New Britain herald., 1930-03-05

"Second situation. Suppose that you arc living ill a room just twice as large as the first room, that is, room 40 feet wide and 50 feet long. That will give you a floor area of 1000 square feet. Use the same light. Burn the same amount of 50 K. w. H. energy. Here is your bill Energy rate, the same as before, S2.50. But not your fiat rate. It now is 50 cents plus O times four cents (bccause you have 20 hundred square feet of floor area) or s1.S0. A total bill of s3.S0 for the month. The company has given you no more than it gave in the first situation. No more service has been furnished. The only thing that is different is that you can afford to live in Q larger room. Because of your good fortune you pay the con- pany 60 cents for nothing.
 Third situation. Suppose that you have the opportunity to live m three story house. The inside measurements of each floor are 100 feet long by 40 feet wide. That gives you q total floor area of i2,- 900 square feet. Now use just one light in one room for the month and consume. once more, just 50 K. w. Dill :? The energy rate remains the same. But your flat rate is now 50 cents plus 1a0 times four cents or ;5.5O. And your total bill is S1.So. The service rendered by the con- pany is not increased in any way. But your bill is doubled.
 Rates and 10
 "Ratc is also in force in New Britain. It is also for domestic scrv- ice. It calls for an energy rate of 5 cents per K w. II. and fiat rate of so00 per month plus s cents per month per 100 square feet of floor area Suppose you use this rate and consume 50 K. w. II. of energy This is tho result If you live in d room % feet wide by c5 feet long your bill for the month is SS.9o. If you live in a room 40 feet wide and 50 feet long. your bill is s5.l0. And if you live in a three story house which is 40 feet wide and 100 feet long your bill is sl3.1o. The con- pany furnishes no more in the sec 1 ond and third situations than it docs in the first situation but your bill is nearly doubles and quadrupled.
 "Ratc 10 is in force in New Brit. ain. It is for residence cooking anc water heating service. Let us apply that rate 10 the three situations mentioned before and sec the result Rate 10 gives you an energy rate O ? cents per K. W. H. and a fiat ratt of $4 per month plus 12 cents pei month per 100 square feet of f1ool area. Now suppose you use 50 K w. II. of energy in q month. Hero is the result.
 If you live in a room 70 feet wid' and o5 feet long your bill is S5.60 If you live in a larger room, 40 fec wide and 50 feet long, your bill l s7.4O. And if you live in a thre' story house which is 40 feet Wid' and 100 feet long your bill is S19.4o Again, the company gives nothing more in the second situation than ir the first but you pay the compan, S1.S0 moro for that nothing. Th' company gives you nothing moro il the third situation than in the frs that nothing.
 These figures. it seems to me make it quite clear that tho rate charged in this town have no req sonable relation to the services whicl the Connecticut Light & Power Cc gives to the people of New Britain Yet MT. Higgins allows the compan to charge you these rates. And NIT Eorabacli says that Mir. Higgins i indispensable to tho people of Ncy Britain.
 Levitt Proposes Remedies
 What should the people of Nev Britain do to remedy the unjust sit uation which exists here as to ligh and power rates? The answer, to m. mind. is simple and direct.
 "First, the consumers of light ant power in New Britain should call fo hearing from the public utilitie commission to compel the Connect cut Light & Power Co. to take tn inflated capitalization off it's books give an honest statement of it's capi tai invested, and reduce it's rates. shall be glad to help in any wa that I can to produce those results
 Second, the people of New Brit ain should go down to their caucuse and conventions and nominate an elect only such representatives in tn general assembly who will be pledg cd not to be subscrvicnt to MT. Rora back.
 Third, the people of New Britain and of tho entire state, should gc together 10 destroy the mongrcl two party machine of which l. Ilcnr :; Roraback is the head and set mp genuine two party government i this state. Nr. Eoraback is tn servant of foreign corporation That foreign corporation, throuGl