Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1922, Page 75

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, DECEMBER 3, 1922—PART % . ‘A JOLT DUE FOR HAROQOLD|Washington Youth to Show Vote Machine Myrs. Adskaw Indulges in a School-Girly Giggle After Hearing About Trilby May's Rosy Dream—Friends Unable to Disturb Proprietor of the Handy Andy Shop While She Is Hav- ing @ Whale of a Tsme—The 'Business That Doesn’t Make a Serial Story Out of a Short- Stary ] ob. BY SEWELL FORD. A strong for friends, too. The old, time-tried, <close friends that you can depend upon. But s can’t push even that kind of iendship too far. No. And the id test, T've discovered. is getting ¥ with something they've told ou to lay oft from. In that case wne thing you can depend upon i to do is to keep on trying to you where you're wrong just \lien youre beglnning to be sure 3 right 1f that sounds complicated we'll t down to brass tacks—my mak-| zo of the Handy Andy Shop 11 my oldest and closest friends carned me it couldn’t be done. they were unanimous about ey couldn’'t have been more so they'd been drilled as a chorus. T'd v cent of the few hundred ast summer running 1 couldn't spring| new on New York. I'd go| ] tricd. And, anyway, I'd} er take a job with no risks ing after | inn. adside hew Fm coming along ' erpr Thirty odd men | me at fair wages, and| sore than twice as much, «s I have to pay ‘em. some overhead to Jut of the gross receipts—rent, A ilghting, and commissions to my llege hick solicitors, and so on. tat even with everything of that .ind taken out you can figure for, nurself that Trilby May Dodge is! e sitting pretty. I don’t know of | ¢ line where T could pull down as | uch salary as I pay myself for be-| taz owner and hoss of the Handy \ndy outfit. Resides, I'm having a | ver e, 7 course, there's Yet when Barry Platt comes into basement office he stares sus-| ome of my waiting Andys. his head. *“No place for, 4, Trilby May.” he “handling a rough lot like | | eferring little group of | us thinkers 1. “How fool- | Just because they wear blue de-, ave and forget to ! icured regularly, | the notion that ! ad 1ot. True, some of them | time, and most of ‘em were | d from park benches; but, at het I'm safer here than I as secretary In some cloak | t office, or at a hotel telephone | nge. or as a member of some | The treat me as! Jady boss, these Andys do; and. | ve me, If there's any rough stuff | it comes from me.” PR is another - his objections are dif- o gettin’ in kinda deep, sks, “with all this ex. nut over b L INCLE ke | uppose you | ng assistant I'm ! the mickeled badges | 1 think I can stand | two luxuries and | 2ep out of the business trouble | 3 avenue delicatessen store 1st bloomed out with a 10x15- window, she's just plain sements,” says she, “is obblers, and cleaning tatlors, and, fel that sell bucket coal. don’t you get a place on the round floor?” With a big display window and a rent, eh? s 1. “But what wuid T exhibit—a row of Handy Andys play 5 for calls? ture fo i {such a busy man, s ng checkers while wait- | Really, Inez, I can't Touisa and me can look out and & avervthing goin’ on, 1 she insists. says I “through the erwurst. It must be ating. But I should be too busy enjoy the passing throng on 3d! nue, €0 I guess I'll stick to the | {ia street and let the business trickle | over the ‘phone as usual.” It's no bull about my not having ne for sight-seeing, either; for, even S\ ith Miss Moss to Keep the accounts =1 help answer the 'phone, I can «iten put in a hectic nine-hour day, luncheon time mears only a know,” ons of W 1 5 i £ H v when 1y enty-minute pause over a tray sent | 5 from & chophouse. You see, about | @ out.of ten orders that come In | wre marked emergency calle. Anyway, | people who ask us to do odd jobs | ~em to think we're in business solely . serve them, and my policy is to kid '.m along that thev're right. As & matter of fact, it's likely that + e balky door they want fixed, or the Lipe that's dripping into & panm, or! w hatever is wrong, has been that way <. weeks; but, once they call up the Jrandy Andy shop, they expect a man 1., appear almost as soon as they‘ve i ung up. And my aim is not to dis- wwolnt them. I expect that's one | ason we're such a going concern. sy brag about us to their friends, nnd there's nothing will roll up the bali of success any quicker than ¢ sort of advertising. So it wasn't long before I be‘lfll have these rosy dreams: If Icould k out & hundred or so a week with only & small force, and by work- i1 orly a few blocks of the city at a | time, why couldn’t I make twice as! snuch by establishing an uptown hranch Why not have one on the west Side and another in the Bronx? "'hen there were sections of Brook- 3.n and Staten island. There was SMount Vernon and New Rochelle. “\nd what was to stop me from invad- ing Jersey City and Newark? Then J.ow about Philadelphia and its Luburbs? Say, there are five and ten ).ings, and so on. Why not a chain ..r Handy Andy shops stretching from {“There are so m: | tables butit & the basement steps and in tripped this middle-aged blonde with the baby blue eyes and the kittenish motions. I suppose I stared, it's so seldom any of our customers come in person. And this one looked like the kind who hardly ever strays from the shopping or theater district. By glancing up through the dingy window—I must have those panes scrubbed off soon—I noticed that she'd arrived in her limousine. “Is the—er—the manager in?" she asked in a gurgly, gushy tcae. “Right -here, madam.” says 1. “Oh!" says she. 'You—you have charge here, have you?" “Absolutely, says L “I'm the whole works. for you?" She didn’t seem quite sure at first. She gazed around the shop curious, shuddered & little at sight of Andy Can we do something “HAROLD SAYS I'M LY A WOMAN AND MUS? | ‘M-m-m-m! ¥s I, staring at her. | It was the only remark I could trust myself to make. For, after all, this was none of my affalr. “So you see,” she goes on, “I hardly | know whether or not to change that alcove into a breakfast room without consulting Mr. Adshaw.” “If he didn't like it,” says I, “what weuld he do? Rip and snort around “Oh, T hardly think Harold would {be vlolent,” says she. “But he—he might talk a lot about it. Perhaps before the servants. ' And he's apt to talk rather loud. He's a big busi- ness man, you see. I know,” says I “A blah-blah sort of person. I've heard 'em. In {a small town he'd be president of the club, and probably an alderman. But, being a New Yorker, he takes it out In making his stenographers and fil- | ing clerks jump around and on you. i ! b3 R I DONT UNDERSTA b says I, “Did you say little?” “Why,” says she, “you have only this basement, haven't you?" oday,” says I, “this is all. But | tomorrow, or day after—well, there's no telling. 1 suppose it hasn't oc- curred to you, Mrs. Adshaw, that the | sort of work you were 80 pleased with is just what half the people of New { York will need done for them at some | time or other. 0dd jobs are always , bobbing up in apartments, houses, ho- tels, office buildings and clubs. And generally it's a struggle to find any- body who'll do them. Well, I'm work- ing only a few blocks of the city now, but I'm planning to spread out. Uptown branches, East Side branche: West Side branches. Then there Brooklyn and all the suburbs. There's Philadelphia, and Baltimore. {and Chicago—all with milllons of o@d jobs waiting to be done. There's the = T BOTHER MY HEAD ABOUT BIG AFFAIRS THAT at the washstand In the far corner; " |and then decided to sit down, with ' | her back toward Millish. Then she| explained that one of our young men had called on her, asking fur work orders. “Yes, perfectly regular,” That's what I send them out for.” “Isn't that splendi. says she. any little things about a house that go wrong, and I have such a time getting Mr. Adshaw to send up a plumber or a carpenter or what not. Generally he forgets. He's you know. And when he does remember, it is very sel- dom that any one comes. Even If they do, they only half fix things. “Once 1 wanted a door cut through from one chamber into another. It didn't seem such a big thing. Yet in order to get it done we had to | have a contractor come and make an | estimate. Then, after three or four weeks, he sent some men, who made the hole in the wall and went away. 1 thought he'd forgotten all about us. But Mr. Adshaw finally called him up agaln, and at last came two carpen- ters who put in the door. A month later a plasterer and assistant arriv- ed, and, after making a fearful muss, they fixed up the edges of the door. But it was six weeks more before we could induce the contractor to have a painter finish the job. Nearly four months for a little thing like that!” “Yes, I know,” says I. “Hence the Handy Andy shop. We don’t make a serial novel out of a short-story job. We finish it right up.” * X %X x G JOW clever!” says she. “Woll, I'd thought of something I want done, but T hate to bother Mr. Adshaw again. Anyway, he’s on a business trip now out to the coast. You see, there's a perfectly useless window alcove in our dining room, and it would make & stunning breakfast room if I could have those window seats and flower shelves taken out and one of those cute little refectory “About ten hours work, I should guess,” says I. “Shall I send a man “Oh, I don't know,” says Mrs. Ad- shaw. °T haven't asked Harold about e “It's Harold’s house, is it?" I sug- | geats. “Why, no,” says she. “It's mine— left to me by my father, you know. And when daddy was alive I used to do as I wished. I had managed everything since I was eighteen, when we lost dear mother. to help daddy in the business. He =ald I was his right-hand man. China | importing, you know. 1 would ad- vise him as to what lines to stock and what to close out. Styles change in dinner sets almost as much as in clothes. Daddy used to say I had second sight, and could tell when gold bands were coming in or filgured de. signs going out better than any of his buyers. 7 “Oh, well! It has all been =o dif- I—I even used | Jioston to San Francisco, With Miss|serent since I married Harold and let keeper. But somehow things haven't gone so well since. I have tried to make some suggestions, too; but Har- old says I'm only a woman and mustn’t bother my head about big affairs that I don’t understand. He— he even stopped me from coming to the office. I haven't been there for years. And at home it's much the same. He handles all the household accounts, hires and pays the servants and makes me show him my dress- maker’s and milliner's bills. I—I've almost forgotten how to sign a check. Really!” BOUT then I happened to glance M\ at my piker's bank balance, just *\ruEsiing fnto four fAgures, and I hit ‘lo earth with a bump. Still, the \ing was possible. Well, at least, h a little more capital, I could .lunge on one uptown branch. Let's Lo, that would mean that I should 'ed an office manager, perhaps two; \.nd a doubled pay roll, and more col- jege boy solicitors. Did I have the yorve to try? My feet were still touching the e.rth only here and thers when T Joard the click of high heels down - nrilby Mey Dodge as the 0dd-Job|pim take poor dear daddy's place. (33 qucen? course, he did know all about the Lot business. He was daddy’s head book- | Millish, my rough diamond foreman, | Well, If you want to take a chance, head | who had peeled to his red flannel un- | we'll do the job. dershirt and was scrubbing his neck | before Mr. Adshaw can hear it's' Have it all finished | started.” P | 66yv you kmnow,” says she, fluger-, ing her jade necklace nervous! “I—I believe T will—that is, i vou'll send some ones the first thing tomor- |row morning. I should want to tell i the man exactly what I want done.” “Certainly,” I agrees. “And I—I might stand around and i suggest changes after he got started.” | she goes on. “Would he mind that?" “Not a bit”” savs L “That's the | usual thing. He will understand, and | you can revise as much s vou like— | at our usual terms, $2 an hour.” “Oh, thank you so much | Mrs. Adshaw. “It will be such a sat- |1sfaction to direct some one once | more—to—to have a real fay about | something.” 11 send up my | Millish,” says I. foreman, Andy “He's the mildest |may boss him as much as you like. Make him jump through a hoop if you care to.” | She'd taken up a lot of my time, | lout I asked Milllsh about her after- | ward; if she was rough with him, and [1¢ her tdeas were at all practical. “Why, Miss Dodge,” says he, a reg’lar person, that Mrs. Adshaw. Knew just what she wanted, had it |all figured out, and treated me fine. We got along great.” So I wasn't surprised when the lady ! herself dropped into the office the next day to tell me what a good {workman Millish was and how pleased | she had been with his work. a competent odd-job man?” she asked. “Out of a 3d avenue gutter, almost, 8 1. And then I told her how it was Andy Millish and his clever work gave me the idea of starting the Handy Andy Shop. ness?" she asked, her baby blue eyes wider than ever. “And you manage it all by yourself?" | I nodded—modestly, I hope. | “You find it rather interesting, don't ! you?" she went on. | “It's one of the best indoor sports {I've ever tried,” says I. “I'm the big | boss of a force of over thirty men and {one efghteen-year-old girl. I keep ‘em hustling, too. But I pay them | fairly well, and I'm making a good income. So why shouldn’t I like it She sighs and beams at me admir- |ingly. “How wonderful!” says she. “I used to feel something like that when I helped daddy in his business. { But now—well, I haven't a chance to ! do much more than decide what dress | I shall wear or what sort of roast we shall have for dinner. Aside from | that T simply dawdle around and kill |'time. I spend hours shopping, and | buying almost nothing at all. It's such a useless way to live and such {a bore. I suppose if I had children | to look after it would be different. But we have only Koko, my little Pom.” * ok kA .BOBS my head sympathetically. “There are thousands of wives in exactly the same position, Mrs. Ad- shaw,” says I. “But I'm sure I could do some- thing,” says she. “Business is rather fascinating. I could be a help to Harold, I know, if Ne would only allow me. But he’ll not hear of it Ho oven declines to discuss things with me, and I hear only vaguely about his having important conferences, and about the new tariff, and that he must make a business trip. If I could only get into some little enterprise—well, such as this, vou know.” * gurgles , ! mannered man on the force and you | but it was worth it, just for the sake | jof the chuckle I got as she tripped ‘she's | | “Where did you ever pick up such | in helping me fix up the studio that | “Then you originated this busi-, whole country—an untouched field. Little, eh? Say, when I really get under way I'm going to make any ‘china importing house in the United States look like a hot-dog stand along- i stde of the Biltmore Hotel. I'm going e And then that blamed check book | caught my eye and I broke off sud- | denly. yes” she urged. “Go on, i * says I “I hope I'm going things. But I shall need to little to do | pyramid my profits for some time before T can really spread out big. ou mean, says she, lack capital to o on?” ' “That's the idea,” says I. sn’t that too bad!” savs she. “For your scheme sounds like such a good one. It—it's perfectly splendid. Couldn’t you, though, find some one— some capitalist—who would let you have the money?" “I doubt it,”” says . “Probably Mor- gan & Co. would shy at an odd-job business. It would seem too piffling. And I couldn't give a bank any se- curity. Besides, all my friends think “that you T'll lose what little I have already in- vegted: They've said s0." Mrs. Adshaw twinkled her eyes in an attempt to look indignant. “It's a shame,” says she. “But, then, all big enterprises have had to go through just that stage, and finally some one |comes along who has faith in the plan, puts in the capital and it goes hooming along to a smashing suc- icess.” | “Well,” says I, “I shall be sitting right here with my ear stretched if they ever come knocking at the door.” * X k% OR a minute or so she sat there fingering her necklace, and then she sprung it on me. “Why couldn’t; I put eome capltal {nto your business, | Miss Dodge?” says she. H | “You?” says I. “Pardon me, but I'll ineed more than a month's advance ! pin money.” “Of course,” says she. “But Ireally | have quite a lot.” E “In your own name?” I asked. “Oh, yes” says she. “You see, the | china importing business s really { mine, only I've given Mr. Adshaw a {power of attorney, or something of | that sort, to allow him to manage it |for me. But daddy left me quite a | bit besides that—rallroad and steel | bonds, two whole boxes full at the safety deposit vaults. And the in- | come is much more than I spend. Mr. |Adshaw invests the surplus for me from time to time. He rather wants me to turn the whole lot over to him, so I'll not be bothered with signing papers and 5o on; but somehow I've never wanted to do that. I belfeve I could raise quite a large sum, a good many thousands.” | “say, that's talking,” says I “I |could give you an fnterest in the | business. I don't know just how, but | we could get a lawyer to fix that up.” “And would you let me do some of the work?’ asks Mrs. Adshaw. | “Positively,” says I “You could start fn as manager of one of the branches. It would be no afternoon tea-party job, you understand. You'd (have to hustle through an early breakfast and start your men out by 8 o'clock and check 'em up through the day; and be there when they re- ported back after quitting time. You'd have to hire and fire, and jolly customers along, and have your pay roll ready on Saturdays, and all that.” “Oh, I should like it all,” says Mrs. Adshaw. “I can almost see myself doing it now—answering the tele- phone, and telling the men where to go, and thinking up ways of getting more business. And then we would meet every day somewhere and talk over things and decide where to open new branches. Tn time, too, we would jtime in a session of Congress. And Seek Congress’ Approval Tomorrow ONGRESS tomorrow will try out) the electrical voting system in- vented and perfected by Mar- #hall F. Thompson, 2611 Mozart place northwest, who took out his first patent on this mechanical vote recording device when he was only seventeen years old and a student in Western High School. During the eight years that have since intervened he has been improving the mechan- fem. Members of Congress, eletrcical en- glneers and parllamentary experts from all over the world have in- spected this electrical voting system and figure it will save three months’ Itwill, [ AOAS A A be demonstrated tomorrow in the House office building. ILeaders on | both the reputiican and democratic | sldes of the ¥ouse and Elliott Woods, architect of the Capitol, ure anxtous | for th- 1asializtion of some such sys- | tem of meshanical voting. - | 4 drive will be made to get a reso- Intion put through during the present Congresa 8o that the system can be installed before the new Congress meets. ‘ | After demonstrating this system to Congress, young Thompson is plan- ning a tour of the states to explain it to all the legislatures. Wisconsin has a mechanical voting system in- stalled in the state capitol, but there it consists principally of an annun- clator. * ¥ ok ! ‘HE principal advantages of the | Thompson electrical voting s: tem are: (1) All members can vote simultaneously by pressing buttons at thelr seats; (2) the vote of each mem- ber s visually shown to all occupants | of the chamber by means of indicator | boards designed to be placed in the | panels on either side of the Speaker's rostrum; and (3) a complete per- forated card record of the vote, In- cluding the totals, can be obtained by @ clerk in a fraction of a minute sim- ply by inserting a blank card In the recorder cabinet and pressing a but- ton. {and this country got into it. Young Thompson laid aside his in- | vention temporarily to take a position This means simultaneous voting, in- | With @ local company which had a stantaneous record votes, conserva- |l4rge contract for conmstruction of tion of valuable time and absolute |T2di0 apparatus for the Army and accuracy. Each member. records his | Navy. He retained this position for own vote, cally checked, the permanent record |¢nlist in the Army. On account of cannot be altered, absentees are auto- | MIS experience in signaling and radio matically counted and recorded, print- WOTK. he wsa sent to the Aeronauti- ers’ and clerical mistakes are avoldeq | °2] Radio School at Carnelo Instl- T s tute, Plttsburgh, to take the speclal The Washington boy who fnventeq | [ntensive course tn radio engineering, this system that has attracted the | DFePAratory to sailing for France. attention and support of members or JUst a8 he was about to embark the Congress intermittently for the last | 3Tmistice was signed. elght years was Lorn in Alexandria, | Encouraged by the favorable coms Va., September 1, 1896, and educated | Mendation of parliamentary experts, in the public schools of Alexandria |h® €stablished a machine shop near and Washington. He attendod the | the Capiiol, and It has been working Cooke and Western High schools nere. | o the last two years, so that all the At an early age young Thompeon PiCCes of the system can now be pro- displayed marked mechanical ability. 9uc¢d on @ commercial scale. He was particularly interested in | n¢ new model which is to be dem- eloctrical 4nd aeronautical develop. OTStrated to members of Congress ment and constructed a number of | 'hi3 Week s full-sized and complete small atrplanes in his home labora. |11 eVery detail. cxcept that it records tory, which were succeastully flown | O0IY eIEht names nstead of the full from the Washington Monument lot | M¢mbership of the House—433. and other places around Washington, | The resolution now being prepared Through his father's eommestisy | fOF Maving this system installed in with one of the big telegraph com panfes this youth had an unusual op Portunity to study many kinds ofi electrical signaling apparatus, such | as are used in automatic telegraphr, | S0 that when he undertook the work | of constructing a device to record | votes in such parltamentary assem- | blies as the Congress of the United | States and the state legislatures he had already a good background of | practical observation. | Champ Clark, the late democratic | leader of the House and former| Speaker, gave youns Marshall Thomp- | son his fuspiration. Champ Clark | sald: | “If Some means could be devised to | expedite calling the roll in the House ' of Representatives by some electrical or mechanfcal system it would be a wonderful saving in time, and cons quently a wonderful saving in money In this connection it may be noted that this is the first Congress in the history of the republic in which there are to be four sesslons. Thie present extraordinary session could have been avolded, with all of its cost, if there had been a mechanical voting | system in operation. % % | T the age of seventeen, whiie a | student fn Western High School, young Thompson made up complete drawings of his electrical voting ap- paratus, took them to the Capitol and 1aid them before Speaker Clark, Floor Leader Kitchin and others then in control of the House. His plans were well recelved and he was advised to make up a working model of his ma- chine, which he did, completing it in about a year. When the model was finished it was taken to the Capitol and placed on exhibition. It was viewed and tested by many members of Congress, who were pleased with its operation. Young Thompson himself was not satisfled. He was sure he could make important improvements. For exam- | ple, in that early machine the total of the votes In the several divisions— aye, nay, not voting—were shown visually. He belleved it would be better to print these totals on record cards. Furthermore, he thought he could design his apparatus so as to count and record absentees or mem- bers who for any reason failed to reg- ister their votes. Many members favored the intro- duction of electrical voting In the National House of Representatives and the matter was beginning to as- —_— have so many that we should need a general office, and the various branch managers would come In to sce us, and we would have important confer- ences. Think of that! Yes, I'll go down to- my bank early tomorrow morning and see about getting that money.” “Just a moment,” says I “What about Harold?” TEM, TRIED OUT BY CONGRESS. the House will call for an appropria- tion of about $125,000. In the last Congress 592 rol! calls were made and they consumed a total of 444 hours, or 88 legislative days. The value of this time, measured in “He'll be away for DT A DT T T DT First Patent Was Taken Out by Marshall Thompson When He Was Student at Western High School—Eight Years Spent in Making Changes to Meet Requirements of Congress. g Great Saving of Time on Roll Calls. _ ¢ DSOS D DD Q’K\/;’QOSI HOW THE CONGRESSMAN REGISTERS HIS VOTE. {sume definite shape during the stxty-l fourth Congress. Then the war came | calls during the last Congress had | been taken in this way, the total time | required would have been twenty days. the otals are automati.|Several months and then resigned to | /MARSHAL F. THOMPSON OF 2611 MOZART PLACE NORTHWEST AND A PART OF THE APPARATUS OF HIS ELECTRICAL VOTING SYS- { (1) To prevent unauthorizes mar- | sons from voting at the seat assign- 7 | ed, the voting device should be under 4 11ock ‘9‘ (2) The voting appliance at tue p;lmnmher's desk should be equipped { | with three buttons, marked “Yes | “Nay” and “Present.” (3) The apparatus at the Speaker's desk shall record all votes, by means { of automatic punches, on a card bear | Ing in alphabetical and tabular fori: the names of all members. (4) In addition to the recorder | there shall be one or more indicator boards. These appliances shall indi- | cate by small colored lenses how cach ! member has voted as soon as | vote is cas Publication of the report of tic | committee on rules was an incentive { for renewed efforts to provide a si | isfactory electricul voting apparatu: land soon thereafier reveral “voting | nystems” were exhibited at the Caj | tol. of these systems showed that the designer had adopted some part of the recommendations of the { committes on rules, but, strunge to | say, all omitted the principal featurs | —a perforated record. One employed a photographic outfit, another use. ‘an electrically operated printing pres. | while still another propused electricul | discoloration of a chemically prepared | tape. | The subject of electrical voting was {again brought to the attention of | Congreas during the sixty-fourth ses- | slon through a resolution introducer | by Representative Howard of Georgia | authorizing an appropriation for in- stallation of a complete electricai voting system. This resolution was {Teferred to the committee on ac | counts, of which Representative | James T. Lioyd of Missouri was then | chatrman. Representative Stafford of | Wisconsin, Representative Garner of If the 692 roll | Texas, Representative Garrett of Ten | nessee, Representative Michael K. Retl): | of Wisconsin and Jerry C. South, ther chief olerk of the House, testified in ‘favor of the system. This commit- { tee reported: “Believing that a system can b adopted which will save time, | courage the regular attendance of | members and insure absolute auc racy in registering and rcording | votes of members, the adoption | the resolution is recommende Owing to the large volume of wa: legislation which had to be dispose] of before adjournment, the Sixty ‘ fourth Congress expired before Howard resolution was reached | the House calendar. v‘.,*:/bfg | Med as forlows: vote, If they desired. This means that the House could have transacted the same volume of busi- ness and adjourned sixty-eight sooner, | or that sixty-eight more working davs could have been added to the Congress without additional expense. | The saving of sixty-eight days, mem- | bers of Congress interested in figuring i point out, would have resulted in an actual economy In operating expenses amounting to about §180,000, Deduct- ing recess operating expenses of ap- proximately $1,600 dally for the sixty- cight conserved days, and a met saving of more than $100.000 would have re- | sulted from use of the clectrical vot- ing system. It became nec = % sary for the Presi- { dent to call an extraordinary session, | which opened a week ago, and which, HE system which is 10 be dumior { strated this week at the Capitul meets all requirements of the rules committes and has other features | which appeal to the parliamentary leaders. It is distinguished from al! { others by delivering a perforated re by constitutional limitation, could | not possibly add more than two weeks to Congress. This extra session | could without doube have been avotd- ed, House lcaders emphasize, 1f Con-' 019 carq uplicate coples of whici gress had been provided with an .., po run off for all members, if a- electrical voting system. The saving /g .o’ in real money, they point out, would | The system about to be demor ,have been far more than the entire| 1 ; St e 3 | strated includes the following fea- alla- | tures: Interlocking voting stations: | means for changing vote, if desire: | before final record: ron-voting mem: | bers automatically counted and re { corded; counting votes in each divi slon; printing the totals on record cards; provision for switching mem | bers® seata. | There are three different machines lin the system to be demonstrated— {a voting station at each members seat, Indicator boards on either slde iof the Speaker's rostrum where therc |are now paneis on the wail, which {will flash in distinctively colore; {lights how each man votes, and device something like 2 talking ma- chine at the clerk's desk, whici { makes a permanent card record of | the vote. | The voting station is & small, eylin | drical affatr, which it took two Tears | work to devise, and each one of which {has a lock and a difterent key. It i | suppiied with the three buttons— { “YTea,” “Nay” and “Present”—none of which can be pressed untl the key {is turned, and any one of which when pressed automatically locke the others. Then there is a correc- tion button, which, when turned, re leases the former vote, and the mem ber can vote again. | The indicator boards carry the | names of all members in alphabetical order. As a member presses a but- ton at his eeat it shows {n the proper column on the Indicator board an { remains lighted until the record is made after time has heen allowed for &ll desiring to yote. Thus each man can see how he votes, how any one else voted, and a man who is late In reaching the chamber has an oppor- tunity to see how his party leaders are voting. The record card, which will be six- teen by twenty-five inches, to record all 435 members. 18 slid through & slot in the machine by the clerk. A button is pressed, and, although this recorder machine performs eighteen | successive automatic operations, the | recora card is delivered almost in- stantly, showing a summary of ths vote, those present and those not vot- ing, with the total. It shows also the individual perforated vote for each member. The $125,000 appropriation acked in the proposed bill for installing this system, and which it is claimed will be easily made up In one Congress through saving of time, is principally because of the gufte extensive and fntricate task of wiring the 435 vot- ing stations and switchboard. Once Installed, the cost of Operating th system is negligibie. Ty National Photo Co. e Peculiar Emanations. HERE is a peculiar emanative sub- stance which is obtained, like radium and other radidmctive sub- stances, from pitchblende. The sub- stance seems chemically allfed to tion of the complete electrical ap- Pparatus. It is sald that the first patent granted to Thomas A. Edison, in 1366, was upon an electrical voting apparatus.” The subject was formally “Oh!" says she. another two weeks. And just fancy how surprised he'll be when he does come back and finds that I've become a real business woman.” «If you've described him accurate- 1y, says 1, “I think there’s a fine, large jolt coming to Harold. But it strikes me he's been playing for something of the kind. Anyway, we're out to show him that this woman's- place-is-beside-the-pet-dog idea is old, old stuft. Eh?" Mrs. Adshaw indulged In a school- girly giggle, but there was a firmer set to her double ¢hins and a new Ught in the baby blue eyes. So it may be that I've found & backer for my rosy dream. (Copyright, 1822, by Sewell Ford.) terms of members’ salaries, amounted to $664,244—more than half a million dollars. This is a fair example of ‘what happens during each Congress. It has been figured by some interest- ed members that the total time con- sumed in calling the roll during the last Congress, reduced to the time of one man working five hours a day continuously, amounted to more than 100 years. * K x % ILE a complete record vote can be taken practically instantane- ously by the electrical voting system, it is calculated by parliamentary ex- perts that about ten minutes should be allowed for all members in their offices to come to the chamber and brought to the attention of the House of Representatives in 1912 by a resolution directing an investiga- tion of the status of electrical voting. The committee’on rules, to which the resolution was referred, reported no satisfactory apparatus avallable for such use. * ok ok % TWITHSTANDING there was AN still no perfected system avail- able, the committee recommended adoption of electrical voting by the House of Representatives, and epeci- fled in its report how the record should be made In order to accom- plish the purpose most effectively. These recommendations are summar- cerium. The emanation has not great penetration, for the apparent reason that air absorbs it powerfully, reduc- ing its intensity. Most investigators are inclined to think that this emana- tion is not a gas, but a peculiar sub- stance that gives rise to lumines- cence. When the tube containing the active substance is plunged into liquid air the glass becomes luminous over a certain area at some distance from the free surface of the liquid air. The phenomenon is seen only at a fixed temperature of the glass, which s & little above the boiling point of the liquid air. not color the tube in which it is con- talned. These facts prove that it is distinct from that of radium. The emanation does