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Show HOOVER RAPS WASTE IN POWERFROGRAM NEW YORK. Feb. S (UP) Former For-mer President Herbert Hoover aa-aailed aa-aailed the administration's hydroelectric hydro-electric power program as wasteful waste-ful last night snd asserted that private pri-vate electric utilities wsrs ths newest new-est in a series of "national demons" set up by politicians to gain votes. In a speech following by one dsy his Chicago critique ef President Rooaevelt'a foreign policy, Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver ssld that engineering developments develop-ments had so reduced coal consumption consump-tion la the production of electrical power that "the government la about ths only person whs now builds hydroelectric plants." Mr. Hoover spoke at the thirty-sixth thirty-sixth annual dinner of the Alumni Association of Stevens Institute of Technology. He received a doctorate of engineering. |