The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-02-26

and SO, In 1909, 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 Gluck discov-
cred in all his life was Professor
Bradlough The latter's weak lungs
had led him to exchange Maine for
California, the removal being facili-
tated by the offer of a 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 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 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"
| 1t was book for scientists, and not
| one calculated to make a stir. But
| Gluck, in the last chapter, using bare
| Iy fbrpn 1inac
hypothetical desirability of trial mar
| riages. At 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 at Emil Gluck, the bespectacled
young professor of twenty-seven 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, motion demanding the
expulsion of Gluck 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 it was enough for them. Here be-
gan Emil Gluck's hatred for newspa-
per men.
1t was the newspapers that we're re-
sponsible for the next disaster that be-
fell him. For the five years following
the publication of his book he had re-
manned silent, and silence for a 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 Emeryville He did.not trust
himself to speak, and as we write we
have before us copy of his learned
paper 1t is sober, scholarly and sci
entific, and. it must also be added.
conservative. But in one place he
dealt with, and quote his words, "the
industrial and social revolution that
is taking place in society,"" A repor-
ter present seized upon the word
revolution, divorced it from the text.
and wrote a garbled account that
made Emil Gluck appear an anarchist.
AT once Professor Gluck, anarchist"
Hamed over the wires and was appro-
prlately featured" in all the pewspa-
pers in the land.
He had attempted to reply to the
previous newspaper attack, but now
he remained silent. Bitterness had
corroded his soul. The uni |
versity faculty appealed to him to de- |
fend himself, but he sullenly declined, |
even refusing to enter in defense a |
copy of his paper to save himself from
expulsion. He refused to resign, and |
was discharged from the university
faculty.
Prosecuted, maligned, and misun-
derstood, the forlorn and lonely man
made no attempt at retaliation. Hav-
ing lost his position, and being with
out any income, he had to find work
His first place was at the Union Iron
Works, in San Francisco, where he
proved most able draughtsman. 1t
vas here that he obtained his first
land knowledge of battleships and
heir construction. But the reporters
discovered him and featured him in
lis new vocation. He Immediately re-
igned and found another place; but
lfter the reporters had driven him
way from half dozen positions, he
teeled himself to braZen out the
newspaper persecution. This occurred
When he started his electroplating es-
ablishment in Oakland, on Telegraph /
venue. 1t was small shop, employ I
ng three men and two boys. Gluck {
imself worked long hours. 1t was {
uring this period he perfected the i'm S
roved ignition device for gas engines, {
he royalties from which ultimately I
lade him wealthy.
He started his electroplating estab- I
shment early in the spring of 1928, I
nd 1t was the same year that he
ormed the disastrous love attachment q
,r Irene Tackley. Now, it is not to /
Q imagined that an extraordinary
reature such as Emil Gluck could be
ny other than an extraordinary lover i
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