Pacific service magazine . o sculpture of the present day toequal that handed down to us from the oldworld civilization that existed before theDark Ages, The architecture of Greeceand Rome serves as a model for the design-ers and builders of today. Nor were theancient Romans behind in engineering, forthey had their up-to-date water systems andaqueducts that were marvels of constructionwork. Yet they and those that followedthem for generation upon generation werehandicapped seriously by the shortness oftheir working day. Mr. George M. Cal-houn, Associate Professor of Greek at theUniversity of C
Pacific service magazine . o sculpture of the present day toequal that handed down to us from the oldworld civilization that existed before theDark Ages, The architecture of Greeceand Rome serves as a model for the design-ers and builders of today. Nor were theancient Romans behind in engineering, forthey had their up-to-date water systems andaqueducts that were marvels of constructionwork. Yet they and those that followedthem for generation upon generation werehandicapped seriously by the shortness oftheir working day. Mr. George M. Cal-houn, Associate Professor of Greek at theUniversity of California, who has delveddeeply into the subject, writes: When we consider the tremendous prog-ress that the Hellenes had made by the endof the fifth century in science and in art,in fact in every department of humanthought, it is rather surprising to find thatthey were still content to employ almostunchanged the extremely primitive arrange-ments for lighting, heating, and cookingthat had been devised by their ancestors in. Outside gas arc lamp the remote ages of tribal existence. Thewealthiest and most powerful kings of theHomeric Age, in whose palaces, if any-where, we might expect tofind comfort and luxury,seem to have utilized for thethree-fold purpose of light-ing, heating and cooking thegreat fire that was kept burn-ing on the hearth in thecenter of the megaron, ormain hall of the palace. Inthe fabled palace of Alcinous,king of the Phaeacians, thepoets ideal of barbaric splen-dor, the great hall waslighted by the blaze oftorches held by golden torch-holders in the forms ofstatues of youths. By way of contrast. Pro-fessor Calhoun finds thosesame palaces equipped withthe most modern conveniences, particularlyin regard to water and plumbing, which an-ticipated our twentieth century achieve-ments. The water systems were particularlyelaborate; network of pipes ran under thestreets of the city carrying water not onlyto public buildings and to fountains whichserved as centers of
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