The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
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By LEMUEL r. PARTON
DR. GODFREY LOWELL CABOT,
~ donor of the Columbia univer.
sity prizes in journalism, awarded
to two South American editors, gets
Dr.. G. L. Cabot this h ' DEPART.
Listed High as ment's war
Lamplighter' time ilstine
good will, as against the disturbers
and trouble-makers. DR.. Cabot, 78
years old, has all his life been a
steady ground-gainer, in the cause
Of science and the humanities, a
scientist and humanitarian in his
own widely varied endeavors, not
only bankrolling progress but bring
ing it through by his own inventive
ness and enterprise.
The experimental house, being
pictured in the newspapers, as
scientists seek to trap sunlight
and store it in the cellar for
winter use, is traceable to DR..
Cabot. In 1887, he gave Har-
ward university $615,773 to carry
forward some of his ideas about
storing solar energy. A year
later, he gave similar amount
to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology for the same pur-
pose. And now Prof. Hoyt C.
Hotel of M. /. T. has his sum
shine bungalow built, with a
heat trap on the roof, sluicing
sunshine down into the cellar.
Perhaps with a winter supply
of sunshine, put up like jelly or
preserves, nobody would want to
start a war.
He has been generous patron of
aviation, learning to fly a seaplane
in his late years, inventing a system
by which plane can pick up fuel
in flight, and is now governor and
former president of the National
Aeronautic association. He has en-
dowed various branches of research,
including botanical studies.
A native of Boston, he attended
M. I. T. two years, was graduated
from Harvard in 1882, and laid the
basis of his fortune manufacturing
lampblack in Worthington, Pa, in
1887, branching out in gases and
carbideS.
~ ONALD WILLIS DOUGLAS,
~ president of Douglas Aircraft,
Inc, of Santa Monica, Calf, says
war orders for American planes,
Our War Boom in building.
No Bubble, Says wont end
D. w. Douglas i wlsn q a.b Dura'-
bubble" He and other plane build
ers tackle $140, 900, 900 worth of or
ders and promise they can deliver
5000 planes a year.
''Who knows what will come next
after the European nations settle
their own quarrels?" says Mr..
Douglas.
MIR. Douglas is in the midst
Of strictly orthodox aviation
career, without any stunning or
transforming. A Brooklyn boy,
he was grOoved quietly through
the M. i. T. and into the Glenn
Martin plant, as chief engineer.
He will get an important niche
in aviation history as the de-
signer of the first plane to lift
its own weight. That proved
him an expert ON the pay-load,
an advantage which he has
pressed hard.
He was in the U. S. signal corps
at the start Of the World war. In
1920, he founded the Plane Manu-
featuring company which later be-
came Douglas Aircraft.
~ YPSY SMITH, a full-blooded Ro-
~ many Gypsy, born under
hornbeam tree in England Is years
ago, is the worlds most famous
OvPsy oW'" now preach
Once Militant, ing in New
For Pcrsuosion York. n
turns from
militancy to persuasion. He says he
has given up Seeding and fright
ening" people. On this, his thirty
fifth visit to New York, he breaches
'love and hope" As aFiIG
50 For so years he has carried a
3 clothes-pin as symbol Of his
y, personal salvation. He and his
2 father made clothes-pins. An
old lady bought some and gave