Show Electricity and Tobacco Today the average person pays annually for or domestic city The same average person pays 16 0 annually for tobacco The composite figure for cost of if f living is still 50 per cent above 1913 figures The average e cost of domestic is 31 per cent below 1913 standard Electricity ity accounts for around I per cent of the average aver ge household household house house- hold budget t and if cost of service service service ice was reduced 10 per cent it would mean less lass than one cent a aday aday aday day to the average American household It is such a fact as this that illustrates better than any argument the futility not futility not notto to say absurdity absurdity of of the current political attack en on the electric in industry's industry's industry's in- in rates It remains one of the political statements that American American American Am Am- families in a given year were Wele overcharged many hundreds of millions of dollars for electric service service and and then th n upon investigation tion it was found that the sum mentioned was about equal to the nations nation's total domestic electric bill It should be obvious by now that harpooning of the electric industry industry Industry indus indus- try has one real object object to to put the government into business to the destruction d of our fundamental tal American principle of govern govern- ing The cost of power Is really not an issue Certain politicians want more authority more bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy bu bu- bu- bu more political patronage patrona patron patron- age a e to peddle peddle and and the American people will ill have to decide whether er they will curb private initiative and enterprise which in business has hIlS had a long record of oC failures and created staggering tax lax bur bur- dens |