Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1932 — Page 5

MARCH 4. 1932

UTILITY LAW'S AUTHUR FLAYS RECENT RULING B. B. Shively Says Public Service Commission Has Abused Its Powers. Hu Times Hp<rial GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 4. Majority decision of the public service commission in the North Manchester case was scored here Thursday night by former Senator B B. Shively, co author of the bill creating the commission. Present plight of the public under big utility dictatorship calls for drastic action, he contended. As measures of relief, he suggested direct election of public service commissioners and complete commission control over holding companies. Shively’s talk was the first of a series on public utility questions to be given De Pauw university students and the public under auspices of the school. Manchester Ruling Flayed Terming the Martinsville decision in the federal court, which upheld the municipal unit as the basis for rate making, a “victory for the people,” Shively referred to the North Manchester decision of the commission aR a decided defeat. The latter decision, made by a vote of three to two, placed the commission on record as forbidding any city or town to cut in on a big electric utility and own its own distribution system through commission approval. Shively termed the decision “a bold attempt to read a construction into the law' that is not now, nor ever has been, there.” He then condemned mergers and said there is no law, whatever, in Indiana for mergers of utilities not giving like services. Mergers Seen Harmful “Were mergerr demanded by the people?” he asked. “Certainly they were not. Who then—why by none other than our friendly enemy—the utilities, who seek to wax fat through merged valuations upon which the dear public is required to pay a ‘fair’ return. “The commission has been in error in permitting mergers. There only is one marked reason why they should ever be granted, so far as I am able to see, and that is the general good of the public. “But I defy any one to show me a case wherein a merger has ever been accompanied by a reduced rate.” Declaring the “right to take over” must be preserved, the former senator continued: "Without it the people lose one of their formidable weapons looking toward adequate service and reasonable rates.” ‘Public Bulldozed, ’ Charge Pointing out that the state has been kind to utilities, Shively assailed them for their lack of appreciation and treatment of the people. "They have threatened, bulldozed and blocked us almost at every turn of the road,” he charged. Municipal plants should be given free rein to reduce rates as long as service is unimpaired and private utilities rigidly controlled in the same interest of the people, he concluded. Next speaker is to be C. V. Sorenson of the Insull interests, and following him, Commissioner Howell Ellis of the public service commission. A mayor from a town with municipal ownership, probably John W. McCarty of Washington, Ind.. will close the symposium. WRITES ‘TINIEST LETTER’ , Columbus Man Pens Message on Back of 2-Ccnt Stamp. Hy United Press COLUMBUS, 0., March 4.—A complete letter was written on the back of a 2-cent postage stamp, mailed in a letter box here. The address was written on the front margin of the stamp. Postal employes used a magnifying glass to determine destination of the letter, addressed to a Columbus girl.

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banned by order of Prohibition Commissioner Amos W. W. Woodcock, who has notified ali dry administrators that the so-called Ukiah decision rendered at Kansas City last fall would form the basis

■ for departmental action against the wine product. The Ukiah decision declared that grapes actually must be brought into a home, and then made into wine, for the resulting beverage to

be legal under the Volstead act exempting fruit juices. In the Missouri case, one of the companies engaging in retailing the fixed concentrate was convicted, and no appeal has been taken by the defendants.

HONORED AT INDIANA U. George Gardner Is Appointed to Board of Aeons. George Gardner. 3924 North Capitol avenue, Indiana university senior, has been appointed a mem-

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ber of the board of aeons, one of the highest honors at the university. Others chosen are John P. Crawford, Terre Haute, and Floyd James, Bloomington. Appointments were made by President William Lowe Bryan of the university.