Show ELECTRICITY IN FEW HOMES Only 37 Per Cent In the United States State i Enjoy Modern Method of Illumination According to the figures gathered by bythe bythe bythe the 1 Electrical World less than 37 per percent percent percent cent of the homes In the United States State enjoy enjo the co comfort rort of electric lighting two thirds of our our Think 01 of It It almost almost homes are without such modern equip equip- equiP 1 ment mont And yet et i In n Italy ly 10 only IY slightly more than 11 per cent of at of the homes are lighted by hy electricity less than 14 per percent percent cent of France 17 pei per cent In the United Kingdom om and Ireland and about 30 SO per cent In Japan which leads all other other- nations with the exception exception tion of the United States States' with Its nearly 37 per cent cent l little cent little enough enough- as ris asIt asit It Is Surely here Is business for electra- electra for years to come The wiring alone for lighting the homes of our own country countr will amount to considerably considerably consid consid- more than a dollars While It used to be that this vast sum seemed Inconceivable It now easily fits Into almost any picture we would visualize I Say would take care of ot the wiring for half hal of the homes in inthe In Inthe inthe the United States tates yet to be wired Then that Is merely the start for heat and power as well weli as light ar are becomIng becoming becoming becom becom- ing more and more popular popular In thet thee home and the appliances furnishing these features would add more billions to the business In a recent survey of ot Its members made by th the Association of ot Electra- Electra It was was was' found that almost 60 per percent percent percent cent of ot them carry a stock of lighting fixtures and make a display of ot them It Is reasonable to assume that of at the others almost 40 per cent at some time or other sell lighting fixtures when they wire the home for lighting The lighting fixture business then Is largely large large- ly In the hands of at the and thus billions of dollars more will come cometo cometo cometo to him as the saturation point of ot electric electric electric elec elec- lighting in the home Is reached |