Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-12-01
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

By LEMUEL F. PARTON
nR. GODFREY LOWELL CABOT,
~ donor of the Columbia univer-
sity prizes in journalism, awarded
to two South American editors, gets
Dr.. c. L. Cabot this depart
Listed High as ment's war
LampIightep time listing
of men of
good will, as against the disturbers
and trouble-makers. DR.. Cabot, 70
years old, has all his life been a
steady ground-gainer, in the cause
of science and the humanities, q
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 Haf-
ward university S615,s73 to carry
forward some Of his ideas about
storing solar energy. A year
later, he gave a similar amount
to the Massachusetts, Institute Il
Technology for the same paR-
pose.
He has been generous patron OF
aviation, learning to fly seaplane
in his late years, inventing system
by which a 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.
n ONALD WILLIS DOUGLAS,
- president of Douglas Aircraft,
Inc, of Santa Monica, Calf, says
war orders for American planes,
Our War Boom in buildine.
No Bubble, Says won't end
D. w. Douglas with a burst
bubble" He and other plane build
ers tackle Sl40, 900, 900 worth Of or
ders and promise they can deliver
5000 planes year.
Who knows what will come next
after the European nations settle
their own quarrels?" says Mr..
Douglas.
Mr.. Douglas is in the midst
of a strictly orthodox aviation
career, without any stunning or
transforming. A Brooklyn boy,
he was grooved quietly through
the NJ. l. 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.
He was in the U. S. signal CORDS
at the start of the World war. n
1920, he founded the Plane Manu-
featuring company which later be-
came Douglas Aircraft.
YPSY SMITH, full-blooded Ro-
~ many Gypsy, born under a
hornbeam tree in England rs years
ago, is the worlds most famous
Gypsy Smith, now prs.st'
Once Militant, ing in New
For Persuasion York. He
turns from
militancy to persuasion. He says he
has given up "scolding and fright
ening'' people On this, his thirty
fifth visit to New York, he breaches
love and hope"
For 60 years he has carried a
clOthes-pin as a symbol Of his
personal salvation. He and his
father made clothes-pins. An
old lady bought some and gave
him a Bible. He was Is years
old then, had never slept under
a roof, and was unable to read,
but he taught himself with the
Bible. He is a small, spruce,
compact man, with broad Shout
ders and the general look Of q
successful business man.
His name was Petulengro, and he
couldn't spell it when he first learned
to read. He believes great wars
and disasters will end when we have
become masters Of small things"
but that faith and religion must be
of ever widening scope. It must be
persuasive rather than militant
evangelism, he insists.
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