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...group of those favoring the adoption of the metric system is wide and notable. It includes among scientists Thomas A. Edison, Luther Burbank and Glenn H. Curtiss. It includes Leonard Wood and Admiral Sims. It includes Elihu Root, John Barton Payne, Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo. It included John Hays Hammond and Samuel Vauclain. It includes Arthur Brisbane and Dr. Frank Crane, and includes General Pershing, who saw the A. E. F. acquire the use of it in France and found it both convenient and not too hard to learn. Its proponents argue for it that no country...
Recently some reporters snapped at this unhidden contempt and made a "newspaper story" of it. And as a result busy, aged Luther Burbank was last week obliged to hire seven additional secretaries to answer with natural courtesy the thousands upon thousands of letters relating to his religious views. A few days later, in a good, substantial California rainstorm, in the face of his wife's restraining pleadings, he motored from his Santa Rosa home, hitting water two feet deep, to San Francisco in order to read an exposition of his views to the congregation of the First Congregational Church...
From the platform beside Dr. James L. Gordon, pastor of the church, and Dr. Frederick W. Clampett, formerly of Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Mr. Burbank smiled benignly down at the mass of men and women before him, their warmly sympathetic faces turned towards him. As he commenced to read, his high-bridged nose took on a stern aquilinity; the lines on his forehead and about his lips grew deeper. From time to time he looked up from his manuscript and down among his audience at a person here, a person there. Over such would pass first a qualm...
...Clampett, who led the prayer service, prayed: "For the great army of scientists, God, we praise Thee. Forgive their mistakes, sanctify their efforts, crown their conquests. Greater than creed is the pureness, the kindliness, the gentleness, the sweet serenity of his [Burbank's] life and character. For his services to humanity, his great contribution to science, his great love of his fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship...
...interest and the buzzing and the clamor some Eastern lyceum bureau offered Mr. Burbank $120,000 for a year's lecturing about his agnostic [sic] views on religion. He almost snarled at the insulting proffer, "I am not in this for the money...