Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-16
NEW COOLING DEVICE MAY
MEAN REVIVAL OF BUSINESS
Held Likely to Influence Next 10 Years
as Radio and Automobile Industries
Have Done i'm Past.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.


" VERYBODY knows that the A B
- G. as well as the x z, and
likewise the o p @ Of next year,
IL presidential election is the state
of business. Republicans count
the very days: Here It is August Is;
/ year months 2 weeks and 4 days
until the presidential election Query
In that much time, can business re-
cover? Not recover entirely, you I'M
derstand The Republicans. in the
meekness of apprehended danger. don't
ask so much as that. Their prayer Is
merely that business be on the up
business tree. enough for the voters TO
recognize 1t and feel cheerful-and vote
for Mr.. Hoover.
It can happen. 1t has happened more
often than not. It Is the exception for
business depression TO last so long as
three years. Since the present depres-
sion began In October, 1929. it should
be, according to the majority of prece-
dents, well behind us by the time the
election comes in November, 1892. The
panic Of 1907 was at its most acute
stage in November, 1907: less than a
year later, by November, 1908, the panic
had so far receded from mems minds
that the party in power, the Republic
ans, had no trouble in continuing TO be
the 'ins" In America. and increasingly
under modern conditions, business con-
ditions can reverse themselves very
swiftly. Within the last 10 years the
price Of cotton once doubled within the
space ofsa year. SO did the price Of
wheat within the same space of time.
That sort of thing can happen again.
New Things Over Horizon.
Without predicting (Heayen forbid
when this depression will end, one can
call attention to a new thing which is
lust over the horizon ahead of us
which is likely to figure largely in
the next bulge Of business activity,
which may be to the next 10 years
what the rise of the radio industry
was to the past 10, or the automobile
industry to the past 80.
Pessimists frequently say there Is
nothing to take the place Of the auto
mobile as a contributor to volume of
business and employment in this coun-
try since 1900 nor Of the radio since
1920, and that therefore we cannot
duplicate in the future the prosperity
of the past. Such lack of faith is be-
yond understanding. Here we live in
generation which-since the birth of
President Hoover in 1874, for example
has witnessed the coming of the tele-
the motion picture, the automobile,
radio and the airplane. What sort Of
mind can 1t be which denies the pos
Sibility of future equivalents Of these
or denies that America will again see
the pulsing expansion of business that
characterized the years between 1922
and 1929.
Cooling Device Perfected.
There has been perfected device
several different devices, indeed-for
the cooling of houses, ofices and other
buildings. During the war. on hot
washington day in 1.-The Summer OF
1918, an able engineer, since dead,
wiped his face of dripping sweat, and
said to the writer of this article:
This is all wrong 1t Is intolerablel
A man ought not to be at the mercy
Of heat In Summer any more than he
is Of cold in Winter. 1t ought to be,
and 1t will be- that q man will turn a
valve and cool his house in Summer
iust the same as he turns on the steam
heat to warm his house In Winter"
It seemed at the time a fantastic
assertion But 1t has come. In Wash
ington, New York and other cities, hum
dreds of thousands of patrons Of motion
picture theaters have had the expert
ence Of sitting In delicious comfort IN
a room at a temperature in the agree
able 70s, while the street outside baked
in the upper COS. The writer Of this
article first had prolonged contact with
the system in June and July, 1928, at
the Democratic National Convention In
Houston, where one room. q restaurant
in the basement OF new hotel, had