Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1931 — Page 3

OCT. 19, 1931

EDISON LOSES VALIANT FIGHT AGAINST DEATH Inventor Was Ready to Die; Views on Religion Are Revealed. (Continued From Page 1) Edison would sleep for an hour or so when tired by his persistent labors. A desk and several chairs are in one end of the room. That was Edison’s own little nook, or study corner. Police Control Crowds One corner is partitioned off for an office for Charles Edison, son of the inventor, president of the Edison Laboratories The center of the room for years purposely had been left bare for reception of visitors. There Edison’s bier, banked with flowers, was placed today. Flags on buildings in the nearby communities and West brange were at half staff, while school children, Informed of the death of the man who had been a familiar figure to them all, planned to visit the bier In groups late today.

Made Valiant Fight * Death of the man whose inventions have meant so much to mankind came after a valiant fight against uremic poisoning, complicated by Bright’s disease, diabetes and ulcers of the stomach. Edison first became seriously ill In July. He had been weakened for two years by pneumonia. And last spring he spent weeks recuperating In Florida. When he returned, he was unable to continue his active interest in the laboratories. He suffered a collapse Oct. 2, and soon thereafter newspapers of America and fore' ,n countries and news association correspondents began their vigil on the Edison estate, that the world might have immediate news of the death. That came just before dawn Sunday. It was flashed to the world by means of communication, many of which Edison had helped perfect. At the bedside was every member of the family, summoned Saturday night by Dr. Hubert S. Howe, Edison’s personal physician. Edison was ready to die, Dr. Howe revealed, as the aged genius assured his family he would rather leave this world than leave his burden of age and illness for his loved ones. Dr. Howe also revealed a cryptic comment of the dying man as he once apparently roused from his fatal stupor. Edison, he said, smiled and spoke: “It is beautiful over there.” Edison often had been attacked as an atheist, or an agnostic. His religious beliefs were not confined to theological teachings, his relatives revealed with his death. The inventor believed in a “supreme intelligence,” they said, but subscribed to no “orthodox creed.” He nevtr was an atheist, they said. They referred to this quotation from Matthew xxii: “Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him<%md saying: ’Master, which is the great commandment in the law?’ Jesus said, unto him: ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and wtih all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment and the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets’.” Edison, they said, lived the life that leference suggested. It was recalled that once an interviewer asked him how he expected to spend his life after death, if any. “Experimenting,” he chuckled.

MEXICANS RETURN TO OWN COUNTRY BROKE More Than 1,500 Quit U. S., Hungry, But Glad to Be home. fiy T'liitt and firess NUEVA LAREDO, Mexico, Oct. 19 —More than 1,500 Mexicans who emigrated to the United States in search of riches, ran into the depression. and came back destitute and hungry, celebrated a joyous ,homecoming in Mexico today. One family after another, the Mexicans streamed back across the Rio Grande, many of them hungry, but all happy to get back to the country which once they left because they though they could find more opportunities elsewhere. Friends on this side of the border cared for many of the returning families Sunday night and gave them enough food to last until they reach their old homes in the interior. ROAD BUILDING URGED Congressman’s Plan Would Give Millions Jobs. Is Claim. A plan whereby 15,000 of Indianapolis' unemployed would be given jobs building roads is proposed in a copyrighted article in the November Plain Talk magazine by Congressman William P. Holaday of Illinois. Holaday asserts his $5,000,000,000 federal road att., first introduced six years ago, would provide jobs for 136.000 Hoosiers and for 5,000,000 men throughout the nation. The congressman proposes to press for early passage of his bill at the next session of congress. ARRANGE HOME-COMING Grid Game, Barbecue on Program for Indiana Central. Annual homecoming of Indiana Central college alumni will be held Saturday and Sunday. The Indiana Central-Rose Poly football game, a barbecue supper and a three-act. play, "Cracked Ice," presented by Alpha Phi Omega, dramatic fraternity, will feature the event. Hoover Calls Hoosier By Vnitvd firms SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 19. Rome C. Stephenson, president of the St. Joseph Loan and Trust Company, here, and retired president of the Amer ’an Bankers' Association, will go to Washington tonight for a conference with President Hoover. A' Lough Stephenson said he was not informed of the subject of the conference, it was believed it will concern banking and other financial r-oMems.

The Life of Thomas Alva Edison in Sketches

BY JOE KING NEA Service Staff Artist r T''HESE striking sketches depict some of the most important phases in the career of Thomas A. Edison, whose amazing achievements touch the lives of everybody every day: 1— Traits of genius were discernible even in Edison’s youth. At the age of 10 he started a chemical laboratory in the basement of his home. 2 Interested in telegraphy, he put up a telegraph line

EDISON VIEWED IN DESPAIR AT SCHOOL

One Teacher Declared He Was ‘Addled’; Always at Foot of Class. I Bp United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 19. Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, 0., Feb. 11, 1847, the son of Samuel and Nancy Edison. He was not especially brilliant in school and, in his own words, “usually was at the foot of the class.” One teacher went so 1 far as to call him “addled,” and ! after a year at school his mother ' decided to teach him at home. Asa result, before he was 12 he had been made to digests such intellectual fare as Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” Sear’s “History of the World,” “Dictionary of Sciences” and Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy.” Edison intense interest in science, however, was noticeable early. When he was 8, he discovered what propelled a locomotive. He next became fascinated by chemistry after trying an experiment described in a text book. Had Laboratory on Train He sold newspapers, peanuts and candy as a “news butcher” on the Port Huron-Detroit line to get money to buy chemicals. He set up his first laboratory in a baggage car, without asking permission, and did his experiments while on the run. He was permitted, without formal permission, to go ahead with his tests until one day a jerk of the train shook a tube of phorphorus from its rack and set the car on fire. The baggageman cuffed Edison’s eart—an act which sorAe early biographers say resulted in his partial deafness. Edison for a time went into journalism as a career. He set up a hand press in the baggage car of the Grand Trunk express and began publication of the Grand Trunk Herald. It was the only paper known to have been written and published on the train. He gave this up, however, when a passenger threw' him into the St. Clair river because of an objectionable item. Often Slept on Job Through working at night he was sleepy by day and often slept on the job on the trains. Caught napping frequently, Edison was instructed to signal the letter “a” once every hour to another station to prove he was awake. This led him to make his first invention. He devised an apparatus which automatically clicked out the letter “a” on the hour. It worked flawlessly until he was caught sleeping and dismissed. From then on through the years his inventions or improvements on inventions came with rapidity. He improved the stock exchange ticker when he noticed it one day running an hour behind, and got $40,000 for it from Marshall Lefferts, president of the Western Union. That gave him his first real start —it was on Sept. 24, 1869—and his economic security settled, he proceeded to devote his entire time to invention. He bought an old building at Menlo Park. N. J., in 1870. and de-

All Rules for Success Were Scorned by Edison By United Press WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct 19.—Thomas A. Edison, inventor, violated almost every cannon in the typical American success formula except two—he was a poor boy and he worked hard. Some of his violations of the code: He quit school as soon as possible and was at the foot of the class as long as he remained. He chewed and smoked tobacco. He was careless of his personal appearance. He was discharged frequently from various jobs. He turned his inventive talent, in his early years, to getting out of work. He scoffed at persons who insisted on getting the conventional eight hours sleep a night. Edison often neglected to buy new suits even when his clothing was threadbare, but insisted on wearing silk nightgowns and carried India silk handkerchiefs a foot square.

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veloped his laboratory that was unequaled in its day. A toy built purely to amuse his assistants led him to invent the phonograph. Chance has played a vital part in many of Edison’s great inventions. Unequaled in Day The idea of bottling electricity for illumination purposes challenged Edison. He and his workmen started out to create an electric light that would burn indefinitely within a glass bulb. On Oct. 21, 1879, after spending $40,000 and personally conducting more than 16,000 tests, Edison, almost totally discouraged, met with success. He succeeded in carbonizing a length of cotton sewing thread which, when placed in an airtight glass bulb, burned for forty hours. An argument about horses led the “wizard of Menlo Park” to invent the first successful motion picture camera. Governor Leland Stanford of California, in order to prove his contention that a running horse landed all four feet on the ground simultaneously had a photographer set up forty cameras in a row and snapped a horse in motion. He was right. Edison saw the photographs, which was more important, and decided to reproduce the human figure i n motion. He finally devised a workable machine in 1891. The outbreak of the World war stirred anew Edison’s inventive genius. Moved by patriotism, he worked more strenuously than at any time in his life. Numerous devices to aid the country in its war came trom his laboratory. He became head of the naval consulting board and directed the work of producing many new implements of war. In recent years he sought a substitute for rubber, working on it until death. Edison was married twice, his first wife dying in 1884, leaving three children, Thomas Alva Jr., William Leslie and Marion Estelle. He was married to the present Mrs. Edison, the former Miss Mila Miller, two years later. Three children resulted also from this marriage, Charles, Madeline and Theodore. Charles is acting head of the Edison plant at West Orange today. CLARK WINS ACQUITTAL Jury Holds Former U. S. Attorney Shot Two in Self-Defense. tty United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 19. David H. Clark, former deputy district attorney, whose campaign for the office of municipal judge was climaxed last May by the shooting of two men was free today, acquitted of a charge of murdering Herbert Spencer, magazine editor. Freely admitting the killing of Spencer and Charles Crawford, politician, but claiming he shot in self-defense, Clark was congratulated by the jurors, who believed his story. Women members of the panel embraced Mrs. Clark. Superior Judge Harry W. Falk, who presided at the trial, Clarks’ second on the same charge, added his congratulations with the statement that had he been hearing the case without jury, his verdict would have been the same.

from the railway station to the nearby village of Port Huron, Mich., when he was 15. 3 The speedy typewriter of today is a perfection of the machine that Edison helped build in 1871. 4ln 1877 he invented the carbon telephone transmitter, forerunner of the radio microphone. sln the same year he invented the phonograph. The first words he spoke into it were: “Mary had a little lamb.” 6 His invention cf the electric lamp in 1379 turned night into day.

His Memorial IS.'/ United Press TIFFIN, 0., Oct. 19.—1n the vaulted ceiling of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church here is a reminder of Edison's pride in the incandescent electric light. It is an ornate chandelier, resembling a huge spider. In it are sixty electric bulbs. Edison made the church a gift of the chandelier in 1885 on the church’s completion, because it was the first public edifice in Ohio lighted electrically.

YEGGS' LOOT IS S3OO Crack Safe in Offices of Eagles Lodge. Working a combination on the safe in the offices of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 43 West Vermont street, yeggmen early Sunday escaped with SSO in cash and $250 in jewelry. The thieves entered the lodge rooms by climbing a fire escape and then forcing a window. The glass in the door of the office had been removed. William Beswick, 1325 Linden street, building custodian, told police he noticed an automobile parked near the building When he closed the lodge offices at 4 Sunday morning. A safe in the office of the I. J. Case Machi-ery Company, 802 South Missouri street, was blown Saturday night. Floyd Richardson, 105 South Butler avenue, manager, told police the vault contained no money. The yeggs gained entrance by forcing a window. PARKED AUTOS LOOTED Clothing and Blankets Worth $235 Stolen From Three Cars. Loot totaling $235 in value was stolen from automobiles parked downtown Sunday night, police reports disclosed today. Pearl Ormslee of Detroit reported an overcoat, a blanket, a jacket and a suit were stolen from his car near the Sheffield Inn. He valued the merchandise at $lO5. Carl Bruner of Rushville, said thieves broke the handle on the door of his car, at Capitol avenue and North street, stealing SIOO worth of belongings in a suit case. Theft of a topcoat from his car near New York and Illinois streets, was reported by Russell Paugh of Springfield, O. 'SCREEN RIPPER’ ACTIVE Gets S2O in Two Raids ion North Side Residences. The “screen ripper” burglar renewed activities in the city over the week-end, looting two homes of S2O in cash. D. H. Lewis, 6429 Winthrop avenue, reported to police a screen in his heme was ripped Saturday night and sls taken from a purse. Miss Mayme Anderson, 2211 North Meridian street, apartment 12, reported a window screen had been slashed with a knife and $5 taken from a purse. The thief left the purse, she said. Burglars’ Toil Nets Only $5 Sawing a hole in the floor of a room over a drug store at 1550 North Illinois areet Sunday night, burglars gained entrance to the store and took $5 from the cash register. Howard Glenn, 3868 Byram avenue, manager, reported today to police.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Began Tinkering in 1864-65 While Telegrapher at Union Station. Inventive genius of Thomas A. Edison first attracted attention when he began tinkering with old telegraph instruments during his residence in Indianapolis in 1834 and 1865. He still was in his teens, but gained the title of “the boy who always is experimenting” while he was employed as operator for the Western Union Telegraph Company at the Union station. Charles E. Tweed of 904 Tecumseh place, who worked with Edison, and who probably is the only surviving telegrapher with this honor, tells how Edison “alv'ays seemed to be dreaming, and never was a very sociable workman.” ‘Teased’ for Old Instruments “He seemed to have something on nis mind, to be thinking of something all the time,” Tweed declared. Tweed, now 90, retired twenty years ago. Not satisfied with being an operator, the youthful Edison haunted the office of William Wylie Smith, telegraphy superintendent for the Belt railroad, “teasing for old telegraph instruments.” This story was told today by Miss Ida F. Richardson of 312 Burgess avenue, daughter of Foster Richardson, an executive of the railroad. City Man Was Associate It w'as Richardson who persuaded Smith that he ought to give the lad the discarded instruments, when Smith protested that “I can’t be bothered with him.” Thomas Spencer of 3523 Balsam avenue, now an employe of Prest-O-Lite Corporation, w'as associated with Edison in his early work on the incandescent lamp, considered by Edison his greatest invention. Spencer worked for the inventor from 1883 to 1890, and relates how a “short circuit once perplexed the wizard,” but not for long,, for Edison soon found that “double-pointed tacks on the electric wiring were causing the shorted circuit.

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Edison is dead. The last lines of the most colorful career in contemporary American history have been written. Today not only America, but the entire world, nays homage to this great Amercan. So much has been said and written about him that to most of us he has become somewhat of a legendary figure rather than one of our own times. The good that men do lives after them. Edison, the man of flesh and blood is dead, but Edison, the genius who brought us the wonders of electric light and recorded speech, will live forever through the children of his brain. a a a In a nation-wide hook-up Sunday night, President Hoover opened the Community Drives of hundreds of municipalities throughout the country with an earnest plea for each to put over its quota one hundred per cent. We are our brother’s keeper, and to each of us falls the responsibility to aid our unfortunate during the coming winter. We, here in Indianapolis, will launch our own drive this week and the extent of its success will be a true measure of our attitude toward our own needy and helpless. n a a No man ever died the poorer for giving to charity. Providence seems to feel a bit more kindly toward the generous of heart and purse. And life that may have grown dull and aimless takes on new zest and happiness when you have given your less fortunate brother a lift. The Chief Tife Change^, ROSE TIRE CO. Inc. 365 f. Meridian St MILLER TIRE DISTRIBUTORS

7ln 1891 he invented the forerunner of today’s motion picture machine. Only one person at a time could see into the box-like device containing pictures rapidly revolved. 8— Careless of his personal appearance, and a slave to his work, Edison spent long hours in his laboratory, often getting only four hours’ sleep. 9ln 1930, the aged inventor asked for five more years of life in order that he might complete his work in extracting rubber from the golden rod. “Give me five more years,” he said, “and the United States will have a rubber crop that can be utilized in twelve months' time.”

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BOYCOTT TO PREVENT WAR_MAY BE URGED Nicholas Murray Butler Names 13 Leaders to Study Proposal. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, has appointed a committee of thirteen nationally prominent bankers, industrialists, diplomats and others to study possible use of economic boycotts to prevent nations from going to war. The group will be known as the “committee on economic sanction.” It was selected by Butler at the invitation of the Twentieth Century Fund of New York, which will underwrite the expenses. Butler will be chairman. The committee will “undertake a scientific study of the possible use of economic pressure by the United States against a nation going to war in violation of treaty provisions, and make a report to the public suggesting specific proposals.” Princess Helene to Return By United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 19. —Princess Helene, divorced wife of King Carol, will return to Rumania next week for the celebration of Crown Prince Michael’s birthday, and remain several weeks. Action Without Harm Whenever Constipated Here’s a way to be rid of constipation and its ills—a way that works quickly, effectively, but gently. A Candy Cascaret at night—the next morning you’re feeling fine. Breath is sweetened; tongue cleared; biliousness, headaches, dizziness, gas vanish. Repeat the treatment two or three nights to get the souring waste out of your system. See how appetite and energy return; how di- | gestion improves. The action of Cascarets is sure, j complete, helpful to everyone. They are made from cascara, which doctors agree actually strengthens bowel muscles. All drug stores have tl 10c boxes.—Advertisement.

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