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Identifier: pacificservicema1627paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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or at a 10-cent store, said Mr. Hooverwith marked emphasis. It was an able, well-ordered address, de-livered in the Secretarys quiet but incisivemanner, and was listened to with markedattention. At its conclusion Mr. Hooverwas warmly applauded. On this occasion the report of the Pub-lic Policy Committee was presented byMr. Martin J. Insull of Chicago. In thisMr. Insull called public attention to thefact that while since the war the cost ofcommodities generally had risen 65 per centthe electrical industry had succeeded in act-ually reducing its cost to the public by 8 5^per cent. Mr. Insull estimated the present outputof electrical energy in the United Statesat 60,000,000,000 kilowatt hours a year,representing in energy the work of 8,000,-000 horses. Views similar to those expressed by Mr.Hoover upon this question of state ver-sus federal regulation were voiced at an-other session by Hon. W. D. B. Ainey, ofPennsylvania, President of the NationalAssociation of Railway and Utilities Com-
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Judge W. D. B. Ainey, president National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners, who spoke against Federal regulation. missioners. Judge Ainey took the posi-tion that local conditions should be dealtwith by local authorities. There is a wide divergence between theelectrical problems of California and thosepresented in the East, between those ofthe South and Southwest, said JudgeAiney. It seems obvious that for thepublic welfare a state commission com-posed entirely of men familiar with localconditions is better qualified to speak con-cerning them than a Washington commis-sion drawn from the country at large. Nocentralized federal agency can have thatlocally intimate touch which is essentialfor the public to have in order that cor-rectional matters may be speedily andpromptly adjusted. Hon. William M. Jardine took in SanFrancisco during an inspection tour of thecountry in which his purpose was to ob-tain first-hand information concerning theproblems of production, transpo

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