The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-21

1CAcId 1uy n. 1TtpP, ChdhM oh
 Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
 cturing company, who has been one
 the foremost champions of weaving
 whole country into network of
 power lines, foresees
 eat changes affecting the life of the
 nerican people in our big cities and
 other places. Under the coming or
 r, slums should disappear, unmanage-
 le traffic congestion in city streets
 ould be relieved, country folks should
 able to establish better opportunities
 using spare time profitably. and all
 us should be able to get a larger
 are of the conveniences and comforts
 life, for 1t Is now accepted as a fact
 at the more machinery and the more
 wer a nation uses the higher the
 hges 1t Is possible to pay and the bet
 become the living conditions of the
 ople.
 Says General Tripp:
 f.In the United States the amount of
 wer which the workman has at his
 sposal is about three-quarter horse Swer, which Is about twice that of the
 hglish workman; and we find real kges in the United States Chat is, hges expressed in the purchasing pow | of money) to be about twice that in ! l at the living conditions of the work |en in this country are at least twice good as those of the workmen in hgland This same ratio also holds
 hen we consider other countries, in &uding China, where no mechanical bwer Is used by the workmen and (here wages are a mere pittance-" Read this forward-looking statement: f'When power can be obtained as 3eaply at one place as at another, i'm hstries will be able to locate them lives at the most convenient points 6th reference to the supply of raw ma |rials and favorable conditions for ern- |oyes. It is entirely possible that the |ums of our great cities will dis bpear and the present tendency toward Ie swarming of population into al- 'ady crowded centers will be checked Progress Is being made in linking up .fferent states and different sections the country with electric power lines. he war found this country handicapped a power shortage, simply because the |tal available supply was not inter bnnected. Thus New York City had Irplus but nothern New Jersey had ffieiency. This Quickened the indus H,s endeavors- What is the outlook bw? Says General Tripp;
 |"Super-power, as conceived and as eihg carried forward at the present |me, contemplates the use of 220,000 volt hunk transmission lines stretching yer wide areas and serving as great |servoir into which may be poured bwer generated from all available |urces in order of their economy. It |oks forward to a time when water bwers and gigantic steam stations, To- lted in the coal fields or on tide wa IT., will be developed; and not only lat, but to a time when the by-products industrial operations, such as the hses from blast furnacess etc, will all } conserved by turningE these waste Foducts into electric power, for which bere will always be a market in the ain pipelines so to speak"
 Many and important mergers arc talk IR place in the electric light and pow ! industry. The goal is fewer and Lrger systems Then will 1t be easier link fup all parts of the continent ith abundant supply of electric energy ,r lighting, for traction, for factory, ,r farm and for domestic purposes. Incidentally, the cutting down of. our nnual supply of sturdy young immi- rants increases the necessity for mak- lg electric power more freely avail bie.
 Thus is the electric industry seeking , solve that towering, many sided mod -n problem, distribution. General ripp told the Electrical Supply Job ers' association at Cleveland this week, lat the cost of distributing phono- raphs is seven times the manum2c- iring cost, furniture five times, low riced watches six and a half times nd perishable farm products about five mes the prices received by the pro ucers, whereas the figure for electrical was only three and a half mes.
 By making power available at any nd every point of the continent de- of industrial production Ill be possible and let us hope, will re- uce the cost of distribution and, there ,re, the cost of living.