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Show IN HONOR OF EDISON. This being the fiftieth anniversary year of Thomas A. Edison's invention of the incandescent electric light, an elaborate celebration including numerous num-erous events covering a period of five months has been arranged, called "Light's Golden Jubilee." The opening event was held in connection con-nection with the dedication of the new-Atlantic new-Atlantic City municipal auditorium on May 31, and the closing ceremonies will take place at Dearborn, Mich., on October 21, the actual anniversary of Edison's epoch-making achievement, when President Hoover will address the world in an international radio hook-up that will be the greatest in history. On this oocasion Mr. Edison will throw a switch which will set in motion mo-tion the great River Shannon generating generat-ing station which will furnish power for the entire Irish Free State, and he will also re-enact the scene of his successful suc-cessful experiment in bringing the incandescent in-candescent light into being. It is gratifying that Edison has lived liv-ed to see fifty years of development of this wonderful invention which his towering genius has given to mankind. In that period the light and power industry has grown from practically nothing to one of the greatest agencies agen-cies for human comfort and progress and yet the practical application of electricity to these ends is conceded to be still in its infancy. ' |