| Show E 1 Badness Today Today Today- Home Savings Of Power Will Aid War WarI WarBY I BY jAMES JAl MARLOW and 1 PINKERTON rINKERTON WASHINGTON May 25 wide World world world-Il H you have a little list Entitled entitled Sacrifices I Made to Help Helpin Win in the War Var you might write in lightly in pencil the word power Dower ower Before the year Is s out Americ Amen Ameri- c WS s In scattered areas will be bel l learning b by doing dom without it the lv II ic role of ol electricity in the ii e ot f a modern community The little savings in the home R lay be voluntary People will be f urged ged d to cut down on the hot water h beater ater the thC vacuum cleaner the ther r radio nidio dio to keep home cooking and lighting ting at a minimum minimum especIally especially during those critical peak load r h hours burS urs from 5 p p. m. m to 8 or 9 p. p m. m In public places power shortages I n 11 force themselves on your atI at- at I theater theater marquees will dirken d streetcars may run unheated un- un heated hated show windows will black blacko blackout o out t. t Great Greaty y White ite Way billboards tap dim and night t sports will dis- dis appear JJ Any Y ingenious business man who Raj has kept a nonessential pl plant nt in it operation despite priorities priori- priori ti ties conversion orders man power dr drains Ins and all may find power rationing ra- ra tl ning the final killing blow With ith the suns sun's cooperation In lighting the land and enough rain I to to keep the electric rivers fl flowing wing through the dams well we'll get gIt through the summer without lay iy extra fuss over power The fall faIl and winter are another itry Late summer often brings a dry season that cuts down the output of waterpower plants The f fall will 11 bring hundreds of new industrial plants lants into full war production many on a 21 hour 24 bour seven seven day day basis Of course c urse the days lengthen and the weather eather gets chill and housewives st rt lighting the lamps before dil dinner dilner ner and cooking good big hot reals The power pinch say war production production pro pro- experts is likely to squeeze such ch scattered regions as the southeast the Texas-Arkansas- Texas L triangle of the southwest south- south west the rapidly-growing rapidly industrial indus indus- trial frial section around St. St Louis the B Niagara Buffalo area in New York state st te and possibly the Pacific D northwest The people of the southeast know what it lt is like to run short on power They did it a year ago and lived At that time a hookup empower lines of 17 states was devised to feed electricity into the seven states where a defense boom JiT industry had run on head-on into power cutting drouth I Any attack on a power shortage under W-P W Bs B's order L 49 includes p pooling of power lines so that th the maximum supply of juice gets t the short power-short shops and rationing rationing rationing ra ra- ra- ra or curtailment of uSes of electricity If power runs short in months t to orne ome dont don't expect any national p panacea cea Power people say shortages shortages short- short ages will develop on a regional basis and the remedies will vary from place to place |
