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Show Solving- a Social Problem The development of rural electric service is solving a great social problem prob-lem by making comfortable homes a-vailable a-vailable to persons of modest means living in isolated localities, in the opinion op-inion of Dean Gus Dyer of Vanderbilt University. ' With the extension of electric power pow-er today," says Mr. Dyer, "it is not a theory, but a fact, thai in a country home you can have conveniences that you have in a city, and a thousand things that the city can't have. This is largely the result of electric service development." The disintegration of the home, a problem that has worried socioligists is the result of overcrowding in great cities. And the trend away from rural rur-al and agricultural life was the natural natur-al desire of the country dweller for urban ur-ban comforts and luxuries. Electricity is here effecting a tremendous tre-mendous social change. Families find in the country the natural advantages ad-vantages of unbounded space, healthful health-ful living conditions and lower living costs. And to these electricity is adding add-ing thte other great advantages of light and power and the thousand and one labor, time and money saving invention? in-vention? that have become a basic part of modern lile. All over the nation rural electric lines are being built. Problems of cast and maintenance are being settled. set-tled. Farmers are realizing more and more the boon of electricity, in both the social and economic phases of their existence. Electricity is mak ing another great contribution to prog ress and civilization. |