The Elbert County tribune., 1914-01-09

laton, Its position is one of comparative safety.
It carries in cold storage enough food to support
II 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 for more than
100 days and brought its cargo of meat into port
as fresh as the day It was put aboard.
Some inventors are 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
Of obligation to the inventor. Some OF them
laughed or 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 on other great
inventions for the good OF mankind. 1t takes
money to prosecute studies and experiments. and
Teller had little Of 1t. One day
preached the French government for its neglec'
Of Teller. who was in dire want. The governmen.
acted promptly. 1t gave the ribbon Of the Legion
of Honor to him. This was fine thing to do for
an old man. nearly all of whose clothes and furni
ture In pawn.
The news OF Tellier's death last month stirred
all France. The people may have neglected Tel
her alive but they honored him dead. His funeral
was a national event Great men delivered euo-
giles of him. And now France is to put up a
monument to him of its greatest sons He
has monuments In the shape OF industrial plants
and ships the world over.
About the same time that Teller dying
Rudolf Diesel. of the greatest inventors Ger
many has produced fell or cast himself from the
deck OF a ship on which he passenger He
was a broken-hearted bankrupt-a genius without
business sense. His engine is in in every
quarter of the globe. Next to Watt he is ranked
by some as 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 of misery for
years.
to France or Germany. The United States has
more cases perhaps than Europe. 1t is seldom
that genius Is able to protect himself in 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-
phy would not have been developed to the extent
Il is today without him It is doubtful II there
would be motion pictures today, yet 1t is ques-
ton whether any OF the great producers of the
photo pluy who have made millions upon millions
of dollars In the last ten 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 pastor Of little
church in Newark His pay small. barely
enough to support his family. He was great big.
kindly man. Mature intended him for scientist.
Conditions made him clergyman He looked
after his little flock. visited the sick and helped