Show PASSING P. OF STEL STEINMETZ STEU With Vilh the passing of r Charles P. P Steinmetz the scholastic and economic world is losing ono one of orits or- or its ils most prominent examples of a learned man who ho devoted himself to an ideal of accomplishment accomplish accomplish- ment of the greatest possible good to humanity It H is not necessary to 10 believe that he worked consciously consciously con con- I toward this ideal Men do not always always- make the fastest progress by having a vague and md indefinable indefinable indefinable inde inde- finable goal toward which to work Steinmetz like all aU properly sensible people probably shifted shifted shifted shift shift- ed his aim from point to point as he found it necessary to meet Accomplishment of one matter each time timo left him free to attack another His range in the field of electricity ex extended extended extended ex- ex tended from irom the tho production of lightning To fa the supervision of the production of clean clean- ers Steinmetz was primarily a mathematician and only upon his perception of or the narrowness of his then field and his view of the possibilities in that of electricity that he began the tho study stud of or that subject which from that time limo to his death occupied his entire professional attention He happened to select a and its ils use ts cS s the great subject of his life ifo There are other fields in which marty malty are engaged and in which there are arc grew heights to be attained It is of course trite to lo say that what he ho did ita ihL his field any other individual can do in his own There will only be the few who will reach comparative mastery but if a quotation of the tho unselfish attainments at- at of one ono will act as a slight stimulus to the efforts of another it will be worth while died a relatively poor man but he left left-a legacy of attainment which will permanently permanent permanent- I ly Ir enrich the world |