The Winslow mail., 1926-10-29
ELECTRIC POWER
IS BIGGEST ITEM
IN NEW MAIL SHOP

,nldAUIdcIuTluS dS0IICleS VI ever
type, one service stands out su-
sreme above all others from a
standpoint of service rendered. SO
quietly and unfailingly does this
servant do it's work that it is sell
dom considered, but without it tn
printing plant of the Mail woulf
have to fall back on the method
Of the last century. This service
is electric service.
No one factor means so much If
the daily routine of the avarage
American print shop. Without elec
tricity, the Linotype machine might
almost as we'll not have come into
being, siftA difference in service
does electricity give in dependable
ty Of heat and power. Presses
might almost as we'll be turned by
hand as to discard electric motors
The necessity for strong, fu1lfail1
ing, brilliant light is as great in the
printing plant as in the jeWelry fac
tory, and a dozen other smaller de-
manas are served in the same salts
factory way by this giant whose
finge&s reach over. miles of thin
electric Wires to do the bidding. OF
the switch. @,k
The story of Aladdin's lamp
makes poor reading compared to
the tremendous gifts of electricity
to mankind. Electric motors every
day do che work of millions of
men More powerful, more easily
handled, never needing instructions
never tiEing, they release men for
other dirty, give them more time
for play @and Improvement, and in
general lift the fog of depression
and hopel9sSness from the laboring
man.
AS in Industrial places, so in the
home, for electric current has made
the American housewife from
drudge into being who now, even
in the lowest circumstances, can
afford time for enjoyment of life.
In countless homes Of the nation
electric current helps do the house
hold tasks that formerly were so
bitter, provides too, an unfailing
supply Of heat for small corners,
runs fans that bring the seashores
to the home in summer time, and
by lighting quickly, strongly and
conveniently every room, add hours
each day to every life; hours that
can be used in the relaxing pleas
ure that means so much to those
who toilsfor a living.
This service asks for no eight
hour day, no six-day week. Con-
stantly, day and night, every hour
and every minute, this service must
be ready to help you. You need a
light at -four o'clock in the morn
ing-yoh turn the switch and it is
there, quick as thought. Seldom is
this service given the considera-
ton it deserves, it has become such
an everyday matter, that it no long
er excites a feeling of wonder.
You need a few hours of day.
light at the. end of the day, and it
is yours at a fingers pressure.
Aladdin could not do that.
The pubQshing of newspaper is
no small. job. Like every other at
tainmenty 1T is accomplished by
hard work and inumerable details.
Every working hour from 500 a.
IN. to 500 sp. m, and often at night
when rush work must be produced,
electric current is there, untiring
and unfailing, helping to turn the
wheels of progress.
IT is astonishing how much each
industry depends on all others, and
how curiously and intricately the
threads ef, one industry's progress
are interlaced with thousands OF
others. But the entire Mail plant,
made up as it is of the labor of
MANY men, would be a compare
kiyely Iifeless thing without the
tireless hand of electricity to help
it along.
Such service is, as said before,
accepted as a matter of fact, as the
suns light is, and other gifts of
nature~y- Electric light and pow
er, howeVer@ is man-made, and to
men who make it should be given
the credit
The Arizona Electric Light and
Power company, one of three COM
panies serving Northern Arizona
cities, has served Winslow for years
under the same name. In the same
cham are the plants at HolbrOok
and at Flagstaff. Formerly under
Sne management of a local firm,
these three. companies were bought
this spring by Day & Zimmerman,
a Philadelphia corporation.
At the beginning of their regime
this company promised a decrease
in rates, and for many months
spent time in gathering data in re-
gard to this matter. Not long ago
these rates went into effect. AL
though regarded in some quarters
as not great enough, they at least
serve to- show the company's sin
cerity in their intention to lower
rates here, and they will mean
saving to- the city at large.
Under Jok9 Baird, local plant
manager, a program of improve
ment has been instituted. At pres
ent, changes have been made in the
alley between Second and Third
st8ee&, the transformer power in
creased and stronger wires placed
It k the airn of this company, and
it is a necessity, to grow with Wins
lows demands, Hhd to keep their
equipment in such shape that ad-
ditional Eads can be added without
taYiOp thh NO1ant