The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-06-23

" anolker Stdne this great inventor
twAo ,had ~ stzoellss continued:
= sOccssl lonai influence which the
reals slnvsneoe hatss to bring TO bear,
enabasDy him 10 TT IN audience with
thss shia4est olicial In the department.
10 stha6 Preached tho criminal stage BY
this time, mr. he has taken to tho
chief that which courtesy and custom
require should have been taken to tho
underlinI. 3
/. ''T1is three stages Of suspicion are
gone through again by the persistent
inventor - imbecile, lunatic, >, ana
criminal and occasionally his 'pers'st-
enee wins out. for In passing through
the degrees he may happen to hit
upon souS omcial. also regarded -
lunatic by his colleagues, who Is WILL
ing to give consideration to that which
another lunatic has produced" =.
=. Willing. . Hsae Them ~. ~.>..ss...
These words, 10 has been, said. were
spoken BY agman whose efforts halped
largely to change the nature Of see
warfare. (: He was trying to give to
the American government that which
would serve 1t in time Of: need. He
won ont; but Others III: the 'olden days
did not win out. l,qet. :..<. .r@ -
To-day. however. > mar. who has an
,iHkention5 can get hearing. Such
alnaxng things have happened In the
inventive aneld recently that nothing
Ii regarded any Longer As impossible
b. the men whose duty sit>is TO look
into merits d. prohered inventions. On
tho continent Of Europe th'pgs were
different bsSSIfe the war There the
inventors was not treated as If he
Ewsrs sfSs1h O j safllpm an :asylup for the
feebla minded. but was turned over at
once .tato : an, Omcial whose" duty
|it;wasttos exanine such things as were
offered and to examine them quickly.
~ II was not always, like this on tho
Other 5dds s;o9 ths water Every I'M
yentor who. came to washington 10
pre..wAr days. and after the bublica-
tion. ,of Charles pickens' Little. Dor:
mr. probably hsd in his mind tho
experience Of one eeof the characters ~
that book. Charles Dickens helped
British inventors. to get quick hear
ings from. their government oncials'
How sis Used to % In England.
,It awas Daniel, Doyce. one, Of Mr..
Aeasles friends in the story Of Little
Dorrit, who had an experience With
ofiicialdom much like that Of the Amer
ican inventor which has been recorded
above. or Doyce Mr.. Meagle said:
'aThis Doyce Is a smith and engineer.
"A dozen years ago he perfected an In
vention (involving a very. curious se-
cret process) Of great Importance to
his country and, his fellow creatures.
I would not say how much money It
cost him, or how many Years of hts ltfs
he had been about II. but hs brought
II to perfection dozen years ago. ...-
'"Hes addressed himself TO the GOV.
ernment. !; Tho moment he addresses
himself to the government he becomes
a public offender = He ceases to BE. m
innocent citizen and becomes, q culprit.
He is treated from that instant a. .
man who has, done some Internal &C.
tion. He IL q man to bs shirked. put
of, brow.beaten, &sneered at, handed
over by this highly connected young or
old gentleman to that highly connect
ed young or old gentleman. and dodged
back again; he is a man with no rights
in, his own time or In his property; .
mere outlaw whom it is justiaable to
get rid of anyhow; q man to be worn
out by any possible means" 4. It.
So 1t was once In England md so,it
was once III this country. They re-
formed Son the other side Of the water
before they reformed on this side q
it. The Tying machine, the radio. md
few other things have made even
suspicious oficials Of government slt
up to look and listen.