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May 31, 1935
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GEORGIA
MOVES
AHEAD
But Georgia’s Future Progress
Faces a Deadly Threat
Electrically, Georgia is making more rapid progress than any other
state. It has been a leader for years, and it continues to move ahead.
THE PROGRESS
Georgia is FIRST among all states east of
the Rocky Mountains in use of electricity in
the home.
Homes served by the Georgia Power Com*
pany use IJ/2 times as much electricity as the
average American home — because electricity in
Georgia is cheap and because the quality of
service is unsurpassed anywhere in the world.
Homes served by the Georgia Power Com
pany pay 25 per cent LESS than the national
average price for the electricity they use.
Because it is cheap, because it is serving a
lang-felt need, small towns in Georgia use elec
tricity in abundance. Homes in Louisville, Ga.,
for instance, use 2*4 times as much electricity
as the average American home!
150 other cities and towns in Georgia are well
ahead of the national average.
211 Georgia towns which have no city water
works — 275 Georgia towns which are not
equipped with city sewer systems — are pro
vided by the Georgia Power Company with
city-quality electric service and they pay city
cheap rates for it.
In fact, small Georgia towns and farm homes
pay exactly the same low rates as the cities pay
—a condition now advocated as ideal, but sel
dom elsewhere realized.
That’s Georgia’s electrical situation now —
and it’s improving every day.
It will continue to improve, Georgia will con
tinue to move ahead — unless the methods that
brought about this progress are disrupted.
Georgia is moving ahead—let’s keep her marching on!
If you want to prevent the destruotion and damage
wrapped up in this bill, write olr wire your repre
sentatives in Congress to oppose this bill.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
For further information, inquire at the nearest Georgia Power Company office.
THE DANCER
Georgia’s leadership electrically has been
brought about entirely by the existing system of
(1) private ownership qf the electric business,
(2) regulation of the business by the State, and
(3) financing of the business through a holding
company.
The Wheeler-Rayburn Public Utility Bill now
before Congress proposes to tear down aL of
that.
It abolishes holding companies and takes
away from us the financial support which has
enabled us to extend electric service to the
little towns and farms in recent years.
It sets up federal regulation of this Company
on top of the State regulation, and that would
mean the death of State regulation.
It takes the management of this Company out
of the hands of the men and women who have
given Georgia its high standing electrically —
and turns it over to Washington bureaucrats,
600 or 700 miles away.
The ultimate, carefully concealed purpose of
it all is to overthrow the entire present system,
which has demonstrated its worth and benefit
to the people of Georgia, and substitute an ex
periment in Socialism in its place — government
ownership in place of private ownership.
Georgia has everything to lose and nothing
to gain from the passage of this bill.
It strikes at the very heart of all that has been
accomplished in the past; it is a deadly threat to
the future progress that otherwise surely will
come.
