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Vote for the Convention One matter of great importance before the voters of the state on Nov. 4, a matter of which no elector should lose sight, is the vote on the calling of a constitutional convention, to revise Indiana's basic law. The voters of Indiana should return a majority for this measure. They should realize that in this way, and in this way only, can the state's tax laws so be revised that they will be fair to all citizens—the city worker, the farmer and the small property holder, as well as giant combinations of capital which now are opposing the convention. This proposal is of vital importance to every elector. It is of far more importance than many other issues which now loom large on the election horizon. A vote for the constitutional convention is a vote for the benefit of all the people. The utilities and other great corporations will oppose it, but only for selfish reasons. So let Mr. Common Voter be on the alert and not t overlook his duty on Nov. 4. No Power for Lame Ducks ' The lame duck federal power commission has six more weeks in office. Before that time expires, according to present indications, it may issue a ruling which apparently would enable power companies to evade even the small amount of regulation now provided by the federal water power act. The commissioners—Secretaries Wilbur, Hyde and Hurley—if they do this, will act on the basis of a remarkable opinion written by their fellow cabinet member, Attorney-Genera] Mitchell The point at issue is whether Appalachian Electric Power Company, a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share, may be freed of all regulation in building an 30,000-horse power project on a stream which is a non-navigable tributary of a navigable stream. Mitchell says they can Solicitor Russell of the federal power commission says they can not. Even a layman easily can form an opinion as to which of these twp legal authorities makes a more convincing case. The authority of congress to regulate power projf ects is based upon its authority to control commerce on streamsMitchell admits that this makes it necessary for the company to receive a license from the commisi ion before building on either a navigable stream or a non-navigable stream. But he believes that in the case of -tributaries, the commission may find that a project is only a "minor part” of development of the whole stream and entitled to a. license under the section of the law which provides that: "In issuing licenses for a minor part only of a complete project or for a complete project of not more than 100-horse power capacity, the commission > may in its Jurisdiction waive such conditions, provisions and requirements of this act except the license period of fifty years, as it mav deem to be to the public interest to ■waive” , Russell says that the application must be governed by the section of law providing that any perS son intending to build on any stream “ . . . . other than those defined herein as navigable waters, and over which congress has jurisdiction to regulate commerce between foreign nations and among several . states . : . . may file declaration of intentions . . . and . if upon investigation the commission shall find that > the interests of interstate or foreign commerce would be affected such person shall not proceed with ; such construction until he shall have applied for and shall have received a license under the provisions of this act ” Russell adds 'This means that a license shall be of the same character required for a project on a * navigable stream. A license is a license, not a piece of paper ” This is a matter most vital in the history of conflict between and a regulating gov- * eminent. * Already many companies have applied for re- , classification. 1o come under the terms of Mitchell's ruling. This would mean that not one company, but - many, would be freed of regulation in the future. ’ Russell says It means that the commission's author- ■ ity over projects on navigable streams as well—in r other words, its entire authority—will be questioned. Not even the power commissioners of the earlier , regimes, with which power companies have expressed . intense satisfaction, felt they had the right to pror ceed as Mitchell suggests. Can the present commissioners, by any stretch of governmental conscience, feel that it is proper for them to do so in the closing days of. their tenure “■ of office? Church and State in Matrimony ' The alleged domination of state by church has ■ '-omc in for some heavy trouncings lately. Most of the attack has centered on the alleged ecclesiastical basis of prohibition, "wowsering,” censorship and the like Doubtless these need walloping, but actually the most decisive example of the intrusion oi the church into modem legislation is to be found in the laws and institutions relating to marriage and divorce. These are founded almost exclusively upon the pub- , lie acceptance of the ecclesiastical view of sex and f marriage relations. The only real approach to a ■ ecular administration of sex and marriage on a large "ale in history was found in the Roman empire . -mce the triumph of Christianity, however, the regious point of view has been conceded and rigorously enforced by the state. Our present- savage divorce. 1- ws have no logical defense save the supernatural assumptions underlying them. The Catholic church declared that mar- , riage Is a sacrament. The Protestants formally denied this, but in practice they accepted it. What else, for example, could explain the state of affairs in South Carolina, where there is no legal ground for divorce in this fiercely anti-Catholic commonwealth? There is n<s hope of a sane handling of this important area of human endeavor until the whole ssue is entirely secularized and divorced from religion. It ultimately must be viewed and regulated by the state solely from the standpoint of human happiness here and now. One of the most sensible suggestions in a long time Just has come from Dean Inge. He proposes two kinds of marriages. For the modernist there shall be a secular concept and contract. Marriage may take the form of a contract and be limited as to duration if it so is desired by the parties concerned. This form of marriage will be accepted by the state. The llternatlve is the ecclesiastical form, which involves

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vows of lifelong fidelity and will be sanctioned by the church. Men and wornen may take their choice. Those who favor the advanced conceptions can demand the secular contract. Those who believe that marriages are arranged by God and that little children come trooping down from heaven can step up to the altar and demand to be bound for life. The chief objection to the dean’s plan, as seen by his English critics, is that even though a couple may take vows of eternal fidelity, marital maladjustments which demand divorce may arise here and the same old problems will crop up. The storms and stresses of a lifetime scarcely can be comprehended or anticipated during the golden period of courtship. Asa first step toward emancipation of matrimony from the bonds of superstition, the dean's program is, nevertheless, a good one. If adopted, we may predict that the secular plan rapidly would gain in popularity. And we also may be sure that the churchmen will be quick to see this and to oppose any such scheme with characteristic fervor. They never will remain satisfied to have their own way for themselves. Others likewise must conform. Eleven Years Later Reviewing events of that troubled time in Centralia, Wash., when four American Legion men were killed during an Armistice day parade and seven members of the I. W. W. were convicted of their murder, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish churchmen have condemned the sentence that sent these men to prison to serve from twenty-five to forty years. With the excitement of those times eleven years in the past, ths Federal Council of Churches, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis find that “the crime was not premeditated and was committed under decidedly extenuating circumstances, in the light oi which the sentences seem very severe.” The report greatly should aid attempts that are being made, so far without success, to secure pardons or commutation of sentence for the Centralia prisoners. Whisky as Medicine Doctors of the country, led by Dr. Gerry Morgan of Washington, president of the American Medical Association, will attempt to persuade congress to liberalize restrictions on the use of alcohol for medicinal purposes A referendum among 30,843 physicians, Morgan says, showed that 51 per cent of them regard whisky as absolutely necessary as therapeutic agent, although he himself does not. But lie regards limitations on prescribing whisky as humiliating, and believes it is wrong to deprive a physician of the medicament in the use of which he has built up his clinical experience. Doctors at present are allowed to prescribe 100 pints every three months The movement is certain to revive the long dispute over the value of alcohol in medicine Prohibition advocates always have said it had no virtue, and have marshaled considerable support from science. But there has been an equally convincing aftay of opinion on the other side of the question. So far as the American Medical Association is concerned, most doctors seem to want whisky, and want to prescribe it as they see fit. It would seem that they are the best judges, at least better than dry reformers, and dry congressmen. The Night’s Repose William Wrigley was unable o sleep at night because he could not forget that, men were , outside, shelterless in the cold. That is less remarkable thaft the fact that many other rich men do sleep, undisturbed, while thousands, lacking even the price of a flophouse bed, shiver through chill autumn nights. And winter is coming on. Wrigley decided to turn over a six-story office building to the Salvation Army to be fitted up with beds for jobless men. He gave $5,000 toward equipping it. Many men will find shelter there every night, and Wrigley. as well as they, will sleep better. Concerning the report that Queen Mary of England is going in strong for antiques, one is prompted to ask how conspicuous a place her hats are given in the collection

REASON

A LBERT K CHESTERTON, the English essayist h\. and journalist who is now teaching at Notre Dame, would like to see woman surrender her place in the world of business and return to the less exciting and less lucrative employment of the home, but she never will do It. tt tt St She is seeing money now where she seldom if ever saw it before; her hours are shorter and her liberty is bounded only by imagination. Her entrance into business is one of the great causes of unemployment, but she's there to stay and "all the king’s horses ana all the king's men” couldn't drag her cut of it, St St tt CHESTERTON expresses the emotions of many when he longs for a restoration of the system which placed man out in the battle of life and woman at the fireside to keep the house and raise the kids, but instead of going back to it we are going more in the opposite direction. tt a a Unless the tide turns there will be less marrying as years go past and the time will come when a homecooked meal will be an object so strange that people will travel hundreds of miles to look at it. When that time comes the national anthem will be “There’s no place like the cafeteria.” u tt a It's a good thing that John Howard Payne lived when he did, otherwise we never would have had "Home Sweet Home ’• When he wrote that tribute to the old homestead he was a homesick traveler and he thought of the old place down on Long Island where he was born. tt a tt HE thought of a place where the men worked in in the fields and the women worked in the house, where bread was baked and cloth was woven and every roof sheltered a self-reliant band that supplied almost all its own needs. That home was the whole world to those who lived in it, that home and the village church. tt\ St St Payne never dreamed of our hit and run age; he did not know that a time would come when we would all be “en route” instead of anchored somewhere. He didn’t dream that, a time would arrive when the race would be more interested In horse power than in salvation. st tt tt But the time has came and we can not turn back the hands of the clockMr. Chesterton and all the rest of us may yearn for the old simplicity, but the only answer to our yearning will be the jamming of brakes at the corner —and in a little while it will be lighting of the airplane on the roof, ■ , ■ v ' *- "

’ FREDERICK bi LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

-SAYS:-

The Only Way an Average American Can Express Himself Honestly These Days Is to Bolt His Party About Half the Time. i YOU just can't help admiring the optimism of those politicians who pretend to see something hopeful or significant in the present campaign from a nation-wide stand-point. It 'bespeaks a trustfulness that is sublimely naive,.a faith that puts that of the fundamentalists to i shame. 9 We still have two major parties, which makes it inevitable that one or the other should run things. Beyond that, we have nothing. If the drift is Democratic, as many believe, what does It mean, except the possibility of another crowd getting to the pie counter? The only way an average American express is himself honestly these days is by bolting his party about half the time. If he moves to a different state while doing so, he is more than likely to discover that he has jumped from the frying pan into the fire. * a a Puzzle for Hoover ADR { administration looks to a wet east for its’ chief support, while a dry south hopes that the wet east will switch and help it elect a Democratic President two years hence. If dry Senator Fess.typifies the Republican creed, what about wet ! Mr. Tuttle, who is running as Republican candidate for Governor in New York, or wet Mr. Morrow, who is running as Republican candidate for the senate in New Jersey? If dry President Hoover really wants Tuttle and Morrow to win, won’t the Anti-Saloon League have to revise some of its opinions? Nor does prohibition show up all the wains, shakes and loose knots. If dry President Hoover might be able to string along with dry Mr. Pmchot, running for Governor, in Pennsylvania, so far as prohibition is concerned, could he conscientiously do so with regard to some other tilings? If dry President . Homier and dry Senator Norris see eye to eye when they look at the eighteenth amendment, how about power and farm relief? a * o No Agreement Here DEMOCRATS are in no better shape when it comes to anything like an agreed policy on great national issues. If some of them opposed the Grundy tariff bilj, others helped to pass it. if some are wet, others are dry. If some stand for state rights, others; are willing to aggrandize the federal government for the sake of some local improvement. If Democratic leaders are all wet in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the party still glories in the “father of the eighteenth amendment,” Senator Sheppard from Texas, and still faces the task of accommodating its platforms and declarations to many important dry states. St SS St Sectional, Not Partisan WE have become sectional, rather, than partisan, in our politics. ... Prohibition finds eastern Republicans and Democrats in accord, though each party is obliged to take issue with its followers in the south and west. In the same way, Bepublicans-and Democrats from farming sections are ready to support a tariff , on agricultural products, no matter how they pretend to- disagree when it comes*to a tariff on manufactured products. Senator Borah, a Republican from Idaho, is nearer . in accord with Senator Walsh, Democrat, from Montana, than he is with a majority of his Republican brethren from th° east. } If Senator Walsh of Montana and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts did not insist on calling themselves Democrats, one never would suspect that they belonged to the same party. Then there are the Huey P, Longs, the “Alfalfa” Bill Murrays, and the Bilboes. What have they in common, with the Franklin D Roosevelts and Cordells, Hulls, or, for that matter,, what have the Hulls and Roosevelts in common, more than a party name? tt tt St Out of Date WE are becoming inarticulate politically, wholly incapable of expressing ourselves on many of the more important national problems. Whether the two-party system has broken down, the parties have, and chiefly because they were formed at a time when few of the present day problems existed The Democratic party, as we know it, came into being about- 100 years ago, and continues to talk its original platitudes, while the Republican party cannot forget that it was born of the abolition movement. Great and glorious as such an historical background may be, it has little to do with Muscle Shoals, concrete highways and the world court, not to. mention Volsteadism, Soviet Rusisa and farm relief. Who was the smallest dwarf in the United States? Probably Major E. Newell, nicknamed General Grant Jr., by General Grant himself. Newell was only ♦twenty-seven inches tall, and weighed twenty-three pounds at the age of seventeen. Among his many accomplishments was the feat of skating and dancing on a marble topped pedestal sixteen inches square. He appeared with P. T. Bamum at one time, and also appeared at Wood’s museum with the Tom Thumb troupe. What is the theme song in Border Romance?” “Yo Te Adoro”—(“I Adore You”). What are the five oldest colleges in the United States in order of their establishment? Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., 1638; William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1693; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1740; Princeton university, Princeton, N. J.. 174 C. and Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va., 1749 Did King James of England make the translation himself of the version of the Bible that bean his name? It was translated by scholars who were paidbytheking.

Backache Due to Several Causes

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of BygeJa, the Health Magazine. IT now is recognized that at least 85 per cent of people have some abnormality or variation in the position of the bones of the spine or of the large bones which form the pelvis. In the vast majority of cases these, minor variations from perfection cause no harm. In an occasional case the spot of abnormality suddenly yields: to some unusual strain and becomes responsible for persistent backache. The possibilities of variations are innumerable and the only way in which one may surely Judge their presence or absence is by the making of an X-ray plate, whicn reveals the situation perfectly.' It is not possible to rely on one plate taken from one position, several X-ray plates must be made in various positions. In many instances’ the child at birth has an imperfection of the lower portion of the spine which

IT SEEMS TO ME

MY sympathy goes out to Sidney Franklin. In case you have forgotten, Franklin is the Brooklyn boy who went to Spain and in some casual way or other became a. bullfighter. And from all accounts, Mr Franklin was a topnotch bullfighter, He fought fifty bulls and won his first forty-nine bouts without a scratch The fiftieth bull nicked him a little. But Sidney Franklin has recovered and is back in Brooklyn for rest a.nd recreation. He is staying with his father and his mother and his six brothers and sisters. Naturally, they want him to have a good time. My sympathy goes out to the Franklin family as well as to Sidney. . It’s going to be so hard to amuse him. Just what has Brooklyn to offer a bullfighter? Suppose you were one of Sidney’s relatives, what would you suggest? I will endeavor to enter into the fantasy myself The family is gathered around the breakfast table. Even that presents a problem. Melon and oatmeal seem hardly suitable far a matador. The only appropriate dish would be roast beef somewhat underdone. The discussion involves the schedule of the day’s activities for the returned hero, st st tt Entertaining WELL, Sid, we’ve got a lively day planned for you Right after breakfast we’ll run down the street and shoot a couple of rounds of Tom Thumb golf. You probably ■want to get your muscles limbered up after your long voyage on the steamer. There’s noshing like some keen competition to get the blood stirring. ‘;For lunch we’re going to the Horwitzes. You remember them, Sadie Horwitz was in your class in school. She was the girl that used to wear the bright red hair ribbons. She’s the one that squints a little. “And then the whole crowd of us are going to see a talking picture. I hear it’s a thriller. In the big scene the hero jumps over -a fivefoot fence to get away from a fox terrier which is pursuing him, “Then at night, of course, there’s the dance and dinner-.. That’s a joint affair. The Golden Rule Club and the Safety First society have both come in on it. And, of course, we won’t go over to the dinner without gating you a chance to hear Amos ’ll’ Andy on the radio. You’ll die laughing. a a a Uncle Fred AUNT HATTIE wants to show you around the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Crafts. She says they've just opened a Colonial room, with some of the finest antique furniture now being exhibited in any American city. I'm afraid we won't be able to do that today. But we’ll take that on tomorrow. “What do you say, Sid? I’ll bet the' old burg looks pretty good to you after those two years with nobody to talk to but foreigners. What you say, kfd? Let’s get moving. Ain’t we got fun?"

There They Go!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

becomes apparent only when stress associated with manual labor in adolescence is applied to the defective area. It also must be recognized that as men or women become older, there is a tendency to put on more weight and that this brings about additional pressure on parts of the bony skeleton not capable of taking care of the added strain. When a woman goes through childbirth, there are additional strains on various portions of her anatomy. Thus after childbirth it may become necessary to supply especially made corsets or braces to. take care of the unusual looseness or the abnormal anatomical conditions. Sometimes one leg may be slightly shorter than another or may be crippled through an accident so as to cause a contraction which gives the effect of shortness. When the person walks for a long period of time with this condition, the bones of the spine gradually curve to accommodate the change in strain. "

HEYWOOD BROUN

And yet Mr Sidney Franklin has been very reticent about his first experience in the bull ring and whatever made him do it, I suspect that he will presently tell all for some syndicate at so Inuch a line. That is fair enough As Mr. Coo!idge might have said when lie started column conducting, “After me the deluge!” Mr. Franklin has given only the slightest hint as to his motivation. He is quoted as saying;.. “Sure, I like to fight the bulls- It’s fun, and I make a living that way.” tt st tt Fame and Fortune HERE we have, quite evidently, a combination of the artist and business man. The type is/not unknown. Shakespeare was such a one, and Thackeray and Dickens Moreover, Mr, Franklin reveals a strong humanitarian note. “I like to fight : the bulls,” he said, “but not just to kill them, as the people in the United States seem to think I do.” Seemingly the fault lies not in Sidney Franklin nor his sharp sword. The rules of the game are at fault. Sidney makes the traditional thrust, and If the bull pro-

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JOHN DEWEY’S BIRTH Oct. 20

ON Oct. 20, 1859, John Dewey, America’s foremost philosopher and educator, was bom on a farm at Burlington, Vt, He was graduated from the University of Vermont at 20 and took his' doctor of philosophy degree from Johns Hopkins five years later. He subsequently taught philosophy at the universities of Minnesota, Michigan and Chicago, As director of education at the latter institution, Dewey directed the first experimental school, many models of which now are familiar throughout the country. Dewey came to Columbia university in 1904, where, with occasional extended absences for travel to Russia, China and Mexico, to observe experiments in life and society, he taught until June of this year. Dewey has devoted much study to educational theory with the view of relating teaching more closely to the environment of pupils. One writer has summed him up as follows: “Dewey is the prophet of intelligence and freedom in a world of science and machines. He already has affected seriously politics and education. He is beginning to affect religion and poetry as well. * “And though he has disciples by the thousands in China, Russia, Mexico and western Europe, his philosophy is as American as it is prophetic and universal.”

After these compressions or curvatures take place, the person is likely to suffer with pain in the back so sev.re as to be incapacitating. The only relief for such pain is in the use of adhesive strapping or the wearing of a brace which helps to take some of the strain off the bones that have been twisted into new positions. Dr. J. T. Rugh cites, a case in which a young man 17 years of age was forced to give up athletics because of a pain in the lower part of the back on any attempt at rowing. When he was stripped and his spine studied, there was a slight deviation to the right side. A careful measurement of the legs showed that the right leg was one-quarter of an inch shorter than the left. The heel was raised one-eighth of an inch on the right and lowered one-eighth of an inch on the left. The young man again took up athletics, wearing a quarter-inch wedge in the flee! of his right shoe, and was successful with his team.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreemrnt or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

ceeds to lie down and die that’s a pity, Sidney is giving his public what it wants. The bull just happens to be sufficiently unlucky to be on the spot at the moment. tt tt tt First Time Out BUT there remains the mystery about the first adventure—the first time out. I’ve always been curious about the members of all the precarious professions. For instance, does a bridge jumper get his start by practicing little leaps from rude arches which span country creeks? Or does he get out in the middle of some towering metropolitan span and say, “In just about two minutes 111 tell you whether I’m a bridge jumper or not”? With lion taming, trapeze acts and being shot out of a gun, there must always be that first sharp test. Few of these things can be worked up gradually. For instance, that man whom I saw in the last circus hardly could have begun by being shot out of a cap pistolIt may be, of course, that Sidney Franklin chose for his holiday some spot as far removed as possible from the spirit of Spain and the bull ring. In such event he may have made a wise selection. He can lie in the trim backyard of a Brooklyn home and watch the quiet spjres. To him there will come no roar of the crowd nor any echo of a distant bellow. Nothing will break the Sabbath calm but the occasional honk of an automobile horn as neighbors hurry to cross the river to Manhattan. (■Copyright. 1930. by The Times) DAILY THOUGHT The wicked flee when no tna.n pursueth.—Proverbs 28:1. For never, never wicked man was wise.—Pope.

The Witches Are Coming l Hahcweer. will be here before you know it! Ths witches, the goblins and the black cats are getting ready for the eerie evening s fun! Are you going to have-a Halloween party? If so, you will want cur Washington Bureau packet of three bulletins crammed with suggestions : L Haliowen Parties. 3. How to Make Hard Candies. 2. Party Menus, Prizes and Fa- 4-Indoor Games vors. 5. Fortune Telling by Cards. Fill out the coupon below and send for these bulletins: CLIP COUPON HERE HALLOWEEN PARTY EDITOR, Washington Bureau The Indian - apolis limes, 1322 New York av'nue, Washington, D C. I want the packet of five bulletins for HALLOWEEN and tnclOK herewith 15 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO .. CITY STATE I am a reader of Times. (Code No.)

.OCT. 20, 1930

SCIENCE

-BY DAVID DIETZ-

,4rc Lights Found Little Fa* vor With Public Whert First Put Into Use. THE Brush Foundation, unde* whose auspices a two-day con* ference on the problems of adoles* cence was neld at Western Reserve university Oct. 17 and 18, links thei .present to the future. It looks forward to the solution of human problems, problems of race betterment. Its founder, the late Charles F Brush, was a link between the present and the past By his invention of the arc lamp, the storage battery, and various types of dynamos and other electrical apparatus, he helped to usher in the present day of electricity. His original company, the Brush Electrical Company, was one of four companies merged to form the General Electric Company, the largest electrical company in the world. It was this writer’s good fortune to know Mr. Brush for many years and to hear from him many interesting anecdotes of his own youth and of the early days of the electrical industry. Strange as it may seem, the arc lamp, to use modern advertising phraseology, had to be “sold” to the public. • tt tt tt They Would Stare IT was a tedious task to educate the public to the new arc light, Brush said on one occasion, "The principal difficulty arose from the propensity of everybody to stare directly at the arc, and then declare that everything else' looked dark,” he said. ‘lt took years fully to outgrow this habit. I often had to ask, ‘Why don't you stare at the sun if you wish to be dazzled? ' It is vastly; brighter than the electric light.’ “Furthermore, most early pur* chasers of electric lights thought) each lamp giving as much light as fifty gas burners would replace fifty gas lights, notwithstanding the great advantage of distribution dos* sessed by the latter. Altogether too much was expected. “However, a number of two and four-light units were sold during the season of 1878 for lighting stores and shops. The largest plant] of this kind, about twenty lights, was bought by John Wanamaken for his great department store in Philadelphia. "A four-light dynamo and lamps were used to light a part of the Mechanics' fair in Boston in ths autumn of that year. The electric light was a novelty in Boston aC that time, and a great attraction at the fair.” st tt In Public Square THE first use of arc lights for permanent public street lighting anywhere in the world was in the public square of Cleveland, la April, 1879, twelve lamps of 3,000candlepower each were installed oa high ornamental poles “While we were putting up the poles and line circuit, a great deal of interest was manifest by the public, and on the evening when the lights formally w er e started, -the square was crowded with people,” Brush said on one occasion. “Many evidently expected a blinding glare of light, as they had provided themselves with colored spectacles or smoke glasses 1 Os course, there was at first a general feeling of disappointment in this respect, although every one was willing to admit that he could read with ease in any oart of the square. - “After a few weeks, however, when the novelty had worn off, and' the people had tired of staring atj the lamps, the general verdict was highly favorable to the new light.” Brush's arc lamps were exhibited in London in 1880. This led to the formation of the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation, Ltd. Early installations of arc lights us England included the house of par* liament. Charing Cross station, Blackfriars bridge and St. Paul’* churchyard. In 1882 the arc lights were ex# hibited in Tokio, and as a result thei Japanese government ordered then* for the navy yard at Yokuska.

Questions and Answers

To what lodge of Masons did George Washington belong? He was an honorary member of lodge No. 39 in Alexandria, Va , irt 1784, which had its charter from the Freemasons in Pennsylvania* In 1788 it reorganized under the Freemasons of Virginia and wa* known as Alexandria Lodge 22. Washington was master of . thi* lodge for twenty months. What is the color of snake flesh 1J Can it be eaten? The flesh Is white and is wholesome. It is eaten by savages and, occasionally by civilized people who are free from the traditional prejudices. What is the official national anthem of the United States? There is no national anthem ere* ated by act of congress but the army and navy recognize the Star Spangled Banner as official.