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the community to do unto me."

I discussed electrical appliances with travellers from Amerien. 1 heard about electric, radiators, washing machines, dish-washers. cook stoves," toastera, ten kottlos, Irons, hot-water hontera. And as hoard of each one again, I visualised it as installed in my house and my envious English is so irregular as to make the wea-friends looking on with astonish- ther the foremost topic of converment.

The following is an American's impression of Londonte

London is a city where sunshine

It.

sation. Every one talks about it, When it came to find the retail and, as Mark Twain remarked, no departments of the great electrical body offera to do anything about.

dresses... Much to my bewilder The cause of this irrogument they were in districts I had! larity, however, might to a large never penetrated, and by the time extent, be removed. It is not, as I reached the first one I had walk- one might imagine, some grossed through several blocks of sor defect in climate. London will did slums. "A queer place," I be gloomy, while the countryside, thought, for the modern Eng- just beyond the suburbe, is laugh-lishman to have to go to be up to ing in radiance. The cause

of date." London's gloom is smoke. The came to a two-story building, cause of the smoke is the misuse not much larger than of coal fuel. And the remedy for store in a small American town, a general thia misuse is electricity, ・

and climbed up a narrow wooden What is true of London is equal stairway. This was the place to ly so of Birmingham, Manchester, see electrically heated hot-water Leeds or almost any other great radiators. I knocked on a door. British city. In England, tens of A clerk came out and, hearing millions of people are starved for what I wanted, went to find the sunshine and suffer in body and manager, leaving me cooling my spirits to an extent hardly to be heels for some time in the "cor- estimated. The present generation ridor. of Englishmen has unquestionably

I was ushered, finally into the lost hundreds of millions of dol-office of the manager and in de- lar' worth of productive energy by tail told him what I wanted to do. laying a smoke screen against the He explained the radiators he had

sun.

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One would think that if a nation for sale and what they cost. I SIMPLEX SYSTEM were losing vast sums through ex-

asked about the expense of up- keep. travagant use of fuel, and deplet ing its resources and actually shortening the precious lives of its members, it would do some thing about it. If that nation were the mother of the greatest empire in the world one would ex pect it all the more.

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Where do you live?" he inquir- ed. I told him the district. "Ah!" he went on, that is, supplied by the so-and-so electrical company, you pay 3 cents a unit plus 40 per cent. At that rate one radia for would gost you 37 cents a day and eight would be" He turned to me grimly. "I may as well be frank with you. It will cost you

would be foolish to install electri-

city for heating. I may be a poor

If it neglected doing something immediate and sand one would' imagine the path of action must be strewn with insuperable ob-eight times as much as coal and steles. Either nature herself three times as much as gas. You must be against the reform, or the money required was going for

business man to tell you so. But still more urgent requirements.

that is my advice. People like ; Not so with England. Money is spent to maintain a great navy such things with companies charg- Fou can't put in electricity for.

when there are no foes on the seas, and a sizable army when there areng as they do. Even so, you're no fces in the field. Money is not so bad off as in some districts. They charge up to 10 cents ย lavished to support men and

unit. women in idleness because they have no work. It is spent on pen sions, roads, schools, for a bulky list of items. The money is there. It merely is England'a choice to spend it on objects other than electricity.

"

"You ought to be the busiest man in London." I said, mourn- fully, "and here you are, hidden in a corner of London, telling me not to install something you sell."

VI know,” he sighed. "It will come some day but it isn't here. yet." I thanked him for his can- dor, rapidly figuring how much I alone if I had realised my dream should have spent for heating of electrically heated water radia-

tors.

Then I came out on the street.

An examination of Great Bri- taiz's natural resources discloses that they consist chiefly of coal more coal, in fact, than blesses any other nation occupying" so small a home. The coal might be converted into electrical power at the mines and the power trans- ported to all parts of the country The winter rain that had once by cables at a much lower cost been clean in the clouds was drip- than the expense of hauling coal. Ping like ink from the roofs, and Every house in the country might even the spattered pavement was be heated electrically, every fact grimy. The air impure... I cough- ory wheel turned by electricity, at ed. It was cold, and I rubbed a huge reduction of the cost of by hands; they were black as a miner's. I blew my nose; my these Iteras to-day.

handkerchief showed a black stain Every one in England, more or less, knows this and hears it num-where it had touched my nose. berless times And still next to dirty urchin ran past, dressed in nothing is done. England was laid clothes that were nearly stiff with Boot. His face, under smears of out by the engineer of nature to

Not dirt, was pale with anemia, merely

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be an electrified country. only that, the coal Industry is for the want of sunshine." And dying and unless electricity is re- could not even heat my own Borted to it may be ruined. home with electricity, as my small Electrification would not only be share to make a cleaner London, a boon to-day, it would stave off calamity.

MR. J. H. THOMAS SUSPECT.

OBJECTION TO ELECTION TO COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

And yet nothing is done. Hardly anything is even proposed. Mr. Baldwin has introduced an elec-) tricity scheme which is a step in the direction of electrification, but it is only a step and one that can- not be completed for fifteen years. His measure will co-ordinate and link up the power plants into a When the name of Mr. J. H. great chain with standard equip Thomas, M. P., was rend at the ment. The weak, expensive piante annual meeting of the Royal Colo- Fare to be allowed to wear out and nial Institutè recently for confirm- then will not be replaced. Andation as one of the vice-presidents," ultimately England is to have Mr. de Little; in view of what had power at 2 cents, a unit (kilowatt happened in the last fortnight, ob hour).

jected, and moved that the name Electricity could be brought be deleted. down to cent ✡ unit if only

Lord Stanley of Alderley the drastic measures were to be ap-chairman, said that every previous plied. And even at twice that it Secretary of State for the would replace almost every con-Dominions and Colonies had been ceivable fuel for most purposes. invited to be a vice-president of And then the cities would see the the institute... They must remem- sun is often as the checriest ham ber that this strike-dangerous let. Even more, electricity would and lawless as it was-was-a perform most of the household strike, inspired by not ignoble chores, wash the clothes, wash ideals... and dry the dishes, cook the meals, and so slay most of the ogres in the city jungle.

Sir Charles Lucas said. the Prime Minister had told them to As a London resident, I recently put away recriminations and, bit- moved into a new house and vow-terness. If the motion was car ed I would practice what I had ried it would go forth that the so often electrically preached to patriotic body that stood for try my English friends. I had coughing to help every class in the Em ed in the London fogs, wasted piro was giving a load to ostraciso countless hours washing my grimya man who was on the other side. hands and spent what should have Mr. de Little thon withdrew the been holiday money paying ex- motion:

orbitant laundry bills, and now. I The meeting agreed to this rejoiced in the opportunity to do course; and the original resolution unto the community that I wished was then passed.......

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