The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26
The Enemy of all the World

as to terrify the world.
1t would seem strange that from
the hands of Ann Bartell. Emil Gluck
should have received college edu-
cation: but the explanation is sim
pie. Her ne'er-do-well husband, de
serting her, made strike in the
Nevada gold-fields, and returned TO
her a many times millionaire. Ann
Bartel hated the boy, AM .mmcdi-
atelv she sent him to the FarristOwn
Academy, a hundred miles away. Shy
and sensitive, lone and misunder-
stood little soul, he was more lonely
than ever at Farristown. He never
came home, at vacation and holi-
days, as the other boys did. Instead.
he wandered about the deserted build
ings and grounds befrended and mis-
understood by the servants and gar
deners, reading much, it is remem-
! bered, spending his days in the fields
or before the fireplace with his nose
| poked always in the pages of some
book. 1t was at this time that he
overused his eyes and WIS con. lH!cd
to take up the wearing of glasses,
winch same were so prominent II
the photographs of him published in
the newspapers of 1871.
He was remarkable student. APP
plication. such as his, would have
taken him far; but he did not need
application. A glance at a text meant
mastery for him The result was that
he did an immense amount of cOllat-
eral reading and acquired more in
half a year than did the average
student in half a dozen years. In
1909, barely fourteen years of age,
he was ready-"more than ready
the head master of the academy
said-to enter Yale or Harvard. His |
iuvenility prevented I'm from enter |
ing these universities, and so, in |
1909, we find him freshman at
graduated with highest honors. and |
Immediately afterward followed Pro |
fessor Bradlough to Berkeles, Califor |
MIA The one friend that Emil Gluck |
discovered in all his l'fe was Pro
fessor Bradlough, The latters weak |
lungs had led him to exchange Maine
sn1,
facilitated by the offer of a profes
sorship in the state university. !
Throughout the year 1914, Emil |
Gluck resided in Berkeley and took |
special scientific courses. Toward the |
end of that year two deaths cha.g. |
ed his prospects and his relations !
with life. The death of Professor |
Bradlough took from him the one
friend he was ever to know, and
the death of Ann Bartell left him
penniless. Hating the unfortunate
lad to the last. she cut him off
with one hundred dollars
The following year, at twenty
years of age, Emil Gluck was en-.
rolled a an instructor in chemistry
in the University of California. Here
the years passed quietly; he faithful
ly performed the drudgery hat
brought him his salary, and, a stu.
dent always, he took half a dozen
degrees. He was, among other things,
a Doctor of Sociology, of Philosophy,
and of Science, though he was known
TO the world, in later days, only as
Professor Gmok.
He was twenty-seven yeaG of age
when he first sprang into prominence
in the newspapers through the rub-
lication of his book, Sex and Prog
ress.' The book remains today a
milestone in the history and philoso-
ply of marriage. 1t is a heavy tome
of over seven hundred pages, pain
fully careful and accurate, and start
lingly original. 1t was book for sci
entists, and not one calculated to
make a stir But Gluck. in the last
chapter, using barely three lines for
it, mentioned the hypothetical desir-
ability of trial marriages. At once
the newspapers seized upon those
three lines, played them up yel-
low" as the slang was in those days,
and set the world laughing al
Emil Gluck. the bespectacled young
professor of twenty seven. Photog
raphers snapped him: he was bes'eg
ed by reporters; women's clubs
throughout the land passed resolu-