It need not be thought that lantern talks such as are suggested need be devoid of all those spectacular climaxes which are so common with a campaign orator. Whenever it is desired to raise some enthusiasm, a photograph of a candidate could be thrown on the screen and a cheer would be sure to follow. There is an almost unlimited field for the exercise of ingenuity in the preparing of campaign charts. The sets of slides would have tremendous educational value, as well as great power in presenting political arguments in such manner as would most positively affect the vote.

Methods used by newspaper offices and political clubs for giving out election returns to great crowds in the streets on the night of election day are not all that they might be made if a little thought were

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given to the subject. Though the projecting lantern is now used almost universally in presenting election returns in large cities, thus far the lantern slides give only very brief scrawled statements that certain cities or certain districts have gone for some particular candidate with some estimated plurality. A person coming out into the street after an evening at the theater has no way of knowing the import of the various telegraphic statements which may have been thrown on the screen earlier in the evening. It is only by watching the bulletinboard screen for half an hour or more that a newcomer is able to get any definite idea of how things are going.