Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-03-12

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red In all his life was Professor
3radlough. The latter's weak lungs
lad led him to exchange Maine for
California, the removal being facili-
ated by the offer OF q professionally
N the State university. Throughout
the year 1914 Emil Gluck resided I'm /
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 of 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 faithfully per
formed the drudgery that brought him
his salary, and, q student always. he
took half dozen degrees.
He was twenty-seven years OF age
when he first sprang into prominence
In the newspapers through the publi-
cation of his book, Sex and Progress.
It was q book for scientists, and not
one calculated to make u stir. But
Chuck. In the last chapter, using bare
" three lines for 1t, mentioned the
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
tographers snapped him; he was be.
sieged by reporters; women's clubs
throughout the land passed resolu-
tfons 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-
tion-of course. none of his persecu-
tors had read the book; the twisted
newspaper version of only three lines
of IL was enough for them. Here be-
gan Emil Gluck's hatred for newspa-
per men.
II was the newspapers that were re-
sponstble for the next disaster that be.
fell him. For the five years following
the publication of his book he had re.
NAMED 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. II 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 thai
IS taking place in society,"" A repor
ter present seized upon the WORD
revolution" divorced II from the text
and wrote a garbled account thai
made Emil Gluck appear an anarchist
At once Professor Gluck, anarchist
famed oyer the wires and was ammo
priately featured" In all the newsna
pers in the land.
He had attempted to reply to tn.
previous newspaper attack, but nov
ne remained silent. Bitterness has
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 .
copy of his paper to save himself from
expulsion. He refused to resign, an,
was discharged from the universit,
faculty. It must be added, that politl
cal pressure had been put upon tn
university regents and the president
Prosecuted, maligned, and misun
derst00d, the forlorn and lonely maj
made no attempt at retaliation. Hay
Ing lost his position, and being with
out any income, he had to find worl
His first place was at the Union Iro
Works. In San Francisco, where h
proved a most able draughtsman. j
was here that he obtained his firs
hand knowledge OF battleshIps an
their construction. But the reporter
discovered him and featured him /
his new vocation. He Immediately r.
signed and found another place: bu
after the reporters had driven hil
away from half dozen positions. h
Hteeled himself TO brazen out th
newspaper persecution. This occurre
when he started his eiectroplating q
tabIiahment In Oakland, on TeIegrap
avenue. It Was small shop, emplo,
Ing three men and two boys. Glue
! himself -'Orked long hours. It wa
during this period he perfected the ID
) proved ignition device for gas engine
the royalties from which ultimatel
made him wealthy.
/ He started his electroplating esta
y lishment early in the spring OF 192
|. and it was the same year that |
/ formed the disastrous love aftachmel
for Irene Tackley. Now, IL is not
9 be imagined that an extraordinai
K creature such as Emil Giuck could |
! any other than an extraordinary love
]. In addition to his genius, his lone
z ness. and his morbidness, It must
j taken into consideration that he kne
v nothing about women. Irene Tackl,
d was rather pretty young woman, b
n shallow ana light-headed. At the tin
d she worked in a small candy sto
q across the street from Gluck's shc
i a .