The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-12-08
electrical Week"


held December 9th. On the face of 1t,
this announcement sounds simple
enough, but to those who have watch
ed the progress of America and it's
people during the last generation
there appears behind this plain an
nouncement a force which is exert
ing a tremendous influence on every
phase of business and private life in
this country.
A little over a generation ago cleo
tricity saw it's first use for the pro-
duction of light and power. Thomas
Edison invented the incandescent
electric lamp. This came to be used
for street lighting, for the lighting of
large stores and public buildings.
Electric motors began to be used for
power. The electric street car made
it's appearance. The use OF both cleo
trio light and power spread rapidly
until nearly all business concerns
were using electricity in number of
ways. Then electric light in the
home came to be a reality and soon
it was followed by electric power
applied to fans and later to washing
machines and vacuum sweepers. The
electric automobile appeared and eV-
en- the gasoline car began to use cleo
tricity for light and for starting its
gasoline motor. These few examples
are merely indications of the marvel
ously rapid increase i'm the use OF
electricity for wide variety of pur-
poses. 1t has come to be mans best
serVant-best, because it is instantly
at his service for performing all kinds
of work and because it performs this
work at a reasonable cost.
So a whole week has been set aside
to celebrate the coming of this great
servant. This celebration is all the
more appropriate at this time in view
of the serious labor problems with
which our country is face to face
During that week every possible eff
fort is to be made to show the people
of this country how cheaply, how
we'll and in how many ways electric
.ity is ready to serve them. The daily
papers of every locality will carry
announcements of what electricity is
doing for the betterment of mankind.
In every city and town OF the United
States, "here electricity mas he ONE
a part Of the every day life, this cleo
trical celebration will lbe in progress.
A few years ago, an undertaking
of this kind would have meant little,
if anything, to the residents OF a
town or village which 'I.d not boast
an e-e~ rio power house of it's own or
to the farmer who was also beyond
the range of power house service.
This was because it was not then
known that electricity could be made
to serve these town and country
jewellers as well as it did those in the
cities. The last few years, however.
have shown that the village and the
farm are not dependent upon the
electric power house There are on
the market complete electric light
and power plants especially designed
for the farm or for the village home.
They cost no more than a team of
good horses, are capable of supplying
plenty Of electric light and power at
a very reasonable cost and of doing
so day after day and week after
week with no more attention than is
required by the simplest piece of
farm machinery.
10 the city man, electric light and
power means the best of light and
perhaps the comfort and convenience
of electric fans, a vacuum sweeper
and a washing machine In the small
town or village electric light and
power means, not only all these
things. but in addition, pumping
system which Will give running water
throughout the house. 1t is on the
farm, however, that the value of cleo
tricity will be felt more than anv
place else. Electric light will not
house, but the barn, garage, henery
ana other places where the farmers
work must often be done after dark.
ana electric power, to the farmer,
means new hired man to do all his
pumplng-runnlng water any time
anywhere on the farm, a modern bath
room and plumbing system, water
that is always fresh and pure for the
stock carried right to the barn bv
this new hired man. The new serv-
ant Will also do the milking, the sep
aratlng, the churning, the grinding
and hundred other daily tasks. He
VIII work at any time of the day or
night for lower wages than the farm
er has ever paid his farm help before.
He will relieve the farmer, his wife,
and their children of the kind of Work
that mas been drudgery on the farm
IN the past, and in doing this will not
only have added to country life that
pleasure and convenience which has
long been the privilege of the citv
but will have added to the safety of
lighting the farmers buildings of
famable material hundred fold ov-
er the various methods now in use
1t will do away with the burning
blaze. This new servant will 20 fur
ther toward making the country, as
was intended, the ideal place to live,
for 1t must be remembered God mado
the Country, and man made the
Town
So this year the village and the
farm homes will have an interest in
Electrical week, feeling that cleo
t"icity-the great modern SERVANTS
ready, to do even more for them than
ii does for those in the city.