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FOR MANAGERS AND OPERATORS 661
to provide plant capacity. The pro rata plant capacity required in this case would represent an investment of $2,000, upon which interest is to be paid and a sum set aside each • year to cover the item of depreciation.
The demand system of rates is used so that power companies may get from their customers this interest and depreciation first, and enough to cover the operating expense and profit afterward. I could go on and give you a lot of figures along these lines, but all I seek to do is to explain to you the general action of the indicator, and the reason for its installation. Having covered this point I believe the purpose, so far as the operator or manager be concerned, is fulfilled. I might as a last thought add the following, particularly in view of the fact that the motion picture theatre is often a short time load, which, from the power company's point of view, necessitates the paying of relatively high rates. Suppose one man uses 10 amperes at 110 volts for one hour a day, or 10X110X1 = 1,100 watt-hours; another man uses 1 ampere at 110 volts for 10 hours, or 1 X 110 X 10 =1,100 watt-hours. Now these customers both consume precisely the same number of watt-hours, but one man uses his plant capacity one hour out of twenty-four, while the other chap uses his for ten hours, and it naturally follows that the latter is entitled to a lower rate by reason of the fact that the company is not obliged to install added machinery capacity, except for one ampere, whereas in the other case the machinery capacity must provide for the added 10 amperes, although that added machinery will only be in use one hour out of the twenty-four, and must lie idle the rest of the time.
EMPLOYES
A theatre will reap vast advantage by the atmosphere imparted through and by means of neat, energetic, intelligent, uniformed, courteous employes. On the other hand, slovenly, ununiformed, discourteous or careless employes will injure the prestige and seriously decrease the revenue of any theatre.
There are two moving picture theatre employes whose positions are of paramount importance, viz:, the manager and the operator. The manager, of course, has the employment and supervison of all the help, as well as the decision as to programs and many other things of vital importance to the welfare of the theatre. I think few, if any, will argue that it is good business policy to employ an incompetent,