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Show Electricity To Bring Back Prosperity Writing In Public Utilities Fort-nightly, Fort-nightly, Raymond Francis Yates, asks a question : "Will the Electric Utilities Iead Us Back to Prosperity!" Prosper-ity!" In his opinion, the answer Is yes. He points out that after every degression de-gression some great industry has come to the fore. The clipper ships did this in the forties, the railroads rail-roads after the Civil War, the automobile au-tomobile industry in 1920. And now, the electric industry is our lttglclal economic savior. , Mr, Yates points out two great and almost undeveloped fields for electricity : Use of power by domestic do-mestic labor-saving machines, and electricity on the farm. Only a small part of our homes have electric elec-tric sewing machines, Ironers, ranges ami the like even electric toasters, iiercolators and such common com-mon appliances are comparatively rare. With the single exception of the electric Iron ,the saturation point for any device Is still in the future. On the farm, conditions are similar. simi-lar. A few farmers have power-an overwhelming majority have not. Yet, according to Mr. Yates, ten cents worth of electricity will churn 40 pounds of butter, separate 2800 pounds of milk and cream, sharpen 12 axes, pump four days' supply of water, and do four large family washings. No other industry has greater possibilities than the electric, and no other has ever shown a finer spirit of progress. It Is not difficult to believe that future prosperity will be laregly the result of electrical electri-cal developments. |