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Show P1NCH0T URGES STERN METHODS Now Is Time to Fight Monopolistic Monopo-listic Control of Water Power. I GREAT DANGER AHEAD Private Monopolization of Any Necessity Means Private Pri-vate Control of People. Washington, D C . Nov 19, Gif. ford Pinchot, former chlel fori mht of the United States, leading champion of government control of water pow er rights, scored in the national Con seratlon congress today when he succeeded In forcing before the con vention the minority report of the committee on cater power rights With former Secretary or the Int rlor Walter L Fisher in the chair, for Secretary of War Stlmson, who Joined with Mr. Pinchot in the minor ity report yesterday, moved for suspension of the rules that the wa ter pouer Question might be discus sed from the floor Scores of dele gates who favor. the majority repor' which would combine national with state control with less restriction on water power grants, protested. Mr Fisher ruled that the motion to bus- pend the rules was not debatable j and It was carried ara;d loud cheers Minority Report Read. Mr. Pinchot read the minority re 1 port and thereby opened the general : lU-hate Senator Rurton of Ohio, champion j ed the policv of strict national con trol of all water power rights and urged urg-ed the delegates not to get Into an "unseemly squabble between state rights and national control ." "It is impossible." said Senator Rur-I Rur-I ton. "that state control should ade quately solve this great national prob j lem In this matter we are conduct Ing no crusade against capital, bui there must be a recognition of the ! danger of monoply and a desire 'o i provide for public welfare In the U3P i of this great national asset " Washington. U Oj NoV 19 With the declaration that the water power I of the United States was rapidly pass-J pass-J Ing under monopolistic control, Gif-I Gif-I ford Pinchot. former chief torester of j the government, told delegates to the National Conservation congress today that stern methods must be adopted to offset the tendency His address ! was accepted by some of the delegates dele-gates as a defiance to those who are said to seek the loosening of fedeml j control and an extension of the resu lator powers of the individual states "If the public rights cannot be r? -, ognlzed without conllict ' said Mr I Pinchot. with emphasis, "then ve ; shall have to fight, and if we have to : fight now is hf time " Henry S Graves, head of the Unl led StateB forest service, and E. . I Sterling, director of the American For estry association also whs on th I program Lach discussed the r.atior a I forests and methods for their pro lection. Safeguard of Water Power. Mr Pinchot declared that the d velopmnt of power under proper saf guard will be "the greatest neccsslt.. in the whole water power situation "In the last seven years," he continued, con-tinued, "the concentration of contra In the ten greatest groups has in creased about seven times faster th;ir. the total or all water power develop ; mem In the United Slates. Com inerclal power to thl3 degree Is po lltlcal power and there lies the grc.r. est danger "It is argued that concentration c water power control Is iucreasin; faster than power development be cause high risks and lov. re turns kee. capital away. But, according to tho figures published by on? of the ten greatest groups, In the last ten jreai the net earnings of the gas and trie companies of the United 81 have never dropped below 8 per cent as against 4 25 per cent u.r railroads and 7 79 per cent for Individual cor porations Control of Mechanical Power "The control of any source of me chanical power coal, oil, natural gas water carries with It control oier th industries which requiro the power, as the rapidly Increasing domination 0: water Interests over electric lights and street railway companies well il lust rates. "Under these circumstances. we find that the control of the water power business, like the control of th' oil business the meat business, am' the anthracite coal hu-ii:- -s. is p.s Ing Into a few Btrong hands. Necessities of Life "Like coal, meat and oil, meehan leal power from falling water Is necessity to modem life. Control over a necessity ot life N control over the people who must have that n-cesslty. n-cesslty. Private monopolization oi" any necessity of life means private control over the people without re sensibility to the people It mean also the power to Increase the cost Oi the necessities of life, and there fore the cost of living. " Mr Pinchot concluded with a de n'.al ol the assertion that full and I complete regulation of water powers wculd cheek their development. Chief Forester Graves dwelt on the activities of the forest service, detailing the assistance being given through it to settlors, stockmen and others, while at the 6ame time con serving the nation s assets He said the work could be mnde even more efficient If the states should "let tin federal government assume its full responsibility of leadership" Mr Sterling told of the strides be fog made in the art of private for estry in the United States FREE COUPON That every child In Ogden may I hao an opportunity to witness the vltajp-aph pictures. A lesson on Tbom?btleasness which will caution cau-tion the little ones to prcxent accidents ac-cidents This Coupon will be honored at the Globe Theater Wednesday Afternoon from 3:30 till 5 p. m. Good for one child's admission. H. E. SKINNER, Manager |