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Show Electrification of Farms Will Draw Hords From Cities CHICAGO. Electricity is the flame luring the moths of city dwellers to rural and suburban communities. com-munities. Within the next twenty-five twenty-five years a heavy drift of population popula-tion away from congested metropolitan metropo-litan centers will take place. This is the prediction contained in the report on the power resource of the Middle West by the survey committee of the Great Lakes Division Di-vision of the National Electric Light Association. "The use of electricity in small towns and rural districts is making mak-ing life there much more agreeable," agree-able," R. Schuchardt, electrical engineer en-gineer of the Commonwealth Edison Company and chairman of the committee, com-mittee, declared. "The fact that many people in the large cities are dissatisfied with the crowded living, transportation and intensely competitive work conditions, con-ditions, will make them turn back to the smaller places, where the advantages ad-vantages of the city are brought by the modern improvements in which electricity plays so great n part," Schuchardt said. Electrification of farms, the report re-port points out, is growing with 20,000 farms now receiving electric service from central station transmission trans-mission lines. |
