White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-09-04

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Farmer.)
ELECTRICAL service extension so
~ that it comes within practicable
reach of the farm is problem which,
from national economic viewpoint,
demands solution, in the opinion of
Owen d. Young. Nothing interests
all of us as fundamentally as does our
food supply" said Mr.. Young in an
interview through the Pennsylvania
Public Service Information Commit
tee. Adequacy and economy in our
farming cannot be attained SO long as
the farmer is at disadvantage with
regard to his living standards"
Mr.. Young Is an authority, not only
on the subject Of electric service,
but on farming as well. He was born
and reared on farm in Van Hornes-
Vile, N. Y, which today he owns and
operates
Intelligent young men with an up
bringing and a store of knowledge
peculiarly beftting them for farm
work leave the farm year by year"
continued Mr.. Young. "They leave
because they crave the cultural adj
vantages and creature comforts which
farm life does not afford. They are
repealed by the drudgery Of life on
the farm.
Rural Arch Weakening.
"The rural arch, all important In
our economic structure, Is progress
sively weakened by these losses. So
the sociological factor is closely al
lied with the economic one. We can
produce our food supply adequately
and economically only by keeping the
most intelligent people on the farm,
men and women who will be able to
manage the farm as business to
their profit.
"a common interest requires solu-
ton of this great problem. Whose is
the job to solve it? l am of the opin-
ion that the electrical industry Is
obligated to take the greatest part in
reaching that solution. 1t is the cleo
trical industry's job. 1t must accept a
problem of that magnitude and char.
acter not as a new market. 1t musi
accept it as duty.
1.-THE first question is, how can 1t be
done profitably? How can business
of such dimensions and Importance be
developed in such way that the cleo
trical industry can sell its service for
what the purchasers can afford tc
pay?
TWENTY-FIVE years ago the light
and power companies did local bust
ness in each municipality. A gener
ating station suited to the size OF the
community in which the franchise
was granted, and a distributing sys
tenn adequate to cover it's needs wa
power company. Within that com
munity, it was their privilege AM
their obligation to supply service t
, it's citizens. Each individual servic
might not be wholly profitable, bu
If the earnings from the communit
as whole showed fair return o.
the capital invested there, the powe
company was satisfied.
Cost of Power Reduced.
I To-day, a change has occurred i
that business. The art has deyelope
and the industry has extended wit
the art. 1t has been found that it
in the interest of the industry as we
as of the community to have grea
central power stations, favorably Il
Gated, supplying large territoris
district comprised Of many commun
of power supply Is reduced throug
these larger and more economic gel
ties, in place of the small individut
plants for each community. The Coz
Grating units.
ut has been found of advantage
the power companies to diversity tn
load by the different uses to whic
power Is put in different communitie
; at different times of the day. Thi
! too, is of advantage to the power con
panies in that it makes their inves
ment more productive. When, hov
ever, great districts are served by
single power company, when gres
power transmission lines are ru
! through rural communities in order I
I connect one city with another, whe
the farms and small villages find ths
they cannot tap for service these line
which run directly by their door, the
begin to ask, and in my judgmen
properly ask, why, If they are part {
this great integrated power distrio