Abstract
M OST of the debate over the powers and duties of the Federal and state governments in dealing with our economic life beats the air in a war with shadows. It is a discussion of unrealities. The realities of this problem of power development and distribution are economic realities, but the debaters are blinded to them by phantoms from the world of politics. Take the State of Connecticut, for example. It is only a part of southern New England, the great finishing shop of American manufacturing enterprise. Upon Connecticut's small water powers the creative ingenuity and energy of its people, generations before the age of electricity, laid the foundations of the industrial greatness of the little commonwealth. The small water powers are intensively developed but were long since outgrown. Today the chief source of the life-stream of energy for Connecticut mills is in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. The margin of undeveloped water power within the state is small. So much for sources of supply. On the side of demand Connecticut today is too small a territory to be an economic unit of electric service. The
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