The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-23
.ED|SON'S GREATEST
 TASK IS NEAR END
War Mystery Is the Wizards U-Boat Remedy-iIint That Invention Is Based on Discovery of Destruct-
 i've New Light Ray.
From the ToIedo News-Bee.

From the Toledo News-Bee.
 Orange, N. J.-Here is the wonder fut war mystery. More thrilling than trench capture, More impor- tant than wheat. More romantic than air duels. More expressing than these and all the rest, because it is still a mystery.
 What is the mysterious, secret in vention Edison, Americas wizard, has perfected to destroy the U-boats? This is the big question mark of the entire world war
 Here are the facts
 Almost a year ago it was widely announced that Americas electric genius had a marvellous scheme by which electric rays would set off explosives a great distance.
 Several months ago leading member of the naval consulting board of experts announced that American inventive genius was was about to turn against Germany a mysterious destructive agent that would rid the sea of U-boats.
 July If Edison himself, in one of his rare statements, issued to his subordinates, said graphically: We now have all the rebellious elements under control. Today will be re- membered as the time when we re- moved the last jinx from the re- cord"
 \ Way to Detect U-BoatS.
 July 20 the Navy Department per- mitted the announcement that a de- vice to detect U-boats ten miles away was nearly perfected.
 A high government official said only few days ago that Edison had just completed task that would make him the greatest man in the world.
 The Westinghouse Company, lead ing makers of electric appliances, is enlisting one thousand men willing to be absolutely locked in from the outside world, holding no communi- cation with it, for ten months, mak- ing war munitions"
 Edison, white haired, had been working for months, sixteen, eight cen, twenty hours a day, in a veri- table frenzied debauch of sleepless nights and days, on the submarine problem before he made his eectri- flying announcement.
 No government official will say word.
 Now What is the conclusion?
 Was the announcement of the new rays of remarkable power some bOdy's dream2
 Was the naval consulting board expert either a liar or a maniac? The board is not made up of that kind of men. Furthermore, Edisons statement was not denied.
 Did Edison boast wildly when he said he had solved the last war puzzle? Well-you can number one hundred magical inventions from EdisOns brain. Can you number one boast?
 Was the Navy Department talking thru it's hat when if said U-boats were unmasked ten miles away?
 May Re Like Welrs' Idea.
 Is the high government official who said Edison had finished a job that would make him the worlds gratest man crazy?
 Is the Westinghouse Company turning itself into a prison because il believes that will attract labor in these times of labor shortage?
 Why doesn't some high official put these speculations to rest by an of fleial denial of them all?
 Isn't it plain that, instead of more than the facts being revealed, there exist more facts than have even been hinted at?
 Jules Verne predicted the U-boat.
 John P. Holland built it.
 H. G. Wells in his War of the Worlds told how the invading in habitants of Mars used against the earth folks a powerful light ray that burned everything in the path it swept.
 Is Edison ready. thru a Nesting house made machine. to turn this light ray on the German sharks2
 The wonderful war mystery is the most gripping war thought today.
 It will be the greatest world news item tomorrow.
 Wouldn't you like to know, in ad- vance. just what is it?
 Germs are plentiful in tho sum-