Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
WALSH FORECASTS
NEW REVELATIONS
Senator Believes Power
Probe viii Help Kill OFF
Public Apathy.
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hands on. II the American people
cannot be walked up by the admission
that power money is prepared to buy
and control newspapers, wherever and
whenever they are for sale-EaSt West,
North and South, and at any cost
then I do not know what kind Of a
dynamite charge can be planted under
the country to alarm 1t into some kind
of movement to throttle such prac-
tees"
Senator Walsh named a few impend-
ing big power projects. the ultimate
course of which. he feels. is now bound
to be affected by the Federal Trade
Commissions findings about power. To
begin with, there is Muscle Shoals he
said, from which these revelations
more or less directly have flown. The
decade-old fight over disposition Of that
property can hardly help being decided
in light Of what the country now knows
Of power methods. One of these days
way project will be before Congress
Shall the public or the power barons be
intrusted with the development of that
immense undertaking? Who shall say
that, with the information the Amer
lean people now have in their possess
sion, private power enterprise will have
as easy sailing, in connection with the
Great Lakes-St Lawrence Canal. as it
might have had. If recent history had
not been written?
In the international section of that
project there can be developed no less
than 2,250,000 horsepower. In the
Canadian section. between Ogdensburg,
N. Y, and Montreal, there are 100000
more horsepower. Here are rich pick
ings. There is the coming Boulder Dam
project in our Southwest, with immeas-
urable power possibilities. All the world
knows that private power capital Graves
an opportunity to develop them. Will
the country not bark back to current
events in Washington, when the time
comes to parcel out these opportunities
as between private enterprise and public
enterprise? I think it will Then, of
course, out of the Federal Governments
plans for Mississippi River flood con-
troll and auxiliary power and waterway
developments. there will inevitably be
situations which will call for the Deo-
pies choice as between private and pub
lie ownership or operation, or both"
Restrictive Action Is Predicted.
1t would be impossible to exaggerate
the gravity with which Congress, and
administration leaders as well, view
the amazing stories which are coming
out of the Federal Trade Commission
from day to day. No one ventures to
foreshadow, as yet, Just what legislative
results will eventually accrue from the
disclosures That the revelations will
not simply be permitted to pass into
fat volumes of hearings" and accumu-
late dust in the Federal Trade Com
MISSIONS archives Is generally asserted.
Action of some sort. in some concrete
direction, must and will ensue-that
is felt on all hands. No one tmagineS
that merely more rigid control of Post
Office records Of wer-capital holdings
in newspapers and makazines-for in
stance-is the only thing that will re-
suit On the contrary, Investigators on
Capitol Hill encounter a widespread
and an unusually determined resolve to
secure the enactment OF far-reaching
regulatory laws. Nothing definite OF
that sort has been worked out as yet
But 1t seems certain 1t is coming.
(Copyrisht, 1920