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Costly Senate Seats Will the United States senate decide that the previous maximum of $185,000 for campaign expenditures can be exceeded? In the light of other and earlier actions, can the senate consistently seat Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Labor Secretary Davis and othefs (if elected) tv ho have spent more than the $195,000 maximum that unofficially was set up through the Newberrv case? When the Nye committee makes its report on its dozen or more investigations of senatorial campaign expenditures, these will be among the foremost questons of the senate must answer. The Nye committee has brought the nation's attention to the fact that becoming a senator or a ?enator-n9minee, in some states at least, requires expenditures of almost as much money as does the purchase of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. The committee, through Its inquiries, has posed the question again: “Are we going to put our political jobs on the block, to be knocked down to the highest bidder?” Nye conducted his inquiries in a workman-like manner and chief results to date have been revelations that Mrs. McCormick won the Republican nomination in her state after an expenditure of more than $300,000; that the Davis expenditure also will total approximately $300,000; that Joe Grundy, the high tariff textile manufacturer, spent some $338,000 and failed to regain the seat to which he was appointed; ar.d that strong and rich influences, emanating either irom conservative Republican or power trust sources, or both, were exerted to defeat Norris of Nebraska. These expenditures compare with $195,000 used in the Michigan campaign of Newberry, given the formal condemnation of the senate; more than $400,000 for Smith of Illinois and more than $700,000 for Vare of Pennsylvania, both of whom were refused seats. Again, these compare with the expenditure this year of $1,090 by Senator Sheppard to win the Democratic nomination in Texas; $5,300 by Senator Couzens to become Republican nominee in Michigan, and $2,620 ty Senator Norris. Senator Borah once said: The improper use of money in politics represents a problem as btoad and deep and vital as representative democracy itself, and the people know it. Partisan fencing will not satisfy them. Purity of the ballot box and integrity of officials are the beginning and the end of popular . government.” There will be much discussion of this subject when the December session meets, and properly to. The Flying: Fund The final report of the Daniel Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics has been made, after four years of work. "The fund has no other purpose,” the report states, “than to assist in making air transportation safe, popular and regularly available and its popularity Is definitely assured. Also, under the right conditions, transportation by air can be as safe as transportation by rail, steamship or motor vehicle.” The fund spent nearly $3,000,000 on aviation. To say that its efforts were in vain would be untrue, But to say that it succeeded in making air transportation safe, popular and regularly available would be to exaggerate. Aviation is not popular to the extent that it is accepted as a routine part of life. Neither is it regularly available for the completion of the average journey throughout the United States. These things are coming, but time alone will bring them. Air transportation on schedule lines now does have a safety record comparable to those of other forms of transportation. But the regular use of airplanes is being retarded by inability of the public to differentiate between stunt flying and regular transport. The Guggenheim fund’s most valuable accomplishments were unspectacular: Its establishment of a model passenger airline and weather reporting service; its roof-marking campaign; its grant to universities. The lack of success in some of its as the safe aircraft competition—was a black mark not against the Guggenheim fund, but against the world’s aeronautical engineers. Last January, when the fund terminated its career, we said it was ending its work too soon, We still think so. Again Comes That ‘Revolt* The annual—or is it monthly or weekly?—revolt against Cofflnism again is raging. Once more many of the G. O. P. candidates for the legislature, state and county offices, and others of the boss’ henchmen are emitting blasts of scorn and censure in his direction. They no longer wear his collar, they have seen the light, and march now under the banner of purity. This chronic "revolt” against Coffin by his most loyal tools has become a ludicrous proceeding. Every voter who still possesses Ills marbles knows that back of the scenes they are working hardest who yowl the loudest against the boss, and that on election day they’ll be snapping to it in every precinct in the county to carry out his commands. Coffin's best weapon is the lethargy of voters. If the thousands who realize the extent of the misrule and corruption in state and county would pledge tnemselves to troop* to the polls on Nov. 4, an end could be put to Coffin s rule with one smashing blow. You can do your city, your county and your state no greater service than to cast your own vote on Nov. 4 and hammer unceasingly at your neighbor and your friends also to do their duty at that time. If every man would get one friend to vote who otherwise likely would dodge his obligation, Coffin would be routed so devastatingly that his power would be broken forever. Judge Pond in Action The joint indorsement of Cuthbert Pound for associate justice of the court of appeals by Democrats and Republicans is a sufficient tribute to his legal learning and his courage in applying it impartially. He has established an enviable reputation as a relentless foe of the manhandling of our legal rights, even by so-called agents of the law. His forthright attitude in this matter is well illustrated by his vigorous condemnation of third degree methods in the case of people vs. Barbato, in which he just has reversed the trial court. Joseph Barbato was arrested in Newburgh, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1929, for the murder of Julia Musso Quintieri, in the Bronx, late on the night of Sept. 14. Barbato offered as his alibi the assertion that he had left New York City before the hour of the murder. He was taken to New York during the ever* :g of Sept 15. From about midnight until 6 in the morning of Sept. 16 he was "given the works” by three policemen. At 6 a. m. he scrawled on a card in the station office, "I kill Julia Musso.” He could give no details of the killing. Barbato was examined by the jail physician, Dr.

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ftadin, Sept. Is. The latter found Barbato's body a mass of bruises and his eyes blackened. The district attorney charged that these bruises were received when he was struggling with the woman whom he was alleged to have killed. Judge Pound sardonically observes that "such a hypothesis scarcely harmonizes with the admitted facts.” Judge Pound then proceeds to take a healthy wallop at the complaisant attitude of American lawyers and judges with reference to the third degree, on the ground that it exists universally and therefore must be accepted. “Lawless methods of law enforcement should not be countenanced by our courts, even though they may seem expedient to the authorities in order to apprehend the guilty. Whether a guilty man goes free or not is a small matter compared with the maintenance of principles which still safeguard a person accused of crime. “If torture is to be accepted as a means of securing confessions, let us have no pretense about it, but repeal Section 395 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and accept all evidence of all confessions, however obtained, trusting to the jury to winnow the true from the false. As long as the section remains in the code, the courts are bound to give as full protection to an accused as the evidence warrants.” " It scarcely needs to be added that Judge Pound ordered anew trial. We may hope that district attorneys, police captains and trial judges will sit up and take notice. Something as potent as a rebuke from the court of appeals was sorely needed. The bar association recently brought out a damning exposure of the atrocious use of the third degree by the New York police, but it was stillborn. It is doubtful if the report stayed a single club, strap, fist or boot. We may agree with Judge Pound that if we are going to use torture, it Is best to admit it frankly and no longer hypocritically pretend that we have abandoned the medieval inquisition or the witch tortures of early modem times. . I Prodigal Citizens Latest figures from the census bureau again will focus attention on the mounting cost of state and local governments. Net indebtedness of 250 cities of more than 30,000 population increased 6.4 per cent during the fiscal year 1928, and now approaches six billions. The per capita net debt in 146 of these cities had grown from $80.75 in 1917 to $139.63 last year. Nearly a third of the municipal public improvements were financed by bond issues. The per capita expenditures of the 250 cities were $54.43 in 1926, up $2.43 from the year before. In 1903 the per capita cost was only $16.41, and in 1917 but $24.58. Including cities and town of less than 30,000, the net per capita expenditures is estimated at about $55, or about $230 a family—truly no small burden. If SSO 4s added for state and federal expenditures, the cost to each individual is $lO5, which means about $440 yearly for each family. It is natural that municipal expenditures should increase. Cities are larger. They have undertaken new services to citizens, and have had elaborate improvement programs during years of prosperity. Dollars do not go as far as they formerly did. In some of the cities there has been extravagance and waste and corruption. These facts, however, do not make the problem any less acute. The cities have been spending beyond their means and tax rates have become genuinely burdensome. In--serest must be paid on huge bond issues, and this item absorbs a continually larger amount of current revenues; and finally, of course, the bonds must be paid. This process of increasing budgets year after year can not go on indefinitely. The catalog of a western college has been translated into Chinese for circulation in China. The Orient now views with alarm the prospects of an army of young Chinese selling magazines to work their way through. Tom Thumb golf has just been introduced in Engl&ng. If it proves as successful there as it has here, perhaps it will take them out of the dole they are in. A Chicagoan has willed a box of candy to the Coolldges. It is a question now whether Cal will come out in his column with the crack he does not chews to accept.

REASON

THE destruction of this British dirigible which was filled with hydrogen probably will cause us to lift the ban on the exportation of helium of which we have a monopoly and which is not inflammable. XXX This would be a much more civilized proposition than the sale of munitions of war to foreign fighters, and it would not hurt us as we seem to have an ample supply. But we should limit it entirely for peace purposes, as it would not be a happy idea to make navigation safe for air raiders. xxx IT is hard to understand why any heart-hungry lady should hand her money to a matrimonial bureau for a companion when in these days of unemployment she can go 'round the comer and pick up a Romeo at bargain prices. xxx Pittsburgh just has erected a monument to George Westinghouse, inventor of the air brake, which reminds us that Westinghouse first took his invention to Vanderbilt, president of the New York Central. Vanderbilt refused to see him, saying he had no time to waste on and n fools. xxx We’ve made ofie improvement anyhow. Our criminals used to have heads like jackknives, but now they are perfectly grand. Five youthful bandits just arrested, charged with operations in Indians and Michiga, look like movie stars. xxx MRS. HOOVER was correct in her statement that it takes more courage for a woman to wash dishes than for a big game hunter to go after lions, and she might have added that one dish washer is worth more to the world than all the big game hunters in captivity. M * M Those who used to call a fellow a rube if he played croquet are ow going batty over miniature golf, and miniature golf Is only croquet with its face lifted. * * * President Hoover in his Boston speech denied that this country is imperialistic. It’* about as necessary to file an alibi for Uncle Sam as to* do It for Santa Claus. xxx Mrs. Heifetz, wife of the great violinist, just has presented him with a daughter. Heifetz now win have an opportunity to arise at i 3 a. m. and render an accompaniment for the prime donna.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

In the Present Business Depression We Are Suffering From a Large Amount of Common, Ordinary Cowardice. PABST, who did as much as any other man to make Milwaukee famous in those good old days, if not a little more, bets $1,000,000 that congress soon will authorize the manufacture and sale of 3 or 4 per cent beer. It's real money, too, spent for the most modem machinery Germans can produce, as well as for Improvement and renovation of the old plant. One can admit that Pabst might not be so optimistic if he couldn’t make near beer with the same equipment, in case congress failed to perform, and still see something to admire in his spirit. Too few of our business men are willing to bet much on anything under existing conditions, which is one reason why they continue to exist. Call it phychology or anything else that suits your fancy, but the truth is that we are suffering from a large amount of common ordinary cowardice. xxx Business Stays Blind CONCEDING that there has been overproduction in certain lines, does it follow that there has been overproduction in all lines? Certainly not. And even if this were true, the last twelve months would have gone far to square accounts. By and large, business is displaying the same Inability to recognize a depleted market now that it displayed regarding an overstocked market one year ago. The blind spot of business comes, and always has come, from a stupid belief in the permanency of any situation that may arise. When times are good, you will find business reveling in a sublime faith that nothing can prevent them from remaining good forever. When they turn sour, you will find it just as thoroughly sold on the enduring qualities of the bear complex. * * Too Much Pity WE are all talking a great deal about what cities, states and federal government should do to relieve unemployment. While that is both proper and necessary, it serves one bad purpose, by letting us forget what we might do ourselves. To a certain extent, we are furnishing business a good excuse to lie down by calling on the public so loudly. You can make most any one feel worse by telling him how sick he is, and you don’t have to tell him in so many words, either. About all you need do is suggest that he go home and take a rest while somebody else does his work. That’s about vfrhat we are doing’ to business right now—weeping over it, condoling with it, pitying it, telling it how thin it looks and instead of recognizing its condition as due to nothing worse than slight cramp in the stomach, business is beginning to wonder whether it isn’t suffering from appendicitis, gallstones or cancer. XXX We’re in a Panic THERE is no blinking the fact that we are in a bad jam, but the jam is not due to machinery, or any other inherent aspect of pres-ent-day life. It’s due to the age-old weakness of overdoing a good thing, of closing our eyes to the inevitable cycle that follows a boom. Bui if depression follows seasons of careless extravagance, better times follow depressions, and those quickest to see the change get most out of it. Undoubtedly the present situation reveals the desirability of making some more or less permanent alterations in our scheme of things, but we are hardly in a mood right now to discuss them intelligently. We are too worried, too alarmed, and too emotional. Besides, the necessity of restoring something like normal conditions is too pressing. We 6an not hope to get far in restoring normal conditions as long as we think in abnormal terms, as long as we interpret this breakdown in the light of a cosmic cataclysm. xxx Get Back on the Job IF we can’t resume legitimate business along much the same lines that it was being carried on before the crash, there is something fundamentally wrong with our civilization. If we can, those in charge of the performance ought to be getting busy. That does not mean that the cities, states or federal government should abandon one single item of the various programs they have undertaken to provide work, because there will be more than enough misery after they have done everything they can, but it does mean that the business interests of this country should give more attention to the idea of getting back on the job.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—From a Democratic standpoint, I am wondering if the Republicans could be induced to have Ward B. Hiner deliver a radio address each evening, or twice each evening, if possible, until the close of the campaign. If such arrangement could be made, I am satisfied that by that time then! would not be a Republican in Marion county. They would all be "Dimmycrats.” Editor Times—Please accept congratulations from a reader of The Times for your valued paper commenting on “Snooping in Schools,” in your editorial column. Inclosed herewith please find my personal definition of a “Snooper.” “A snooper is a creature, who, either In disguise or under the mantle of religion, gains the confidence of his fellow beings, either by fair or foul means, and betrays them as did his predecessor, Judas Iscariot, for silver. Principle and manhood are utterly excluded from his makeup, which leaves him stripped of confidence and virtue. A creature crawling on the surface of the earth as a reprobate, despised and shunned as a pest by all loving mankind and past all redemption in the pit of degradation.” T7MES READER. What are the area and population of Wales? It has an area of 7,466 square miles and a population of 2,306,712.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Golden Weddings of the Three Guemener Brothers—This triple golden wedding was celebrated with much public ceremony at Finnsterre, France, Oct. 28, 1902. The complete story of it is contained in the foreword to Professor Zuboffs “Heredity.” This author is a famous authority on longevity. Vic Hanson of Syracuse—Han-

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Pain in Back Often Is Puzzling

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health HmiloePAIN in the back is one of the most distressing conditions that afflicts mankind. It seldom is due to any single cause, and the effort to find the exact cause and its cure therefore is a difficult one. It must be remembered that the human being probably developed by an evolutionary process, walking originally on four feet and then standing erect, and that as a result he places stress on parts of his anatomy not originally expected to carry these strains. His age, his occupation, his

IT SEEMS TO ME

FROM the editor of the Hunter College Echo I have received an invitation to contribute. I am informed that: ‘The Hunter college literary magazine is conducting a forum on the question, ‘ls youth the age most conducive to the creation of a true poetic lyricism?’” The editor goes on to say, "The question was prompted by our study of the standard poets, such as Shelley, Byron, Keats, etc.” And the postscript reads, “Copy of this letter sent Harriet Monroe, Robert Frost, Irving Babbitt, Blanche CoLon williams. John Dewey, Carl Sandburg and many others. Won’t Let Me In BUT I’ve been barred from Hunter college. I was not allowed to complete a scheduled talk on the subject of “World Peace.” The written word ir,ay be as full of ferment as any spoken thing. Indeed, I’m surprised to hear that Hunter college allows its carefully protected scholars to meet the works of Byron and of Shelley. Ladies, i those men were rebels. I might, with some propriety, take the attitude that I will not attempt to insinuate myself into a college where I have been rebuffed. It seems a little ignominious to conceal myself within a contribution and sneak into the college like some old Greek hidden in a horse. And Hunter asks me to declare myself on poetry. The request is fer my soul, the body being barred. Under the circumstances I could be haughty. And yet I will not. Then let’s get to the question, “Is youth the age most conducive to the creation of a true poetic lyricism?” I haven’t the slightest idea. This is my answer, and I’ll stick to it. I hope Hunter college will accept my little contribution to its forum in the spirit which is intended. xxx ‘The Name, Please?’ I’VE been wondering why it is so extremely difficult for playwrights and novelists to think up reasonable and suitable names for their characters. The playwright or novelist may endow one of his people with a wholly conventional and realistic name, and yet it will be all wrong. It won’t fit the person. Here, perhaps, the fiction writer or dramatist is asked to shoulder a responsibility which life neglects. Many of the people whom we know are named quite incorrectly. I am not referimg now to the science of numerology or anything

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted br him.

son, present coach at the Syracuse university, New York, has played on every football, baseball and basketball team during his days in public school, high school, Manlius Prep, and four years at Syracuse. He has captained every team in each field of sport during that time, and for two years was chosen by some critics for an allAmerican berth. Sugar in the Fourteenth Century —ln ancient times sugar was

height, his weight, and his general health, as pointed out by Dr. J. T. Rugh, all may be of importance in explaining the reason for the pain which he or she may have in the back. The actual fact of the matter is that the woman past middle age is just as frequently a sufferer from pain in the back as the man who may have lived a harder life. Obviously it is not possible to diagnose the reason for a pain in the back merely by asking questions of the patient. It is necessary to examine not only his back, but also the hips, the legs and the feet, and indeed the entire carriage of the patient. In many instances, the reason for the pain in the back is not in the

HEYWOOD BROUN

of the sort. I simply mean that the name which they bear is not in accord with their character or appearance. Scott Fitzgerald, for instance, doesn’t sound right, except when he appears as F. Scott Fitzgerald. xxx H, Campbell Broun IN college I used to sign myself H. Campbell Broun, which was a silly affectation, although it may have represented a reasonable intuitive feeling as to my unfitness for my own name.-. Heywood Broun is not right for me, although I have tried hard to hammer myself into its measure. The color of those sounds is to my ear a trifle dandified. It would be a good name for a slightly erotic poet skilled in the nuances of verse forms, and in spite of my best efforts I have never been able to write a line of'verse. And then, too, Heywood Broun ought to be a person exquisite in dress and apeparance. And that never quite worked out. One ought to shave twice a day for that name. It argues highly polished boots.

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BERGSON’S BIRTH October 18 ON Oct. 18, 1859, Henri Bergson. eminent French philosopher, was born in Paris of AngloJewfsh parents. Undecided as to whether he should make a career of literature or science, Bergson entered the normal school. Graduating at the age of 22, Bergson was made professor of philosophy at the Lycees of Angers and Clermont. He taught philosophy at other institutions and in his leisure devoted himself to philosophic writings. His books "Matter and Memory. 1 “Creative Evolution” and “Time and Free Will,” attracted wide attention and soon placed him in the front rank of contemporary philosophers. In 1918 he gave up teaching and devoted himself to politics and international affairs. In 1927 lit was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Bergson’s philosophy endeavors to show that Intellect, upon which all previous philosophies have been developed, is unable to comprehend the nature of life and of spirit, but Jiat intuition is.

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known only in India, whence it spread to Persia and China. Until the age of discovery, the fourteenth century, very little sugar was produced, and it was used only as medicine. It Was not until the increasing use of tea and coffee in the eighteenth century that it became one of our principal food staples. Reference: Encyclopedia Britannica. Monday: A Unique Record Service.

back itself, but in some other portion of the anatomy. It is, therefore, necessary to examine the patient, standing, sitting, and lying, and to test the movements of his limbs under various conditions. It long has been recognized that a pain in the back may be due to infection of the appendix, to an infection in the prostate gland, to some disease of the intestines, or in women to diseases of the organs associated with childbirth. There are innumerable cases on record in which removal of an infected appendix or of a fibroid tumor in a woman has restilted in complete cessation of the pain in the back.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

All that I have been able to do is to train down a little to meet the requirements of my label. As far as the physical facts of the matter go, I have had some success. On any scales the bulk is truly and obviously reduced. But somehow that isn’t enough. Those who know me have fixed me in their minds as fat, and fat I will remain to them, even if the present reduction process goes on into a dangerous anaemia. It is even worse than that, I think of myself as fat, and years of mental reduction will be required before I can bring myself to acept the fact that I actually am thin. Well, pretty thin. iCopyright. 1930. by The Times)

Daily Thought

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.—Romans 12:21. An evil life is one of death.— Ovid-

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.OCT. 18. 1930

SCIENCE BY-DAVID DIETZ Experts Are Studying Prob* 1 lems of Adolescence at Cleveland Meeting. EXPERTS from all parts of the country on anatomy, physiology and psychology are gathered in Cleveland today to discuss that important but little understood period of human life, adolescence. They are discussing the physical and mental changes whch take place during the "second decade,” the period of life from the age of 10 to 20. The conference was called by Western Reserve university and the Brush Foundation. The foundation was organized by the late Charles F. Brush, famous scientist and inventor, shortly before his death, to study the problems of race betterment, Brush, who lived his life in Cleveland, is known best as the inventor of the arc lajnp. It is interesting to note that just as the call for the conference went out workmen were completing the task of demolishing the old Brush residence in Cleveland. Brush’s hoffie stood downtown on old Euclid avenue. A few decades ago that part of the avenue was known as “Millionaires’ row.” But gradually business encroached upon the avenue and the old homes were torn down to make room for business blocks, while the former owners moved into the suburbs. Houses which remained were turned into studio apartments and rooming houses. xxx Brush Lives On T>RUSH, however, continued to live in his fine old house. He would be seen striding down Euclid avenue occasionally, a tall man with wide shoulders. Age had turned his hair and mustache white, but it had failed to stoop those shoulders. When he died he left instructions that his house was to be tom down. He realized that the growth of the big city—a growth which he had helped to usher in with his invention of the arc lamp and his improvements of electric dynamos and distribution systems—could not be stopped. But he was unwilling for his house to fall gradually into decay. He preferred that it go all at once. So Brush is gone today. And his house is gone, too. But Brush lives on in his inventions and in the foundations which he formed to study human problems and to contribute to human advancement. Brush was a link between the past and the present. Bom into the era before men had put electricity to work for their uses, he helped to usher in the electrical era by his inventions. He was one of the little group of pioneering geniuses, of whicia Thomas A. Edison is another, who helped found the electrical era. By his endowment of the Brush Foundation, he has become a lini. between the present and the future. For the Brush Foundation, realising that science has the problem* of physical engineering fairly weS in hand, looks to the solution of the far more difficult problems of human engineering. XXX Legion of Honor BRUSH was bom in Euclid, o, on March 17, 1849. He was educated at the University of Michigan, beginning his career as m chemical expert in the city of Cleveland. Later, he turned to the subject of electricity, inventing the arc lamp in 1878. In 1900 he organized the Brush Electric Company. This was one of four companies which were subsequently merged to form the General Electric Company, the largest electrical company in the world today. Another of Brush’s inventions waa the storage battery. One of his favorite stories concerned that invention. “I lost $50,000,000 by inventing the storage battery too soon,” he would say. "Most of my fundamental patents expired before the world had advanced far enough ta provide a large-scale market for the batteries.” Brush was an enthusiastic member of the American Philosophical Society, America’s oldest scientific society, a society founded by Benjamin Franklin. Until the end of his life he would go to Philadelphia each yeas for the annual gathering of the society. France made Brush a chevaliar of the Legion of Honor in 1881. In 1899 he was awarded the Rumford medal of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and in 1913 he was awarded the Edison medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. •• Brush died in Cleveland on Jun* 15. 1929.