America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 15 June 1915, Page 5

America

THOMAS ALVA EDISON. THE INVENTOR INTERVIEWED. “POSSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE HARDLY TOUCHED.” WAR SUFFICIENTLY HORRIBLE WITHOUT HIS DEVICES. | Units!) P»bm Abhooutioh.J ' (Received 9-45 a.m.) Xew York, June 14. Edison, the inventor, expressed the view -plijthej boundless possibilities of science as applied' 'to warfare. Far from being exhausted, chemistry and electricity had been hardly touched. He would apply himself to the problem if his country attacked, but he could see no necessity for the United States to enter the war. “They should endeavour to keep it the only bright spot on earth. The idea that they were armed for a conflict with Germany,

and that there was a possibility ol diplomatic relations being severed, had presented itself to him. but he could not conceive the 1 nited States sending untried troops to the battlefields of Europe. Surely, he asked, with submarines and poisonous gases, the war is sufficiently horrible without my devices and new instruments.

Edison, the famous inventor, whose name is a household word the world over, was horn in .Milan. Erie County, Ohio’, on February 11, 1847, being now 68 years of age. He resides in West Orange, New Jersey. He is of Dutch descent on his father’s side, and Scotch on his mother’s. He began life as a newsboy, and alter an adventurous boyhood became a telegraph operator, and had his attention turned to electrical problems. He established himself in New York in 1869, and invented an improved printing telegraph. In 1876 he set up an elaborate laboratory and factory at Menlo Pack, New Jersey, from which place he has sent out many clever and startling inventions. among which are the following: Universal stock ticker, automatic telegraph system, also systems of duplex, triplex, quadruples, sextuplex, and phonoplex telegraphic transmission, carbon transmitter used in telephones, electromotograph, phonograph, taximeter, incandescent lamp, incandescent electric lighting system, moving picture or kinematograpli, megaphone, magnetic separators, machinery for separating low-grade magnetic iron ores, poured-concreto house, alkaline storage battery, and many other inventions now universally used.

THE OCCIDENT. ROOSEVELT ON THE PEACE-AT-any-price MEN. THE U.S.A'S ABJECT FAILURE. (Received 11.5 a.m.) New York, .lime 1-1. Mr Roosevelt, in a letter to the National Security League Conference, said: “Professional peace-at-any-price men who applauded the United States in its abject failure to live up to the Hague Convention obligations are the most undesirable citizens the country contains. The advocates of Pacificism were preaching potroonery, and such men were ..endeavouring to make America the China' of the Occident.