| Show THE STORY OF IU MUNICIPAL I OW I One thousand four hundred and forty Anler American can cities and towns with witha a 1 total population of about I have dispensed with municipal operation opera opera- operation operation tion of electric plants and now re- re rece receive re receive ce c Sn service ce from private companies compan compan- companies companies ies Four hundred and nine eighty eighty municipal plants serin serving people which at onetime one one- time operated their own generating g plants have junked them and now buy electricity act wholesale Je from priva private sources ac- ac according ac t cording cONing to s statistics of National Elec Electric Electric Light association Municipal ownership was doomed when w the modern modem plan of large cen- cen central central cen central S station service and interconnect interconnect- interconnected ed plants was inaugurated These great eat systems with their efficiency economy and unrivaled aled facilities offer of- of of offer fer ier a service which municipal plants can never equal Municipal ownership in practice has not worked according to tl theor theory Waste in-efficiency in lowered stand stand- standards standards ards of service serice added tax burdens and political entanglements lement have been the rule rather than the exception exception tion i Good electric service serice is so 1 vital to modern industrial and domestic J life e that only the most efficient power production and distribution n methods will I |
