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Show Opportunities Still Exist Commenting on the "opportunities "opportuni-ties for ycuth in the electric utility industry," H. P. Liversidgcr. Vice-President, Vice-President, Philadelphia Electric C:mpany, said: "Twenty-five yea s ago a young man with an engineering engin-eering education accepted as a foregone conclusion the fact that one of the most desirable openings for him was the electric light and power industry." He then pointed cut the remarkable remark-able growth of the industry, the constant downward levision of rates the fact that no nation in the w.rld approaches the United ates in the wide availability of electric service, and said: "This has been accomplished through the traditional tradi-tional American system of encouraging encour-aging individual enterprise under suitable regulation and control." Mr. Liversidge feels that the political polit-ical maligning of the industry is going to run its course and that the soundness of the American system will finally cenfusa the soialistic propagandists. "Speaking of the profit system," he says, "we may theorize to our heart's content and draw glowing pictures of an era of production for use and not for profit, but, human nature being what it is, when a nation pursues any plan in which profit is eliminated, it will find itself building up a loss that ultimately must prove a hardship hard-ship to the very public it was endeavoring en-deavoring to benefit." He points out the opportunity for growth of t,he industry and the many advantages that still remain for the young men who wish to enter en-ter it as a life work. What the industry in-dustry has done is but a sample of what it can do in the future if private enterprise is allowed to develop de-velop the nation's resources as in the past. If it is not, the field for young men will be limited, not only in the electric industry, but in many other endeavors, as governmental regimentation curbs private enterprise. enter-prise. The answer is up to the people and to the very young men who are now considering their future. |