The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-01

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y MEN AND CONDITIONS
! BE READY. SAYS EDISON

WE MDSI n
From Interview With Thomas Edison in
New York Herald.
Asked if he was KEEP busy as ever
these days. Thomas Edison waved his
hand to an adjoining room. Keep my
bed in there" he said. Mr.. Edison is
back at his old practice of grim labor.
n when he has to stick to a Sob all
night tumbles on the cot for snatches
of sleep.
The war" explained the inventor,
viii go along for another year IN
Europe. When you have 100, 100000 or
l40,0O0,000 Germans going. they won't
give up easily SO long as their grub
holds out"
"AiI Depends on the Germans"
Any possibility Of this country
getting in the row?"
THAT all depends on the Germans"
said Mr.. Edison. I'VE ought to pro-
test, of course, to a certain extent" he
continued. But we ought not to carry
too far our protests, SO as to snake It
impossible for Germany to comply with
our demands. When a people are fight
ing for their lives you can make dis
functions too fine"
Stay In Mexico.
How about our duty in Mexico?'
was tHe next query.
The army ought to stay there until
tney get the man we went after" was
his instant answer.
Mr.. Edison said the Americans We're
now apparently alert to the need for
Preparedness.
That is, everybody except Ford" ne
said with a laugh" He does mot want
any one to fight and wants to keep
every one rich. l don't believe he
thlnks how bad a mass of people car
get when they become dead mad. THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE AWAKE.
They Can SEE CONDITIONS WE
HAVE TO FACE. THE WORLD IS
NOT IN NORMAL CONDITION. If
MEN WE'RE NORMAL WE WOULD
NEED NO PREPAREDNESS, BUT
WE MUST BE PREPARED TO MEET
CONDITIONS THAT NOW EXIST,
WITH WITH MEN ABNORMAL, AND CON
SE9UENTLY UNABLE TO THINK
STRAIGHT. NO ONE IS SAFE TO-
DAY. Why, we see it every day, dur
ing a strike, for instance. old en-
ployes, the finest kind of men; kind
fellows and loyal, are suddenly OBJ
sessed by the mob spirit. Then they
act as II they were crazy and do things
that are simply awful. AND THAT
SEEMS TO BE THE WAY MEN Arr
THEIR NORMAL MEN
TAI APPARATUS is ENTIRELY
DISTURBED. In business affairs you
h1h W d llLdH WHO is a dead
man.; wait until tomorrow. You can
40 no business with a man who has not
a normal mentality. CONSEQUENT
LY WE NEED TO BE PREPARED
As Q CANNOT TELL WHAT MEN
OR WHAT NATION MAY BECOME
ABNORMAL"
He's a Real Man.
Switching the conversation to things
political, Mr.. Edison was asked IL he
stl!l remained a warm admirer of
Co!onel Roosevelt. He paused a sec
ond, then swung round and said quick
~: He's a real man. His report is
good and clean. There is a man with
d womaerful intelligence of our en-
and, as far as I can see, the
only man who comes right out and
speaks the truth, though in doing so
hundreds Of thousands of voters go
against him: Is there any other public
this? If so I'd like to hear his name,
ability"
How about Justice Hughes? ?" was
the next query.
Shoemaker to His Last.
better not bother with pol
1tlcs. lie ought to stay on the bench.
Ae. .ne stick to his last"
President Wilson isn't bad" said
Mr. Edison. But he's a changeable
good" ~ pie'ly
Prosperity in this country will con-
tlnue until the war ends and for ,
year in addition, in Mr.. Edison's iI,dp-
ment. Not for a time after the war
cioses does the inventor expect there
VIII pc any emigration to this country
put later more than ever will come
over TO our shores from Europe. In
inc long run Mr.. Edison could not sea
Where We will gain anything, by Ger
many, trance and England becoming
exhausted by the fighting.
The world is lopsided now. said the
inventor, "and we will have to pay for
some OF this war before we are through
II WIN be the same as If disaster visited
feel it. too" "ouA
Asked his views OF Industrial lessons
1aught America by the isolation of
League club, of New YORK; city, and IL
supplied us with necessaries. Mr.. Edi-
son SAID the United States ought to
lhahuIacture everything her natural
~sourc permit, and only buy from
oInef nations articles they beat us in.
considering quality or price.
6ht take dyes. America should
make her own not buy from Germany
Ihere are many other things
can make that are cheaper and better
IMAM we manufacture, and we can take
these products from her in eychanpa
Tor articles we make"
Corn For Ammunition.
From the Wall Street Journal
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