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By G. MacLEOD ROSS
CHARLES KETTERING
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One .orf the many inspiring probed into the genesis• of the
engineers I wad' privileged to standard work and found the
rieet during a foureyear sta' in author had also carried gut
Detroit during the last war scale experiments which wer
was -the late Charles Kettering,
_- 'w.,.._...ahe
adaf, •IteS•eareh--vtltlh-- Gen eral
Maws:
Here 'was a man analagous
to genius: iwt because of his
numerous inventions; not be-
cause they had made him a mil-
lionaire several times over, for
the was completely oblivious to
money, (tbefare endowing the
Slaaxi-Kettering Cancer Re-
eearch Foundation he lett some
400 millions) but rather because
of his: unique abreste'h'seb pro-
blems; for his distilled horse -
sense; for the wisdom wilth
which he inspired all his assoc
iatee.
"Peoblerns are the price of
`progress" he used. to say. "Don't
bring me anything but brauble.
Good news weakens me."
Few people have had so many
stories told about them; few
have told so many' about them- anism they used.
selves; •fewer still have display- "I developed 40 counting Ble-
ed such whimsical humor in ments in one machine 'which
the outlook on ikfe and withal, was suitable for large institu-
few have displayed, such mag- tions. Now the, normal. price
--rnanimity, sixth. 'courage, ttell--ftx°•-{t r'e Old- t-y'p-e--•af 3rraehine
confidence, such insousianiee or which had four or five elements
such siinpliici'ty. was four to five thousand dol-
• Churchill said: `The scientist cars: The new machine cost
should be on tap but not one anything from $2,500 to $5,000.
trop." When Mr. Sloan offered The sales people saideiWe can't
Kettering the Research Depart- sell a machine at that price.
uient the latter said: "I will However after it had been in
only take it over on these scan-' production for four years, it
d i tions: That I have no respon• comprised half the business of
s'ibility, no authority and" no the company.
accounting far money:. If you "The :e'ystem was so successful
try to tie me up, ask how much that I tried to get it incorpor•
it will cost and .when it will ated in the $4.00. range of cash
be ready, well, the .doors open register, but without success„
outwards as well as inwards." Thirty-five years, later - I was
....._ ._..- Wen . h.j.0 in ed. .hCtrazt:taikllg
_ta _the then preeident
from Dayton there was a "NO of the- National- Cash Register
SMOKING" sign on the door Co. and he said: You remember
of his office. KetteringKe
pasted that
invention
of rour•
.We
a note underneath it so that it have put it into ,the $400 range.
read:, (NO SMOKING) (NO KEY So I said to him: Who died?
'TERING), and continued to He said•: No one died. Jim
smoke. When he was 80, peo- .retired'
included in his book. The stria
-e'r`r T bwev"fir; "liad'Iost ,tie pa.g
of the .M.S:S. dealing with rhes
particular .experiments and had
on his own'initiative, include
figures which had no tbiessin
from the author. These form
ulae and figures had been ac
cepted without question fo
many yeats by students of thi
treatise.
"I once worked for the Na
tional Caen Register Company,'
he said. "When'*1 joined the
used to tell everybody tha
theirs was a special mechanismThey used to pretend it was
peculiar to the adding machineSo I decided on a method o
establishing the,. veracity of this
contention. I collected a smal
=Sewn of mechanisms. It was
soon apparent that there was
nothing peculiar in the 'nee'',
aY,
year. Eac hte he` has •the op-
portunity of ,failing with all its
attendant disgrace. 'Hence, we
build up in this anuc1 a failure
complex. NOW that„ is quite
the' wrong way to look at it.
Inventing consists 99 per ,centt of failure. What you- want to
t- do is toteach a man tofail
es ifire'l•Iige ttly:.P"T6 fake "hiim
e Understand that it/is no dis-
grace 'to . Mail. You have got to.
d remove the taboo surrounding
g honest failure"
Amongst a -thousand and one
• other things Kettering was in -
✓ terestea in was ehlorophy ll.
S Ohloraphyll means "green leaf."
"When you are considering the
- mechanism of a leaf" he said,
"you are examining the 1,50,000,-
Y 000th year's model. When we
t started this work I told the boys
• tthey had bettor marry soon and
raise large 'families as the job
• rnigtht Well take two or three
f generations.
"I.lhave always said this about
1 engineering. Th•e word is spelt:_
T-R-O-U.B-L-E, but it has this
saving grace. It lets you pick
the .trouble yon .wa•nt and sot,
in znatters f research you have
tothink; not tdo far ahead;
Trot too far behind; it has got
to be just right."
e -Bumblebee• -
pie used to ask him why he - Imagine the money that com-
was alwaYsi talking- about the pany lost waiting 35 years to
future•. "Because that -is where take advantage of a forward
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I expect to spend the rest of development. Why I know men
my Life," he replied. getting $30,000 salary t� whom
it would pay their .corporation
Invented Self -Starter to give half a million dollars if
1" w people ^remember that They. would only stay away from
Ket• was the inventor of the W'o *7 -r.-,------
4e1*f,starter for the automobile, Calendar Society
When quizzed at- such surpnis-
ang .anonymity, ,would say, "This brings me to the theory
"Who 'retmemibers the name of of Grooveology. Haw long are
Paul Revere's horse?" we to stay in' a groove, and when
Once when he addressed the are we to get out of it? !!here
student section of the Detroit was the question of a (calendar
Engineering Society I reported change. I was one of the orig-
e-him verbatim. He spoke, ex- inal members of: the Calendar
''temporarieausly and made his Society., ..One of their first pro -
points by a succession of illus. 'nasals was. that there should be
trative stories. The c+h'airman, thirteen months in, the year,. I
introducing him, said that Ket . remember going to an old farm -
had beenbrought up on a farm er.and discussing this. propos-
quid that one of his first in•ven- ed change •with him. Ile said
tions had been a book -rest fixed to .me: If that don't beat hell!
to the ,plough. I ain't gat fodder to last me to
.'lie title of his address was: the end of the year even now.
"Don't..over-estianate the past<; "But I don't want you to go
don't under -estimate the fu- away with the idea that moth-
ture." Here are some extracts ing in the past is of value.
from his vast fund of experi- There is an immense amount
ertee wfiieh will give you the of. sound information which has
flavor of the man.. ' been (built up over the ages
After .the Dayton flood, an and, which .applies from long
eminent. engineer came dawn ago. The question 'has arisen:
to decide on preventive rmea Can we train 'men, to be in-
sures, , He subsequently made venters? I had the Brookings
'a model of the river, with a dam Institute survey that question.
and spillway. • The figures', he They came up with the conclus-
abtadned from his experiments ion that an educated man was
were so far removed from cal- the least likely to become' an
culations derived from formulae inventor. , .
in the standard work on flow of "That was an interesting con -
water over weirs that Ket de• ccption and I have analyzed it.
tided to investigate the source Consider a' man's education
of the - original formulae. from . six years old till he be-
--This took him to France. comes a +college graduate. Dur -
where much of the work on this ling the whole of that period
subject had , been done. He he is examined sevral times a
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Finally, this notice, attribut-
ed
ttr i:but-ed to Ket; was to be seen in.
many offices of General Motors
in Detroit, `THE BUMBLEBEE
CANNOT FLY." According to 1
the theory of .aerodyna:mi+cs and
as may be readily demonstrated
through laboratory tests and
wind tunnel experiments the
Bumblebee is ,unable to fly.
This is because the sire, weight
and shape of his body is rela-
tion to the total wing spread
makes flying impossible.
But the ,bumblebee, being ig-
nbrarrt of -these `rprOfhi ld `Seren-
tific truths goes ahead,and flies
anyway—and manages to make
a little h oney' every day.
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GODERICH
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HORTICULTURAL..
SOCIETY
The Membership i!?rive opens on March 1st.
The fee of One Dollar may be paid at the
office of R. W. Bell, Optometrist, '74 The
'Square or to Mrs. A. C. Worsell, 107 Victoria
Street, North.
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SUGAR.
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by Cpl Smiley
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DOCTORS GIVE .HIM A PAIN
A couple , of experiences re-
cently have „confirmed ; some-
thing I've long suspected, Peo•
pie. spend far too mush time
going to the doctor. Most. doc-
tors would preleably agree.
-`'My"w 1fe; who could-..gp .r5
rounds with Cassius Clay and
not breathe hardt goes to the
doctor about twice a month.
He says; "Well, you're certainly
IQoking in fine fettle," gives
her a bottle of .pills and sends
her about her business,
'Mer experience with doctors
has been on two levels, the
social and the professional. So-
cially, you can't beat them.
They like a drink, a good story,
good company. Professionally
.. well, let me tell you.
*
Just after the war, the medi-
cal profession told me 1 had
tuberculosis. There was a sha-
dow on my chest X-ray. They
pumped out my stomach and
poked among the horrors ex-
humed. They vampired blood
out of my ,arm. They sucked
marrow out of my breast -bone.
*: * .
Every so often, a specialist in
reading= _f+Qr-ayis -would -show-Mei
the "shadow" on' any lung.
There were about 484 shadows
on the X-ray. I'd nod intelli-
gently, through I'll swear it was
a di1 erent one every time.
* 1i
still think they got a fly-
speck on the original X-ray.
But I bear them no grudge.
This used to happen to me
during the war. We'd be flying
formation, on a mission, heads
swivelling wildly' to watch for
German fighters. Suddenly, 1'd.
spot a whole gaggle of the foe
and holler ov_ er t ��L7 "
r � M
emyyaircraft, above,,10 o'clock!"
* *
After
a frantl
c
. silence,
i
n
which everyone else swept
the
sky with 'WS eyes, a . sar eh•.io
voice 'would •ann.ouneea "Smi-
leyls got . oil ispeeks on his
wind screen, again."
So 1 forgive the docs, In 12
months, they couldn't prove, at
least to my satisfaction, that I
hack• TB, -•-8;u1 -they--•needed•- the -
practice, and I_ bore no ill -will.
8.
About eight years later, I had
a very sore back.. Couldhardly
d
straighten up. I •went to a spec-
ialist. He took $28 worth Of
X-rays and a ten -dollar fee,
poked Me painfully, and on the
second visit •ini£ormed tine that
I ,pad a •"severe irritation of the
lun)Jbar 'region." 'I 'was pretty
scared and asked him what it.
involved. "Tu_put it in l'ayaman's
language," he pontificated, "you
have a sore 'back."
* e
Couple of years later, I hob-
bled into another doctor's of-
fice, My knee was acting up.
A German feldwebel had tried
to kick' the kneecap off, one day
in 1944, and every so often -it
went on the Fritz. The. doc
twisted it until I screamed, told
me it was very painful, and sent
me to a specialist. He took X-
rays, wretched it until I. was,
bathed LL=in---sweat,. and told-- me
I had a bad knee and should
be careful with it.
* * *
Recently. I went to the veter-
ans' hospital, for my regular
c h e eherck.up. 'Ile doc
couldn't find the scar on emy
X-ray, and had to ask me which
lung it had been. I didn't know,
The other day, 1 went to an
eye specialist. 1 can see fine,
but my wife `thought '1 should
go. 1 haven't had my eyes
checked since another eye spec-
s'ta.11st,:.L5 _yearaago. Erescribect.
the glasses 1 wear for,oreading.
* * , t
Wellthl. 's
o
un fellow the
3''. g
ether day, who can give you an.
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