Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1911 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

Major G. 0. Squier, Inventor of Multiplex Phone.

Major George Owen Squier of the signal con is. United States army, who recently invented a device for multiplex telephony, has solved the problem of simultaneously transmitting two or more messages over the same wire. A notable feature of the invention is that it has been made and patented for the benefit of the public. The essence of the new invention is the utilization of the earth itself in lieu of one of the wires that hitherto have been considered necessary to complete a circuit for telephony. This principle was applied to telegraphy some years ago, revolutionizing that service. At that time, thirty years ago. Thomas A. Edison predicted that the principle would some day be applied to telephony. Now it has come, and the prophecy has been fulfilled. Explaining his invention, Major Squier said: “It means that the time will soon come when telephony will cost little more than nothing. We shall use One single wire as a guide line for wireless messages. That single wire holds the messages from going otT into the atmosphere.” Major Squier Is a native of Michigan and is forty-five years old. lie entered West Point in 1883 and was graduated four years later. He is assistant chief signal officer of the United States army.

Wise Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe Cannon, at a dinner In Washington, praised the wisdom of the old. “A young man,” he said, quaintly and truly, “thinks he is going to reform the world, but an old man would be glad if he were able to reform himself.” California’s New Senator. Judge John D. Works, who was elected to succeed Frank D. Flint as United States senator from California, has gone on record as favoring the popular election of senators. In a statement made after his election be said; “I hope that before another senator is to be elected in California the power of election will be placed in the hands of the people themselves.” Judge Works resigned the presidency of the Los Angeles common council last spring to run for primary nomination as senator

and secured a nomination disputed by A. G. Spalding of San Diego, but accepted by the Califorhia legislature. the new senator is sixty-two years old and has a civil war record. He enlisted in the Tenth Indiana cavalry when he Was fourteen years old and served ‘from 1863 to the end of the war. He was admitted to the bar in Indiana and went to California in 1883. For several years Mr. Works was on the supreme ben6h *f the state. He is the author of several law works. A Senator’s Wit. Senator Lafayette Young’s speeches are full of racy sayings. Senator Young, apropos of a political movement, said the other day: “What they want to do would bring on slow times again, and slow times, as we all know, mean fast days.”

C 1911, by American Press Association.

JOBS D. WORKS.