Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-02-25

him from entering those universities,
and 20, In 1903, we find him fresh
man at historic Bowdoin college. In
1913 he graduated with highest honors
and Immediately afterWard followed
! Professor Bradlough to Berkeley, Cal.
| The one friend that Emil Giuck discoy-
cred IN all HIS life was Professor
Bradlough. The latter'g weak lungs
had led him to exchange Maine for
California, the removal being facili.
tated by the offer OF professorship
| 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 changed his prospects and
his relations with life. The death Of
Professor Bradiough took from him
the one friend he was ever TO know.
and the death Of Ann Bartell left him
penniiess. Hating the unfortunate lad
to the last, she cut him OF with one
hundred dollars.
The following year, NJ twenty years
OF age, Emil Chuck was enrolled as an
instructor in chemistry in the Univer-
sity OF California. Here the years
passed quietly.
He was twenty-seven years OF age
when he first sprang into prominence
In the newspapers through the publ
cation OF his book, Sex and Progress.
II was book for scientists, and not
one calculated TO make stir. But
Gluck. In the last chapter, using bare
iy three lines for II, mentioned the
Hypothetical desirability Of trial mar
rtages. Az once the newspapers seized
upon those three lines, played them
up yellow" as the slang was In those
days, and set the whole world laugh
Ing Mt Emil Chuck. the bespectacled
young professor or twenty-seyen. Pho
tographers snapped him; he was be-
sieged by reporters; women's clubs
throughout the land passed resolu.
lions condemning him and his I'm.
moral theories; and on the floor OF
the California assembly, while discus
sing the state appropriation to the
university, q motion demanding the
expulsion OF GIuck was made under
threat of withholding the appropria
tion--of course, none OF his persecu-
tors had read the book; the twisted
newspaper version OF only three lines
OF II was enough for them. Here be-
san Emil Gncks hatred for newspa.
per men.
II was the newspapers that we're re.
sponsible for the next disaster that be.
fell him. For the Ave years following
the publication Of hia book be had re.
NAMED silent, and silence for lonely
man Is not good His only recourse
was books, and he went ON reading
and studying enormously. But IN
1927 he accepted an invitation to ap.
pear before the Human Interest soci,
ETY. OF Emoryyllle. He did not trust
himself 10 speak, and as we write we
have before US copy OF his learned
paper 1t Ia sober, scholarly and sci
entific, and, II must also be- added
conservative But ih one place hi
dealt with, and quote his words, "ths
industrial and sociai revolution tha
10 taking place In society" A repor
ter present seized upon the wore
revolution" divorced II from the text
and wrote garbled account that
made Emil Gluck appear an anarchist
At once Professor Gluok. anarchist.
famed over the wires and was appro
priately featured In all the newspa
pers In the land.
| He had attempted to reply TO III,
previous newspaper attack, but nov
he remained silent Bitterness ha,
already corroded his soul The uni
yersity faculty appealed TO him to de
fend himself. but he sullenly declined
even refusing 90 enter in defense
copy OF his paper 10 save himself iron
expulsion. He refused to resign, an,
was discharged from tho universit,
faculty.
i Prosecuted. maligned. and misun
derstood. the forlcrn and lonely maj
made no attempt at retaliation. Hay
ing lost his position. and being with
out any income. he had 10 find work
His first place was at the Union Iro,
Works. In San Francisco. where b
proved a most able dranghlsman.
was here that no obtained his flrsI
hand knowledge OF hattieships an,
their construction. But the reporter
discovered him and featured him I
his new vocation. He immediately n
signed and found another place: bu
after the reporters had driven hiI
away from half q dozen positions, h
steeled himself 10 brazen out th
newspaper persecution. This occurre
when he started his electroplating q
Enlistment In Oakland. on Telegrap
avenue. II was small shop, emplo!
Ing three men and two boys. Glue
himself worked long hours, II wa
during this period he perfected the In
proved ignition device for gas engine
tho royalties from which ultimatel
! made him wealthy.
He started his electroplating estal
ilshment early In the spring OF 1872
and Il was the same year that b
} formed the disastrous love attachmer
/ for Irene Tackley, Now. II 10 not
; be- imagined that an extraordinar
!. creature such as Emil Chuck could
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