President Roosevelt last fortnight signed a bill awarding $592,719 to Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. A nice piece of money. But Mr. Barlow, at home in Baltimore, was still far from happy. He had won his 21-year fight to make the Government pay for an aerial bomb which he invented in 1914, and which the Army used during World War I. But he calculated that taxes would eat up 80% of his reward, lawyers' fees and other expenses would take most of the rest. Said Mr. Barlow: "This case is a perfect explanation of why inventors go nuts."
Last week Mr....
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