MR. EGLIN: The essential point is that we would like to have national action and we hope that we will have the continued cordial support of the Pacific Coast members. It has already been announced that Mr. Canada has been retained to give all his time directly to this question in connection with the Bureau.

(The Report of the Committee on Cooperation in the Industry, Lee H. Newbert of San Francisco, Chairman, which was next presented, was published in the October, 1920, Bulletin.)

THE PRESIDENT: The Committee on Doherty and Billings Prizes is not here, and its report will therefore be printed in the Bulletin (August, 1920, issue).

The next order of business is the report of the Committee on the President's Address.

doctrine is commended to your attention as furnishing a field for active educational effort. The Address of the President brings out the fact that the chief function of an enlightened regulatory system is, at this time, to assist the electric public utilities in solving the problems of finance and suggests that efforts in this direction will be a long step toward promoting the confidence of bankers and the investing public in public utility securities. Other topics of which the paper treats, namely, Interconnection of Generating Systems, Railroad Electrification, Water Power Development, and enlarging the scope of Association work, are of such great importance to the industry that your Committee suggests a careful review by the Association and its members of the points brought out, because they constitute a large look into the future, which should be impressed upon the management of every public utility.

Particular attention is called to the problems confronting the Association in the immediate future through its reorganization and consequent increased service to members. The changes in the Constitution mark an epoch in the evolution of the Association and deserve the serious study and interest of member companies as well as allied industries whose future participation in our affairs should bring about a better understanding of our problems.

In closing, the Committee repeats that it endorses the very able and timely address of President Ballard, which bears the impress of careful thought and complete knowledge of his subject.

DUDLEY FARRAND, Chairman.
GUY E TRIPP,

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THE PRESIDENT: The next order of business, gentlemen, is the report of the Committee on Memorials, Mr. W. H. Onken, Chairman.

Report of Committee on Memorials

W. H. ONKEN, New York: In this land of sunshine and flowers where we are surrounded by all that is beautiful and lovely and where we are enjoy

Your Committee upon the Address of the President takes special pleasure in being able to report a complete endorsement of the principles set forth in it.

The President has pointed out the indispensability of electric service to the general welfare of the community and the nation, and that the most vital emergency now confronting the electrical industry is that of finance.

There is no longer any question of the necessity for the expansion and development of electric service, but the industry is unable to meet the needs of the public because of its inability to procure the necessary money therefor, and your President has very aptly suggested that if there is not money enough to go around, the economic welfare of the country demands that the essential service of our electric public utilities should not be sacrificed for the benefit of speculative and non-essential activities. This sound.

our hosts, it is fitting that we should pause for a moment in silent tribute to the memory of those who were once with us and of us, and who, during the year, have passed to the great beyond. The Committee on Memorials therefore brings to your attention the following names for grateful commemoration:

Frederick Sargent, senior member of the firm of Sargent & Lundy, Chicago, and designer of the great central stations of the Commonwealth Edison Company at Chicago, the American Gas & Electric Company at Wheeling, West Virginia, and the Union Gas and Electric Company at Cincinnati, and one of the most prominent consulting engineers in the country, who died July 26, 1919.

Frank N. Townsend, for thirteen years chief engineer of the power plants of the Narragansett Electric Lighting Company, Providence, Rhode Island, who died August 17, 1919.

Henry A. Reed, identified with the industry since

1849, and President of the Bishop Gutta Percha Company, who died August 23, 1919.

William H. Austin, formerly associated with Thomas A. Edison and the Edison Company in Boston, who died August 14, 1919.

Stanley A. Smith, superintendent of the Norwalk District of the Connecticut Light & Power Company, who died September 1, 1919.

C. A. Bergen, manager of the Corry City (Pa.) Electric Company, and the Union City Electric Company, who died August 23, 1919.

J. E. Phillips, chief engineer of the Defiance Gas & Electric Company, Maumee, Ohio, who died September 11, 1919.

W. D. Weaver, for many years Editor of the Electrical World and one of the founders of the Illuminating Engineering Society and the American Electro-Chemical Society, and probably the most constructive publicist in the industry during his lifetime, who died at Charlottesville, Virginia, November 2, 1919.

Wallace E. Sawin, chief engineer and treasurer of the Holyoke Water Power Company, who died November 7, 1919.

Percy H. Ashmead, one of the best known American engineers engaged in foreign practice and for many years chief engineer of J. G. White & Company, who departed this life November 12, 1919.

E. B. Greene, formerly general superintendent of the Penn Central Light & Power Company, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, who died November 25, 1919.

Edward B. Sturges, president of the Lackawanna Electric Power Company and organizer of the Suburban Electric Light & Power Company, now a part of the Scranton Electric Light & Power Company, who died April 8, 1919.

Col. Richard H. Abbott, president of the Abbott Light & Power Company, Petersburg, Illinois, secretary of the Illinois Electric Light Association, and a major on the staff of Governor Lowden, of Illinois, who died May 3, 1919.

George Lockwood, one of the general managers of the National Lamp Works, General Electric Conpany, who died on June 26, 1919.

Frederic P. Stearns, one of the leading authorities. on hydraulics, and consulting engineer for the Mississippi River Power Company, who died December 1, 1919.

George B. Diem, superintendent of construction of the Windsor Plant of the American Gas & Electric Company, who died October 26, 1919.

O. J. Gronsdahl, manager of the Hartford (S. D.) Electric Light Plant and formerly Secretary of the South Dakota Light & Power Association, who died January 1, 1920.

J. C. Johnson, superintendent Southern Electric Utilities Company, Centerville, Ia., who died January 2, 1920.

R. N. Strohn, vice-president, Western United Gas & Electric Company, Aurora, Illinois, who died January 23, 1920.

Col. John Bogart, consulting engineer, and asso

ciated with large water power projects at Niagara Falls, Keokuk, and Chattanooga, who died April 25, 1920.

Henry P. Erwin, treasurer, Brooklyn Edison Company, who died April 24, 1920.

William A. Lincoln, treasurer of the United Electric Light Company, Springfield, Mass., who died April 22, 1920.

In addition, the following well-known personages, not directly connected with the central station branch of the industry, but whose work has left. some impression upon it:

Baron Rayleigh, celebrated English physicist, who died June 30, 1919; Prof. Henry Smith Carhart, of the University of Michigan, who died February 12, 1920; Theodore N. Vail, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, who died April 16, 1920.

THE PRESIDENT: We will next have the report of our Committee on Resolutions.

Report of Committee on Resolutions The Committee found itself confronted with an undertaking which, if fully carried out, would be much more difficult than anything which has confronted it in the past because of the extraordinary degree to which we find ourselves under a very attractive form of obligation to the people who have made this convention a remarkable success. Committee is afraid that it may have overlooked some to whom tribute should be paid, and it apologizes for that. Of course, any such oversight is not intentional.

The

The Committee begs to submit the following report:

Whereas, The Forty-third Convention of the National Electric Light Association now ending has been one of the most successful in the annals of the Association, not alone in the breadth and scope of the papers and reports submitted by the various authors and committees, bearing upon the most important phases of the central station industry, but in the spirit of cordial good fellowship and personal interest in the welfare and entertainment of each of the delegates, so in keeping with the reputation of this great state and community on the Pacific Coast:

Therefore, Be It Resolved: That an expression of appreciation, and the sincere thanks, of the Association be tendered to retiring President R. H. Ballard for the devoted and untiring service he has rendered during the past year, culminating in this great meeting; and to Mrs. Ballard, whose interest and charming hospitality have done so much for the comfort and entertainment of the ladies attending the Convention, and to the ladies assisting her; to the Governor of the State of California, the Honorable William D. Stephens, for attending and addressing the Convention; to the Honorable E. O. Edgerton, President of the California Railroad Commission; Honorable Carl D. Jackson, Chairman of the Wisconsin Railroad Commission, and Dr. Henry Suzzalo, Pres

ident of the University of the State of Washington, for their attendance and inspiring and instructive addresses; to the daily papers of Pasadena and Los Angeles, which have so fully and fairly given publicity to the various activities of the Convention and to the work and interests of the Association; to the Associated Press, the United Press Association, and the Universal News Service; to the hotels of Pasadena, and especially to the Hotel Huntington which has remained open during the past week especially for the Convention; to the McGraw-Hill Company, through whose courtesy has been published the Convention Daily, and to the Journal of Electricity for its able and helpful cooperation with the Association in the great assistance offered to the Committee on Water Power in the compilation of data to make possible the inclusion in the report of that Committee of the map representing the interconnected hydroelectric systems of the Pacific Coast states.

presented papers

The following gentlemen, individually, whose personal efforts have contributed so much to the success of the meeting: Mr. John B. Miller, Chairman of the Convention Committee; Mr. A. E. Morphy, Vice-Chairman of the Convention Committee; Mr. 'George W. Elliott, Master of Transportation; Mr. S. M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Program Committee; Mr. A. N. Kemp, Chairman of Finances; Mr. A. B. Wollaber, Chairman of the Hotel Committee; Mr. C. S. Vance, Chairman of the Whips Committee; Mr. Charles H. Pierson, Chairman of Publicity; Mr. W. L. Frost, Chairman of Entertainment Committee; and to the other Chairmen of Special Convention Committees; to the authors of the various at this meeting; to Mr. K. E. Van Kuran, of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, for the film, "The Fairy in the Snowflake"; to the Golf Clubs of Pasadena, which have so kindly placed their courses at the disposal of our delegates; to Mr. and Mrs. John B. Miller, for the reception tendered at their charming residence; to the three great electrical manufacturing companies which, through the distribution of gifts and in many other ways, have contributed to the success of the meeting-the General Electric Company, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, and the Wagner Electric Manufacturing Company; and to the Southern California Edison Company and the Company's staff and personnel, and to the men and women of this beautiful City of Pasadena who have contributed in so many ways to this occasion, and lastly, but by no means least, to the Executive Manager, Mr. M. H. Aylesworth, and to the executive and office staff of the National Electric Light Association for splendid and untiring services through the year and during the Convention.

Respectfully submitted,

ARTHUR WILLIAMS, Chairman.

(On motion, the report was adopted.)

THE PRESIDENT: We will now have the report of

the Nominating Committee.

Report of Nominating Committee Your Committee on Nominations took into

consideration, in the formation of the official and

executive staff of the Association for the coming year, the changes that have been made in the constitution of the Association by which it is mandatory that there be placed upon the Executive Committee the representatives of three manufacturing companies. I may say that the Committee worked arduously and vigorously, and I think it has succeeded in presenting to you a staff that will reflect to some extent the glory of this Convention under the leadership of Mr. Ballard. The report is as follows:

Officers for 1920-1921

President, Martin J. Insull, Middle West Utilities Co., Chicago, Ill.

1st Vice-President, M. R. Bump, H. L. Doherty & Company, New York, N. Y.

2nd Vice-President, Frank W. Smith, United Electric Light and Power Company, New York, N. Y.

3rd Vice-President, Walter H. Johnson, Philadelphia Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pa. 4th Vice-President, Franklin T. Griffith, Portland Railway Light & Power Company, Portland, Ore.

Treasurer, H. C. Abell, American Light & Traction Company, New York, N. Y.

Members of Executive Committee Terms Expiring 1921 R. H. Ballard, Ex Officio, Southern California Edison Company, Los Angeles, Cal.

E. W. Rice, General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

Paul Spencer, United Gas Improvement Company, Philadelphia, Pa.

W. H. Atkins, The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, Boston, Mass.

Three Members of Executive Committee Terms Expiring

Report of Public

The expected has happened-due to the conditions obtaining during the war, a period of hysteria has seized the country, not only with respect to an inflation of money values, but an inflation of the individual. It takes today $2 to accomplish what $1 would accomplish prior to the war. The working man has plunged himself, by reason of his excess earning capacity, into an orgy of spendthriftness; becoming possessed of things for which he could. find no use; becoming possessed of leisure moments by reason of his added earning power, until labor has become scarce and everything in the eternal circle has an exaggerated and to a degree unknown value. With all of it has come a spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction, breeding, like a pestilential pool, the parasite that may be likened unto the plague of locusts of the ancient times.

It would seem to be good public policy, not only for the National Electric Light Association, but for the entire organization of industries in the world, to declare that red-blooded men must again become the active agents of proper progress, and deal properly with the red-handed men who have the destruction of this country uppermost in their minds.

Public policies enunciated from the platform to the assembled men and women interested in the industry of which they are an integral part may be made up of high sounding phrases and splendid determinations, but can avail nothing unless taken seriously to heart and made a text book of reference by members of the Association when in doubt as to the proper policy course to be pursued. I recall with interest a statement made by the President of the Railroad Commission of the State of California subsequent to a very interesting meeting of the Pacific Coast Section of the N.E.L.A., held at Coronado, when he said in substance:

"You have passed some splendid resolutions; you have determined upon giving effective service to your consumers; there seems to be enthusiasm in your ranks; but I wonder how long this enthusiasm will last and if you really intend to do that which you now say you intend to do under the stress of an interesting meeting and an audience."

And I wonder, too, just how much we carry away with us from these meetings and regard as commandments to be obeyed.

the honor of presenting to you the Chairman of our Public Policy Committee, Mr. John A. Britton, of San Francisco, who will present the report of that Committee. (Applause.)

Policy Committee

While there are certain local conditions governing each company, there are fundamentals in the matter of public policies that should govern every central station, every manufacturer and every contractor, jobber and dealer interested in this gigantic enterprise that has in less than thirty years of life outstripped any other agency that has been instituted for the benefit of mankind.

We are getting nearer and nearer to the fundamentals as we realize that it is self-interest which dictates to some extent our conduct. Regulation has caused us to believe more in the necessity of self-interest and service, that is, applied to those whom we serve, but we have not as yet fully realized the necessity of the same fundamentals of selfinterest and service to those who serve us. The men who gather at this convention, and other conventions of like character, who learnedly write papers and enter into discussions of all the complex problems involved in the industry, are the men who have to regulate and control the relation not only with the public served but with the public serving, and it is from such men that there should be the expectancy of that sanity of thought and action that will be reflected in the management of the companies which they represent; they are supposedly the men whose feet are on the ground and whose heads do not soar too far above the clouds.

Public policy dictates, as is recited in the preamble to the Constitution of the organization, a study of Public Service Commission relationships; welfare work; insurance, sick, death and relief funds for employees; profit sharing for employees; stock ownership by customers and employees; savings funds, accident prevention—and in general the whole range of social and economic questions that are in the forefront of modern thought, and it is to the Public Policy Committee of this Association that the allied membership looks for a careful thought involving these economic problems. In the preparation of a report of this character it is rather difficult for individuals to divorce themselves from individual opinion, but in the consensus of wisdom of men constituting this Committee, it can generally be expected that their advice and counsel on matters affecting the industry as a whole, may be accepted 100 per cent, as being for the benefit not of any individual but of the entire mass composed of capital and labor de