Show Bait a alt Lake L k loins Joins Nation in in x rs d r 1 Honoring Miss Electricity All lines of Business s Participates Electrical Cooking Cooking Cook Cook- in ing ig g Contests and Window Displays Weeks Week's Features I e t a Salt Walt L Lake lk e has fias t tin joined America this thins week week- December r 2 to 9 9 in pay paying paying g homage ee to o the grea est of r f herr her her industrial nd kings king's elec elec 1 c t ity I J f JI I practical demonstrations of the usefulness of this this' once nl m power exhibits and decorations the people of the continent continent I I have hae joined hands hands' tb to rejoice In a great celebration in honor of Mi Miss s Electricity I and her feudal subjects It Is just a a. a little more more than e- e score yea years s now since the first electrical elec elec- electrical machine machine-a a affair affairs con consistIng consist consist- Ing of ot a sulphur globe and a piece of ot felt was felt was built built Yet Yet today toda when the suns sun's rays ray fail fall at dusk electricity lights the world With electricity as the medic medi medium m ou our great industries move on night and da day streets and homes are lighted at nights Instant co communication tion i is pos possible I sible- sible le the world arou around t in a 8 seconds second's corad's time elevators ele carl carry passengers to the tops tops tops' of ot the great skyscrapers scrapers rs find and Iid the greatest problem of at all quick all quick transportation trans trans- is Is solved In 1672 Magdeburg an Englishman published a book outlining some Borne of his experiments amon among them beil being one to generate electrical energy liy rubbin rubbing a cloth against a sulphur globe turned by bya a Candle 1 The word elect electricity taken from the Greek meaning amber was amber was likewise invented by an anE E Englishman t. t The power power of electricity was known to the ancients in B B. C C. but only ih iha in ina a a. email way way They knew that by bye b rub nib rubbing bing bing- amber industriously against cloth clotha a a. mysterious power was generated en rated From the seventeenth century on but bait slight advancement was mane made m de in in Uie the development ment of ot electricity until Benjamin Benjamin Ben Ben- Benjamin jamin Franklin in 1752 showed t the e eJ J identity entity of electricity and lightning by his famous famous' kite experiment Then began the wonderful development development development develop develop- ment of ot electricity America has led the world jn in this and Thom Thomas s Edison perhaps perhaps' the worlds world's greatest Inventor and who has made possible the tle electric light and nd hundreds of ot other appliances fo is alive to celebrate with the nation the 1917 electrical week The celebration is being hel held l under the auspices of the general committee e of ot the Society o of Electrical Development Development Development Develop Develop- ment of NewYork New York Suitable plans have been made to celebrate the week in every city town and hamlet of the I United States In Utah the celebration celebia- celebia tion Is in the hands of a special committee come committee com com- e and the general plan will be bo carried out Following the custom of ot former years the larger stores stores' will devote much space in their show windows to electrical electrical electrical elec elec- displays display's and this combined with electrical street dec decorations rations a parade or two and nd other plans will comprise the plans for the Utah cele cele- celebration bration One Important feature will be the program scheduled for Wednesday day night at the Commercial club On that night the Utah Electric lub will have for tor its guests members of the electrical mechanical and civil engineering societies societies so societies so- so of ot the state stater Electrical cooking g contests window display contests and other features complete the program scheduled for th tha week weel |