For Security and Good Income Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation 7% Cumulative Preferred Stock: $100 per share and accrued dividends INSTALLMENT PLAN IF YOU PREFER Interest is allowed on all sums paid while $2,000,000 Authorized 1,700,000 Sold to Date If interested, apply Financial Department render our prosperous and energetic GAS AND ELECTRIC NEWS region the high grade service to which it is entitled. This secures to the owners of our business a safe and profitable investment, which will become even more valuable in the future. A careful reading of this and future issues will bring to many stockholders and others interested newer, better and more satisfactory conception of our Company and our Industry. Auditing THE Engineering Electric Construction General Construction Today's Landmark HE abnormal conditions through which the world is passing have placed very heavy extra burdens upon our Company. Each employee who FRANCES E. MOORE. Housekeeping Suggestions has assumed the responsibilities of his (Home Economics Bureau, Chamber of Commerce) Material may be copied provided credit is given "Our public and our utilities will have to pull together if either is to prosper. They will not prosper separately. -COLLIER'S WEEKLY. THE Stockholder's Issue HIS month's issue of "Gas and Electric News" is being sent to every stockholder in the Corporation, as the Management desires each investor in our Company to be fully informed concerning its stability, operating performance and prospects for future growth and prosperity. This is especially desirable now that the gas rate situation has been satisfactorily settled so as to guarantee our financial integrity. Labor conditions are stabilizing and there are indications that the peak in high prices for coal and oil is nearly reached. Sales of Company products are very satisfactory, and the operating equipment of the Company in a condition of very high efficiency. The Company faces a future bright with promise, and will continue to position has been glad to carry his share of the load. The scarcity of the major raw materials of our business, coal and oil, the high prices of every commodity which the business requires, including labor, and the increasing fierceness of the economic struggle to get greater and yet greater efficiency in our Company operations and in our private life has brought forth the best that is in our personnel. The very severity of past and present troubles has thrown new light upon the importance of our labors, and those of us of a reflective turn of mind contemplate with satisfaction our more clearly defined economic status. As an "Essential Industry" we have a better appreciation of our importance in the community, the stability which this importance guarantees, and the obligation which it exacts. The correct interpretation of the word, "Service" has been responsible for our Company's success, and we know that its future prosperity depends entirely upon ourselves. As part of a thriving commonwealth having need of our business, our Company prospers with our community, pro vided we render "Value Received" continuously. It is proven to stockholders and employees alike, as critical situations are met and conquered, that improvement is always possible and that the investments of money, brains and muscle in this Company are effectually safeguarded. Thus, as by necessity we may appraise ourselves more accurately, our life work assumes greater dignity and becomes more productive. Public Utility Enterprises are worthy servants of humanity, and in our mastery of today's obstacles we become deserving of the great future which lays before us. Thanksgiving Spirit N the 25th of November, there will be observed in a manner dictated by individual conviction, one of America's cherished Institutions "Thanksgiving." Those who at this time are moved by a spirit of thankfulness for benefits received become in general more fully conscious of the corresponding duty to help create similar feelings in others. As good business and good ethics are inseparable, this is true not only for individuals but for business organizations. Business success depends not only upon individual and collective effort but upon environment, and this Company, individually and collectively, is only deserving of the business success for which we are in general properly appreciative, as we all, stockholders, management, employees and patrons perform our continuous obligation to each other. In addition, therefore, to the proper religious significance of Thanksgiving Day, we may well remember that a sentiment of thankfulness which is experienced by reason of the thriving condition of our practical affairs, carries with it the obligation of re newed effort to render fundamental justice to the other fellow. E. B. A. Growth OCTOBER 1920 is the banner month to date in the Employees' Benevolent Association, and the regular statement appearing on the auditing page of this issue of "Gas and Electric News" will bring great satisfaction to the organization's membership. We have grown to the hitherto unprecedented membership of 1007, have paid every obligation promptly and have a large and ample reserve in cash to meet the expected natural increase in expenses incurred through increased sickness during the winter months. The E. B. A. has unquestionably sold itself to the employees of our Company. It has proven itself to be an economic necessity. Its future integrity and usefulness is certain. The Low Cost of Health We hear very much of the high cost of living, but we overlook the fact that many of the best things of life can be had for nothing. It costs nothing to stand up and walk and breathe properly. Fresh air in the home is free. No expense to taking a few simple exercises every morning. It costs nothing to chew the food thoroughly. It costs nothing to select the food best suited to the body. It costs nothing to clean the teeth twice a day. It costs no more to stop using patent medicines. It costs nothing to have a cheerful happy disposition, and stop having grouches. These things cost nothing, yet they will bring content and reduce the doctor's bill to nothing_a yearFor you.-Inland Safety Bulletin. This man practiced Safety and saved his eyes from molten metal. Photograph showing metal stuck to goggles of Station 3 employee. A Letter of Appreciation from Mr. Beaton When Mr. William Beaton, Sr. was retired from active service with the Company on October 1st, his associates in the Electric Distribution Department showed their appreciation of his long and faithful service with an appropriate gift. Mr. Beaton in the following letter to Mr. Swarthout expresses his appreciation of their act. Mr. Beaton was retired on a pension. Mr. Geo. Swarthout, Rochester Gas & Electric Co. I wish to extend to you and all those who subscribed for the magnificent gift presented to me on being retired from active service, my heartfelt appreciation of their liberality and thoughtfulness. Although I shall miss the many pleasant evenings spent with the various organizations to which I belong, yet they are offset by the very pleasant evenings I now spend in the home of my adoption. I also appreciate the thoughtfulness of the Company in the interest they take in the welfare of their employees which shows their appreciation of their services. WM. BEATON, SR. |