Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-28
PATRIOTISM OF
 AN INVENTOR.
J. E. Scott Declares His Aero plane Is For America Alone.
WILL NOT AID FOREIGNERS.

Chicago Man Who Captured Contract
 For Aerial War Graft From Govern
 snent Didn't Care For Rcward-Ee-
 lieves United States Will Reach
 Greatest Heights In Civilization.
 James F. Scott of Chicago, to whom the government has awarded $10,000 contract for an aeroplane, says that within five years the development Of flying apparatus will have gone so far that aeroplane ships carrying crews of twenty to thirty men will be mak- ing regular flights II 2,000 miles at q clip. He looks for progress to be made similar to that with the automo- bile, which has reached it's present state of perfection within decade.
 Mir Scott is scenic artist forty-five years old He has made at least a doz- en working models, and the apparatus to be built for the war department Is to consist of two main perfectly hor- fzontal planes, with several smaller in- termediary planes, the whole weighing | of the planes will be 4,00O square feet, and the machine will carry two men.
 Mir Scott is intensely interested in the subject of aerial navigation, has decided ideas as to how patriotic Americans knowledge and studies and Investigations in any line of scientific endeavor should be used freely and un- reservedly for the use of his govern ment and for the advantage of no oth- CT and is firmly convinced that the need for all naval strength will be en- tirely done away with when aerial navigation by aeroplanes shall have been perfected The possibility of building a fleet of air craft which can destroy the mightiest leyiathan of the sea by dropping explosives he regards as sure fin time not only to revolution ize all warfare, but absolutely to do away with 1t.
 T was born in Clinton, Ia., forty-five years ago" said Mir. Scott as he sat in his modest home. 673 South Rockwell street, Chicago. and talked to the New York Herald representative. At fif- teen I was determined to see something of the world. and I came to Chicago, which has been my home. though with frequent breaks, ever since.
 "As young man was attracted to art, and did good deal of portrait painting. also decorated the interiors of many fine Chicago residences.
 No, I never have attempted to ex- hlbit. left that for other artists. know large number of artists in all fields, whether of portrait work or in commercial lines. Later in life I took up scenic painting. and the work upon theatrical scenery has taken me to many parts of the country. -
 But all these years have devoted most of my time to my aeroplanes. have made money ill scenic painting. but it has been q means to the end that ] might use the money so earned in supporting my wife and two children and myself while devoted my thought to aerial navigation.
 "My son Robert. who is fifteen, has a naturally inventive. mechanical mind. bought him motor cycle recently, and 1t wasn't day before he had the machine all apart. T must see what is in 1t. father he told me. and he has been of very material assistance to me fin my experiments. Often have been perplexed with a certain problem, and he has come in and apparently intui- lively divined how 1t should be solved. and his solutions have in a large num- Der of cases proved absolutely sound.
 "The reason I wrote the government authorities that my invention would be at their service for S10,0OO unre- servedly is that believe all patriotic Americans should devote their efforts to the welfare of their government pro- vided their lines of endeavor lie along lines like mine and that prohibitive price should not be put upon their work. have the greatest faith in the idea that the United States is the coun- fry which Is destined to reach the greatest heights in civilization. holding up the beacon for other peoples. and believe every true American patriot should further this advance with all the earnestness that in him lies"
 To emphasize his patriotic motives Mir. Scott said in the course of the in- terview: "If the representative of any foreign power-England. France. Ger many or other nation-cnme to me and told me that f1.0O0O00 lay in a bank subject to my check provided would tarn over to him even the diagrams of my ncruplane I would refuse such offer. No amount of money could per suade me to sell my invention to for elgn power.
 T ask for no aggrandizement or the pIaudits of the multitude I only hope to earn a fellowship in the ranks of those whose only aim is to do good. By their yorks re shall know them I so not cen ask to be given credit for good intentions I have devised an aerial var craft that in the hands Of great and good people can be used fo abolish forever the black reproach to humanity-var. The butchery. tho legal murder Of the brave and besntI frI flower Of the nations. sacrificed to lust for power. for s-reed and for all shat Is basest in buman thoughts. must cease
 II never have sought publicity Ia ny work hsve not joined the Chi- rsgs Aer0nzutique club because have