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Show REWARDS FOR SERVICE In these davs of condemnation of profiteering, it is somewhat out of the ordinal) to find an individual advertising himself as a j profiteer. In The Standard-Examiner of Sunday was this dispatch WASHINGTON Del 30.-Sn.it to recover $102,050, H damages for alleged conspirai y was filed today in the dis- H trict -supreme court by E. L Rice, an aeroplane inventor .t the Pacific '-oast, against Secretary Baker, Postmastei Gen-Hi Gen-Hi eral Burleson, the Democratic members of the house military committee, other Democratic members of the house of repre-H repre-H sentatives and various army officers. Rice charged that orders to purchase airplanes containing his invention were pigeon-holed l,x certain of the officer and in was i pnved i r:Z. I ill i it i gc i i vjliwi Our governineDl officials, AO ddubt, have viewed tfiji claiin of damages as no1 much more than i joke, slthough iliev are facing the annoyance of a legal aelnui. The greatest inventions of the war brought onl.v comparatively small sums t the inventors, and. after dedut ting excess profits, many an inventor had onlj a srnall margin left as a reward; The man who made possible the mine barrier across the North sea was an American, and, far, he had not received ttie reward of having his name known l the country at large. The mine thai he invented was used to establish a barrier 230 miles long aud 25 miles wide, reaching to a depth of more than 60Q fanthoms. It was one of the greatest achievements of the war and brought the genius who conceived con-ceived the idea nothing more than .the satisfaction f having done his full part ending a terrible war. If men and women are to be rewarded for what they did. ami this California airplane inventor is entitled to $102,000,000, how much should po to the maimed and crippled who foughl in lbs front 1 1 enches ; how much to ih families ol the boj s w ho made the supreme .crifiec! |