The Pulaskian., 1915-02-12

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 1n the newspapers through the publi- cation of his book, Sex and Progress" It was book for scientists, and not one calculated to make stir. But Gluck, in the last chapter, using bare ly three lines for it, 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 bespeetacled young professor of twenty-seven. Pho tographers snapped him; he was be- s1eged by reporters; women's clubs throughout the land passed resolu- tions 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 tlon-of course, none of his perseeu- tors had read the book; the twisted newspaper version of only three lines of 1t was enough for them. Here be- gan Emil Gluck's hatred for newspa per men.
 It 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- mained silent, and silence for lonely man is not good. His only recourse was books, and he went on reading ana 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 nave before us a 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 garbled account that made Emil Gluck appear an anarchist, AL once Professor Gluck, anarchist" named over the wires and was appro- prlately featured" in all the newspa- pers in the land
 lie 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- lend 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. Hay 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. It 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, he steeled himself to brazen out the newspaper persecution. This occurred when he started his electroplating es- tablishment in Oakland, on Telegraph avenue. It was a small shop, employ ing three men and two boys. Gluck himself worked long hours. It was during this period he perfected the inn proved ignition device for gas engines, the royalties from which ultimately made him wealthy.
 He started his electroplating estab- lishment early in the spring of 1928, and it was the same year that he formed the disastrous love attachment for Irene Tackley. Now, it is not to be imagined that an extraordinary creature such as Emil Gluck could be