[N25abg] Fwd: I would rather choose to be a plumber
Odey Raviv
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Sat May 13 03:30:14 UTC 2023
That’s very interesting indeed.
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 5:08 PM HAROLD CLEMENTS <haroldclements at mac.com>
wrote:
> Aaand best ever.
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> I would rather choose to be a plumber
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> with a different kind of pipe, 1933 (Photo: Getty)
>
> Albert Einstein received an influx of mail at the end of 1954—a flurry of
> correspondence from a source you wouldn’t necessarily expect. From across
> the land came letters from plumbers.
>
> On 13th October of that year, Einstein had replied to a letter from the
> editor of *The Reporter* in which the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical
> physicist was asked to comment on the hostile treatment of intellectuals
> during the McCarthy era, about which Einstein had already been vocal
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> In his response to *The Reporter* he wrote:
>
> You have asked me what I thought about your articles concerning the
> situation of the scientists in America. Instead of trying to analyze the
> problem I may express my feeling in a short remark:
>
> If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I
> would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather
> choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree
> of independence still available under present circumstances.
>
> Very soon those words were in print, and it didn’t take long for a flush
> of plumbers¹ to begin sending letters, and on a few occasions plumbing
> tools, to the world’s most famous scientist. He was also given honorary
> membership to a plumbers’ union, who sent him a working card and addressed
> him as a “brother” in a letter welcoming him to the fold. I like to imagine
> he put the tools to good use.
>
> Below are just two of the letters he received.
> ------------------------------
>
> <https://substack.com/redirect/95cb3bbe-7908-4f87-8066-6a58fcca6157?j=eyJ1IjoiY2pwaXAifQ._1QBv3Tg0Y4OxSWnEW0_SB0JSb7TeODIWTTN-CgHuAg> The
> Albert Einstein Archives at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
>
> STANLEY PLUMBING & HEATING CO.
>
> November 11, 1954
>
> Dr. Albert Einstein
> Princeton University
> Princeton, New Jersey
>
> Dear Dr. Einstein:
>
> As a plumber I am very much interested in your comment made in the letter
> being published in the Reporter Magazine. Since my ambition has always been
> to be a scholar and yours seems to be a plumber, I suggest that as a team
> we would be tremendously successful.
>
> We can then be possessed of both knowledge and independence.
>
> I am ready to change the name of my firm to read: Einstein and Stanley
> Plumbing Co.
>
> Respectfully yours,
> R. Stanley Murray
>
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> Albert Einstein Archives at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
>
> TOLEDO PIPE THREADING MACHINE CO.
>
> Dr. Albert Einstein
> Princeton, New Jersey
>
> Dear Dr. Einstein:
>
> The Toledo Blade recently stated that you said, “If I would be a young man
> again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a
> scientist or a scholar or a teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber
> or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still
> available under present circumstances.”
>
> You have achieved leadership with outstanding success in the first three
> vocations, and the third you mentioned - a plumber - is also an honorable
> profession.
>
> Therefore, this Company, builders of fine plumbers pipe tools for over 50
> years, is indeed glad to send you with our compliments a set of genuine
> “TOLEDO” plumbers pipe tools.
>
> They are so easy to operate that we are sure you will enjoy using them on
> any little piping jobs you may have about your home.
>
> They should serve you well for many years.
>
> Yours most sincerely,
> H. A. Mikesell
> Vice President
>
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> 12, 1954 (Google News
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> Pure guesswork on the collective noun but I’m feeling confident.
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