entered in the rec ord showed payments to Dr. James Mayor, Ontario. Canada. pro- lessor, who made surveys of that provinces public owned utilities: Charles A. Lory. president of Col orado / Agricultural college for speeches; James T. Williams, for mer editor of the Boston Transcript, for speeches and w. B. D. Ainey. chairman of the Pennsylvania public service commission, for expenses.
 s. s. Wyer, a consulting engineer of Columbus, O., was shown to have received numerous checks for sur veys for the N. E. l.. A. on power projects.
 The hearing will be resumed to- morrow when documents already res ceived but not yettentered in the record will be introduced. One witt ness, Marcy B. Darnall. Florence, Ala. has been summoned.
 Next week, the commission will turn it's spotlight on the south again and has summoned witnesses from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.
 The Witnesses
 Witnesses subpoenaed for Tuesday are: C. M. Kilian, Atlanta, secretary of the southeastern division of the N. F. l.. A.: and J. $. Thomas. Birm- ingham, former publicity agent. On Wednesday. the following are sched- uied to be heard: J. A. Switwer. University of Tennessee. Nashville, who is secretary of the Southern Ap- palachian Power conference: Dr. Jo- seph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, N. C.. l