Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — EDISON’S VOICE IN RECORDS [ARTICLE]

EDISON’S VOICE IN RECORDS

Inventor of Phonograph, for the Flret Time, Make* Short SpeechWhleh Will Be Preserved, Thoma* A. Edison, who invented the phonograph 42 years ago, hits for the first time consented to hHv<> tits own voice recorded on a phonograph record. The reproduction, which Is on the back of a record containing the national anthems of our allies, was heard recently for the first time In the Edison laboratory at Orange. N. J. Mr.'Edison celebrated hl* 72nd birthday on February ill. The talk, which I* Mr. Edison’* first comment about the war since America entered the fight, fcrtlows: •Our boys made good in France. The word •American’ has a new meaning In Europe. Our soldiers have made It mean courage, generosity, self roatralnt and modesty. We are-proud of the North American* who risked their lives for the liberty of the world, but we must not forget, and we must not permit demagogues to belittle the part played by our gallant allies. Their casualty lists tell the story. “However proud we may be of our own achievements, let ns remember always that the war could not have been won if the Belgians. British. French and Italians had not fought like bulldogs In the face of overwhelming odds. The great war will live vividly in the minds of Americans, for the next 100 years. I hope that when we do reverence to the, memory of our brave boys who fell in France we shall not forget their brothers in arms who wore the uniforms of our allies. “I believe that the national airs of France. Great Britain. Italy and Belglum should for all time to come be as familiar to us as ,our own ‘StarBpangled Banner.”*