CAPITAL REPORTER
Raleigh At the north end of
Fayetteville Street in Raleigh
stands the Capitol, which houses
the Governor’s office.
Three blocks south, on the
same street, stands the Insurance
Building, which houses—ii. addi
tion to others—the office of Louis
V. Sutton, president of Carolina
r *» Light Company and
head of the Edison Institute, the
private power companies' research
end propaganda organization.
Those three blocks make a lot
of difference—or at least there's
a sight of difference in the views
of the two men separated by those
three short city blocks.
Last week both gentlemen con
tinued their running commentary
on the public-vs-private < power
controversy. Governor Kerr Scott
had his say Tuesday. CPandL
President Sutton spoke his piece
1o the press Thursday.
Shuffling the two sessions, you
come up with something like this
Scott says there is a lack of an
“abundance of cheap power" in
the State that is “choking the
very progress of our State"
Sutton says there “is no short
age of power in North Carolina."
Ih admits, however, that his eon:- j
pany did not generate as much
power as it sold in North Caro
lina in 3 960. Opening oi Die Golds
boro steam plant this year and
adding to the Lumberton steam1
generating plant next year wiii
add a billion and a half kilowatt
hours of production, however, and
will give CPandL a production ca
pactity greater than it now is sell
ing, Sutton explains. CPandL now
Man ('nii'-iiinYs IJarrci
«.» son\
One man told us he took baking
soda tor y ears. Claims lie has us
ed over a barrel of it for stomach
gas, but got only temporal v re
lief
Recently he quit the soda habit
and took CERTA VIN. This new
medicine is bringing REAL, last
ing relief to many Williamston
gas victims because it is taken
BEFORE (not after) meals and
thus works with your food. It
helps digest your meals faster, so
your food doesn’t lay there and
ferment. Besides relieving gas,
( KRTA-VIN also contains Herbs
with Vitamin B I and Iron to
enrich your hlood and make your
nerves stronger. Weak, miser
able people soon feel different all
over. So don't go on suffering.
Get CERTA VIN Davis Drug
Store.
is buying much of its power from j
outside the state.
Scot says the pi ivate power j
companies have suffered from 1
"lack of vision” in not building i
power plants that would produce,
electricity tar in excess of that j
now being used. He adds that sur- !
plus always has attracted more,
Sutton says it is not economical-!
!y sound “for a pou t cosipany
to install generating facilities and
keep them idle on the remote
chance' th.it additional industry
will come a long. ' We are not
permitted to use capital and our
revenue for such gambling,” he
iidds.
And that's just a sample Sum
med up even more briefly, it
seems to come about this:
Without government loans to!
finance REA cooperatives, rural
electrification would be a long
way front its present advanced
stage. The Governor says the pow
er companies now regret their
“mistake” in listening to ongi- !
in ers who said it was impractical
to build rural lines These lines
have doubled in the amount of
i lectrieity used each five years.
Sutton says the private' companies
have no quarrel with the rural
e lectric coops “in fact,” he says,
"they’re our best customers."
The governor who said he did
‘not necessarily" favor national
isation of the power companies—
gives the impression that he
wants to see plem.v of cheap
powet on hand regardless of who
furnishes it. He says he would
rather see private industry do the
■job, but that the government
must step in if industry refuses,
lb' sees nothing wrong in the gov
ernment providing competition to
private industry through such de
velopments as I'VA
On the other hand, Sutton I
seems convinced that the govern- i
merit is trying to take ovpr pri
vate industry He is opposed 1.o |
the building of multi-purpose J
dams I! they are to be built any-j
way, howevet ,he wants the pow- j
it produced by them t > be chan-1
ueled out through the private I
power companies He does ool !
want the government building1
transmission lines
lie makes a well-taken point
that private industry operates
more efficiently and more eco
nomically than government Sut
ton also admits that the consum
er is the one who, after all, pays
the power companies' taxes.
Roth sides seem to be sincere,
One believes that the job should |
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Wearing "where do we go from here" looks are Jaek Webb, Gary 1
Cooper, and Eddie Albert in this seene from Twentieth Century-Fox's I
"You’re In The Navy Now,” beginning a heralded engagement Sun
day at the W:atts Theatre. It co-stars lovely .lane Greer with rugged
and romantic Garv Cooper, and features Willard Mitchell and Eddie
Albert.
be done, regardless of who does
it. The other believes that only
private industry should operate
the power companies, or produce
electricity. One believes in ad
vance building for the future
even if it's done by the govern
ment. The other believes in build
in;; as you grow, and that being
dene by private capital.
Out of it till comes the distinct
impression that the private powet
companies in general feel that it
is ‘socialism" for the government
to build power plants to serve
REA eoops and government-run
Army and other bases. These
same private power companies,
however, do not seem to feel it
is "socialistic" for the govern
ment to build power plants if the
private companies have the sole
title to all power produced.
In all fairness, however, I think
il should be pointed out that Sut
ton is sincere as are practically
all other private power company
leaders -in believing that the U.
S. Interior Department wants the
government to take over the.pow -
er industry. This would, indeed,
be socialism. 1 think, too, that
Governor Scott actually is oppos
ed to complete government-owned
and operated power companies,
just as he would be opposed to
1 he government taking over the
dairy industry 1 am sure there
are some starry-eyed folks In
Washington who would do any
thing to nationalize electric pow
i r. ,
Hut with the private powei
companies granted a monopoly,
there must be an answer some
here that will get the job done
and at the same time keep power
rak s low and government control
out
Willis Smith the Mr Smith
who wont to Washington writes
letters A Forsyth County Repub
lican got one, trotted to the press
with d, and stirred up more con
versation than a courtin' couple^
at a wake.
In the letter, North Carolina’s
Junior Senator Smith said a mis
take was made in recalling Gen
eral MaoArthur, and "1 am inclin
ed to think that his view of 1he
situation and his plan for ending
the conflict is nearer correct than
any so far advanced"
The senator's letter probably
would not have caused so much
yapping il cither his Washington
office had released il or if some
good Di mucrat had been responsi
ble for its being published.
Hut some of the Graham sup
porters who called Smith a Re
publican in sheep’s clothing last
primary started up terming him
a foliow-the-GOP'er.
One of the senator’s most ardent
admirers, a radio news commenta
tor, immediately jumped into the
bleach and explained that the
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DEATH COSTS MOKE
(Oxford Public Ledger)
Like taxes. 1 ht' cost ol death is
coins up.
The Hoard of City Comniis
i sinners in meeting Tuesday night
adopted a new scale of grave
digging fei-s to he charged lor
services at Elmwood cemtery.
The charges are collected from
undertakers requesting the open
! ing of graves in the cemetery and
the work is done under supervi
I sion ol the Street Department.
! The charge of opening an adult
size grave is being increased by
i $1.50 to $10; a junior-si/.c grave
will cost $5.00 or $1.25 more and
there will be no addition in the
$2 00 charge for a baby grave.
SHE LL BE SOMEWHERE
(Southern Pines Pilot)
I
She is one of a number ol stu- |
' dents who were signed up by
Paramount for extra roles in the
forthcoming film spectacle, "The
Hig Top." The movie will be made
at Sarasota with the Ringling
letter was a “form letler" with
hundreds just like it being mailed
out to anyone who had written
Smith asking his views on the
Mac Arthur espisode. It was mere
chance, the radioman said, 1hat
la Republican happened to he the
lone who released the letter to the
press.
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Age Limit I Day To 80 Yrs.
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Brothers circus as background.
Stars will include Betty Hutton,
Hedda Hopper and other big
names. Among 3,000 extras, some
where, will be Danny- so look
hard, folks when the picture
comes.
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•coi n KNornii for you?1
((ireenshoro Daily News)
It doesn't have to got below
80 to he cold enough for us and
so those who have been asking us
lately, “Cold enough for you?”
have been wasting their vaporized
breath.
The Charlotte Nows masochistic
has been digging up some
“Cold'' smiles m English literature,
such at Beaumont's “cold as a cu
cumber,'' Shakespeare’s "cold as
any stone," and Herrick's “cold
as paddocks "
Well, cucumbers are not so cold,
stones are colder especially when
you are sitting on them, and pad
docks sound coldest of all, pro ;
bably because we are not sure
just what they are.
But the most refrigerated vers
es we can think of right now are
Keats:
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( New - and ( tlo.oi vei i
Billy A11 hui, .Jacksonville eol
umnist, will he quoted iu the
March issue of Cosmopolitan, The
quote: "One thing you've got to
admit about the little icd school
house it had somethin!; back
of it.'
lit: wii.l iu:..
(S.i11111111 l lernld )
Norman Branch was talking 1t
a friend who was planning to go
out of town for a few nays Nor
man said, "You’re going down to
Miami, huh You ought to have
u fine time there. 1 understand
they've got all kinds of nice bars."
"Yeah," his friend replied. “It
reminds me of the time I got out
of the navy I was going to be
passing through Miami and one of
my buddies told me to be sure
and come by to see him. I asked
how 1 -imild find him in a. hie
a- a tow n as Mi.ainl and lie , .ml
till, jitt walk down I lie :.treat
till veil is into I o a tin and a., m
If dill not there, I uaII be 1 •
INI I.ATION
(Goldsboro News Aigus)
A man *& o i an a small ehicken
raneli net'ded w heat for lus chick
ens. so lu offered to work for a
mer paid him live dollars a day
He used the five dollars to buy
vv heat ftom the farmer at one dol
lar a bushel Kverv day he work
ed lie took home five bushels of
wheat
One dav the man said to the
farmer, "I’ve got to have more
money for my work: I want si*
dollars a day.”
i "I know it is," said the farmer,
"but mv expenses are going up,
and I've got to have more money
\ lor mv wheat Starting today,
| wheat will eor.t you one dollar
and twenty vents a bushel "
So the man worked for six dol
lars, and took home five bushels
1 of wheat for his earnings.
After awhile the man made fur
ther demands for more wages, un
til he was getting ten dollars for
his day's work, and the farmer’s
price for wheat raised until it was
I wo dollai s a bushel.
One day the man with the
chicken ranch stud to Ins wife,
“Isn't it wonderful? I’m getting
twice the wages I used to get!"
And the farmer said to his wife,
Isn't it wonderful? I'm getting
twice as much for my wheat as
used to get!"
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