The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-08
Element GREATER
Than ELECTRICITY
THOMAS A. EDISON TELLS OF
FORCE IN ETHER WHICH
WILL BE DISCOVERED.

New York, June S.--A force exists
in the surrounding ether as far in ad-
vance Of electricity as electricity is of
steam.
This is the bell of Thomas A. Edi-
son, and Mr.. Edison is after it.
In an interview the famous inventor
said:
Il cannot guess what this power will
be. 1t will be discovered, but it's dis
covery will be accident. There are a
number of fluctuations Of the ether
right here in this room, but what they
are we don't know. And so there is
yet to be a discovery in the domain of
motion in the ether, something that
we shall be able to carry on wires to
great distances and that perhaps will
afford US power, but I cannot guess
what it will be-"
In the meantime while this hypo-
thetical force remains undiscovered
what may we expect electricity to ac-
complish in the immediate future?
Lots of things" said Mr.. Edison, in
reply to a question along this line. 'Tt
Is the power of today and nearly
everything which requires power or
motion will soon be in the form of
electricity. 1t will entirely displace
gasoline in automobiles. In vehicuIar
transportation of the cities it will
bring about a complete revolution.
There will be a vast development in
the telephone, especially as to the vol
ume of sound and clearness Of articu-
lation. Today you cannot send over
the telephone a message which con-
tains, say a lot of Hungarian names.
The articulation ought to be better
than on the photograph, and 1t must
be made so. l believe the telephone
will eventually displace the telegraph
on railroads.
Another big advance in the cleo
tricaI field will most likely be along
the line of high efficiency in the wind
motor which will produce power for
isolated communities, and there is also
hope for the sun motor in the arid
regions.
"The motor solved the aeroplane
problem, the problem OF making the
aeroplane safe and commercial. and
progress in electricity will continue
during the next twenty-five years. The
demand for everything Is unlimited.
L
you want And in it's purpose cleo
tricity seems unlike almost everything
Disseminated"
A question was put to Mr. Edison as
to the possible use of electricity in
warfare, with the suggestion that a
European is said to have completed an
invention for projecting a ray which
will kill within q radius of many miles,
but the inventor was apparently not
inclined to discuss that phase Of it.
People Will Overthrow War.
"The war matter will be settled by
all the governments going broke equip
ping for it," he declared. There will
be popular uprisings one Of these days
against this military business"
Recently Edison took a trip through
the western country, where he was
deeply interested in the irrigation sys-
TENS which he saw. but he was SEEM
| ingly Disguised with what seemed to
him a waste of matter.
Il do not see why they go to the
trouble and expense of digging these
long costly bitches, when they could
make their water power manufacture
Electricity away up in the hills and
then take it down to the land to be
irrigated in slender pipes. The system
Of digging bitches is the brute way.
do not believe in labor aside from that
caused by mans or woman's en-
ployment. Considering the human body
as a dynamo, it takes in the supply
necessary for the discharge Of it's
functions. People do not know they
are killing themselves by overeating.
They eat because it gives them pleas
ure. Considering the human body in
the light of dynamo, if they were to
eat just enough to feed 1t properly and
keep it going, that would be all they
would need. I do not believe there is
such a thing as brain food. eat every