The courier-index., 1918-02-08
Lights and Shadows.
(EpIToRlAL)

The Courierndex has disposition to be unfair to the Arkansas Light and Power Company, does desire to unnecessarily gouge the officials company of the miserable makesh service has been supplying its patrons here during the past This paper has felt it because of inadequate service and apparently exorban the makes the investment to put the
 The people of Marianna fully realize that war conditions work hardshps public utility just they do on ndvid uas and they do not expect the unreasonable from the Akan Light and Power Company Had the service been good the advance of fuel and machinery and bad only for the period covered by the abnormal conditions the public would be much tolerant variable the company supplying But because the service has been comply with its contract in The management of the water plant because the bills have been mounting high the commodity furnished by the company the public has begun to suspect that there is something fundamentally and with the physical equipment of the system
 C. Couch president of the company, who spent Wednes afternoon and evening here with of the city council and with citizens insists his fGeo e making out of the plant here and because the necessary put plant in firstcass conditonhat it is question of paying more and getting something better Of just those words, but the meaning is the same.
 The public however insists MT Couch s bought the local others including electrical experts did not think worth the operating expenses and the gross When he bought the plant and succeeded company that giving of the business miscarried if of production
 
 peence these and matters that address themselves to the officials of the company The public is interested in only feature of the stuationo good commodity at reasonable cost The lack of initiative upon the part of the in developing the business should not be made to act penalty upon the Poor equipment and bad burdens that properly fall upon the and not its parons Increased cost of production due to conditions beyond the control of the company should be cared for by increase in the rates No fair minded objects to paying for service under such Certainly it not the spirit of the people of Marianne to force the Arkansas Light and Power Company operate a loss
 But when rates are increased at least twenty per cent when meters act like they had been fed diet of Cascaet when 1t IS necessary to hundred-wa globe to get luminaton when the service unreliable that patrons have to stock aOw candles and flash lights in the frequent nermissions when the fireman the plant takes his sesta the engineer nduges in the luxury of shower bath Ga sanitary precauon entirely commendabe his but which the low does permit patrons enjoywhen these conditions pile up tain high the ultimate he feels perfectly justified in raising healthy howl.
 MT. Couch promises better service He is likabe of elowg genial smiling, rotund, pacc-not specific He has plans They good things sometimes He didn't tell what they but he has them Apparently the company em all the time but it has been keeping them in safety deposit vault where they wouldn't deterorae like of their plants done If MT Couch be induced those plans out dust them off and put them in uxapositon the Marianna light and plant perhaps burdened pub lie reduce its expenditure for light substitutes of the precious lung greatly needs the Kaiser