Show I W WATER A ER POWER AND COAL IT JT IS HIGH TIME the world wa was be beginning beI I ginning to economize on co coal l thinks an editorial writer In the Electrical World orld and nd Engin Engineer er Plenty of con con consumers sumers are as hard as th y know ho how to economize on coat coal now but because of the size of C their bills The World and Engineer man thinks economy should be practiced b be because cauSe there Js is a likelihood that the coal will give out He pre predict diet dict this as a los o of time the near future but he knows know it Is surely corn com coming lug ing some ome time and anil f for r that reason every available water power should be de developed eloped and brought info use He sa saVe say We Ve are burn burning In our coal gantly with wIthout ut thought of the Our methods are little more than bar barbarous barbarous barous For instance we use electric lights lavishly without stopping to consider that only a fraction of 1 per percent percent cent of oC the energy of out coal Is actual actually l ly turned Into useful light an every pond of coal burned subtracts jU just t that thai much from the resources ot of the I country Coal once used is gone for forever forever ever while a waterpower Is Inexhaustible inexhaustible tible l If properly protected The Th point of view usually taken today does not I seem to be right Experts have figured that for n a natural Increase in the number of oC factories entailing p L like increase In the consumption of coal the thc present available supply or of the countr will last some Dome hundreds o of years ears He Is a philanthropist Indeed then who looks that far Into the future and lies awake nights to worry It Is well enough to I have a reasonable amount of care for forthe forthe the welfare or of those who will follow tollow I Ius us on this terrestrial ball have hae looked o ourselves pretty well and our descendants may be depended upon to do likewise The early settlers In this thi country burned nothing but wood They man manI managed aged to keep them comfortable to cook their meals and to Ue live hap happily with Ith wood ns as fuel Later coal was discovered ria was Invented i factories and mills sprang up every everywhere everywhere where and the use of wood as f fuel l be became became came I obsolete Now water waterpOwer waterpower pOwer is coming Into more general u use not specially from rom a desire lesire to save sae coal but bec because uee once Installed it is cheap cheapEr Er than coal Our ur descendants may find I something for themselves that will be better than either coal or waterpower I 11 l let t them n fit it out ut I |