Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-20
DEPLORES
WARS APPROACH
bad Business for Country to
Garry Chip on Shoulder"
He Says on Return.

After two months of "1oafing' at
Fort Meyers, Fla, where he has a
plantation upon which he spends q
vacation with his family each win
ter, Thomas A. Edison, the electrical
wizard, is back today at his labora-
tory in West Orange and. despite his
long absence from daily toll, he set
tied down with enthusiasm and glee
to his manifold tasks of experimental
ton bright and early this morning.
Looking tie picture of robust
health, and apparently a man much
younger than his confessed sixty
seven years, Mr.. Edison arrived in
West Orange yesterday afternoon,
and was called upon by many neigh
bors who expressed their pleasure at
having him back in Llewellyn Park.
Mr.. Edison's waist lire indicated he
had grown heavier while away. He
and his sons, Charles and Theodore.
We're first to STRIVE at home, Mrs. Ed
ison ard Miss Madeleine Edison,
their daughter, having escorted Miss
Elizabeth II. Kunz, of New York, to
her home before returning to West
Orange. Miss KunZ and her father
George Fred Kunz, gem expert at
Tiffanys, were guests of the Edison
family. Mr. Edison and his sons en-
5oyed an automobile ride In the Or
anges, then met Mrs. Edison and Miss
Edison at the Market street depot
DepIores Approach of War.
1T is too bad the apology rendered
by the Mexican officer following the
error made at Tampico was not ac-
cepted,' was Mr.. Edison's comment
last night at his residence, Glen
mont. when asked about the posi-
bility of war over the refusal of
Huerta to order salute to the Amer
lean colors. TT is bad business for a
country to march around with a chip
on its shoulder, daring the other fell
low to knock it off
I'D take few insults before /
would plunge this country into war
with Mexico" was Mr.. Edison's terse
expression of his views.
The wizard also was inclined to rake
the point of view that this country
should repeal the tolls clause in the
Panama canal controversy. the
earlier administration probably made
a mistake" he said, land our word
should be considered binding-just as
good as a bond. We cannot expect
to win profit out of all bargains, and
if a mistake was made in the treaty,
let us take our medicine
Urges Municipal Experiments.
Discussing tho movement for city
commission government, Mr.. Edison
said he was quite partial to expert
ments with government in trying to
get the most suitable ideas.
where would l have been unless
l made experiments" he added with
a laugh. Look at Russia; no ex-
periments in government for three
hundred years. And just look at her.
If you put in a changed form the
courts and the public would stop the
new fellows if they tried to loot the
treasury. And they couldn't get all
the money out of the city Golfers in
one term. Socialism was preached for
city government, and they gave it a
trial in Milwaukee. 1t was thrown
out, and now you don't hear any
more about 1t. That is the only way
experiment
Mr.. Edison had a good time, he
confessed, while in the Southland.
AN hours work every day." he said,
land then some fishing. We have
twenty-seven varieties of fish and
caught some of each variety"
At first the inventor had Henry
Ford, the automobile man, and John
Burroughs, the naturalist, as guests.
They only stayed two weeks, Mr..
Ford hurrying back to supervise the
erection of home and Mr.. Burroughs
rejoining Mrs. Burroughs, who had
remained in New England.
During his absence in the South, a
new room for experiments with the
talking movies was constructed Mr.
Edison will also give a good deal OF
attention to the improvement of his
photograph and a host of other in
ventions which he is bringing to per-
| lection.