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...electrical expert, and made available to the industry through the cooperation of General Guy E. Tripp, Chairman of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., and other leaders of big-business. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the National Electric Light Association have devoted programs to it. A Federal super-power commission appointed in 1918 made an extensive survey of needs and costs. If the engineers could have their way, the completion of the system would be a matter of a few years...
...This conference is not conceived as more government in business," explained Mr. Hoover. He does not advocate Federal super-regulation of interstate movement of power, but believes the solution will be found in coordinated state regulation with the assistance of the Federal Government. But the states must meet each other halfway. Maine has a law prohibiting the transmission of electric current across its borders, passed to retain Maine's waterpower for her own benefit. The people of Maine will not act the " dog in the manger," however, if a general plan is adopted, said William E. Guerney, President...
...super-power plan, as " dramatized " by the engineers, calls for the construction of networks of great power highways east of the Mississippi and west of the Rockies, linked by several transcontinental lines, connecting central storage stations. These lines would carry currents of 220,000 volts (some Pacific Coast lines are already doing this) by methods of high-voltage transmission evolved by the General Electric Co. (TIME, June 18). Local low-voltage systems would connect with the main trunks, distributing electricity for industrial, commercial and domestic purposes throughout the nation, even to remote rural districts...
...point is, however, that, on the face of it, the new Constitution will be useless in restoring order in China. The Tuchuns (War Lords) and the Super-Tuchuns have managed very ably to appoint Governors in the provinces-generally themselves. They have large armies for the suppression of lawlessness and anything else that occurs to them. This state of things obviously breathes defiance to the spirit of the new Constitution. The main obstacle to a unified China is the armies of the Tuchuns. They cannot be laid aside merely because the Constitution, says so or because President Tsao-Kun asks...
...Chancellorship of Oxford is an honorary post, now held by the Marquis Curzon. The Vice Chancellor is selected for a period of years from among the heads of the various colleges. He is the chief disciplinary officer, is really a super-military police of the Oxford lanes...