Show Preva Prevailing i Ii ng Opi Opinions n ons Comment of tho the American Press Fate Fat of the Utilities President Willkie of ot the G Commonwealth Commonwealth Com Corn and Southern cor corporation corpor or allan offers a challenge to federal deral statesmanship He began by a I recital of t the attempts attempt which he and arid other othor forward looking utility leader made la last t winter to reach to-reach reach a compromise with the tho mU fo forces ces at It V Washington At that time they proposed ed an armistice on such explicit terms term aa u these the tho government to refrain from entering into competition directly or indirectly with companies offering of of- fering satisfactory rates the government gov to complete whatever hydroelectric projects economic conditions warranted with the understanding that the tho private companies would absorb their out output put aa as rapidly as u possible giving the tho ultimate the benefit of ot all savings resulting from subsidized subsidised sub sub- generation congress contres to pass pus a bill bUl dealing with recognized recognised holding-company holding ab abuses s the utilities on their part in the Interest Interest interest inter Inter- est of national electrification and recovery to embark on the broad program of at expansion which low lowr r rates t growing demand and fret tret dom from federal persecution would justify This ThU seemed a sensible proposal I at least M ILl a basto for further negotiations ne us- I between the embattled groups Later similar effects were made maat to reach a reasonable e c corn cam m. m on the tho public utility act UnIt itself ao so that honest holding com corn panics should not b be punished for forthe forthe the tho sins of their less Jess scrupulous brethren These efforts met with considerable encouragement even evenin in lu administration circles but they u cre re rejected by what Mr fr Willkie Will Will- kie diplomatically refers refer to as AI the final authority Now the tho Industry cu curbed bed In its legitimate activities and unable to make mke the contribution to U national national na I recovery that it might make I if U Its shackles hackl wire win thrown of oft off has bas taken its ca cue case e to the courts court's This Thi Is 15 its Ita right and even oven its us duty But the tho courts cnn ein decide en cn questions of ot constitutionality Uty they can stop the federal government govern ment meat from doing this or that hut ut thy they cannot determine a national policy Only congress rUne ailing within constitutional limits can Carl do that Mr closed him with lb thu h thU Could any single act do more to restore the confidence of AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican business than for or congress Inita in Its ita January session to enact a a. reasonable public utility law The Tho answer is No But the tho only man who can invoke reason and call off oft the dogs clogs of war is the president New president New York Times A Tragic Error ErrorA A tragic error appears to have havo cost COlt the life lite of ot Earl Burtnett or orchestra orchestra orchestra or- or chestra leader Burtnett supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed his appendix had been re removed removed re- re moved years yean ago and Insisted than an illness which doctors dIamond di diagnosed dl- dl amond as appendicitis must be some oth other r ailment aliment When tho the surgeons finally operated it was too late The surgeon who performed perform d a previous operation was dead doad and could not b bo be consulted as to what precisely he ha had done but it Is II evident he ha did not deprive Burtnett of ot his appendix The lh occurrence seems to carry carTY two l lessons llona i one of ot the wisdom of ot trusting the diagnosis of tho the physicians physicians phy phy- in charge of the cue cose which is apt to be better bettor than a layman's Jayman's notion of ot what is the matter with him the other the wisdom of tho the advice sometimes heard that a patient should obtaIn obtain ob ob- ob- ob tam tain from any surgeon who performs performs per per- forms a major operation a Written writt written writ- writ t ten n a and d signed statement de describing de de- scribing the operation Had Burtnett pos possessed essed such a statement state state- ment from his former surgeon or had bad he trusted fully his last physicians he ha might still bo be alive Los Los Angeles Times Woman Women's Pla Place PlaceIt e eIt It is our painful duty to disagree with Amelia Earhart tho the charmIn charmIng charm- charm In lug Ing getter go-getter and high flyer She I says I women should be permitted permitted permitted per per- to do whatever they please If It they want to be coal miners then in Miss Miu Earhart's opinion it Is no mans man's business But it is every mans man's business For every man wants to respect adore and protect a woman Can a man adore a n woman whose face is d with coal dust dUll Can he protect a a. woman who has a 8 shovel in one hand and anda a pick In the other ther Cleveland News Roosevelt on Neutrality Why any foreign nation pation should got get e excited olied over over- what President Roosevelt said about neutrality in his speech to congress Ls L's hard to understand The p president ident said aId nothing new He reiterated the stand which the administration administration tion has bu t taken ken First We We refuse rewe to sell nIl arms arnu ammunition and Implements of war var to belligerents That hat is Ls written written writ writ- written writ writ- ten into the law True that law expires February 29 but there thoro thoroIs is 15 no flO question but that it will be reenacted Second Second We We sell other products calculated to facilitate the tho prosecution prose prose prosecution cution lIon of ot a a. war in such uch quantities ties only as M we have sold BOld in time of ol peace That has not yet been een written into our law Jaw but there Ls Is almost a a. certainty that it will be But there ther are questions arising out of these matters mattera and they are Important Who Vho I. I Is to say lay what products facilitate the tho prosecution of ot a war the president or congress con con- grass gress W Who o I. I Is Ls going to define a belligerent erent the president o or congress congress congress con con- gress Are rul rules for tor defining such products product to be laid down in advance advance advance ad ad- vance Is a rule for defining what constitutes belligerency to be Je set act setup setup up Specifically If the League of at Nations adopts further sanctions sane sanc and Italy attacks a a. member country is that country a belligerent ent eat Are all the countries of ot the theLea Lea League e of ot Nations then belligerents cuts The world has a a right to know the answer to these thue questions In advance of ot their upcoming The Th whole course of ot world diplomacy may be changed by the answer er we wo give or by our refusal to an an- The Tho more moro we study the question the more we are arc attracted to Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator cash cull and carr carry plan plait True It would help the League of Nations if It the tho league imposed a blockade on an offending country True it would reco recognize le British domination atthe of at the seas sens But It U resolves many other difficulties and it divorces us w in advance from the necessity of passing ju judgment ment on Europe Europe's l quarrels Detroit News |