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Show Fifty Years Ago ... 4 From rre Airi Record i Feb. 21 1930 INDUSTRIAL NEWS - , An Evolutionary Process Due to the , merging of many electric companies in order to provide service on the mass production princip-ple, princip-ple, the question naturally . arises:. "Just how far should interconnection go?' It would probably be the . well considered? answer, of the average consumer that v" interconnection should to the V point- where every home, f- farm arid -industry receives t the best possible electric, 1 service at the lowest pos- sible cost.; ' .. " Great, electric utilities ser-; ser-; ing many communities, have the advantage of unlimited mechanical facilities and a ..... type of -engineering and - - executive personnel that is v -unobtainable by small : plants. Costs are cut and a - fair aggregate profit can be realized rpm extremely ; small individual profits. , Fighting Automobile Accidents :i It has become increasingly " ' ' i apparent during recent years that the automobile accident ' problem will not be solved by such legislative boomerangs boome-rangs as compulsory insur; ance. but by certain punish-f ment of persons flagranti guilty of causing accidents. So long as cure" is- subjugated to "indemnity-' the accident record will continue to increase. During 1929. financial responsibility laws were passed pas-sed in some form in California, Iowa, New Jers-sey. Jers-sey. New York, Wisconsin and North Dakota. None of these force unconditional compulsory inssurahce on the public. The, careful, . competent driver is not affected by them. They are solely in the case of the careless and reckless. A large number of our accidents can be attributed to outmoded inadequate or unenforced traffic and high-. high-. way driving ordinances. In - many states licenses to operate a car are given to any who ask for themT irrespective irrespec-tive of their ability, experi- , ience of responsibility. It i is no wonder that this condition results in the deaths of 21,000 persons each year. 90 Years Ago ... ; From the Wasatch Wave Nov. 30. 1889 ; - WATER! WATER! Representatives of the Wasatch, Charleston, Midw-' ; way and Woodland Canal Companies, and the North Field Irrigation Company met at the Courthouse Monday evening, Nov. 26, The following motion was made bv H.M. ; Aird and unanimously adopted: I move that it be the sense of this meeting that each -company in Provo Valley including the Kamas Irrigat-; i tiqn Comany,' ascertain and recdrdr'with the affidavit of. such witnesses in the ranks of the company, how much land and whether it be farm or meadow, has been ir-t ir-t rigated . within the limits each season since, the settl-. : ment of the Provo Valley and " that each person who does not belong to a company using water from the Provo River or any of its tributaries " from Charleston tip, whose land is not included within the limitsof any corporation, record the amount of land they each have and how long it has been in cultivation, with an affidavit signed by two or more, witnesses in a ; book furnished to them for that purpose. |