THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11, 1921.
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Thomas A. Edison, 74 Today,
As Robust As Man Of Forty
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ued from Page 1)
-'fTTfrom the back of a cat are the
tt rious element called: electricity,
t of' late had been conjured to
hlCf0r tans over wire to great dis-
he learned all "he could about
tjnces.
he
strun
e up a stove-pipe wire and
1 theu"out actually with vigorously-
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The cats failed, but not
hhPd cats, tm caw j
' ,hout thorougn tesung. -u
failures he counts as gains. Of
ou'ccess he is suspicious. He says
s3r i . never was so taken back in his
lha . when his first model of the
life ranh at tne first trial, squeaked
Ph, ,t him "Mary Had a Ldttle Lamb."
c Ird many accepted tneones as , 10
disc:
u tipw one. i was aiways aircuu
eVOuL,V that worked the first time,
of i"" ivi,on hA had made more than
IIP Hi, .-. ilia otAiacrn Vo
1 000 expenmtnis
tery viuiu . .. friend: "No re-
man T'vp cotten a. lot of
i. I' Vp found several thousand
?uluh!,t won't work." ' - :
if 3for lie by's regular schooling
V tho less paid thebetter express-
About five weeks was the limit.
? teacher frankly, said he was "ad-
m " Anyway, as a roy he was "a
onj ho ca.n't denv it. famous.
tal!Lfiii ann circumspect as he has
wnnie Fortunately, his mother had
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' ...oniiont ephnnl teacher herself
been an e narr Th hlwh
. . i i. . KViinrl Hot- HotVi TVinrv-vif a
crick tnai nui.e ""V"
and
Was Kept ven puiioxitu uj uhtulcu
u:n!niTs. His iatner, on tne otner
hand worked a system of awards for
rood conauui ""- " "
u t.:-n until hp riptrnn to nnir the
I i n ! i t j- . . ' j
n Mim fnr ovprv nonir n f rpan
boy a smai. ou... w. . .-.
upon
whatf When it comes to that ArV
Edison . would, like . to - know- what has
become of the studious fellows who
aiways stood at the heads of thMr
classes and promised most masterful
achievement when they should get a
liancy seems all to go off like a; svv.1 hls gams and energies went into his
the unknown but unerrng magnet at
tracts to itself congenial metals. In. a
corner of the home cellar was . his "lab
oratory." To this retreat he carried ev
erything that, promised; possible use--iron
and' brass scraps, wires, tools,
retorts, chemicals and "books to -the
limit of the varied acquisitive powers
which was far, beyond the limit of
others' patience .. C V . ' .
: . He became newsboy on - a tran be
tween his home, town, Port Huron,
and Detroit, in order to read the,
current books" and magazines he - ped-.
died, to earn, money to buy scientific,
.works and mechanical and chemical
materials, and to have seven -hours a
day m the Detroit pubic library. . All
soundly that ; hei has ever : since ' been
deaf. - ' -:" ' . '. - -
The cats had ' failed' the ' young in
ventor, but ; not so his purpose. There
were further studies and experiments
until home-made ' crude batteries , '. vi
talized that i old line of - stove-pipe wire.
This seems ' simple enough - today,- with
all the vast and readily accessiblue
knowledge of the subject and the in
finite " variety- of apparatus to " be
bought ready-made; but when Edison
was born, . in 1847, . telegraphy was
only a dozen years old, its furthest
reach west was to Pittsburgh, and
technical understanding or It was
meagre and hard to get. Generally
considered, telegraphic communication
across this - continent : was as - deranged
ages, has put more light and warmth
into the sluma of the world's cities
than had all the pietistic charities of
the. centuries, and to the query to Job.
"Canst thou send forth lightnings that
they may -go and say unto thee, "Here
we are?' " . flashes across the plains,
over the mountains, under the seas and
through theL throbbing hearts of teem
ing:, cities, around the earth, as quick
almost as thought, the' triumphant. -an-swer,
"Ye!" . ::-
Now will the preachers take . their
place beside the explaining educators
and doctors arid deal with this univer
sal paradox? -
The difficulties of his youth had of
TICK ERADICATION
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question, which carried. Durins the
parliamentary- wrangle whicn succeed
ed v this, another motion; to adjourn
came and this ..was aso voted down;
The amendment .. raising 'the exemp-.
tion from $25 proposed : in the ' bill to
$100-was offered and passed, and a roll
call vote ' on. the- minority report , show
ed. .24 for. the measure and 16 agains.
it. ; - Objection was . immediately ; raised
to,, third ' reading of the ,:measure, and
Sumner Burgwyn charged - that vparlia-
mentary tactics were being used to de
rocket in the commenoempnt thRia laboratory, where he studied and tin-"; a dream as is today communication
ana oniy a stick lands somewhere si
lently. . ; ;
The Edison rule is the . exact rcvprsB
or that of common education. He ac
kered late into the nights
Then, as now, he took : no 7 accdmt
of time. He never carried1 a watch;
his task was his clock - then as it 5 is
m 1 1 1 S . 1 lln.
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ntolPfl ?i Sf V?,trUe untl1 tf88114 day and night were as one, and
EoJ03 senses. ,,The schools through his electric light he since
""' "1 "ie wisaom or me has made them so to the world. He has
w nut tin wiauum ne
delves into the undreamed mysteries
of the future and the undiscovered
forces. Learned lumber fixes limita
tions. In the biography of Edison,
written by William H. Meadowcroft,
nis secretary, which is a work of Ju
nius commemorating genius, it. is re
lated that one of the most learned
worked intensively close , to a hundred
hours at a stretch, and still, at : sev
enty-four years of age, it is no uncom
mon custom for , him, when awaiting
results of an : experiment to snatch
what i. few hours sleep . he needs
stretched out on a comfortable 1 pile of
iron pipes, a table or a luxurious can
vas cot. "A s6ft bed spoils a man," he
artfinaHsta TVH
roTr-rf-vr:- il K?yZw The famous stock room at Menlo
trXn V nMtrL o"T c"n""Park is as like that incipient labora
ir"J,0LmetiC0le' ?A a" f"i". tory as an enormous pea is like a lit-
?XA,V r'T"-. ?"u?-f?2?':H tie one. Edison does not .know yet
U, i what he may want at any moment, and
them worked.
then It couium, uuj H'v't'"."
uarned to sense a line at a glance? and
wad three books a night without miss
ins any meaning, and he so reads still.
Only five weeks of schooling and- alt
wavs at the foot of his class; but to
dav the greatest experimenter inven
tor the world has ever known! It rath
er upsets our fond notions of the
iih value of common education
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Though the boy disgraced the foot of
his class for his five weeks in school,
his eagerness for knowledge was lit
erally insatiable. - Before he was' 12
he had read all of , Gibbon's "Decline
of the Roman Empire," Hume's "His
tory of England," Burton's "Anatomv
of Melancholy" and the "Dictionary of
sciences." lietting hold of Parker's
"Physics," he tried every experiment
in it that hehad not tried already.
At last, attaining access to a public
library,, he started in at one end of the
shelves to read every book, . one next'
another, and had read through sev
eral shelves when he balked at Naw
ton's "Principia." Today, as then, he
detests and avoids mathematics, except
such as he can "do in his head."
"Many ' of your problems must call
for most complex mathematics; how
do you work them out?" - "
"Oh, I always know plenty of math
ematicians I can hire," he said, "but
I never knew a mathematician who
could hire me." , '
Will the educators come forward
,'so he aims, 'as he'-., says, "to have
on .hand some quantity of every
known .substance: not;, easily, perishable,
with the ; most ' complete assortment of
chemicals and drugs ; that experience
and knowledge can suggest. ' Only to
day it is generally classified, and then
it was not; today it ; has world rever
ence as the supply store of genius, but
then ; ltv-was detested as the idiwsyn
cracy, of - a - brain -cracked pest and as
a dangerous nuisance. A barn had
been burned by one of his experiments
and he had , been publicly whipped for
it . in . the town square. . His cellar had
been ' befouled beyond the1 endurance
even of . his adoring mother. With
his ever accumulating heap ofmechani
caljunk stinking chemicals and dead
ly explosives, he was bundled out of
one , retreat .after another - until, find
irjg himself so constantly on. the move
anyway, he put his precious laboratory
aboard the baggage car in which he
had his "butch" headquarters and
there "moved, to the music of the
spheres" for some happy, months, un
til on a luckless day 'a stick of his
phosphorous set the car afire. The
and explain this reversal of theh prin-. angrjr, conductor kicked off the lad and;
CiDleS? " ? " '' . J iiiai whnli .hn,fltv anl ;hnTl . hla ' oara'.'an'
ciples
From earliest boyhood he instinctive-!
ly gathered unto himself knowledge I Grocers have "Jack Frost" Salt,
and materals for the experiments, as is clean and pure.
It
with Mars. Powerful generators re
duced resistance and delicate instru
ments were 'unknown and- undreamed
of . The sounder in use was complica
ted, clumsy .iand weighed 75 pounds
at the day when the . Edison lad took
to , the ' station where he was starting.
in to . learn telegraphy, his own
sounder made of wire, so small .that
he could cover it- with his hand' and
so good that deaf as he was, he , could
hear it clearly.:
From a slim, puny child, with big
overbalancing head that was thought
to . be unsound, ne grew by taking no
care of himself at all into a robust
figure or five feet, nine, of 175 pounds
weight,-1 which has not fluctuated two
pounds either way in fifty years. "If
I see I'm losing weight, I eat more,"
he says. "If I'm overweight, I eat
Jess. I. never eat much at most. Peo
ple - eat : too ' much,", V - . ' ;- v :
VWhat is yourf :orite food?"
"Pie pie and coffee. : Meat makes
me dull. When I want imagination I
eat pie." . ' " ' ,:"'. "
His great-grandfather lived to one
hundred and two, his grandfather to
one ' hundred- and three, -and he .prom
ises to raise the . record. . In ; contemp
tuous defiance and constant violation of
supposed immutable laws of nature re
garding eating ana sleeping, he has
kept perfect health and worked eigh
teen to twenty hours a day at white
heat for half a century, and is doing
it still, with, no's indication : of diminish
ed powers.
Will the doctors step into line with
the explaining educators?
, Jlf the boy ever saw the inside of , a
Sunday school, it made so little impres
sion on him that he does not remem
ber it. As a man he has not done his
worshipping in - church. , Devotedly
questing into the natural laws of the
material world, he has pinned his faith
to their proved responses and denies
existence of soul or life apart frm ma
terial element while religions based on
belief in a disembodied hereafter he re
jects as bosh. Yet, through his multi
form idevices -for-: the, dissemination : of .
intelligence, man has learned more of
his brother man in five decades, than
he had learned through theology in five
j-m 4- n ww am nia' 4-1 ji . V sv' vn A'triMitrf '
JhtJl en tteT- serer aH
did not think it-entirely.: in order for
the - gentleman from Northampton . to
make such a point.. -' Burgwyn denied
spiriting challenges to him. He , has
met them with defiance and swift, sure
counter-stroke. Privation he has - fol
lowed mockingly at her heels, master
ing her)- tricks of thralldom that " he
might set millions free from them. Hard
disappointments he has hammered in
to a shield against repeated errors.: Dis
couragement he . has ... always laughed
out. of countenance. Even the disas
ter - of ; deafness he has turned into" a
blessing to himself a help rather than
a hindrance, he declares and certainly
devolving upqn mankind a marvelous
endowment. For, defying the fate
that deafened him ana determined to
hear; in spite of it, he has caused the
once-feeble telephone not only to artic
ulate, distinctly but, through his. elec
tromotograph attachment, to shout, to
be audible at a thousand feet. As if
humbled fate had not yet made enough
amends, he has produced, the micro
phone that makes the footsteps of a
housefly stamp as loudly as a. mans
booted heel. And for such ears as
may be held in bondage still, -he "has
transformed the tap-tap of the telegraph
into printed dots and dashes, then into
printed words and then into photo
graphs. : . ,
that- he had ever ' tried to defeat a
measure through indirect methods.
All of this time . Minority Leader
Bumgarner had been on his feet try
ing to get' the "ear" of 'the chair for
thev purpose . of asking that .a, certain
bill be withdrawn from, the : committee,
butso many motions and suggestions
were before the senate, that he never "
didt get . the opportunity, to offer. hi3
motion. - Finally, during the' wrangle,
Carpenter moved to adjourn. Burgwyn
asked for a: roll call, but finally- with
drew .this. The ... president was unable
to decide ? the proposition and : called '
for the division himselft The -"stand-
ing vote showed 22 'for and 17 against.
The senate will have to go ' through'.',,
the whole agony again.
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