The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-02-25
Is Now Feeling Better
Than Ever Before.
GREATEST WORK YET TO COME
The Great Inventor Says He
Is Just in the Stage
Of Learning.
WILL GO FOR A REST SOON
The New York World says:

Maybe Thomas A. Edison could
have invented a successful way to
dodge celebrating his 5ixty-seventh
birthday with his family at hi home
in Llewellyn Park, N J., last night,
but he didn't.
He couldn't even get to his labora-
tory as early as usual. II was not
till 3 o'clock yesterday morning that
he evaded his watchful family, slip
ped out of the kitchen door and
hustled to work.
Nor had he been there long-for
him-when Mrs. Edison and her son
Charles went after him in an auto
mobile and brought him back home.
Not, however, till he had had
chance to say to newspaper report
ers in answer to a question founded
on the Osler man-is-all-in-at-for
theory:
81 am better fit mentally and phys
ically for my work to-day than ever
before. ] expect to do my greatest
work in the years to come. | am
Just in the stage of learning, and
my accomplishments will come later.
Gladstone, Bismarck and other not
ables of history became famous be-
cause of work done after they had
passed sixty.
81 am siXty-seven years old to-day
and | feel like boy. My health is
good and NY mind is Keen and my
appetite for work and accomplish
ment is keener. | expect long term
of years in my laboratory yet, work
ing out problems of science that
hope may help humanity in its strug-
giles to exist peacefully, happily and
quietly, with as little expenditure
of energy as possible"
Mr.. Edison was busy in the pho
nograph laboratory on the thi d
floor when he received reporters. He
could have been in his library read
ing several hundreds of kilograms,
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congratulation and good will that
had arrived from all parts of the
world. Mr.. Edison stopped work
long enough to answer volley of
questions.
First, he said that the greatest
achievement: for humanity during the
past year was the discovery that am
monia can be obtained economically
by passing hydrogen and nitrogen
world an inexhaustible supply OF
fertilizer at slight cost.
THE Currency bill is the most
noteworthy accomplishment in the
United States the inventor said.
President Wilson deserves a lot of
credit. He has taken a step in the
right direction. We don't want
everything controlled by few in
this country
He praised the President again
when asked obout the Mexican pol
icy. saying:
Pm a patriotic American, be-
lieve, but some of this patriotism is
false pride. think We could stand
little humiliation and save the eX-
pense of going to war. We don't
want it. and President Wilson has
shown himself a diplomat by avoid
ing II by every possible means"
Unlike John ID. Rockefeller, Mr..
Edison refused to tell young men
how they may become successful.
Instead of saying. Save your pen
MES" or something like that, he
said:
"The advice that will do the most
good begins at the mothers knee
when the young man is a child.
still remember the advice and train
ing given me by my good mother. II
recurs to me constantly and apply
it almost every day,
My greatest work this year was
the perfection of the diamond disc
monograph" Mr.. Edison said
For the rest. Mr.. Edison was look
ing plumper, more rested and more
cheerful than at any time since his
recent illness. When he sneaked out
the kitchen door in the morning he
wore an ancient overcoat. his usual
gray fedora and a pair OF low shoes
A pink carnation had been pinned in
his lapel by Miss Madeleine Edison.
When he got to his laboratory
each window was decorated with
the mineral "67."
He wanted to get back there last
night. too. But he settled back and
enjoyed himself when fourtecr-vear.
old Theodore Ediron started TO play
III new b, nografr.
The inventor will leave. he said.
on Feb. 81, for his winter home In