Show I Finding Truth About Utilities I Ic Ic c By ByCH CHESTER STER H H. ROWELL resents a a. Canada violently Sir Adam Beck of pamphlet on the Ontario power system put out byi by Smithsonian i Samuel S S. S Wyer an of the Institution apparently with its sanction The wr writ r r rf old cold owned system f und that the Ontario publicly electricity for domestic lighting that lighting that is to the consumers on con having the most votes votes votes-at at less than cost and sumers made up the difference in higher rates rate's to others arid in conc aled losses To o which Sir Adam retorts tl that at Mr rr Wy Yer Wyer er is another and then some This T is ls a controversy of ot long standing which ought to bo be settled by some method more impartial than mutual recrimination There are two power the CanadIan Canadian Canadian Canad Canad- plants using Niagara Falls the one on ownership and that on the ian side under public I American under private ownership The temptation temptation temp tomP- tation is therefore irresistible to use them Js J s a I basis basis' of comparison between n the two Systems system or ot its consumer bett bettor better r claims to serve op operation Each md cheaper than the other and presents figures to prove it Somebody not concerned to prove either case cae t but ut competent to analyze the figures ought outfit to find out out the truth Th There re is no magic In either public or private ownership If 11 eitl either er is cheaper that cheapness con- con consists consists sl ts of certain items in certain In-certain certain amounts duo to certain causes all ascertainable There are men can cm find out the truth about these items if it that thatis is what they are set to do If It they are interested d parties nobody will believe belle them even when they are tight Ther should be some h investigation whose mothes motives motives mo mo- mo- mo tives thes and good faith could not be bo questioned and se E figures therefore could ouId be a analyzed mathematically mathematically mathe mathe- instead of morally and If Mi rr Wyer's yer's r report port has hns not satisfied critics of ot its good faith somebody should make another |