LINKED SCIENCE WITH COMMERCE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 7

LINKED SCIENCE WITH COMMERCE

SIR JOHN BRUNNER'S SUCCESS.' ' Sir John Brunner, who is dead at the ago, of 77. ivas tho,Hon of a Swiss clergyman of Zurich, who was naturalised in England fifty-five years ngo., His. forefathers were burgesses of Hillock sinco . the fifteenth century. ' Sir John himself was born at Everton, Livernool (where his father, having married a Manx wife, had settled as a schoolmaster). and. becoming associated with the meat cheniist, I)r. Ludwig Mond, tho two founded at Norlhwieh, in 18i:i, the alkali works of .Brunner, Mond, .and which Jjccamo tho greatest in ■ .the world. "The firm of .Brunner, Mond and . Co. was distinguished not; alone for its capacity of output, but for the method by which tho voungci' men were trained nloner scientifio line;.'-' says the "Westminster Gazette." "The partners instituted within'their own works.a courso of. technical instruction which mado appreritioeshin conditional upon, the lads nttendine the classes and attaining n high desreo-of-efficiency. "'Every, penny [. have in the world;' lie onco asserted, 'has cmno from the application of science ':o commerce.' What, was cood for the individual, he argued, was good for the community. 'If this countrv would spend ten millions in puttinc ui> buildings and founding professorial chairs,' he said on one occasion, 'wo should! get the money back a hun- , dredfold in tho course of a generation.' In this spirit ho gave <£10,000 to Liver-, nool University, and largely endowed the local grammar school within the district of- his works."