The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-31
ADNI rs POWER
TRUST PAYS
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ficit 81 $50 iii 1925 but received no
money from the Pennsylvania pub.
ia utility inflammation committee
until November 8, 1926, Grayscn
said. on that date check for
$3.50 arrived.
TT paid 4 little less than half of
the deficit 81 the previous year. 4
Grayson explained.
While admitting The understanding
81 government ownership was
stressed. Efayson said he tried to-
present both sides III nIs course
All except three students who have
taken the course have been utility
employees or bond statesmen. Gray
son testified
During his power speeches. Gray.
son denied he spoke as an official
representative Cf the university.
His Connections Traced
Healy then traced some Of Gray.
sons connections. The latter said
he was ! corporation lawyer, In ad-
Idition to i professor. and has had
work before legislative committees
ana the public service commissions
OF Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Since 1924 he has been secretary
treasurer of the New Jersey public
utility information committee and Is
also treasurer of the New Jersey
Utility Association, for which he Isl
paid $500 q year. He is member
or The education committee Of the
National Electric Light Association.
The commission today announced
the appointment or JohT HI. Buckley.
OF Harrisburg. Pa, as q member
OF the economic staff to investigate
the financing Of public utilities He
formerly served with the public
service commissions Of Maryland
and Pennsylvania.
a network OF carefully drilled,
buught-and-paid-for lecturers covers
the Nation with barrage OF ora
torical propaganda for the power
trust.
These ready. dollar.led takers
reach into clubs, schools. lyceum
platforms. churches in far-away
rural districts, as well as in the
cities, all aiming to create public
sentiment against public ownership
OF public utilities, against Boulder
Dam, Muscle Shoals. or any other
project that falls athwart the
power trust interests.
These facts have been disclosed
in the investigation, showing that
the intrenched public utility inter-
ests have overlooked no possible
avenue or channel with which to
direct a poisonous stream of doc.
tored information into the public
mind.
2,840 Addresses Made
Official records submitted to the
commission show that for the five
months ending March. 1928. 2.S40
addresses were delivered on behalf
OF power trust" interests. reaching
2s1 ,57s persons. There were Hl3
different speakers and 800 columns
Of newspaper publicity were devoted
to accounts Of their lectures.
The power trust" publicity exs
perts conduct schools in which their
paid speakers are trained like so
many actors or talking dummies
to go through the oratorical PAGES
demanded of them.
Ninteen Of these schools were
held in Illinois alone last year. with
graduate class of $50 OF what
are known as "A" speakers, really
to do the most difficult kind of
lecturing work.
1t is emphasized in the reports
that such organizations as the
kiwanis. Rotary. and Lions clubs
are the hardest to bend to power
trust" purposes
Officials Wife Active
One Of those employed to teach
the speakers in the southwest sec
ton was Mrs. Benton McMillin
wife Of the former Tennessee Gov.
ernor and herself an active club
woman and speaker. In New Eng.
land the Lyceum bureau was ex.
ceptionally active.
The sections in which the activi.
les Of the lecture bureau of the
power trust" reached its dullest
point were the Pacific coast and
the northwestern States.
Here various reports emphasize
the fact that the public Is aware
Of It's vast natural water power re-
sources, as yet MndevelOped, and
Dr. strongly opposed 70 surrendering
them Ia the power trust" or any
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