Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-23
LAUGHS AT STUBS
Thomas A. Edison Declares He
Will Never Cease Work.
RAILWAY MANAGERS VIEW
Advances Theory That Mans Activ.
ity Should End at Age of IS.
HIS CRITIC PLACES NO LIMIT
Says He Would Not Be Surprised if
He Lives to Be $50
Years Old.
RAILWAY MANAGERS VIEW
HIS CRITIC PLACES NO LIMIT
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, April 22.-J. Z. Stubs
| bosom friend and first lieutenant Of the
! late f.. IT, Misunderstanding grown
plethoric in riches and sparse in digestive
apparatus-annuunceS the martS of mer
! will know him no more after May 81
next, the same being the sixty fiftl
anniversary of the entrance into the world
| of Mr.. Stubs
! Thomas Ava Edison-also plethoric il
riches and of an age with Mr.. Stubs
| announces he is just beginning to buckle
! down to real work.
Says Stubbs of Chicago:
Il am going to retire because I want
to live.
thinking in bed killed Hartman. He
worked all day and thought out his
! problems at night Men should retire
| from active business life at sixty-five
| Not only for their own sake, but fol
the sake Of the institution they aim te
| help.
The age of retirement in the army is
siNty-four. l am not sure but what il
ought to be sixty.
The Edison View
| Says Edison of Orange:
"A man is just beginning to live al
| siXty-five.
Il think twice as much and work twice
as long as either Hartman did or Stubs
does. III live twice as long as Stubs.
III Hartman had lived right he
wouldn't have found it necessary to lie
awake with his troubles at night.
If Stubs retires he'll retire to a
cemetery or he'll be back in harness be-
fore the end Of two months
with my system of living | wouldn't
be surprised if l should live to be 100
years old. My system of living that en-
ables me to work twice as hard as Har-
riman or Stubs and think twice as long
is based on: % Proper eating: CD prop.
er sleeping; CD proper clothing
Total of Time Slips.
A reporter found Edison in the work
shop Of his laboratory in Orange this
morning. The time slips in the office
showed he had already worked ninety
seven hours this week ending today.
Nightfall this evening made It seventeen
hours a day for the inclusive six days
from Monday to Saturday. And forty
eight hours of the work was put in at
one stretch,
Think of that. Ye who beat the clock
to the coat closet. Seventeen hours a
day! And it was a week typical OF
scores of others put in by this sixty
four-yea r-old marvel, who resembles In
his awe-inspiring capabilities nothing SO
much one of the dynamoS over which
he fuses so fondly.
There is nothing the wizard takes SO
much silent pride in as that very ability
| for hard and continual labor.
Yes, l reckon I'm working pretty hard
STILL" he says. I've got forty expert
ments going on now and l75 men who
are depending on me for their Ideas. But
| l don't work as hard as | used to- he
| continued, a trifie apologeticalfy.
| Then it was twenty hours of an aver
age, excepting Sunday. l put in abou
sixteen hours a day In my workshop.
Could if He Would.
Not that 1 haven't got 1t in me TO d.
more" he added, quickly, "for on occa
| sions do as much as l ever did. And a,
| that 1 think twice as much and work
| twice as long as ordinary men. Let me
| see. How old was Hartman when he
died? In the neighborhood of fifty-five.
We'll, I'm no years old. I'm just twice
| as old as Hartman was. Stubs says
| thinking I'm bed killed Hartman Why
| did Hartman think in bed? Because ne
| ate too much. l eat one-fOurth as much
| as Hartman did and one-tifth as much
| as Stubs does.
II eat as much as l want but that's
very little-perhapS half a handful OF
| solids at each meal The result, that Tn
asleep thirty seconds after my head hits
the pillow. Hartman overate, and BY
Overeating poisoned his lower intestines
| He was in bed eight hours a night and
| spent four of them thinking and dream
| ing. I'm in bed six hours. and all OF il
good, solid sleep. It's enough. l never
dreamed in my life. Wouldn't know VIVA,
a dream was if it should come to me.
Hartman lower intestines were
filled with poisonous ptomaines. Moth
ling gets into my lower intestines except
debris. A bacteria would starve 10
death in my lower intestines.
There's nothing for the bacteria to
fasten themselves upon. They give UP
the job of lacking Bright's disease, dia-
betes or something else on me.