Evening star., 1928-06-20

we will be in position TO ascertain if
the subject might be reproduced in
pamphlet form for distribution among
the students of the colleges which he
had addressed
Sheridan said that he did not know
what suggestions Dean McCaustland
carried out in his speeches, but said
that the speeches had been issued in
pamphlet form and distributed. He
also said that advance news releases
were sent out on the speeches of Dean
McCaustland for the newspapers.
1t was brought out that a special COM
mittee was appointed in Missouri TO visit
headquarters of the Redpath-Vawtcr
chautauqua system to protest a speech
being made by Carl D. Thompson over
the chautauoua circuit in 1924. The
committee met With Mr. Keith Vawter
at Cedar Rapids on July 81, 1924, and
the minutes of the meeting said that
the question was Shall We annihilate
Mr.. Thompson or modify him?" The
minutes said that the committee deemed
the modification the best policy and
that Mr. Vawter stated that he would
demand that Mr.. Thompson modify his
lecture on Public Superpower, Its I'M
portance to America"
In the committee reports introduced
into the record it showed that every
effort was made to have ThompSon'S
speech changed. and it was said, that
while no promises were asked of 'or
made by MFR. Vawter. the Judgment of
the committee was. that If ii was found
desirable Mr.. Thompson's lecture could
be eliminated from the Chatauqua pro-
gram" The report quoted Mr.. Vaw-
ter as saying that he would demand
that the lecture be modified, but stated
that Thompson was a hard man to con-
troll. that his early lectures in Iowa
were reasonable. but when he found
himself among his own kind Of people.
radicals in Minnesota and the Dakotas
his statements
Mr.. vawter was further quoted as
saying that he had ten times more pro-
tests from his local Chatauqua COM
mittees in Missouri before Thompson
got there than he had during the two
months that Thompson l3ctured in
Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. The
report. which was signed by Sheridan.
said: This may be taken as indicative
that protests from his local committees
and guarantors have more weight with
Mr.. Vawter than protests from any
other source
1t has been indicated by Healy that
he would question Sheridan also about
his statements made before the 1925
convention of the American Gas AS
sociation at Atlantic City
Commission investigators. studying the
thousands of documents introduced in
connection with previous testimony. re-
vealed yesterday that at a meeting OF
the power utilities publicity men, held
also at Atlantic City. report was pub
lished describing the work Of the pub
licity men as ito so educate and inform
the whole public-customers, prospec-
tive customers, political. legislative, ad-
miniStrative and regulatory bodies, the
utility executives, employees and the re-
naming public" about public utilities
and the necessity for proper and fair
treatment of the utilities so that they
can continue to invite capital into the
undertaking"
Sheridan, in speaking before the Gas
Association meeting. was reported by
the investigators to have said that the
publicity organizations had done much
to change and direct the economic
thought and economic practice of the
American people"
In the next five years. he was quoted
in the commission report as saying,
they would create for the first time in
the long history of mankind a definite,
sound school of economic thought, not
only among economists, but among all
the people
"You cannot affect economic thought
without affecting political thought"
Sheridan continued. "All great politi-
cal movements are based on economic
foundations"
Women's Work Described.
Disclosure of the extensive work of
women for the utilities was made in
documents examined yesterday.
In a report of the wor1en's informa-
ton committee of the Southwestern
division Of the National Electric Light
Association for the first week in last
April, Mrs Bess Brooks of Oklahoma
City. chairman, was quoted as saying
This committee Is rapidly growing into
national organization, with many
activities III every State. n vital and
producing group recognized not only
by the utility industry, but known and
recognized by people everywhere, In
cIuding thousands of homemakers and
club women" She told of holding open
house" and teas" at which utility
publicity was discussed, that hundreds
of addresses we're made In Texas and
Oklahoma.
Mrs. Rose X. Perry Of San Antonio
said that nearly 100 girls were, enrolled
in pubiic-speaking classes. and In a
1924 report she said that 1T is our hope
that the women wall also prove i'm
portant mediums in carrying our mes
sages to girls schools and colleges and
10 womens organizations and clubs"
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