Show NEWS THIS 1 ty by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK john F r stevens N NEW was waa self educated as en an engineer therefore he was an eclectic and readily made use ol of a retired murderer to ac famed engineer a des used murderer Pera tely lindor attain end tant end se reto reta gard less of the lack ot of engineering precedent he is now to OS one ol of the greatest of american engineers the first engineer in charge ol of planning and building the panama canal recently awarded the hoover medal by the american society of 0 civil engineers at its eighty sixth annual meeting in new york the murderer who came in handy was a montana blackfoot Black toot indian jim hills new ralli railroad oad westbound from st paul was wag rather impulsively started it ran slap bang into the impenetrable wall ot of the rocky mountains there was an indian legend that there was a pass over the divide along the course of the marlas marias river mr stevens a young engineer for the railroad talked to the about it there was such a pass they knew oil all about it but not all ot of jim hills wampum could bribe them even to point in that direction this marlas marias pass was the dwelling place of ev evil spirits of sorcerers of dreadful demons and all who went that way lost either their lives or their reason mr stevens mashed over the mountains with the thermometer at 50 degrees below zero and found no pass but by chance ile he found a wanderer in the wilderness der ness a blackfoot driven out by his tribe because he had killed a man the indian had been having a difficult time A few devils and monsters move more or less meant little to hira him they made a deal the story of their days on end cad scramble to the roof of the continent through five feet of snow mow and bitter cold with mr stevens sleepless steeple ss as he kept an eye on hla his homicidal gulde js la one of the classics of the conlu conquest odthe wilderness I 1 they found foad the pass and their return was another desperate adventure but soon the scream of locomotives was crying down the demons who presumably moved on when the panama canal was pro pre lecter john F stevens fought through against weighty opposition the lock principle against the se sea a level plan the engineer in charge from 1805 1905 until he was succeeded by general goethals he be flattened all the demons of disease and disorder which had licked de lesseps general goethals rated his work as among the greatest of engi engineering 9 achievements he was minister plenipotentiary to the soviets in 1917 remaining six years and reorganizing and rebuilding their rail roads dini dinion DR R VANNEVAR BUSH testify ingon on the patent system before the national economy committee at washington Is the inventor of a mechanical scientists scientist s brain brat brain x or x Hir machine chine downs ulak thinking 1 n g ml ma a human thinker charie as big Is as a sawmill that solves problems too difficult for the human brain it works nicely and franklin institute awarded him a medal tor for it one can tah think ak offhand of a lot of vexing problems that might be tossed into its hopper these days set up in congress dealing the answers on war and pe peace ace national defense bellef and a balanced budget it ought to save cave a lot of money dr bush former vice president of massachusetts institute of D f technology became president of the carnegie institution on january 1 of this year lie he is one of the most distinguished mathematical 1 physicists in america A tall genial bespectacled scientist with a slightly stooped band dand somewhat stringy figure with untamed hair he leads reporters quite out of their depth ilis his metallic cerebration was just one of many of his interesting te devices and disc discoveries over including particularly cul arly research in the transmission of electrio electric power to which he has made notable contributions the son of a distinguished boston clergyman he romped through tufts harvard and 11 1 I T picking up three degrees in three and J one halt half years thereafter te teaching ch in g a at t M 1 I T on oa february 19 1936 addressing the new york patent lawyers association he was severely critical of the american patent system for its appalling fixity and lack of adaptability at the current corn cam cittee hearing he commends it it but both meager news reports are out of their context and dr bush doubtless could defend himself against charge of inconsistency 0 new neva fatur service arvle |