Microbe Magic

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 6

Microbe Magic

WHILE the office searchlight was trundling along through the streets of a provincial dot on the map of New .Zealand, seeking to light up the ways of interesting people, it picked up ■the form of one Edgar Allen, now managing director of Electrolux irilhis country.- ' .- Allen is one of- those remarkable persons who could tell you how many billions of microbes go skittering along each' square inch of unswept carpet — and . all sorts ." of other awful things besides. Seeing that he is a bachelpr of science and has spent a couple of years m studying the mechanics of his work, it .must be supposed that he would refuse, to miscount a few nun- | dred microb.es, just to ease our minds concerning the fate which awaits all those, who won't tune-in on a vacuum sweeper. .He is the true type of commercial forerunner, whose • principal elements must be those of initiative and knowledge, and his appointment some six months ago did not occasion much surprise. 1 . ■• ■ . . ;