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·March 1, 1929 W.ILMETTE LIFE 15 HOW PLENTIFUL POWER IS HELPING MAKE METROPOLITAN CHICAGO A WORLD CENTER OF INDUSTRY II A TE in 1926, Great Britain sent an industrial mission to the United States to study the reasons for 9ur industrial pros· perity. This mission rf'ported that the increasing horsepower placed behind our industrial machinery, making available, as there is today, four horsepower for every worker in this country as com· pared with barely one horsepower per worker in other countries, is responsible for the prosperity of American industry and American workers. production, adding to wages and cutting the costofllvingissupplled by the electric utilities, of which the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois is an important unit. One of the members of the mission, in summing up his conclusions, said: "H we had your power machinery ·and your management, we . could hold our own with the best in the world." Through interconnec·~ Another British deletion of the electric gen· gation found, in review· erating stations of this ing 24 American indus· Company with those of tries, that the average neigh boring systems, value of a year's ·output there is made available here, per industrial 'J'Mouch tul>ef·jlowc1' i"tncotultctiou with """ m\chbori"l dutric systems, Mc~lit4" Claic4u to the industries and worker, is three times najoye tlac ""tJoTIIlkkd adw"f4tu of 1.11114t the late In. Sui"tM~ df.scriW cu ··tJae JTeatut ~1 homes of Metropolitan the value of a year's outof ~ '" tU UotCWid" Chicago what the late put in Great Britain, and said: "Everybody Dr. Steinmetz termed "the greatest pool of power in the world". knows that America's wages are almost three times British wages." This has sugWe are proud to share in the assurance gested a ne~ but extremely simple law in that sufficient power shall be available at political economy. High wages depend all times to meet the rapidly expanding on big horsepower. demands of Metropolitan Chicago-an In Metropolitan Chicago approximately area having every possibility of becoming the world's foremost center of industry. 75% of all pnwer used in speeding up .NOTE: This, No. IS, concludes the series on Mmopolitan Chicago. The complete has been bound in booklet fonn. Address Public Sewice Company of NOTthem { series Illinois, 72 W.Adams Sc., Chicago, and a copy will be mailed to you widaout charge. .. ". I PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILUNOIS Suf>llyinc ElidricU, and Gas to 6,000 squaTe miles. iwuding tha MctTopolita~a ATM into uiatda Chic4eo is &Towin&- ·Jiatt'o~oUtcna Claetaco t-ndul.n f.Jaa Cu, of Clattaco a'ftd the tenUo" urttlat· 50 to 75 mtlu of the CMtaco CU7 HaiL