Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-02-19

1910 ne graduated with highest bonor.i
ana Immediately afterward followed
FroIessor Bradlough to Berkeley cal
The one friend that Emil Chuck 5isco,,
cred in all his life was Processes.
BTadlough. The latter's weak lnngs
nad lee him to exchange Maine for
CanIornia, the removal being facili-
tated by the offer of professorsbin
IN the State university. Thron pbo,,+
the year 1914 Emil Chick resided :,
berkeley and took special scientific
courses. Toward the end of that wear
Two deaths changed his prospects and
MS relations with life. The death ~
PROFESSOR Bradlough took from hin,
the one friend he was ever to know
and the death Of Ann Bartell left him
pennlless. Hating the unfortunate lad
to the last, she cut him off with one
hundred dollars.
Inc Following year, at twenty years
OF age. Emil Gluck was enrolled as an
instructor in chemistry in the TJnivar.
slty of California. Here the wears
passed quietly.
lie was tWenty-seven years of age
when he first sprang into prominence
IN the newspapers through the puhli.
cation of his book, Sex and Progress
IL was book for scientists, and not
one calculated to make a stir. But
Gluck, in the last chapter. using hare
~ three lines for 1t, mentioned the
hypothetical desirability of trial mar
rlages. 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 bespectacIed
young professor of twenty-seven. Pho
tographers snapped him; he was be-
sleged 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, a motion demanding the
expulsion of Gluck was made under
threat OF Withholding the appropria
J1on-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 were 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 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 I 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"
famed over the wires and was appro.
| priately featured" in all the newspa-
pers in the land
He had attempted to reply to the
previous newspaper attack, but now
he remained silent. Bitterness had
already 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 a most able draughtsman. 1t
was here that he obtained his first
hand knowledge of battleships and
their construction. But the reporters
discovered him and featured him in
his new vocation. He Immediately re-
signed and found another place; but
after the reporters had driven him
away from half a dozen positions, ne
steeIed himself to brazen out the
newspaper persecution. This occurred
when he started his electropiating es-
tablishment in Oakland, on Telegraph
avenue. It was small shop, employ
ing three men and two boys. CHUCK
himself worked long hours. 1t was
during this period he perfected the i'm
proved ignition device for gas engines
the royalties from which ultimately
made him wealthy.
He started his electroplating estaD-
lishment early in the spring OF 1925
and It was the same year that ne
formed the disastrous love attachment
for Irene Tackley. Now, it is not to
be imagined that an extraordinary
creature such as Emil Gluck could De
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