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Advocates the establishment of a competing system of public ownership and operation in the United States electric power industry. Features of an ideal public yardstick for regulating the industry; Hybrid proposals that emerged from the debate between private operation under commission regulation and straight public ownership; Comparison in the amount of power that can be produced between public and private ownerships; Changes needed to improve the public distribution of power in the country.

Presents news briefs, related to various socio-political issues. Completion of the conquest of Ethiopia by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini; Proposal of the Frazier-Lemke bill, refinance farm mortgages, passed in the U.S. Senate; Report of the U.S. Federal. Power Commission showing the extent of concentration of control in the electric-power industry; Legislative measures pending in the U.S. Congress; Information on the Walsh Bill providing that decent wages, hours and conditions and the other labor provisions including collective bargaining, shall be observed by concerns holding government contracts in the U.S.; Refusal of the American Federation of Labor to the offer of the Committee for Industrial Organization, to raise money to organize the steel industry; Restriction on African American members of the American Library Association; Efforts of writer Bruce Barton to help the National Republican Committee to win next November's elections in the U.S.; Successful completion of the ship "Hindenburg's" first trip to the United States in a new west-bound record time of sixty-one and a half hours; Reappointment of Morris U. Schappes to the tutorial staff of the College of the City of New York.