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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931 ) Eastern Ontario News | Settled erboro, = The B. F. Ackerman ny's claim against the City of horough has been settled for 00 A ed cheque carrying ve figures was presented to the rman Company officials by the and was accepted, The Acker. Company si releasing the city from any fur- costs, Sold ton.--The City of 'accepted the tender of E. in Company of Toronto for 803 of the City of Kingston -year 4% per cent bonds for th chnical School. This represents to the municipality of less per cent, and is re d as ent sale. d Hyg ae ¥ le.--~Miss Betty Marsh, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred irsh, Benjamin Street, is a patient the Belleville ' General Hospital ng from a serious gash to her ht hand, The injury was sustained hen she fell on the slippery ice on Benjamin street and her hand was Jacerated when the milk bottle which she was carrying was shattered. Some of the glass entered the flesh. ased Cattle Brockville--J. A. Coulter and E. veretts, of Belleville, N.Y., with T. Donovan have recently purchased a olstein cattle sdowne district. The shipment rised 27 fully accredited and ed cows and heifers. ernment C. Mikel, K.C,; po- ice magistrate of Belleville, intends to gresent a resolution at the meet- ing 'of the Grand Orange Lodge o Ontario East, which opens here on Wednesday, commending the action "l Was So Skinny = Now Feel Like New Woman" | McCOY"S After the flu and nervous down was skinny---only d 90 pounds--McCoy's help- 3 1 now weigh 120 and feel new woman." This from a millions of rundown, women mneed McCoy's-- §7 health and weight building Mts---60 tablets 60 cents at it Lovell Ltd, T. B. Mitchell, @E® Karn, or any druggist any- M¥o--just ask for McCoy's. South Caroline Avenue At the Boardwalk ATLANTIC CITY'S Newest Cenirally Located Fireproof Hotel $5.00 DAY AND UP | L ¢ | ing at the spot of the Dominion Government in pro- bibiting. trade between Canada and ussia. Heads Legion Cobourg :=Dr. M. Pilkie was elect- ed president of the Cobourg branch of the Canadian Legion at its regu- lar meeting, Reuben Jackson is past president. I ---- Mag Sai Fair Grounds ton.--At the last meeting of the City Council it was decided, on motion of Ald. Charlton, to have Mayor Wright appoint a special com- mittee to consider the advisability of the disposal of the Fair Grounds an having it divided into building lots. 1 Guests of Kiwanis Club Peterboro.--~Members of the Quinte s Growers' Association, who are gathered here to attend the fifth an- nual Quinte District Seed Fair, were the guests of the local Kiwanis Club at a dinner in the Empress Hotel. John Buchanan, dixector of Extension of O.A.C,, was the chief speaker. Roads Blocked Tamworth.~The snow storm of last Sunday was the worst of the year and completely blocked all the high- ways of the district. Prior to the storm the snow from previous storms had practically melted away and wagons were noticed coming into the town. Her 96th Birthday Kemptville. -- Mrs. Ellen Banks, Kemptville's grand old lady, recently celebrated her 96th birthday at the home of her daughter, rs. Mar- aret Guest, in that village. Mrs. i came to Canada many years ago from Ireland and made the trip up the Rideau in a scow before land- where Beckett's Landing is now, situated. Airmen's Reunion Kingston.--~War-time pilots and ob- servers of the Air Force are to have a reunion in Ottawa on March 26, the first reunion for Canadian air- men since the war, C. R. Hall of Ottawa, convenor of the Ottawa com- mittee looking after the reunion, was in Kingston looking up airmen here who had. served overseas. Outbreak of Mumps Ottawa.--Ottawa is in the throes of the most serious outbreak of mumps in many years. A total of 1,070 cases have been reported to the Board of Health since the be- ginning of 1931. Fined for Coy Brockville. -- Burton Baxter, of Glen Buell, was fined $25 and costs in police court by Magistrate Wright on a charge of wantonly and cruelly ill-treating a mare by leaving the ani- mal lying on the ground between four and five hours, and when unable to rise, it was alleged he placed a chain around its neck and dragged it for almost half a mile, EDITOR OF TIMES GIVES SUMMARY OF IMPRESSIONS (Continued from page 1) ther, under all the circumstances in the present local situation, the gas plant and distribution system should be sold to private interests, Down in those sections of the United States which 1 visited, that question does not arise at all. The utilities are practi- cally all operated by private intercsts, and the people are happy with the service given them by these interests. There is no battle there between municipal and private ownership, be- cause there is satisfaction with pri. vate ownership. And, having seen the manner in which gas utilities have been developed under the ownership of the Utilities Power and Light Cor- poration, and compared that with the present position of the Oshawa gas plant and distribution system, 1 have no hesitation in saying that, under , Travel The King's Highway DAILY COACH SERVICE OSHAWA - TORONTO FARE--85¢ LEAVE OSHAWA AM. P.M. a 7.00 a 780 8.80 v.80 10.80 11.80 8.30 4.30 530 6.80 b 7.30 4.30 b 9.30. 10.30 11.00 1.80 2.80 a==daily Eastern LEAVE TORONTO standard AM. PM. a 7.80 except Sunday, , fanday and nda : BeSpterin. Ru : and , points. Connections at Buffalo and Detroit for all C.S.A. points, Tickets and Information at GRAY COACH LINES d | interests, the development the: Jrcsent circumstances, the city would be much better off with the fe system operated by Utilities 'ower and Light Corporation meth: ods, rather than carried on as at pre- sent under municipal ownership. A Fixed Policy I need only to point to that which has been done at Clinton, Iowa, by the U.P. and L. to substantiate this view. The manner in which a ori- bund, inadequate system was revital- ized, re-financed and rebuilt into a splendid utility, giving to the public the service desired, and giving the community a gas and coke plant of which it is now proud, impressed me very much. It demonstrated that what the city of Oshawa could not do without a tremendous increase in debenture debt could be done quite casily by this corporation, simply be- cause it is the fixed policy of the corporation to do so, Under private of the Oshawa plant cauld go on unhamp- ered, not handicapped by lack of capital for improvements and develop- ments, not hindered by reason of the necessity of securing public approval for expenditures. lant Development The second question which I had answered to my satisfaction was the uestion of whether the Utilities ower and Light Corporation would develop the plant as is claimed. That can be answered both from the ex- perience of other places, and from. the statbments Sos to me by re- sponsible executives of the company. One of these statements was very striking. -It was something like this: "If the only thing at stake were the present Oshawa gas plant, our company would not be in- terested, It would not be worth while to bother about it.| At best, the plant is only good for scrap- ing, so far as we are concerned. e are interested in Oshawa only as a base for greater operations. We are interested in Oshawa be- cause we: think it is a progres sive community with good pros- pects of development, and be- cause it has possibilities for the development of a much greater gas supply than at present. We are interested in Oshawa because of its harbor and industrial fa- cilities. We are not so much in- terested in your present plant as we are in the plant that we would like to establish there, to serve the whole of the lake shore area for eighty miles. We could not make any money on thé present plant, serving the present arca, and naturally, we must make mo- ney to operate , But we do be- lieve that with a new and ade- quate plant, with a complete dis- trubution system, linked up with other municipalities, the large investment which we will have to make in a new plant and system in Oshawa will be justified." Proven Method That is the attitude of the com- pany's executives, as expressed to me, and as proven by experience. Their method of doing business is the age- old one of spending money in the hope of making money. They did it British directors including some of the outstanding statesmen and public men of the country, should be chal- lenged as unfit to operate the gas plant and distribution system in Oshawa. Throughout its: entire op- erations in the United States, it has many Canadians occupying respons sible positions, Eugene Lang, engin- eer assist to the executive vice-presi- dent, who is taking a in making the plans for Oshawa, is a member of a prominent Kitchener family, and a nephew of the chairman of the Kitchener public utilities com mission, Outside Capital And again, there is a distinct value in the investment of outside capital in this country. Industrial commis- sioners in every city, including Osh- awa, are seeking feverishly for branch factories of United States companies to come in as new industries, Al- though on a somewhat different bas- is, the Oshawa plant of the General Motors of Canada is a branch fac- tory of an United States corporation, and operated as a subsidiary to it. Yet no one thinks of objecting to it on the ground that it is controlled from New York. The Oshawa gas gant and distribution 'system would e operated in the same way, by a Canadian company, with Canadian directors, operating as a subsidiary to the Utilities Power and Light Cor- poration, and in exactly the same way as the British company of the cor- poration, and would rank as a splen- did new industry for Oshawa, Gas Rates The question of gas rates is an im- portant one that can be answered from the experience of other com- munities. In St. Louis, in Clin*on, and elsewhere, rates are based on the necessity of securing adequate consumption, For industrial pur poses, rates have been lowered, in these places, far below the dollar mark in order to compete with other forms of industrial power and heat. Domestic rates have been kept at as low a level as possible in order to compete with electricity and to se- cure the maximum use of gas. That is company policy, so, while it is true that only domestic rates are men- tioned in the agreement, the officials of the company have in mind the fix- ing of competitive industrial rates, so as to secure all the possible in- dustrial consumption that can be se- cured. And this increase in consump- tion will, in turn, bring down the domestic rates to a much lower fig- ure than quoted in the agreement, The attitude of the company officials, as I found it, is this, "We are going to get the consumption necessary for economical operations, and if lower rates arc necessary to get it, then the rates will have to be "lowered, that's all." Fuel Supply One point which has not been fully realized is the value of the proposals from the standpoint of the city's fuel supply. This is where' the coking plant figures in the picture, because Mr. Canavan, in discussing it, point- ed out that the coke possibilities of this district were even greater than the gas possibilities, In the last ten at Clinton. They did it at St. Louis, where in 1929 they spent over $1, | 200,000 and in 1930 over $930,000 in improving and extending their distri buting system for gas. They did it with the Litchfield I Madison Railroad, where in 1930 they $40,000 for Lallasting along, on twen ty miles of track, in order to male | it more suitable for the handling of general freight, in addition to the hauling of coal from the company's own mines. They did it at Indiana- polis, 'where a huge new power plant and transmission system are being crected, at a cost of several million | dollars, to give an improved service | to the whole district surrounding In- dianapolis. They did it at Walling- ton, Connecticut, last year, when al new gas unit was installed to pro- | vide for a more economical and more | adequate gas supply, That is what a net pent the company has done. That is what its executives propose to do in Osh- awa if given the opportunity. And the experience of the communitic mentioned is sufficient to indicate that whatever is proposed for Oshawa will be carried out, The Coking Plant One of the moot questions in the minds of some people centres around the undertaking to build a coking plant in Oshawa, Some are scepti- cal as to whether or not this will be done. As I stated in a previous ar- ticle sent from Chicago, the execu- tives of the company are seized with the necessity of a coking plant here, and all their plans are being based on such a plant being established here at the earliest possible opportu- nity. I have the assurance of J. N. Canavan, executive vice-president of the Utilities Power and Light Cor- poration, on this point. I have seen the blue-prints of the proposed Osh- awa plant, specially prepared for a site on harbor frontage. I have seen the detailed specifications for this plant, and have seen a similar plant, although somewhat larger in size, in Operation. And, having met the peo- ple who are behind the U.P. and L. having seen their operations eclse- where, and having seen their gas en- gineers busy on the plans for the Central Ontario distribution system, | am satisfied in my own mind t!; these plans will be carried out. The establishment of a coking plant at Oshawa is the logical step for the company to take, for it provides the most economical means of producing gas in sufficient quantities to take care of the area which the company hopes to serve. So, while the agree- ment does not definitely tie the com- pany down to the immediate estab- lishment of a coking plant in Osh- awa, I am satisfied that such a plant will be established here, and that the company is basing all its local opera- tions on the certainty that Oshawa will have a coking plant. s Another point wh has been raised is that of se)' ¥ the plant to a company contro' dn the United States. True, thi. Srporation has its head office in Chicago, but those who are objecting on this ground should not lose sight of the fact that it serves almost as many towns and cities in Great Britain as it does in the United States. Out of approxi- mately 1000 communities served by the U.P. and L. in all its operations, are in Great Britain, thirteen in Canada, and the balance of 600 in the United States, It seems strange that years or more, coke has been de- finitely proven a highly satisfactory domestic fuel, and one which costs a reat deal less than anthracite coal. Let me 1 quote the experience in Clinton, 1, where a coke and gas plant was ablished last year. Thou- ands of tons coke have already heen mt plant, through local dealers, for domestic purposes, at $7.50 a ton, net, fur pea coke, and $8.50 a ton, net, for range and egg coke for stoves and furnace. At these prices, the people of Clinton are finding coke the cheapest domes tie fuel that can be purchased. While it may not be possible to have prices quite as low as these in Oshawa, on account of the distance of coal shipment to this city, yet coke, manufactured in an Oshawa plant, could be sold far be low anthra- coal figures, and cheaper than shipped in from out- cite any coke being ide, This would greatly reduce the cost of home heating to the consumers of Oshawa, and save them thousands of dollars every winter, without inter- fering with the interests of the local coal dealers, since it is the fixed policy of the corporation hot to dis- tribute the coke itself, but to have it all distributed through the local coal dealers, who are allowed their fair margin of profit and discount on the transactions they handle. The wide field which exists in this district for distribution of coke is what has at- tracted the attention of the Utilities Power and Light Corporation in its determination to establish a coking plant in this city as soon as the gas development warrants it. ervice the Watchword In my previous articles I have stressed the nature of the service which is the watchword of the U.P. and L. Wherever 1 went, I found that same ideal of service paramount in' the minds of all its officials, to an extent rarely found in any utility, be it privately or publicly owned. The people of Oshawa can be perfectly satisfied that from the standpoint of service, their interests will be well carcd for should the gas operations of the city be handed over to the Utilities Power and Light Corpora. tion" That, after all, seems {to be the crux of the situation. The U.P. and L. executives have realized that only as they serve the public can they hope to be successful. They realize that in order to give that service on an economical basis they must main tain their properties at a high stand. ard of efficiency. They have realized that the utilities the erate must keep pace with the development and progress of the communities they serve, and must not be allowed to be- come obsolete or inadequate to pub- lic needs. They have realized that they must make large investments in order to yield satisfactory returns to the investors. They have realized that half measures are useless in dealing with public utilities, All of these conclusions have been forced upon one by my experiences of the last week or ten days, because 1 have seen these principles in 'full opera- tion, and am convinced that, should the voters decide to entrust their gas utility to the care of the Utili- ties Power and Light next Saturday, the same principles, that have proven so satisfactory to the public and to the company elsewhere will be yut into operation here, in the develdp- a company which has almost half of ment of the Oshawa and Ontasfo ity ppesatlons in Giscal Britain, with Lake Shore Gag systeny Pp 5 rominent part || 1 Who Are They? The Question Has Been Asked 'cee Who are the principals whom Ben E. Tate is representing in the Rrovosal te purchase the Oshawa Gas Plant and Distribution System? n Here Is the Answer . . . In these negotiations, Ben E. Tate has not been acting for himself al has been representing, and has behind him the full power of An-- | nternational Utilit Company , but In Great Britain . . . In Great Britain the Greater London and Counties Trust, Limited, owned by Utilities Light and Power Corporation, through its su serves electricity to 460 towns and cities in England, Scotland Under authority given by a special act of the British Parliament, panies serve areas comprising approximately 10,700 square mile estimated population of 3,250,000 people. The splendid posi company can be judged from the follo wing list of its directors: F. Massingberd, chairman. Rt. Hon. Sir Austen Chamberla'n, K.G., M.P. Sir Philip Dawson, M.P. William May. The Rt. Hon. Lord Meston, K.C.S.1. The Rt. Hon. Sir Laming Worth ington-Evans (now decea Albert Winterbottom, Secretary. In Canada . . . Utilities Power and Light Corporation is already operating in canada, in the Maritime Provinces, where it serves, through three subsidiary €ompanies, some thirteen towns and cities in Nova Scotia and New Brynswick with electricity and gas. Among the towns and cities served are Ioncton, N.B., Sackville, N.B., Amherst, N.S., Maccon, N.S., Chignecto, NfS+ and a nume ber of smaller communities. fo As in the Maritime Provinces, it is the intention of the corporation to organs ize a Canadian company to operate the Oshawa Gas Syste™ and the distri- bution systems that will be operated in conjunction with if" hich is sidiaries, | ! In the United States . . Utilities Power and Light Corporation, in the United States, is serving hvri. : ag from the Atlantic dreds of towns and cities with gas and electricity, rangi*8 '* . A seaboard, through the industrial areas of the middle west including gas in St. Louis, Missouri, the corn-belt of the Mississippi Vaf:cY' the gas fields of the Southwest and the thriving centres of the Central / orthwest. Utilities Power and Light Corporation is amply financed to tak® care of the develop- ment, improvement and extension of the Oshawa Gas lant and Distribution System on as large a scale as may be found necessary At any future time. Your Interests As British Citizens Are Safe With This Great International Company Because It Is Go¢d Business Vote For All Three Bylaws yor and Council and the Public Utilities Commission of This is the third of a series of advertisements authorized by the the City of |