And if you think the optical industry and our V.P. has no historic background, read this - "One of the first to devote himself to a serious study of the eye and vision, or what we have now designated Physiological Optics, was Al Hazen, an Arabian mathematician, born in the year 965 and died in 1038 in Cairo, Egypt. He repudiated the early idea that vision proceeded from the eye to the object, recognizing the true state of affairs, namely, that light proceeds from object to eye and that we see 'mentally', by the interpre­tation of the small inverted 'picture show' which the lens system of the eye projects on to the retina." And reading further, we find - "The actual invention of spectacles is usually ascribed to a Florentine monk on whose rave is the following inscription: 'Here ies Salvino d'Armato degli Armati of Florence, nventor of spectacles. God pardon him for is sins. Anno D 1317." It is an interesting peculation as to whether or not the survivors f d'Armato regarded the invention of spectac- ws as one of his sins." CAUGHT WIHLE PERSUING DIAMOND DICK Optician 1895 Technicionist Precrsionist Engineer 1933