To the Editor: —InThe Journalfor Oct. 11, 1913, p. 1382, there is an editorial headed Spectacles and the Panama Exposition, in which you comment rather bitterly on the proposed sale of an optical goods concession at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. You base your comments on the assumption that any concession for the sale of optical goods must necessarily be on the same plane as one for the sale of peanuts. This assumption is utterly unfounded. It is, moreover, an injustice aggravated by the fact that the exposition directorate took special care to guard againt the very dangers which you assume must necessarily arise. It may not be known to you that the laws governing the practice of optometry in California are exceptionally rigid. No man in California is allowed to sell spectacles or eye-glasses unless he is duly qualified and certified. A spectacleselling concession in the exposition grounds would be, and must be, conducted on