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Just Suppose
"PRE-WAR"
ELECTRIC RATES
were restored in Georgia
Let’s assume you are an “average” customer of this Company, a
home user of electric service whose bill is usually about $3.50 a month,
which is the average.
In 1913, at “pre-war” rate*. In 1932, at present rates, you A monthly saving
you would have paid actually pay of
$5.05 $3.50 $1.55
OR A SAYING OF *18.60 A YEAR!
When you hear people say, "Electric rates should be put back to pre-war
levels,’’ just remind them of the above. Their plan would raise your electric
bills, not lower them. This is true because:
"1 The average price paid hy resi-
-“-•dcntial customers of this Company
for electric service is 30.7 per cent
lower today than it was in 1913, the
year before the war began.
If 1913 rates lia<l been restored
* twelve months ago, our residential
customers would have paid us, in one
year, $2,000,000 more than they ac
tually did pay, provided that the
HIGHER 1913 rates bad not forced
many to cut down on their use of elec
tric service.
^ If 1913 rates were in effect, our
residential customers would now
be paying an average of 7.55 cents
per kilowatt hour for their service
instead of only the 5.23 cents per
kilowatt hour average they now are
paying.
Going back to pre-war prices
would save you money on prac
tically everything you buy, except on
your electric service.
JEWS AND THE GERMA
SPIRIT
(Continued from page 4)
receptivity—these have been of
seivice to many important Germai g .
ures to the extent that Jews came to
contact with German creative pers. |j.
ties, in Rahel’s salon. From Kant,
and Bach, through Hebbel and \V
of Nietzsche and George, Jews
taught the Germans—deeply susj
of the new or the great even if it as
their own—to differentiate between e
genuine and the factitious; in their 1 e
foi things German they have perh ,
overdone it at times. No true demo,
no German of insight can deny th it
Jews in general have furthered I uo-
pean culture and that German Jem . in
particular—as writers, custodians nd
collaborators—has revealed its gem ne
love of the German spirit.
The reason is very simple: Jews have
a great capacity for devotion. The> ire
capable of giving to the point of elf-
forgetfulness. And in countries where
they are not mistreated—indeed, even in
lands, such as Russia, where they have
been persecuted—they open wide their
hearts to the genuine and great elements
of the people among whom they were
born and reared: To the land, the men
and the spirit. Creative criticism as rep
resented by writers from Boerne to Jacob-
sohn is only an expression of Jewish
gratitude to the true Germany, the (Jer-
many that will prevail.
It would be very curious if the Zionist,
whose mind is peculiarly alive to public
duties and obligations, could be excluded
from participation in German life. From
the German point of view not a single
tenable argument for such exclusion can
be brought forward. Without love there
is no service; if one’s inner convictions
do not impel him to serve, if his senses
have not been sharpened to the beauties
of other traditions by reverence for his
own he will simply keep aloof from pub
lic affairs. To those who demand a sort
of inner de-Judaization as the price for
the granting of full civic rights to the
Jew the Zionist replies:
You will have to admit us. Questions
of participation in or self-exclusion from
public life are ruled only by the law that
governs all social activity: the la's
tact. In any case our destiny, as de
termined by our dispersion, tends toward
an eventual absorption of us, the non-
conforming, by you, the majority. ^ (
give of ourselves, and what we gi'c
comes yours. You have completely ‘ v
similated the Latin and Hellenic ele
ments of the Mediterranean culture, o
which we are a component; you have
made much of the Jewish element > tn,r
own, and if we had not survived you,
with your Reuchlin, Luther, Heritr,
Reuss, Wellhausen, Kautzsch and Nietz
sche, would long ago have prod >
yourselves the true bearers of the J
heritage. Unfortunately, however, we are
still here, and fundamentally stu
socialists, arousers of compassion, d< 1
religious champions of justice and i
of the people, like Amos and H a
Isaiiah and Jeremiah; we still
answer cosmic riddles, like the
of the Book of Job; like Samson we
laughter and vast jests, like the 1 > ■
we sing of soul-stirring things, w
ship love as did the poet of the Si
Songs. And our tenacious clinging
prevents you from consuming our
tiquity entirely after you have u-
as the essential component ot
churches. If only a few of us ha
vived you would perhaps venerate >
as you would venerate actual an
questioned descendants of Plato,
(Continued on page 16)
* THE SOUTHERN ISRAEL
Electric service stands almost alone among the things you buy. Its price STAYED DOWN
while other prices were leaping skyward from 1913 levels. According to United States govern
ment statistics, Cost of Living prices are still about 30 per cent HIGHER than 1913 But
the price of your electric service is 30.7 per cent LOWER than 1913.
Who Wants to Go Back to Pre-War Prices on Electric Service*
CERTAINLY, NOT YOU
ALL SERVICE CHARGE payments are included in the 1932 low average price of
electric service as given above. The Service Charge type rate has reduced NOT
increased, the rates of considerably more than a majority of our customer’s Be
cause this rate was made available, thousands of Georgia homes small
homes, now are enjoying the use
of electric refrigerators, ranges,
water pumps, and other appli
ances. Under the old style rates
(without the Service Charge)
only the wealthy could afford to
have these time-saving and labor-
saving devices in their homes.
Georgia
POWER Wrzjj COMPANY
CITIZEN V 11 E R E \ E R W E SERVE
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