Electricity has had a magic effect as a factor in the development of industry. No other single agency perhaps has been such a potent factor in the building up of an industrial empire here in the piedmont region of the Carolinas. It has revolutionized industry in many localities in other parts of the country.
In urban life it has been a tremendous factor in promotion of the comfort and convenience of the people. Its use in lighting streets and residences, offices and business places, and in the operation of urban transportation facilities has been followed by its introduction and general use in the home for cooking, for the operation of sewing machines, washing machines, and for numerous other purposes.
The next step in the development in the utility of electricity is the extension of its use in rural communities, not only for domestic use in the country homes, including lighting, but as a factor in farm operations. New uses of electric power are already beginning to lighten farm work in field and home. Experiments indicate tremendous expansion of electrification in many rural districts in many states. Increasing use of electricity on farms of the United States is bringing about manifold benefits, it was reported by Dr. E. A. White, director of the committee on the relation of electricity to agriculture, at its third annual meeting in Chicago the other day. A dispatch to The Christian Science Monitor reports Dr. White as saying that electricity is releasing farm men and women from drudgery in much of their long day of activity. In homes it is used not only for light, but to speed up many household tasks and decrease physical toil in connection with them. For the poultry farmer, electricity is being used increasingly for stimulation of egg growth, brooders, incubators, and in food preparation. Investigations of the committee show that great good is being accomplished by use of electricity for the dairy farmer. Some uses involve water supply, ventilation, sterilization of equipment, feeding, milking and separation, it was reported. East of the Rocky Mountains and particularly in truck farming districts much interest is being directed toward use of electricity in development of overhead irrigation.
There is every prospect that within a few years development of electricity in rural America will make tremendous strides, Dr. White said, in an interview. He has traveled almost constantly during the past year, investigating, directing and observing for the committee, and he reported that there is a noticeable great improvement in rural homes, much of which may be attributed to the use of electricity.
--Charlotte Observer
From the University of North Carolina News Letter, Chapel Hill, Sept. 22, 1926
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