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Focuses on the policy of the U.S. government on electric power generation and natural resources. Optimism shown by the government on the potentials for electric power generation; Need for the policy to create a publicly conceived, publicly owned and publicly operated system of the electric power of the sort which has succeeded well in Ontario; Confusion over national and state jurisdiction regarding the electric power resources; Need for the development of transmission lines and a planned utilization of water power.

Focuses on various socio-political developments in the U.S. Information on public hearings to be conducted by Republican Senators Ralph E. Flanders and Arthur V. Watkins and Representative George H. Bender in more than twenty cities on the price situation; View that it is votes instead of price facts the gentlemen are seeking; Description of ways and means of conserving electric power to overcome California power shortage; Information on growing anti-Semitic demonstrations by avowed Fascists in London's East End; Creation of a new insulin compound which may be of value to diabetics; Victory of Franklin H. Lichtenwalter, speaker of the Pennsylvania house, in the Eighth Pennsylvania congressional District elections; Opinion of state attorney general Eugene F. Black on the Callahan Act, Michigan's thought-control law, which makes it a crime to advocate any policy that might benefit a foreign power; Information on food export policy of the U.S.

Presents information on the political conditions in the world with emphasis on the U.S. Passive resistance of the people in Ruhr, Germany, to the French rule; Overview of the offer made by Germany to pay back the debt it owes to the Allies; Failure of the agrarian government in Bulgaria; Report that as a result of the repeal of the Mullan-Gage prohibition law in New York State, police in New York City will aid the federal authorities in preventing violations of the law only when they see illegal acts in the course of being committed; Implementation of the regulations of the Treasury Department regarding liquor on foreign ships entering the U.S.; Plans for development of electric power throughout the United States in one gigantic system; Questioning of the confiscation of German patents by the U.S.; Analysis of the post war economic conditions in Germany; Report that formal organizations have opened headquarters in California and Texas to promote automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, who wants the army and navy put to the "useful and constructive work" of stamping out the bootleggers, for the post of U.S. President; Improvement in the American public opinion regarding Turkey; Criticism of businessman Irving T. Bush regarding his statements on Russian political conditions; Appreciation of Governor Gifford Pinchot's efforts in bringing order into the government of Pennsylvania; Suggestion of U.S. Shipping Board Chairman, Albert D. Lasker, that about two hundred and fifty of the choicest ships in the government fleet should be operated by the Shipping Board on the eighteen or twenty most important routes, pending the time when private American ship-owners will buy these vessels; Suggestions given by the delegation of clergymen and laymen to U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding in behalf of the oppressed peoples of the Near East.

Focuses on the views of Robert Isham Randolph, member of the United States Republican Party and a consulting engineer, on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Act. Comment of Randolph regarding the act being a political and economic crime; Views that David Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan, directors of the board, prevented Arthur Morgan, another director of the board, to single handedly pursue the direction of TVA; Division of responsibilities of the directors; Charges of falsehood and misrepresentation made by Morgan; Clauses in the literature of the act to contest TVA's right to sell power; Opinion that power is the mainstay of the act with flood control, national defense and fertilizer being the peripherals; Question against TVA regarding utilization of dams to hold water before flood for generate power or used for preventing flood.

Focuses on the oppositions to the national power policy in the United States. Reaction of engineering graduates on the private ownership of electric utilities; Refusal of engineering societies to participate from discussions of power; Preference for steam power than water power.

Offers observations regarding the attitude of people living at the Scottish border country. Reaction of local residents of a village of Paxton to the governmental offer of a water system; Description of the problem faced by author's aunt due to minute coal rations in Cumberland; Solution provided by the author to warm up the whole house with the given coal; Rejection of electric power proposals on the grounds that the dam may spoil the appearance of the mountains.

Focuses on legal developments related to the electric-power and light companies in the U.S. Investigation by Judge George E. Healy, counsel to the Federal Trade Commission, of the public utility companies; Regulation by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to abolish what he regarded as excrescences in the financial scene; Preparation of the bill for regulation of stock exchanges; Involvement of judge John W. Davis and Piper Jaffray to discuss the problem of unconstitutionality; Suggestion by judge John J. Burns to investigate the circumstances of the participation in this lawsuit of Davis' client; Representation of the bankruptcy trustees by Piper, attorney for holding companies.

Presents an update on recent various developments in the U.S. and abroad. Reaction following the fall of Premier Albert Sarruat's government with instability associated with his government; Uncertianty associated with the future foreign policy of the U.S. related to Cuba; Account of the vote by twenty-nine captive mines under the supervision of the United States National Labor Board to choose their representative of collective bargaining; Citation of Knoxville, Tennessee on becoming the first city in the Valley to buy power from the Tennessee Valley Authority and distribute it over a municipally owned and operated system.

Focuses on the significance of electricity in the development of modern industry and application in industrial operations in the U.S. Phases through which the application of electricity in industrial operations is said to have passed and areas where it was applied; Benefits of electric control of machines used in an industry; Comparison of mechanical power with electric power; Reference to the book "Organized Labor Production," by Morris L. Cooke and Philip Murray.

Provides the prospective condition of the Middle West. Establishment of a nationwide system of electric power by Samuel Insull; Cultural influence of learning institutions on the community; Upsurge of democratic culture with the collections of pictures and the establishment of orchestras; Architectural work by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright; Point of regionalism in American literature; Degree of stability in the labor movement; Need for political and business leadership.

Focuses on development of modern technology in the U.S. Benefits of modern technology for the economy of a country; Steps taken by the government for the development of technology; Description of new steam-electric plants; Report on the constant flow of cooling water to condense steam in their turbines; Increase in world oil trade to keep pace with demand.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discusses in the previous issue. Reference to the fallibility of the 1932 Literary Digest prohibition poll; Comments on the movement of the Public Committee on Power Utilities and Labor against the Brooklyn Edison Company; Discussion on features of the American League for India's Freedom; Reference to the article "Red Day in Washington" with a comparison between the government of the United States and Soviet Union.