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Show MODERN SERVANTS. The New York Times quotes the United States Geological Survey on Power Capacity and Production, as stateing that every person in the United States now has the equivalent of about sixty servants in constant attendance. These servants, the Times continues, contin-ues, are not of flesh and blood but of machines and tools and instruments-Here is a suggestion worth thinking over. In the early days it was every man for himself and only the wealthier could afford servants ser-vants or slarves to look after their eyery-day wants and conveniences. convenien-ces. But now everything has changed. Modern science has given us inanimate hewers of wood and drawers of water. When we arise in the morning and turn the tap in the bathroom getting ready to shave, the water company furnishes us with the water. It is no longer necessary to carryi t yourself or have a servant get it from the well. Generally our cooking is done with gas or electricity, so that the necessity of carrying in the wood and lighting the fire has been done away with. When we start for the office, if we do not use an automobile we avail ourselves of the street car or the bus, if we live at a distance- It is no . longer necessary to walk or to have a coachman to handle the horses, curry and feed them. When we arrive at the office an electric servant whisks us up to the tenth floor where we arrive iri good condition and not short of breath. The office is cooled by electricity in the summer and heated by steam in the winter. Here are more mechanical servants working for us. When we lunch at noon we again have service which is afforded us cheaply because of the modern: roganization for the serving of food. , And so it goes night and day. We common folks have a hundred hun-dred times more convenience than the .rich man a hundred years tago and we do not have to be rich enough to employ a retinue of servants to get it. Modem science and organization gives us these servants at low cost- After all what are our mo diem public service corporations? They are what the name -implies.. They furnish us service through invisible servants at a low cost that would have been undreamed of a generation or two ago. As the .service grows the cost will decrease. Of course it is popular now to complain o ftho service and the cost and in some cases the complaint is justifiable, it has always been the custom to complain of our servants. And let u.s not forget the goods points in the contemplation of the things whic h have not yet been perfected. Electricity, steam and gas are man' ss greatest servants. ser-vants. They serve the rich and the poor alike, wrik'h is some improvement im-provement over the servants of forgotten days. |