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more than fresbman English and a smatterzng of historyand economnics. They might,. however, -have saved themfselves, so me thinking 'if they had just held up. the * example 'of:a distinguished engineer in, thêîr midst. Thisà engineer has taken seven degreies, beginning with a B3.S., In education * in 1914 and totaling .360 cedits or the equivalent of nine. academic years. Thé otherdegrees areB., chemnical engineering, hydraul-ic engineering,'-MA., M.S4 *11Eng.D. In addition he ha wrked i a mine, riîsinrg from. oier and repair- er of mine cars and. machinery to fireman to mine engineer-in the span of tour years.. He was 16 When ie quit and went back to school. This bearer of degrees is Rob- ert V. Cook of Wilmette, and his job today is that of manager of the pomupdivisionr of IP'trbanks, 'Morse and company i Chicago. Product of Farm He was originally a farm boy in Kansas. Hits father was a Scotch- Irish mining engineer, who went to Pittsburgh, Kan., to develop four mines for the J. R. Crow Coal and Coke company of Kansas City and eventually bouglit the section of land on which these mines were located. While le operated the nydrawliv machnery, and orner .projects' irom the point of view of, a sociologist. Hie teaches. his sales engineers -to seil ideas, not pumps. But equally -unusual 2 is his' sound technical training «in both'hydraÙlic and chemnical.-engin- eering along with. inventive proclivities (he bas numerous patented inventions). At the same Three Dimensional Picture It is a fascinating equation, and an interview with Mr. Cook in his spacious office on. South Michigan avenue overlooking the tree, tops in Grant Park takes on the aspect of a. three- dimensional picture. Take th e third élement, the .Volume and diversity in thé pumping machinery business, for instance. The average, man on the 'street does not visual-ý ize a pump except on the farmi or at the summer ctae He, forgets that wherever there is water, there is a pump. He. for- gets that water is, needed by every- one eveirywhere. every'day. Think of. those pumps for those millions who want water. Ah, the Vista, the rapid calculations,. the possibilî- tiesl No need> to..gét too excited about the fortune ini pumps, though, Fairbanks-Morse flrst thought of this in 1830 and by going quietly along, designingp~ upps_ biling pupand selling them they have now become the second largest dispenser of pumps i the United States.. They make pumps-large, smil-, and in-between-for federal, stEî.~e and municipal governments h ée and everywhere abroad; puifips. for ail kinds of industries includi«g paper milis, sugar mnilis, metal and coal mines, oil fields, crea merles, rnilk plants, laundries, and so on, *cails his saying when. hé bft the farm. But sinëëce le oved to Wil- mette a few years ago, le has re- suimed cooperation with the hoe on behli of lis landscaping ideas. Miner at Age 12 Young Robert finished the local grade school ,when he was 12, and since it was difficult to get to the high school 10 miles away, he asked his father for a job in the mine.. sewage and trash, paper stock,, side suction base m'ounted, builtogether, split case, multi-stage, angle-flow, power, steam, ejector, deep well turbines,, household, approved Un- derwriters centrifugal, and many others of whfich this reporter hasn't even-heard.. Incidentally, for the sake of scat- tering grains of interesting infor- mation, it might be mentioned here that the company just sold its a, 14MmraU m ineVI versity of. Kansas. r . e wound, up at bei is beginning to emerge, it will man with both chemical and There's a Punip SchooI, Too Then there is the annual three-weeks' pump school for picked salesmen from the various brandli offices on this continent. Two employées from each office attend. There are. lectures by executives, engineers,, desîgneri, and produc-