Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-01-09

lation, its position is one of comparative safety
1t carries in cold storage enough food to support
1t for weeks
And yet Charles Teller died of starvation!
France was responsible for Teller, but every ma
tion was his debtor He was born in Amiens
More than 40 years ago. after being released from
a debtors prison, he perfected system for the
preservation of meats. vegetables and fruits
Thirty-seven years ago ship equipped with his
cold storage appliance was at sea for more than
100 days and brought its cargo Of meat into port
as fresh as the day it was put aboard.
Some inventors careless Many of them
lack business ability. Telliers ideas were appro-
priated by clever men who thought only of using
them to their own advantage without feeling any
sense of obligation to the inventor. Some of them
laughed scoffed at him when he protested that
they were robbing him of his rights.
Sensitive and proud he tried to hide his bitter
ness and sought solace in working other great
inventions for the good of mankind, 1t takes
money to prosecute studies and experiments, and
Teller had little Of it. One day some one re-
preached the French government for its neglect
of Tellier who was in dire want. The government
acted promptly. 1t gave the ribbon of the Legion
of Honor to hiT This was fine thing to do for
an old man, 1garly all of whose clothes and furni-
ture were iRpawn.
The news OF Tellier's death last month stirred
all France. The people may have neglected Tel
lier alive but they honored him dead. His funeral
was a national event Great men delivered euo-
gies of him. And now France is to put up
monument to him as one of it's greatest sons. He
has monuments in the shape of industrial plants
and ships the world over.
About the same time that Teller was dying
Rudolf Diesel, of the greatest inventors Ger
many has produced fell cast himself from the
deck of ship which he was a passenger. He
was brokenhearted bankrupt genius without
business sense. His engine is in use in every
quarter of the globe. Next to Watt he is ranked
by some the greatest figure in the development
of power For all the good he did in the advance
ment of science and industry his reward was
small indeed. Harassed by creditors by his ur-
gent needs, his life had been one of misery for
years.
The tragedy of great inventors is not confined
to France or Germany. The United States has
pnor@ cases perhaps than Europe 1t is seldom
that genius is able TO protect himself in a world
ly way. 1t is only after he is dead that the world
begins to appreciate his full worth. Sometimes
even that is lacking
Without the Rev Hannibal Goodwin photogra-
ply would not have been developed to the extent
1t is today Without him it is doubtful If there
would be motion pictures today, yet it is ques-
ton whether any of the great producers of the
photo play who have made millions upon millions
of dollars in the last years or one person out
of ten thousand of those who go to see the
movies know OF Hannibal Goodwin and his
work.
The Rev. Mr.. Goodwin was pastor of a little
church IN Newark His pay was small barely
enough TO support his family. He was great big
Klndly man Nature intended him for a scientist
Condinons made him clergyman. He looked
9i'@F ms little lock. visited the sick and helped