The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-05-22

rays in the heating of homes. That's
probably where glass roofs will come
in.
Only Bachelors in Cities
DR.. Steinmetz also sees in his minds
eye the city of the future-a collection
of office buildings, factories and bach
elor apartments. All the married men
with their families will have moved to
the country. The development of the
uses of electricity is already bringing
this change about
DR.. Steinmetz took this look into the
future in a lecture at the American
Institute Of Electrical Engineers. His
subject was "The Future Of Electric
ity." He said that the handicap against
the use of electricity now is its high
cost of production. That high cost
il occasioned largely by the irregular
nature of it's distribution. Electricity
supplied for twenty-four hours to a.
mill can be obtained at cent per kilo-;
watt hour, whereas the electricity
used for lighting purposes costs ten
times as much. The hope of the flu
ture for economy, in DR.. Steinmetz's
opinion, is the organizing of electrical
evenly over the twenty-four hours,
and not in haphazard and unsystem-
attic way. as lat present.
''The cost Of production" said DR..
Steinmetz, depends on the distribu-
ton of the loads and when they can
be evened out over the twenty four
hours in a systematic way the end will
have come for kerosene and gas as
iiluminants."
Then No Kitchen Range
The same conditions will usher in
the age of cooking by electricity, if the
coal supply hasn't given out before
then.
The time will come" said the pro-
lessor, when we will have no more
coal, and it is not far in the future.
Anthracite will not last long. \ Many
OF us who are here will be alive when
the last is gone. Many of us will see
the time when there is only soft coal.
Some Of you may see the time when
soft coal is exhausted, but probably
not, for there is a supply of this even
i'll Greenland's icy mountains. But,
Ievertheless, We can see the end, and
when We approach it what are we 60
ing to do to keep from freezing? That
seems to be the problem that the next
generation will have to meet, and
maybe we ourselves.
"But the nation will also have to
wake up to the problem of the poison
that escapes in the burning Of soft
COAL Look out around Pittsburg,
where we see the pines dying. They
Lave been poisoned. The evergreen
tree, like us, has only oneset Of lungs.
Other trees get a new set every year.
If you go through all those valleys
where the great steel plants are you
will find never a pine. 1t may be even
before the soft coal is gone that we
may have to drop its use; that we will
wake up to the viciousness of the
practice Of burning it.
"And what does this mean? It
means that we must use electrical
rover
What we get today of our real wa
ter power is a mere nothing. No at
tempt is made to get the enormous
power that goes to waste in the spring
floods. Look at the enormous unused
power in the little creeks and rivulets.
New methods will have to be devised
for collecting the joint power Of all
Of these creeks and rivers. That is
what we will have to do when we face
the possibility of freezing"
Exhaustion Of the Soil
But in DR.. Steinmetz's opinion there
is vaster problem facing the nations
Ct the world-a problem which only
electricity can solve. That has to do
with the exhaustion of the soil of this
and other countries. It's cardinal
principle that you's got to put back
into the soil what is taken out If you
are going to keep the soils capital
intact. That hasn't been done in this
on any other country New England,
for instance. is no longer farming
country. The capital there, according