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HARBORD ATTRACTS LARGS WASHINGTON AUDIENCE
The starving, ill-clothed inventor of a half century ago has been replaced by a well-paid laboratory director or chief engineer, provided with all necessary and available equipment, Gen. Janies G. Harbord, Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America, declared in an address on "Radio’s Place in World Communications” before the Washington Board of Trade on Oct. 7th.
General Harbord proved a big drawing card and brought out one of the largest audiences that has ever attended a meeting of the Board.
The General was further honored by the attendance of Maj. Gen. C. McK. Saltzman, Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, Maj. Gen. George S. Gibbs, Chief of the Army Signal Corps,
Capt. S. C. Hooper, Director of Naval Communications and other high officials.
"The recognition of genius, once left to chance, is left to chance no more", General Harbord said. "Research and science have been organized. Corporations today have reduced the risk of failure on the part of brilliant inventors, many of whom in days now happily gone by failed for no other reason than lack of encourage¬ ment and enforced playing of a lone hand.
Sees Genius Rewarded.
"The inventor who has made a real invention starves in his garret no longer. He sits now in honor at the council table. New ideas from any responsible source are passed upon by trained minds and the half conclusive invention of one is fitted into the incomplete pattern of another with ample reward for both and result¬ ing benefit to the public."
Discussing the patent situation, General Harbord said that many radio patents are not now in commercial use, some have been rendered obsolete by subsequent inventions. There has been no let¬ up in inventions, however, despite the status of radio, he added.
Turning to television, he predicted that ultimately it will "regularly serve mankind. Some day it will be a boon to the traveller on the sea quite as much as to those on shore. Some day, too, the voyager upon the ocean will doubtless be able to write letters and memoranda which will be transmitted in facsimile, instantaneously as written, to an address he may designate on a distant shore. Today, an attempt to market television apparatus would destroy public confidence and retard its actual usefulness."
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