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By Jack Dionne

BY JACK DIONNE

Quillen won the loud acclaim of this writer when he said: "My favorite of all foods-which I never tasted till I was 25 years old-is black eyed peas. They must be cooked with salt pork and enough water to provide lots of soup. Eaten n'ith piping hot cornbread and good butter, they provide a feast that nothing else can equal." Thus Robert Quillen qualified for this column's Hall of Fame.

General John J. Pershing was for many years credited to a large degree with the autho,rship of those now famous words of the First World War-"Lafayette, we are here." But Pershirrg, aln'ays honorable, at all times denied that he was the man. And finally rvhen the General published his memoirs in 1931. he paid tribute to the real author of the phrase, Colonel C. E.-Stanton. Up to that time, Colonel Stanton had said nothing on the subject, but '"r'hen Pershing thus pointed him out, he admitted that he was the author.

Nlost of the great inventions of the past centur tury of miracles-is the result, not of one man's genius, but of the efforts and energies of those who followed up some basic idea with a ne\\'er and better one. Sir Charles Wheatstone, for example, patented the first telegraph instrumer.rt, a crude affair with, holvever, the underlying principles in operatior.r. But Samuel Morse conceived the idea of transmitting messages over rvire by means of an electric current, and he made the first commercial application. This was follorved by the laying of the Atlantic cable. which rvas simply a farther step along rvith the same idea and principle.

The establishment and final perfection of the telephone was not the work of one man's brain. Each step tvas brought about by the conception of a new and better idea, supplant- ing and superseding the previous one. The thought of creating sound by an electric current was born in the mind of Alexander Graharn Bell. His first idea .rvas the invention of a musical telegraph. For years he studied and lvorked along this line. And the idea of conveying sound, words, was born in his intagination. It resulted in the first telephone device. But perfection came only with a succession of new ideas conceived by himself and his associates.

Transmitting messages through ether u'as an idea lr'hich brought the wireless, perfected by N{arconi. It .ivas founded upon theories rn'hich the brains of others had conceived. The idea that created the gas balloon was succeeded by the thought which resulted irr the dirigible, followed by the invention of the airplane. The first principle was worked out more than a century before by Cayley, an Englishman. It was improved upon by Langley. It was made piacticable by the Wright Rrothers in 1903, and since then there has been continual improvement through new brains and nevv ideas.

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