The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-22
IS NATURALIZATION OF
INDUSTRY In PROSPECT?

through the penstocks-but still con
tains abundance of irrigation vita
Minis. And, as a fitting climax to
| the economy of the process, Mother
Nature through the beneficent action
of "Old Sol" picks it up and trans
ports it without charge to the higher
levels where it continues the never
ending process providing service for
mankind and, under our capitalist
system pouring dollars of profits into
the Golfers of your Electric Com
pany'' and its Associates" In hydro
electric energy mankind utilities ma
tural resource which unlike any other
source of power is inexhaustible.
We have neither the space nor in
clination to enter into dry detailed
dissertation on the cost of generation
and transmission of hydro-electric
energy. 1t is sufficient to say that
first cost of dams and transmission
lines is the major cost. Automatic
machinery and automatic signal sys-
TENS operated by the Juice" itself
HdfO ~ olDlpllllcQ
as to render operating costs infini-
tesimal
To those Chronic grouches" who
still have the rst-ofthe-month COM
plant" about the size of their power
and light bills we might add the state
ment that if "Your Electric Company"
and its associates" put proportion
ately as much water through their
penstocks as they have injected"
into the STOCK OF THEIR COM
PANIES" (for rate making purposes)
the cost of electrical energy to the
consumer could be reduced approx
mately 1870 and still yield fat profit
to the stakeholder
With the entry of the USA into
World War ii and the immediate de-
mand for rapidly increased production
of war goods came an enormous ex
pansion in the generation of electrical
energy. This Infant Industry" which
under our great American system of
"FREE-booting ENTERPRISE" had
been held in restraint by exorbitant
rates established by monopoly prac-
tees, began to strain at it's bonds and
stir out of it's lethargy at the call of
Visions of a shortage of
"manpower" compelled industry to
rapidly augment the mass-production
already making great strides
despite the restrictions encompassing
them because of the production for
profit" system (another example of |
processes which impose themselves |
upon mankind despite all his puny |
efforts to resist or restrain them). |
No accurate data is available to show |
The percentage of increase in the de- |
and use of electricity since |
our entry into the war but that the |
increase has been phenomenal is evil |
fenced by the fact that our produc-
ion of war materials has increased |
almost 1000 lin some cases more)
'man-power employment" and the adj
litional fact that our capitalist polit-
cal leadership is frantically seeking
additional sources of electrical energy
or war purposes even though such
additional developments las govern
nent projects) threaten the monopol-
site control f"Your Electric Com
,any" and its associates" and by L
uch threat constitutes a serious men
ice to the g-for-nothing"
,rofit system so dear to the hearts
# our capitalist leaders.
Comparisons of the productive pow
IT of human or manual labor with the
productive power of the unit of cleo
rical energy are seldom presented to
ohm Citizen for his consideration lest
lis thought processes be stimulated
nd he, by giving some serious con-
liberation to the matter, begin to see !
he desirability or indeed the impera- {
i've necessity of getting himself an '
lectri company" Here however is ]
ne small item for John @. to ponder {
yer: One killowatt hour of electrical {
nergy which costs, at the present s
op rates charged by "'Your Electric E
company" six and one half cents, will {
ccomplish an amount of work equal '