Edison on Money.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4424, 15 June 1909, Page 3

Edison on Money.

The editor of the “ American Magazine ” went to Orange, N.J., the other day to visit Thomas Alva Edison, and found the inventor busy as a nailer. There bad been a report in the press that Edison ” had retired ” with a moderate fortune after forty years hard work, and intended to have some fun. Yet here he was working in the same old way. But'he explained :

“ I’ve retired,” he said, “ from money making. That’s what I’ve been trying to escape from. Now I’m free, and I’m going to have some fun. Money has got me into all the trouble I’ve ever had

“ If you want lies and entanglements and trouble, just go in for moncymaking. If you want to meet rascals and have friends tut n out bad, get into business.

“ No, I don’t like ihe crowd or the game, I don’t see how any man can go in for money-making as a real business in life. It would kill me.

“ I don't need much of anything personally, but I’ve had to have a lot of money for my work. It’s come somehow and now I’ve got all I ne :d and all I want —aud I’ve r tired.” “ And you’re having fun ?”

“ Yes, I’m having the fun of my life—steering clear of everything that has any money-making connected with it. “ I’m trying some chemical experiments. For years I’ve been making notes—l’ve got a lot of books up> there filled with suggestions which I’ve been planning to work out as soon as I get the time.

“ Now I’m going at them—not to make money, but just to find out things. I'm going to put a lot of things together and take them apart and see what the result is. That’s the greatest fun in the world.”