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...Iowa; Hoover's Ambassador to Italy, Henry Prather Fletcher; Robert Maynard Hutchins, precocious president of the University of Chicago; John L. Lewis, still ambitious to be all labor's boss (see p. 14); ex-Vice President Charles Gates Dawes ("Hell'n Maria"); Philadelphia Industrialist Joseph Henry Scattergood, Quaker; and an oldtime opera star, Soprano Geraldine Farrar, now 59, in her youth a favorite of Germany's Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (she was once called "The Darling of the Heir...
Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial...
While in Georgia, serious Mr. Scattergood got to pondering the spectacle of water power running to waste in a State which was economically top-heavy with agriculture. In the Los Angeles of 1901 he found an ideal spot to check his answer: an area planned and integrated "by the application of engineering knowledge to develop the community for the ultimate good of humanity...
...Angeles needed water, and agitation started in 1902 culminated a few years later in the construction of the Owens Valley aqueduct, a project which could incidentally develop considerable power. Employed as a consulting engineer on the job, Mr. Scattergood showed the city that it could sell power cheaper than the private utilities and still make enough profit to pay for all construction. Upshot was formation of what is now the potent Los Angeles Power Bureau with Mr. Scattergood as chief electrical engineer & general manager, a job he has held ever since...
...until 1917 was Mr. Scattergood ready to scatter the good of cheap power. Then, starting with 5,000 customers, he launched a campaign to buy up the private companies, continually forcing the issue with direct competition. The Power Bureau would merely string a line down a street parallel to the private lines, offer lower rates, wait for the rush of customers. The private companies could not meet the price without lowering rates in the whole territory. In 1922, after furious litigation, Southern California Edison had to capitulate, selling out to the city...