The Election of Dr. Charles Franklin Kettering as President.

CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING was born near Loudonville, Ashland County, Ohio, on August 29, 1876. He is vice-president of the General Motors Corporation and general manager of its Research Laboratories Division. Many and various honors have been bestowed on Kettering, including doctor's degrees from several universities, medals, honorary memberships in technical societies, election to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur, and the Order of the Crown of Belgium. He is a director of the National Inventors Council, head of the committee appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate and report on the American patent system, a trustee of Antioch College and supporter of its researches on photosynthesis. To his co-workers in the laboratories Kettering is referred to as "the Boss," and hosts of his friends affectionately call him Ket. Although best known to the public as an inventor, Ket is most versatile. His achievements in organized industrial research and development have probably been more important to mankind than his personal inventions, even though these include among many the Delco system for the starting and ignition of automotive engines. As occasions demand he becomes a great engineer, a scientist of note, a financier, an industrialist, a public benefactor, a humorist, a lecturer and, by no means least, a philosopher. Many of his homespun philosophical sayings are not only profound but embarrassingly humbling. In the great industrial upsurge of the past half century led by science and technology, the automotive industry has been one of the main spearheads. In turn, Kettering has been one of the main spearheads of the automotive industry. He has not only been part and parcel of this great forward movement, but as much as any one now living he typifies it. One way to advance science is to use it. Ket hag spent his life using and thus helping to advance science. "Research," he has said, "is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.