Journal of electricity, power, and gas . nt to contemplate but is one which the engineersclient alone must face. The well-being of the latteris the prosperity of the former. Nor can he affordto be oblivious to the forbidding fact that the opera-tive force, these piping days of political nostrums, is,too often, in public, semi-public or political thought,middle-class opinion. The haste with which economicquestions that pertain to anything for which thepublic will be taxed is the result generally of this mid-dle-class opinion. Often, too often, such questionsare not corrected or checked by the b
Journal of electricity, power, and gas . nt to contemplate but is one which the engineersclient alone must face. The well-being of the latteris the prosperity of the former. Nor can he affordto be oblivious to the forbidding fact that the opera-tive force, these piping days of political nostrums, is,too often, in public, semi-public or political thought,middle-class opinion. The haste with which economicquestions that pertain to anything for which thepublic will be taxed is the result generally of this mid-dle-class opinion. Often, too often, such questionsare not corrected or checked by the best intelligenceThis middle-class opinion is a slave to words andcatchy phrases, to specious argument, and is an in-strument of utility in the hands of the self-seeking—the follower of the fatal short-cut, and is stampedwith the hall-mark of political caprice. It is the mil-dew on the heart of progress; for it has been knownto contradict the most elementary facts of economicconditions and grandiloquently to oppose all Penstocks, Power House, Tail Race and Transmission Lines. February 21, 1914.] JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS 159 P. P. I. E. EXHIBIT SPACE FREE. Intending- exhibitors at the Panama-Pacific Inter-national Exposition will be much interested in the an-nouncement made February 20, by President CharlesC. Moore that the installation of exhibits may beginas early as July 1 of this year. This will enable theexhibitors to devote nine months to the preparationof their displays and will eliminate the annoyance andexpense caused by the necessity of haste in prepara-tion and installation. The exposition is making no charge for space toexhibitors. Every effort is being made to assist theexhibitor and to reduce the expense incidental to ex-hibition. Arrangements have been made wherebymanufacturers who need send less than carload lotsmay combine with other exhibitors through an ac-credited exposition agent and obtain the carload lotfreight rate. The exh
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