Pinchot pressed to define stance on water power bills
The Water Power Development Association challenged former chief forester Gifford Pinchot to specify his position on water power legislation and to prove claims of a Washington lobby shaping bills. The open letter accuses Pinchot of opposing the Shields bill and urges clear public defense of his charges.
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Gifford Pinchot
Water Power Development Association
Pennsylvania Bull Mooser
Harry W. Sand
Devlopasent Association
Mr. Pinchot
Congress
Washington
Wilson
United States Senate
Pig Association
Shields
Garrison
Senate Committee
United States
Europe
New Laws Needed to Provide Jobs for Jobless Engineers
The piece argues for new laws to employ unemployed engineers amid three years of stagnant water power development. It notes as many as 30,000 engineers affected, with many begging for work and a scarcity of help wanted ads. A Philadelphia plant with $2 million in water wheel capacity shut down for ten months, then only one order this year.
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Philadelphia
Powering Water Power The Private Route for Development
The Outlook argues public needs steam and water power and calls for rapid, efficient development. It rejects government ownership and urges development of water power as a natural resource by private capital and private initiative.
True Meaning of Conservation
A scholarly note defines conservation as not only saving resources for future use but making the conserved resource widely useful to the greatest number in the shortest time, while eliminating waste. Thoughtful emphasis comes from Professor Thomas H. Norton of the U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in Scientific American.
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Thomas H. Norton
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
United States Department of Commerce
Scientific American
Water power bill urged as key to western development
Montana Senator Henry L. Myers argues the public lands leasing bill will unlock cheap hydroelectric power, spur irrigation and new industries, and reduce costs of living. He says it enables vast arid western lands to be reclaimed, supports electrochemical fertilizer plants, and strengthens national defense by securing nitrate materials.
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Montana
Congress
Great West
Tam
Chile
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