WEALTHY INVENTOR
WARNS ALL WOMEN
THAT HE WONT WED
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 31—No
flapper is going to snare George
Campbell Carson, elderly sell-styled
“desert rat,” who became, theoreti
cally at least, a multi-millionaire as
the result of a decision of the Unit
ed States Circuit Court of Appeals
here recently upholding his claims
to profits for the use of inventions
for treating copper. Asked what he
intended to do with his millions,
when he gets them, he said he ex
pected to do a lot of things involv
ing chemistry which laymen wouldn’t
understand, but one thing sure, he
wasn't going to get married.
The decision in favor of Carson
was rendered on appeal from a fed
eral district court in .the state of
Washington.' He had sued the Am
erican Smelting & Refining Company,
which he accused of, appropriating
illegally a patent of his that im
proves and speeds up the smelting
of copper.
According to counsel in the case,
several other companies are involved
in the ruling, which, if not upset by
the Supreme Court, may net him
as high as $20,000,000. Officials of
the American Smelting & Refining
companies, however, say that they
are not involved to the extent of
more than $250,000. They expect
to appeal.
Meanwhile Carson continues to
live in the modest water front hotel
that has lodged him in recent
months. Since the news of the de
cision has spread, he has been re
ceiving more mail than he can read.
He said hewas getting many let
ters from women who complained of
loneliness apd enclosed addresses
and telephone numbers.
Usually Carson prefers to talk of
laboratories, test tubes and such.
Lately, since the high court sided
with him, he has been more atten
tive to long-neglected social ameni
ties. The walls of his room are
adorned with photographs of movie
actresses, but that doesn’t mean any
thing, he explains.
“None of these flappers are going
| to get me,” he affirms. .
Carson is 58. At the age of 14 he
ran away from the family farm ih
Kansas. He had but two years of
schooling.
In 1886 lie discovered the Wonder
ful mine, a cropping of surface sil
ver ore near Clifton, Ariz. He sold
his claim for $1,500. In his pros
pecting he absorbed a great deal
I of metellurgy and geology.
For a time he digressed from
mining to join an expedition sent
into Mexico by the American Geo
graphical Society. He left the ex
pedition in the wilds of the Sierra
Madre mountains a year later and
drifted to Chihuahua, where he work
ed at the smelting end of mining.
Later Carson wandered over Colo
rado, Idaho and Oregon, following
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an assay office. He got back east
as far as Birmingham, Ala., and then,
in Pittsburgh, he began an inten
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the funds to pursue it. His inven
tion lagged for eight years. It took
him all that time to get the papers
ready 'for the patent office. Car
son’s diary, which figured in the
evidence at the trial, is a long re
cital of semi-starvationT of ill-cloth
ed wanderings during? years of re
verses.
He offered testimony intended to
show that his contrivance found in
stant aceptance in smelters and were
widely used, while he received no
compensation. He said that it was
possible under his process to treat
700 tons of ore in a furnace in 24
hours, whereas under the old system
but 240 tons could be treated.
Two years ago Carson lost his
case in the federal court at Seattle.
The reversal of this finding was his
first victory in 19 years of struggling
to patent and market his invention.
Arkansas Out for Business
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Apr. L—
The Arkansas legislature wants tex
tile mills in the state and would ex
empt them from taxation for seven
years. The question will be voted
upon in the form of a constitutional
amendment at the next state elec
tion.
Twice before the legislature has at
tempted to induce mills to come 10
the state by cutting out taxes over
a period of years. Each time the ef
fort has failed, due to constitutional
provisions regarding the adoption of
constitutional amendments.
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(tiy Associated Press)
CHICAGO, 111., Mar. 31.—Motion
pictures as a supplement to existing
methods of instruction in the class
room are becoming more popular,
but there is no basis >at present to be
lieve that the movie will in any way
supplant instructors, textbooks or
other traditional methods of teach
ing, in the opinion of directors of
departments in a number of univer
sities which have been experiment
ing with visual education for sev
eral years.
A recent survey made in the Uni
ted States showed that there were
| more than 20 state bureaus of visual
instruction in educational institu
tions, 16 of which were located in
universities.
Educators generally recognize the
value of visual education, but at
j present the movie lesson is consid
j ered more or less of an entertain
\ ment period, according to F. Dean
I McClusky of the University of Illi
| nois. Prof. Frank N. Freeman of
j the University of Chicago, in an
! nouncing the results of more than
20 experiments in visual education,
asserted there was no justification
for unusual enthusiasm for the movie
as a medium of instruction. He said
hc-wevtir, that ilhemotfon pitot ure
does have a value, but its use re
quires the same careful presenta
tion as other subject matter in or
der to be made effective as teaching
devices.
“The practice of using motion pic
ture as a teaching aid in its infan
cy, or in the same place that physi
cal and chemical laboratories were
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25 years ago,” said William H. Dud
ley, chief of the University of Wis
consin bureau. “While visual edu
cation should never and probably
will not entirely supplant other me
thods of instruction, it will continue
to be used more as a supplement
to discussion and lecture.
“Criticism made again their use
because the movie lesson merely of
fers diversion and amusement to t.h*
children is ungrounded when teach
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At Iowa State an entire division
of the college is devoted exclusive
ly to this work, due to the school
and organizations having learned tie
benefits to be derived, said Prof.
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popularity of the service has sub
stantially increased. Visual instruc
tion offers more spectacular dis
play and thru it the instinctive de
sire to see is capitalized, lie declar
ed. “Somehow, humans will spend
enormous sums and time to see an
object. Working on the theory that
‘seeing is believing,’ we have en
larged our service.”
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closed that the 14 university librar
ies contained more than 7,800 reels
of film and that 27 per cent could
be classified as dealing with enter
tainment subjects, 16 per cent in
dustrial, 15 per cent literature and
the remainder miscellaneous.
Ireland Arms Police
To Put Down Yeggs
(By Associated Press)
DUBLIN, Mar. 31.—When the
Free State abolished The Royal Iris
Constabulary, a semi-military lore*5,
and established its new police, tin
Carda Siochana, it was decided thar
the new police should be unarmed.
The men carry no weapon but a
baton.
This condition has facilitated tin
operations of the thief with a gun;
raids on banks and bank messengers
have been frequent in all parts of
the country. The situation is‘now
being met by the creation of a spe
cial detective force of 20u armed
i men. available for duty anywhere,
land Vice-President O'Higgins say>
I that in future “the gunman, the
bank robber and the midnight thie;
(will be met by men who will be as
quick, or perhaps quicker, on the
' draw than they are.”
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