Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
THE INVENTOR AS WEALTH
PRODUCER
By DR.. Frank Crane

OF all the brsi ess of men, production is
the most important.
To manage, to a'rect, to transport and the
like, are essential. But most essential Of all
Is to produce.
In production the man works hand in hand
with the Creator.
For this reason the farmer has always held
place of high esteem, because it is his
business to make a hundred grains Of wheat
out of one.
And in like manner tn. poet, the novelist
and the dran4atist stand in the front rank
of Intellectual workers because they actually
create and "give to airy nothings local
habitation and d name"
The greatest producer OF all is Nature it.
self. In fact, Natures fruitful womL cease
lessly brings forth plenty and to spare, for
t. needs of al lif. which she has made.
The tropics could easil.< feed the orld,
and probably will when transportation is per
feet.
There is more to production, however,
than the mere making Of things or inducing
growth. For 1t is also necessary to adopt
things to human use and bring them from
the place of making to tn user.
The greater part of Natures products also
need to be worked over. She is prolific in
raw material And it is the ingenuity of
man that must change, that raw material
49,. form which shall minister to life.
Therefore, the primary prod lcer is, per-
haps, the scientist, for he is the man who
studies Natures laws and lays the basis for
the art Of Harvesting her forces and uneov-
ering the treasures.
In the story of the Creation it is said that
man was put in the Garden of Eden to tend
it and keep it. This world might be called a
vast and weedy gIrden, which it is mans
business to render fruitful; the scientist is
the foremost of the gardeners.
The scientist, however, Is helpless without
the inventor, who, using the gathered ma
terial of the scientist, actually tames Nature
to mans use.
There never was a greater opportunity for
invention than at the present day. The Lon
don General Omnibus compay says that it
is worth a fortune to any in yentor who can
save the company penny mile in petrol.
For that matter, any man who can save
moment or a penny to any great organiza-
ton, achieves triumph.
Amazing as the invention CT the past have
been, there crowd upon Il, still more amaz-
ing inventions in the near future.
Fo4 instance, We await the genius who will
bring out the conversion of solar rays to sup
plant the dwindling SUPPLIES Of coal and
petroleum.
The Desert of the Sahara. 5000, 900 square
kilometres in area, daily receives solar
energy equivalent to that of 6,000,O00,0 900
tons of coal. Where is the genius who will
convert that adiant energy into electric cur
rent?
DR.. Arthur D. Little says that in a sun
day of six hours a surface of 10000 square
kilometres receives in year a quantity of
heat corresponding to that produced by
burning 3,650,00O,000 tons of coal, which
is more than double the entire worlds pro-
duction. Who will show how to use that?
Even more wonderful is the vista opened
by Investigations O. radiant energy. Kinetic
energy derived from burning coal or liberat-
ed from the most powerful explosive.
We await the creative offices of the in
ventor who will snow US how to utilize that
copyright, 1922, by Frank C-ane)