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Show Electricity In Your Home Since 1922 the number of homes wired for electricity has more than doubled, and now totals 20,300,000' 70 per cent of all homes in the nation. Average domestic consumption consump-tion of electricity in 1931 was 570 kilowatt hours, as compared with 347 in 1921. The average consumption is expected ex-pected to continue to rise at an accelerating rate largely because of Increased use of labor-saving appliances. During 1931 appliance sales totaled $613,052,000. Particularly Particu-larly noteworthy gains were made in sale of electric refrigerators and clocks. Even so, only the surface sur-face of the field has been touched. At the end of 1931 but 45.5 per cent of wired homes had vacuum cleaners; 40.8 per cent had washing wash-ing machines; 40.3 per cent had toasters; 5.3 per cent had ranges. As a consequence, the manufacturers manufac-turers of appliances, aided by the utilities, are making intelligent, well directed efforts to stimulate sales and bring to the average home- more of the potential advantages ad-vantages of power. So far as the customer is concerned, con-cerned, increased use of power does not mean a correspondingly larger bill. In past years the cost has continually gone down as consumption con-sumption rose. In 1931 the rate was the lowest in history averaging averag-ing 5.82 cents per kilowatt hour as compared with 8.5 cents in 1914 and 20 cents half a century ago. Today we can light a home, cook, clean, refrigerate, wash and tell time by electricity for less than the cost of lighting alone in the not-so-distant past. Increased use of doniesic power means more comfort, a higher standard of living, greater economy. econ-omy. What the advent of steam power did to Industrial processes in the eighteenth century, electrically elec-trically powered appliances are doing do-ing to home life today. |