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Show H 'PUBLICITY SPELLS IGNORANCE B When commenting on the understand- H ing of the public and its attitude toward H public utility problems Alexander T. Vog- H elsang, former assistant secretary of the m interior says: "The public is fair when it m .understands and when it does not under- H stand it is generally viciously unfair 01 H indifferent to the attacks of those who H seem willing to make sacrifice of legiti- H mate investment and essential public good H for politcial reasons. Demagogery is 1 nearly always the child of ignorance. The B onpy cure is truth, light arid education. HI "Therefore it behooves every developer M .of electric energy (in paraphrase of the H gospel) to fully realize that 'You are in m fact the lighters of the world and should m let yoiir light so shine before men that H many may see your gqod work and glor- H ify the power, which is electricity.' Then M those who come to destroy the industry M or the developer will aid in the fulfill- H, ment of the enterprise. m "Much has been done in spreading the 1 gospel of power, but infinately mow re- H mains to be accomplished before under-' M standing becomes the rule instead of the m exception among the American people. M "The basic trouble is that in time past H before the people realized their power of Hv regulation and their means of protection. H t most exploiters of natural resources sow- H ?d the seed of contempt of public right H and they now, though chasened in spirit m and desirous ony of justice and fair deal- H ing are reaping a whirwind of' popular M wrath. This can be cured but it requires H time and it requires publicity." |