Show Thinks Electric Rates Excessive Editor The Telegram A recent editorial in the San Francisco Examiner tells wh why the power tr trust st is Js fighting against the I government building electric power generating plants at Boulder dam damand damand damand I and selling the power to in municipalities nici- nici or private companies Such an arrangement s says ys the editorial would show the people how hW cheaply p power can be e manufactured manufactured manu manu- a and d would reveal the extortion extortion extortion ex ex- ex- ex being perpetrated by the I power trust The power trust flinches from such a comparison and is trying to prevent the es establishment establishment es- es of such a standard a. a as the Boulder dam project would pr provide vide And the reason for the agitation of or the power trust i K to tobe tobe tobe be found In the excessive rates which it Jt is now charging consumers ers of electric power all over the country Boulder dam will not put the government into the business of ot selling power to the people But it will put the people in the way of knowing the truth about the ex extortion extortion extortion ex- ex which the power trust is practicing upon them My light bill in Salt Lake runs around four dollars per month In Los Angeles Long Beach anti and San Diego where we have relatives and friends with families as large as ours their combined water gas and light bill has never reached four tour dollars for any month Those cities own their water Inthe in inthe inthe the mountains buy natural l gas in inthe inthe inthe the oil pH fields and electric power from flom the power trust add enough to the cost to pay the city a profit profit pro pro- I fit and sell all three to the public I for less than we in Salt Lake City pay for tor our lights alone We Ve use electric washer an and iron so also do our friends on the coast They do all aU their cooking baking and heating water for laundry and bath with natural gas paying for tor their lights and water all at a cost no greater than 1 pay for lI lights It seems to me that a franchise giving a monopoly on light and power together with a stand In with the utilities commission Ismore is ismore ismore more profitable than a license to steal or run a saloon and gambling house louse As Pietro used to say Vat Wat you youA ou tink A NIGHT WORKER IN Pv TI R. R Y YARD |