TIIE MORNING OREGOXTAX, "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1922 '
5.
V
TELEPHONE RATE
1
DENIED
Protestants Said to Have
Failed to Show Proof.
PRESENT SCALE TO STAY
Evidence Adduced In Kehcaring Is
Held to Have Been Nothing1 but
Needless Agitation.
fOnttnued From First Page.)
could have had no other object than
to divert the attention of the publio
from the fact that the commission
had granted much less than the com
pany asked.
"The commission listened with in
terest to dissertations on technical
matters by a telephone engineer of
undoubted and scientific attainments,
who dwelt on the . advantages of
equipment other than that used by
the company. The responsibility,
however, of prescribing the equip
ment to be used by the utilities of
the state does not rest on this com
mission. The testimony of this wit
ness was therefore almost wholly
irrelevant and beside the issues.
Accountant on Stand.
. "Petitioners presented, through a
publio accountant, whose standing Is
known to carry weight with the
commission, certain calculations pur
porting to be income statements of
tho Paiic company. On being ques
tioned as to the basis of these state-L'in-nts,
the witness, replied that he
had prepared them on certain hy
potheses dictated to him by coun
sel, and that he disclaimed any re
sponsibility for- their correctness.
Yet, we find counsel, in their brief,
presenting these statements as the
testimony and conclusions of this
witness.
"A score of witnesses were put for
ward to say that they opposed a.ny
increase in rates. This was not nec
essary. Every man of reason knows
that no one wants to pay more for
service. The witnesses are not more
averse to paying higher rates than
this commission is to ordering them
paid.
"Much was said by counsel about
poor service, but the petitioners' own
witness showed by test that calls
were answered with a promptness
possible only under efficient man
agement. Inefficiency Jfot Proved.
"Hours of argument and pages of
brief were devoted to assertions of
gross inefficiency of management,
but the petitioners' only witness on
this point testified that he had vis
ited four exchanges in a single after
noon, and basied his opinion on the
fact that he found in use certain
devices which he thought not the
best for tho purpose. Futhermore, it
was admitted by counsel 'that the
stockholders of the company would
be the first to profit by economy.
"The 4 per cent licensee revenue
paid to the American company was
constantly referred to as exacted
from the patrons of the company and
paid to the parent company for no
consideration whatever, notwith
standing that it was well known to
counsel for petitioners that less than
one-half of this percentage was al
lowed by the commission, and that
this allowance was based on the ac
tual cost of service rendered by the
American company.
"The Western Electric contract has
been accepted by every state which
has passed on it.
"Testimony concerning farmer lines
consisted of complaints that the
rates had been raised. It is interest
ing to know that the Everett Tele
phone company, so highly lauded by
counsel for the petitioners, charges
farmers 33 1-3 per cent more than the
highest rate for such service in Ore
gon.
Expert Is Quoted.
the commissions allowance for
depreciation was attacked as unsci
entific on the ground that no such
calculation could be reliable unless
based on the historical records of the
property involved. Order 499 shows
that this principle was recognized
and adopted by this 'commission two
years Deiore it was 'discovered' in
tne Chicago case quoted by counsel,
Ihe petitioners' principal expert
admitted that 6 per cent for depre
ciation was a reasonable average rate
ior leiepnone properties in thn irnitrt
V States and that 6 per cent was r.
ried by the companies with which he
was connected. This commission has
anowea an average of 4 pe cent.
seven authorities are cited an
quoted in the brief of the -city of
Portland in support of the claim that
a depreciation reserve cannot rightly
exceed a certain percentage. Not
one of these authorities supports that
cuuiuiuion.
Reserve for Protection.
The depreciation reserve has been
constantly represented as a burden
on the ratepayers. On tha
it consists of funds withheld from the
stockholders for the protection of the
i"""'' ! nas been contributed by
.'m "?tepayers- ana is, and always
...i. iUa piuperty or the I
payers.
Duties Are Defined.
the commission then proceeds to
review the conditions existing prior
to the regulation of public utilities
and seeks to define the duties of the
yuuiiu service commission.
The commission then continue
"Expenses, instead of falling, have
uuniiuuu to increase. T,le comnanv
finding that it was earning less than
a Z per cent return, not enough to
meet Interest charges, again applied
io tne commission for. relief. After
a thorough scrutiny of accounts an
exhaustive, hearing and careful con
sideration of the demands of justice
m aji concerned, tne utility, Its e
pioyes and its patrons, the commis
sion issued order 689, now under re
view.
"It may be here noted that the net
result of the various proceedings
uuiiineo. is mat in the year 1921
tne t-aciiic company received a small
er percentage, of return on its in
ina.li in i3ia, Derore any
ra-ie auvance naa been made. Thus,
in iiis ui an increase Of , 25 per
cent in the number of telephones in
use, the entire effects of increased
rates have been more than absorbed
in aavancea wages and cost of ma
tejials. It cannot even yet be safely
assumed that the peak of cost of op
eration in telephone service has been
passed, for operating expenses per
telephone in 1921 were 11 per cent
more man in 1920.
Clone Snrvey Made.
we nave thus shown that fo
more than two years prior to its last
order the .commission had had the
operations of the telephone company
under close surveillance. Fourteen
months mid been occupied with ae
tual ; hearings and investigations.
Many" or the most prominent
weii-AiiviEcil attorneys of the state
had -anearod. representing 25 cities
and otttor civic bodies. One hundred
witiiesstrs had been examined, includ
ir.g ensmeers, accountants and ex
pcrts of unquestioned ability; more
than 200 exhibits had been received,
including voluminous statements pre
pared upon request: the testimony'
covers more than 2000 typewritten
pages; and the, expense to all par
ties, caused by these investigations,
together with the valuation, is esti
mated at about one-quarter of a mil
lion dollars; all prior to the last
order. '
"Scarcely had these proceedings
been concluded when the petitioners
appeared, requesting that since the
commission had failed to inform it
self on telephone matters, its rate
order be set aside and the company's
affairs be investigated.
Rehearing la Granted.
"These petitioners had all taken
part in the various proceedings and
were at least partly responsible for
any alleged lack of completeness In
the evidence. Nevertheless, so seri
ous were the allegations In the peti
tions and so insistent were they in
their assignments of error that the
commission granted a rehearing, bas
ing its order on representations that
sufficient new evidence would be
brought out to justify the time and
expense of further consideration of
this important subject.
"It is right that the people should
now be informed of the extraordinary
manner in which they have been im
posed upon and the time of their of
ficials wasted. In spite of positive
assertions of error in the findings of
the commission, not a scintilla of
evidence worthy of the name was
offered in support of the contentions
of the petitioners. In saying this we
do not impugn the motives or the in
telligence of the witnesses in the
least. The responsibility for offer
ing irrelevant testimony on matters
at issue or on subjects already fully
covered must rest on those conduct
ing the case.
Petitioners' Counsel Seored.
Actions of counsel for petitioners
have been characterized by an appar
ent desire to confuse rather than to
elucidate the issues before the com
mission. Wholly extraneous matter
was constantly dragged into the dis
cussions. Instead of direct evidence
were heard extravagant declartaions
of what counsel were about to prove,
or ha.d proved, although examination
of the record fails to show that a sin
gle one of their contentions was
proved or even plausibly attempted.
The rehearing was asked osten
sibly for the' purpose of pointing out
the errors in the conclusions reached
by the commission in order 689, but
the attacks of the petitioners were
directed, not against that order,1 but
against the evidence by which the
company supported its claims at the
hearing which led to that order. We
thus have the strange spectacle or
rehearing" devoted chiefly to ar-
Euments against claims made by the
company and already rejected by the
commission. The maneuver could
have had no other object than to
divert the attention of the public
from the fact that the commission
had granted much less than the com
pany asked.
Evidence Is Disputed.
The only evidence offered during
the rehearing which, would tend to
ustify any appreciable reduction in
the total revenue of the company was
the. opinion of a witness for petition
ers that the total depreciation reserve
accrued by the company to date is
excessive.
This evidence, when correctly In
terpreted, thus shows the converse of
its author's contention and illustrates
the accuracy of the commission's esti
mates. "Farmer line service was freely dis
cussed at the rehearing and many of
the users offered testimony as to the
character of the service, and its value.
determining the latter by comparison
between-past and present rates. Such
testimony, while instructive, lacks the
essential elements of proof necessary
to demonstrate that .the present rates'
are unreasonable or inequitable. Coun
sel made no attempt, either by exhib-
ts or testimony, to show that the
company's present schedule of rates
was inherently excessive, or that his
clients vere being made to bear more
than their just proportion of the bur
den. 'Discriminations have existed be
tween communities as well as classes
of patrons.. Communication from Oak
Grove and Milwaukie to Portland has
been permitted without charge, a
5-cent toll rate being required in the
opposite direction. The latter charge
was frequently evaded by prearrange-
ment of calls. Subscribers in these
towns thus received what was vir
tually Portland service. They received
it for less than Portland rates, though
the cost of giving it was more, on
account of distance.
Milwaukie Wants Change.
Milwaukie now proposes that it
pay the Portland rates arid be includ
ed in the Portland primary rate area,
arguing that it is only a mile outside
the city limits. Oak Grove amends by
proposing that the area be extended
to the Clackamas river. The Clack
amas river is just outside the city
limits of Oregon City, so it would be
unreasonable to resist the claim that
Oregon City, too, should be included
with Portland.
The size of the primary rate area,
as well as the number of users in it.
is an important ' factor in cost and
consequently In rates. Inclusion of
Oak Grove and Milwaukie would mean
that the extra cost of serving them
would be laid on the Portland rate
area. The line must be drawn some
where, and we can see no other place
as suitalbe as at the city limits.
All that has been said of Milwau
kie and Oak Grove applies with even
more force to the situation at Oswego.
While other petitioners claim that
Oregon is merely an outlying part of
national system, and, being in
backward state of civilization,. should
not be expected to pay Its way, Asto
ria goes to the opposite extreme and
contends that its own rates should be
fixed on a strictly local basis.
It has always been the position of
the commission that in telephone rates
the state should be treated as a unit.
Astoria Plant Rushed.
'"The apparently high earnings in
Astoria have been due to the fact that
the plant is being used to the fullest
possible extent, "completely saturat
ed," In technical phrase, needed ex
tensions and betterments having been
prevented by scarcity of labor and
difficulty of obtaining materials. The
sudden expansion of the city's indus
tries during the war added to the
congestion. Temporary expedients
have kept down expenditures and pro
duced the appearance, for a time, of
high profits. But good service cannot
long be maintained with makeshifts.
Permanent construction in Astoria, al
ready far advanced, will so increase
the total investment that the return
will not exceed the most conservative
estimate of a fair rate.
. "From the beginning of considera
tion of telephone rates, this commis
sion has given special attention to the
relations of the Pacific company to
the American Telephone & Telegraph
company, studying not only the nature
and extent of services rendered by
the latter, but also the. actions and
opinions of courts and other commis
sions relative thereto:
"It is strange that the petitioners
should even question the value of the
financial assistance rendered by the
American company, since they have
themselves asserted that for years the
Pacific company's net return was un
der 4 per cent. It should be known
to them, as it is known to all intelli
ger,t business men, that no industry,
unless it has powerful outside assist
ance, can be financed, so as to sell its
securities at par and meet its obliga
tions promptly, on such a showing- of
earnings.
"From the evidence submitted in the
preparation of Order No. 499, we vers
able to make an estimate of the cost
to the American Telephone & Tele
graph'company of rendering scientific
and financial services o its subsid
iaries. No one has ver attacked the
fairness of this estimate. A portion of
the cost was assigned to Oregon on
the basis of the number of station!
in the state compared with the tota
number served by the American com
pany. This was found to be approxi
mately 55 cents per station, on pre
war prices. It is probably more now
Pacific Company Subsidiary.
"The manufacturing department of
the American Telephone & Telegraph
company is a subsidiary corporation
known as the Western Electric com
pany. f .,
"The commission's engineers have
made a careful study of the prices
charged by the Western Electric and
those of other supply houses on all
comparable material. The result has
been to show that the prices paid by
the Pacific company are not only not
higher, but are in most cases lower
than those charged by the competi
tors of the Western Electric. From
the record and its investigations the
commission believes that the Western
Electric contract Is of direct advan
tage to the patrons of the Pacific
company.
"The city attorney of Portland con
ducted an inquiry into the nature of
the service rendered to the patrons of
the company in that city. A few
witnesses gave clear and convincing
evidence of unjust treatment or un
satisfactory service, but the number
was so small in comparison with the
vast number of subscribers in the
state as to furnish convincing proof
that the great majority of telephone
users find the service reasonably
good.
"That the rates have not been
raised beyond the ability of more than
a very few of the least benefited
users to pay is shown by the effect on
the number of telephone patrons. In
the six months following the estab
lishment of the present rates the
number "of "telephone users in the
state decreased three and one-half
per cent. Beginning with September,
there has been a net gain each month.
"This evidence, when correctly In
terpreted, thus shows the converse of
its authors' contention and illustrates
the accuracy of the commission's
estimates."
MANY PHONE RISES SOUGHT
First Application of Pacific Com
pany Filed In 1911.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 21. (Special.)
Today's order handed down by the
public service commission in the Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph rate case
is, in reality, a consummation of
investigations and hearings dating
back for more than ten years. Hear
ings during that period totaled 53
days. The last hearing, held last
summer, required 35 days, with 3SC
exhibits and more than 7000 pages of
typewritten testimony collected..
The first application for 'an in
crease filed by the Pacifio Telephone
& Telegraph company was under date
of January 1, 1921. This application
sought to establish rates in excess
of those in effect on that date. Since
that time several applications have
been filed by the company and as
many orders have been issued.
LUMBER PARTY IS FETED
GRAYS HARBOR CITIES ENTER
TAIN EASTERN RETAILERS.
Luncheon Served at Hoquiam and
Banquet in Aberdeen Depar
ture Taken for Portland.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 21. (Spe
cial.) Gray sky, with patches of blue,
a little sunshine and some rain greet
ed 69 persons, 30 of them women, com
posing the retail lumbermen's party
from New York and Massachusetts
who arrived on a special train of seven
coaches over the Northern Pacific
railroad this morning.
They were in Tacoma yesterday and
having remained until after midnight
at a banquet, it was with much reluct
ance they left their rooms this morn
ing at an early hour to tour this part
of the state. At the hotel the women
of the party were met by Mrs. Charles
Ewart and Mrs. W. B. Mack, who took
them in charge, going first to the
Grays Harbor Country club, where
luncheon was served, and late in the
afternoon to Cosmopolis for tea at the
residence of Neil Cooney.
The men were met by a committee
of lumbermen of the harbor cities and
taken to the-Red Cross building where
an exhibit of lumber was inspected'.
Later they were taken on a tour
through the mills and entertained at
luncheon in Hoquiam.
The Hoquiam luncheon was served
at 12:30 o'clock in community service
hall under direction of the service
staff and a committee of Hoquiam
lumbermen headed by C. H. Cunning
ham of the Northwestern Lumber
company. . A banquet at the Lafayette
hotel, Aberdeen, starting at 7:30 P.M.,
completed the harbor . programme.
after wlgch the party was to leave
for Portland.
Boys Rescue Drowning Playmate.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. . 21.
(Special.) Three small v boys were
playing on the banks of the Wishkah
river Saturday afternoon when one
of them fell into the water. The
other two did not run away, but by
quick work managed to save him
from drowning. Afraid to take, him
home, they built a bonfire at the
river bank and dried his clothing. In
the meantime someone had tele
phoned mothers of the boys and two
of them rushed down from the homes
on the top of Dabney hill, creating
much excitement The informer had
told the mothers the boys had been
drowned. .
Tenino Mill Resumes Operations.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 21 (Spe
cial.) The shingle mill of C. E. Bus
sell at Tenino resumed operations yes
terday. The plant has been shut down
over a period of several months.
Oregon's Best Coal Southport.
a sack. 75c. Bdwy, 70. Adv.
Try
Orpheum matinee today, 15-25-50-Ad.
PHONERATERD
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is lie ill
Mayor Baker Declaces Order
Defies People's Rights. .
SYSTEM OR LAW WRONG
Decision ol Public Service Body
' Held to Be Monstrous by Head ,
ot State Federation.
"We went to the bat In what we
believed was S- just cause and If we
could not convince the public service
commission that an increase In tele
phone rates was wrong, the public
will have to pay the bill or elect
some other procedure," was the com
ment of Mayor Baker yesterday when
the fact became known that the com
mission had not granted relief to
patrons. -He and H. M. Tomlinson, as
sistant city attorney, who had direct
handling of the case, were greatly
surprised at the decisien, contending
that evidence sufficient to justify ana
sustain lower rates was submitted
during the long hearing. .
"I felt that the city of Portland was
Justified in all that it did in attempt
ing to bring about readjustment of
telephone rates and I still feel that
way, regardless of what the mem
bers of the state public service com
mission may say," said the mayor.
Public Has' Right to Know.
"When the telephone rates were in
creased the public demanded to know
why. We are the representatives of
the people of -this city and it was
our duty to make this demand on the
public service commission. Further-:
more, it was their duty to tell us
and show us, and tell and show the
public, why the rates should be in
creased. . It is my belief that is what
the public service commission is for.
If it is not, I cannot understand why
we should have a public service com
mission. . .
"If a city council cannot make a
request for information from the
public service commission, or contest
a decision of that body, there is
something wrong with the system, or
the law, because to have it otherwise
is nothing more nor less than autoc
racy. ., .
Cause Believed to Be Just.
"We went to the bat in what we
thought was a just cause and If we
could not convince the commission
that an increase in telephone rates
was wrong, the public either will
have to pay the bill or elect some
other procedure.
."Personally, I think It would be
much better for the commission to
explain and defend its course in this
case thap .to attack other bodies that
in good faith have questioned tne
commission's action. ' '
"All I care to say at this time,'
said Mr. Tomlinson, "is that evidence
sufficient to Justify lower rates, and
which would have sustained such
decision in the courts, was submitted
to the state commission during the
long hearing. Personally, I was great
ly surprised at the findings, in view
of the evidence."
Decision Branded Monstrous.
"The decision Is monstrous," said
Edward M. Cousin, who appeared In
the case for the Oregon telephone
federation. "This being a rehearing,
the commission could do only two
things confess erroneous findings of
fact 'and conclusions of law in its
order of February 28, 1921, or find
from the evidence adduced at the re
hearing that its former record was
incomplete.
There was' a mass of substantial
affirmative evidence on both these
propositions. It was shown that the
service was inadequate and insuffi
cient, and not worth the price
charged for it; that the valuation of
the company's property was fictitious
and exorbitant; that the operating
expenses included enormous exac
tions for depreciation, the unex
pended portion of which had accrued
until millions of dollars had accumu
lated; that other operating expenses
including contributions to parent
companies were extravagant; that
the company's showing consisted
largely of figures based upon esti
mates and assumed calculations; that
the company had stifled competition
and created a monopoly, and that
the rates had been increased beyond
all reason and were higher than pre
vailed In other cities of the same
class served by the Bell system.
Irregular Practices Charged.
"Much evidence disclosed unjusti
fiable relationship. between main-line
and party-line rates, and so many
complaints of individual discrimina
tions and irregular practices ap
peared that the commission could not
hear them,, all. Farmer-line rates
were shown to produce 150 per cent
more than the highest residence rate
in the exchange with which, the line
connected.
"All these and many more items
tended to show that the decision was
improperly founded and should be
modified, but the commission ap
parently has ignored them all, re
pudiated its own responsibility to
examine the company's affairs and
left the burden upon the public to
gather facts and evidence without
any official assistance."
Lawrence A. McNary, who was
counsel for the State Hotel 'associa
tion, said:
"It may be that the rates contin
ued and assured to the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph company do not
produce more than a reasonable re
turn upon the investment in this
state, as that investment and the op
eration of the company, are revealed
to the state public service commis
sion. But when it is understood that
the American Telephone and Tele
graph company is the owner of the
greater part of the stock of the local
company, and that the former is pav
Insr dividends of 9 per cent or more
11111
it
Mrs. Esther Short
The many friends of Mrs. Esther
Short, one of Portland's most prom
inent and successful teachers of
shorthand and well known along
the entire Pacific coast, will be
Interested to learn that she has
recently acquired an active Interest
in the NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL.
OF COMMERCE (Link'3 Business
College, expanded) as Secretary
and Principal of the Stenographic
and Secretarial Departments, . ac
cording to an announcement made
by Charles F. Walker, President
Her observation already con
vince her ; that the possibilities
here are greater than she has had
in any similar connection, because
of the morefciature and better type
of students comprising the enroll
ment. ;
per annum, it is apparent that the
stockholders were in fact already re
ceiving adequate returns.
"However, the decision, as indicat"
ed in the published report, is not a
dignified writing.
Decision Held Justifiable. ,
C. E. Hickman, divisional commer
cial superintendent of the telephone
company, said . he did not see how
the order of the commission could
have been otherwise than to uphold
the previous rate schedule, or to have
increased rates. .
' "We really are entitled to 8 per
cent return on our investment, but
by the commission's . order, reaf
firmed, we get but 4 per cent," said
Mr. Hickman.
T
RESERVES ORDERED TO TRAIN
NEAR TACOMA.
War Department Announces Plans
for Military ' Maneuvers
Next Summer.
PUGET SOUND BUREAU. Tacoma,
Wash., Feb. 21. Qamp Lewis will
become this summer one of the im
portant camps for the training of the
organized reserves and the reserve
officers' training corps and for the
citizens' military training corps.
according to announcement just
made by the war department The
State camp at Murray, nearby, prob
ably will be the gathering place for
the national guard units of the
state.
The military training camps of
next summer will embrace for the
first time all of the components and
agencies of the army of the United
States as contemplated under the na
tional defense act, said the announce
ment received at Camp Lewis.
The war department plans, which
are contingent on passage of appro
priations by congress, provide tha:
approximately 160,000 members of
the national guard, 30,000 reserve of
ficers and specialists, 10,000 student
members of the reserve officers'
training corps and 27,000 civilians
will undertake this field of training.
The training will be under the su
pervision of the 9th corps area com
manders.
Practically all troops of the regu
lar army will be engaged during the
summer in work pertaining to In
struction and administration at these
camps. Officers and enlisted men
will assist in the training at all
camps.
It was further proposed to use 900
reserve officers as instructors at the
civilian military training camps, pro
vided that number of qualified offi
cers volunteer to serve a 30-day pe
riod in addition to their 15-day train
ing period.
Camp of 15 days' duration will be
held for the national guard of the
states comprising each corps area.
Emphasis will be laid upon the fun
damentals for small units, as a rule,
no maneuvers will be attempted
tl...vai all fo.A nnri irenoral n f f i .
ilUWC.C, IL. . , . . . . ...... C - - v...
cers will participate in at least four
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The Prodigal Son
Returns Home!
BUT THE
DAUGHTER;
WHAT
ABOUT
HER?
This age-old, yet ever
new question, is power
fully presented in
Directed by
TH0S. H. INCE
NOW
PLAYING
With an all-star cast
including
FLORENCE VIDOR
LLOYD HUGHES
THEODORE ROBERTS
MADGE BELLAMY
Other attractions
including
KEATES AT OUR
ORGAN
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