Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1931 — Page 6

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EDISON DIDN'T GET 'JUSTICE' ON INVENTIONS Others Amassed Fortunes From Creations of the ‘Wizard.’ Thi* it the last of twelve exelnxive atorle* on Thoma* A. Edison hv Major William Joseph Hammer. BY WILLIS J. BALLINGER A* Told by Edison’s Eifelong Friend. William Joseph Hammer. (Convrieht. 1931. NEA Service .Inc.i Although Thomas Alva Edison amassed millions through inventions, his fortune was comparatively small when you consider the vast wealth that his genius created. Edison, of all men, did the most to create the age of giant industry and gargantuan finance, but while some of the money he received from the sale of his great inventions unquestionably was large, it was insignificant in comparison with the true value of his ideas—a value that was reaped in only a few years by others more skilled in the art of successful marketing. An editorial in a prominent New York newspaper in 1923 estimated that the commercial value of Edison’s inventions was more than $15,000,000,000. Value Was Enormous The computation was as follows: Movins pictures. 11,2.19,0(10,000. Telephones, $1,000,000,000. Electric railways. $6,500,000,000. Electric lijhtinc and power. $5,000,000,0000. Electric supplies. 58.VJ.000.000. Fixtures. $37,0000,00000. Phonographs. $105,000,000. Electric carp shops, $109,000,000. Dynamos and motors, $100,000,000. Edison storage batteries. $5,000,000. Cement, $271,502,909. Tejegraph. $.350,000,000. Wireless telegraph. $15,000,000. The fact is that Edison long ago lost control of the real moneymaking . powers of his inventions. But then, money never meant much to him—except for new inventions. His wants were of the simplest. Last Spurt in W r artime The emergency of war aroused the veteran inventor to his last creative spurt. Besides solving the pressing problem of how to obtain a supply of phenol so vitally needed for aspirin, music and war shells, he contributed more than forty war devices. Here are 12: A listening device suspended over the sides of merchant vessels for detecting submarines. An oleum shell for blinding submarines. A device for detecting enemy airplanes. A system of telephonic communication for ships. The night glass. A device for reducing the pitch ol battleships. A fire extinguisher for coal hunkers. A mirror reflection system of signals. A way lo turn ships ahout quickly when j his listenere had detected the approach o; a torpedo or submarine. An underwater searchlight. A steamship decoy. A coast defense system of submarine ' buovs. Called “Closed Corporation” Naval officers, he declared, resent any interference by civilians. The system he described as a “closed corporation.” The war over, Edison had one invention problem left. This was the problem of how to extract rubber from golden rod. On this he lavished his remaining strength, but he went to his grave still somewhat baffled by it. The end of a long and useful ilfe came suddenly. Up to last summer Edison had not seemed failing. He had appeared at times not up to his usual self. Even in those days of stupor Edison, the optimist, smiled. The doctor said he did not recognize any one by those smiles. But then, you see, Edison had smiled all his life at every hard problem and even death was perhaps no more fearful to him than just another problem. THE END.

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GERMAN DEBTS BLOCK PAYMENT OF REPARATIONS Bruening to Negotiate With U. S., Britain on ShortTerm Obligations. BY HAROLD A. PETERS United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Nov. 5. Chancellor Heinrich Bruening plans indirect negotiations with the United States and Great Britain, on possible linking of commercial debts and reparations, it was understood today. The German short-term commercial debts, amounting to around $1,500,000,000 and falling due in February, are held chiefly in America and England. They are considered by many experts to be of greater immediate importance than the problem of readjusting reparations payments. The cabinet adjourned late Wednesday night without agreement

on procedure in meeting the French demands for resumption of reparations payments next June under the Young plan. It was said reliably that the government intends to call upon the advisory committee of the Bank of International Settlements to study Germany’s ability to pay reparations only after an understanding has been reached through “an exhaustive survey of the German economic condition.” This was taken to mean that the short-term debts, now frozen, will be considered by Germany as closely involved with reparations. The fact that Bruening left the cabinet meeting to participate in a caucus of his center party was believed to indicate that he plans to postpone temporarily negotia-

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tlons on reparations until it Is determined whether the aid of Germany's private creditors can be enlisted. The /ull report from Von Hoesch on the plans of Premier Pierre Laval of France, for negotiations to adjust reparations under the Young j plan, appeared to lessen the excitement first aroused by the clash of the German desire for an entirely new reparations plan with the French demand for protection of the Young instrument. The ambassador’s statement that ! France desires an understanding on reparations before Feb. 1, when the ! short term credits fall due, caused pessimism, however. It was believed such an attitude was designed to frustrate the necessary short term debt agreement.

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