The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
Light FOR CURE
Of WORLDS ILLS
M Luckiesh, Illumination
Specialist, Says 1t viii Be
Used by Doctors.
SCHOOL SYSTEMS BAD
Reading Print on Glazed Paper Is
Responsible for Much Eye
Trouble. Says Expert.

LNU4 vi.
N .s ~. =" Jan The newest Of
,as,, - S,s,'s,s 10 M. Luck
49, expert on lliumina-
uons' 10 tia' OF nsht pilot.
preach the saIyatj6, ~ .oT,,. :. WI"
wen. l also preach. but my mission is
10 save eyes-and dispositions
Dispositions echoed the reporter.
Certainly. Dispositions. Why not,''
asked Mr. Luckiesh. calmly. Would
you be happy, and amiable. do YOU SUD-
pose, II something kept jabbing you in
the side with a pin? No. of course not.
IL would ruin your disposition. And yet
although the symptoms are not quite 40
easy to detect. shaft of light pricking
away continually at the eye ball. is equal
ly as unpleasant. and generally vastly
more inj'ir Gus"
lou might say" he declared, that /
make two smiles grow where before there
was crouch. 1 repair fractured vision.
IN, not In the same sense as an opthaI-
moiogist, ~ a. oculist but as a phy,I-
cist. That's my business. I'm a physi-
clst' and m: mission I'm life is to distribute
common sense. I have ia mind the con-
.nual injury that Is being done to human
improper lighting. and 20 ahon, ~
country saying, Wei. now here's . ~
to fix this and look b.,. 80, -
ruin that child's eve sight or .noil N.
whole life because of the lac,< OF a uttIe
common sense and generally. make
some het1wsy.
HI. Ov u
res sSess that is why ], who am
reaLy not philanthropist, you know,
ana rather commercially inclined. have
oeen invited to talk in Buffalo. 1t is be-
cause there is a Humanitarian side IN thu
question which cannot be overlooked. and
because the matter OF proper lighting has
become great sociological problem.
MT Luck--5h wears glasses
Ana the reason l wear them is be-
cause myself was victim Of poor light
ing. he said They taught me many
uselui Things IN nigh school, but they also
needlessly impaired my eyesight. Oh. OF
course. 10 one especially was to be
nta,nfo- am taking AGAINST condition
winch existed IN that high school, and
which is undoubtedly duplicated in many
PAGES IN Suilal1-
MT. Lucklesh pointed to a woman in a
tnifo moor apartment OF one OF the build
inss VINO "ss washing windows
Don't wash Lamps.
..So,-
Now wonder what she is doing that
$500 "a, a--i7 man
she probably has an idea OF cIeanli-
ness, and also wants to let the light in"
the newspaper man.
Certainly. She wants to let the light
in" agreed Mr.. Luckiesh But some
people are so foolish they don't even
wash their incandescent lamps so as to
give the light a chance to get out.
Imagine having a window which can't b
seen through
MY nrnfeSsinn i, - toIT
light is and how to use it, without abus-
ng their health. Incidentally do some
hing along the line of conserving vision
which goes into an entirely different field
Some time ago I and FIVE associates
became members of a committee on
glare who make it their business to in
erview publishers and try to induce then.
lot to print on glazed or glossy paper
There is really no need for this kind o,
,aper. and it makes reading very hard
N the eyes
ect of gIars in RusaIo 49, .r,a -.
=, ,ioraI C,ar.-,s. =, $3.50
no We d. ,1ot 49,, -, 80
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He pointed TO cluster OF lights which
'ere shedding a dazzling aura OF radI-
nee upon passers-by.
If you will look at those lights YOU
I'LL see what mean by glare. Situated
s they are those lights do very little
arm But in a room. and blazing direct
: into the eyes of persons engaged in
fading. it would be entirely different
The day will come when no uncovered
sht. and by that I mean light which
aves an after image. will be permitted,
nd when there will be city engineers to
,e that the ewes of human beings are
IT deliberately menaced."
MIR. Luckiesh told of what had been
with the manipulation uf
shts. and he cited extraordinary in
ances in which transposition OF color
Id changed the entire complexion and
'pect Of the object upon which the rayz
ere focused
LIGHT Cprc. Jpdtr~.tio,
y,
VT i-u'NItSl uS'u up an Impressive
ger 10 'oiiii''du '"e IePor'er a'ten-