[N25abg] I would rather choose to be a plumber

Sun May 14 16:03:09 UTC 2023

Great story Harold!

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> On May 13, 2023, at 2:57 PM, HAROLD CLEMENTS <haroldclements at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> In the room next to mine, in Aruba, is the former head of a plumbers union in Massachusetts. He loved the article.😁
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 12, 2023, at 11:31 PM, Odey Raviv <dr.odeyraviv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> That’s very interesting indeed.
>> 
>> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 5:08 PM HAROLD CLEMENTS <haroldclements at mac.com <mailto:haroldclements at mac.com>> wrote:
>>> Aaand best ever.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>>> From: Letters of Note <lettersofnote at substack.com <mailto:lettersofnote at substack.com>>
>>>> Date: May 12, 2023 at 2:14:22 PM AST
>>>> To: haroldclements at mac.com <mailto:haroldclements at mac.com>
>>>> Subject: I would rather choose to be a plumber
>>>> Reply-To: Letters of Note <reply+1yw1sh&cjpip&&7852d3d04590a7a411e73e50c8d4d7df5349c3e1cd208e57639bed71a3f41321 at mg1.substack.com <mailto:reply%2B1yw1sh%26cjpip%26%267852d3d04590a7a411e73e50c8d4d7df5349c3e1cd208e57639bed71a3f41321 at mg1.substack.com>>
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>>>> SHARE <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=57577&post_id=119068433&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTA3NDkyOSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTE5MDY4NDMzLCJpYXQiOjE2ODM5MTUyNTAsImV4cCI6MTY4NjUwNzI1MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTU3NTc3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.WGRAPmu5oidqyW6kdynin3Cn_RaXMpUMud7oywMF3gA>
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>>>>  <https://substack.com/redirect/9c3add8d-77ed-409b-92b8-64d60952ce7d?j=eyJ1IjoiY2pwaXAifQ._1QBv3Tg0Y4OxSWnEW0_SB0JSb7TeODIWTTN-CgHuAg>	Einstein 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 <https://substack.com/redirect/46a9dc1e-6305-4e92-9213-21cddab2e0a7?j=eyJ1IjoiY2pwaXAifQ._1QBv3Tg0Y4OxSWnEW0_SB0JSb7TeODIWTTN-CgHuAg>. 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
>>>> 
>>>>  <https://substack.com/redirect/db5e1ea1-6fb5-46ba-945e-054c67aed68c?j=eyJ1IjoiY2pwaXAifQ._1QBv3Tg0Y4OxSWnEW0_SB0JSb7TeODIWTTN-CgHuAg>	The 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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