The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-05
EDISON WINS flGHF FOR HIS GOOD NAME
HEAFY WEIGHT OF SORROW SUFFERED FOR TWO FEARS.

Caused by His Son and Namesal1e for
 Paltry Weekly stipend-His Name Used to Put Useless Article on the nIarket-Large Profit Made by the schemcrs-son Repentant. Washington, Oct 4-Acting Postmas- i ter General R. J. Wynte to-day issued ! . fraud order against the Thomas A. Edison, Jr., Chemical company, it's off, cers and agents as such, and Thomas ] 4. Edison, jr. The address of the com pany is 14-16 Stone street, New York, and it is charged with obtaining money i through the mails by false and fraudu- lent pretenses.
 l The magno-electric vitalizer,' an al- leged invention of Thomas A. Edison, jr., is the article the company is engag- ed in exploiting.
 l Assistant Attorney General Goodwin, in the opinion recommending the fraud order, says: Tt appears that the arti- cle which the company is endeavorlng to sell to the public is imperative; that all matters of opinion relative to it's Icurative power for diseases, and other matters of opinion, are made dishon- estly, and with intent to deceive, and that false and fraudulent representa- tions are made regarding foreign pa tents. the inventive genius of Edison, tjr., his inyentlng this vitalizer, the per sonal attention alleged to be given to the treatment by Edison, jr., the lab loratory of Edison, jr., and his motives l in offering this article for sale' Another feature in the case was the fac-simile of the signature of Thomas Alva Edison, ST.. used by the company for considerable time, but afterward discontinued, It appears from the evil dence that the company initiated the Signature of Edison, ST. Tn his opinion Assistant Attorney General Goodwin says: The company throughout its literature expressly and impliedly seeks to convey to the public the impression that Edison, jr., is a man of inventive genius as great as that of his father. For instance, the following was written by Manager Sparks:
 Never has the truth of the law of heredity been so well illustrated as it has in the Edisons-father and son. It was disclosed Edison, jr., was not the inventor; that under the agreement he had with the company he never receiv- ed over $35 a week, while the company sold thousands of the vitaIizers at $S per set at d large profit.p
 Thomas A. Edison. the veteran and brilliant inventor. after bearing for aI- most two years a heavy weight of sor- l row because his son and namesake for a paltry weekly stipend plunged the family name into disreputable associ- ation, put all the energy of his declin- ing years Into the fight which came to
 a successful termination to-day The son, repentant and broken in health, is even now with the battle won, under the watehful eye of a nurse
 at Greenwood Lake lest Tn his present
 nervous condition he might unwittingly
 yield to the persuasion of over smooth
 tongued men.
 Reconciliation is at hand between fa-
 ther and son. The one is willing to
 forgive and forget; the other wants
 another chance.
 i According to Thomas A. Edson, jr., l Franklin Everhart and ". Newton Bennington were the men who took his fathers signature for their company's s trade mark and developed the electrical cure for all diseases. of which, he says,
 he knows nothing.
 1 To his father Thomas A. Edison, jr., made this confession:
 1T was stockhoIder in the company bearing my name, but in August, 1903, after having received only $S5 a week l for clerical work in the office, dropped
 1t and never went back again. These ] yitalizers were made by the wholesale at Cambridgeport, Mass. I never saw any of the company's letters until I 1 signed an affidavit on August 27, 1904. All statements which have been attrib-
 uted to me in the company's literature
 are false. I never gave an interview
 to anybody. was misled by one nam
 ed Newton Bennington, and year ago realized that was being imposed upon. l On several occasions protested the mention of tMr Edison in the compa- nys literature and the use of your sig nature, which was taken from a phono- graph.
 Tt is hard for me to realize now how l I could have been so weak as to yield to the persuasion of these men who
 have been trading on our family name
 and your reputation"