Your Electricity and Your Money
ARMY engineers, and chief among them Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick, have been over every mile of the 2500mile stretch of the Missouri River seeking to estimate the effects of irrigation and flood control, the thousands of new homesteads, and the industrial potential which might result from a valley authority similar to TVA. The size and the authority of the proposed Federal developments now, as in 1937, have been sharply questioned by those who believe that private initiative and private capital are adequate for any undertaking. To meet this issue squarely, the Atlantic has called in Charles W. Kellogg, President of the Edison Electric Institute and an experienced spokesman for the privately owned electric utilities, and David E. Lilienthal, who believes that the TVA enterprise, of which he is Chairman, is one of the most important experiments in democracy ever attempted.