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Show The Home Goes Forward If consumption of electricity is an index of progress, the general business difficulties of the present year have not seriously hampered iho forward devlopment of our living liv-ing standards. For the first nine months of 1930 the total consumption of electric elec-tric power by all classes or consumer? con-sumer? was slightly above that of 1929, and 14.3 per cent above 1028. Domestic use was 14.4 per cent greater than in 1929 a rate of increase comparing favorably with that of former years. This increase in-crease is a reflection of the stimulated stim-ulated use of electric appliances. Small commercial consumers show ed a gain in consumption of 10.2 per cent over 1929 and largj industrial in-dustrial users a decrease of 5.1 per cent. However, even in the case of the latter, consumption was 10 per cent greater than in ISttS. 'The fact that electric rates go down as sales go upward was agam demonstrated. Domestic rates, on the average, have decreased 3.1 per cent since the beginning of the year. Nineteen-thirty has generally been considered a "poor year," which makes electric progress all the more remarkable. But electric elec-tric power and living standards have virtually become synonymous. Each year finds the American home on a higher plane than ever before. |