Show 55 EDITORIAL AL j I Mr Ir Thomas A A A. Edison has has' expressing ex ex- x pressing himself on ithe dhe f f of big business mergers and sees sees sees- no ob objection objection ob- ob to them unless they outgrow management There Is the rub rull His Ills remark com comes S coincident with the flue discovery discovery dis dig covery cry that a n local manager for the Cities Service Corporation in Cin Cincinnati nu ati aU has Ims absorbed of pf the corporations corporation's cor cor- corporations corporation's funds pulling down Iowa a bank hank with v.-Ith him Also with n a complaint from froni stockholders that the million dollar salary paid the head hend of the Bethlehem Steel Company is too much Further slumps slump In industrial stocks echo public uneasiness as to whether the mergers merger have not already gone sone too far to ensure the he promised profits Meanwhile the pre president of the New ew York Stock E Exchange Ex Ex Exchange change has n s lured a Boston a audience that in all ull the panicky period now nearly arly a a year old the Exchange ha has functioned smooth smoothly y That is it its itA l machinery h hits has 1 been heen adequate te to take care of the be tumbling billions billion without ut harm to Itself The lambs have been sheared l without dulling the scissors Just how much economic comfort fort can be he extracted from this we do not know The gentleman himself offers no remedy for s such ch financial convulsions His pride Is confined l. l to operations IlS not I results |