The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-08-30
EDISON'S TASK NEAR END
Greatest War Mystery is the Wizards
U-boat Remedy.

Here is the wonderful war mystery
More thrilling than trench capture.
More important than wheat. More
romantic than air duels. More en-
crossing than these and all the rest,
because it is still 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 year ago it was widely
spread that Americas electric genius
had marvellous scheme by which
electric rays would set off explosives
great distance.
Several months ago leading mem
Der Of the naval consulting board of
experts announced that American in
ventive genius was about to turn a
gainst Germany a mysterious des-
tructve agent that would rid the
sea of U-boats.
July IA Edison himself, in one of
his rare statements, issued to his sub
ordinates, said graphically: eve now
have all rebellious elements under con-
troll. Today will be remembered as
the time when we removed the last
jinx from the record
July 20 the Navy Department per-
mitted the announcement that a device 5
to detect U-boats ten miles away was {
nearly perfected.
A high government official said on :
ly few days ago that Edison had =
just completed task that would make
him the greatest man in the world.
The Westinghouse Company, lead o
ing makers Of electrical appliances, II
is enlisting one thousand men willing
to be absolutely locked in from the p'
outside world, holding no communca- 70
ton with it, for ten months, making OF
war munitions" OF
Edison, white haired, had been II
working for months, sixteen, eighteen is
and twentyfour hours a day, in g
veritable frenzied debauch of Sleep N
less nights and days, on the submarine os
problem before he made his electrify- 81
ing announcement m
No government official will say tn
word. tn
Now-what is the conclusion? ye
Was the naval consulting board ex- gr
pert either liar or a maniac? The ga
board is not made up of that kind of gu
Epyt he, III
ment was not denied
Did Edison boast when he said he
had solved the last war puzzle? Well
you can number one hundred magi- OF
cal inventions from Edison's brain. ne
Can you number the last one? ia
Was the Navy Department talking nd
through it's hat when it said U-boats Tn
were unmasked ten miles away? UT
Is the high government official who ca
said Edison had finished job that Tn
would make him the worlds great mi
est man" crazy? lei
Is the Westinghouse Company turn in'
ing itself into prison because it be- sii
lieves that will attract labor in these pc
times of labor shortage? ca
Why doesn't some high official put me
these specuations to rest by an Off int
,ial denial of them all OF
Isn't it plain that, instead of more enc
han the facts being revealed, there ste
Exist more facts than have even been shi
limited at? in
Jules Verne predicted the U boat wo
John p. Holland built it. TIRE
II. G. Wells in his "War of the its
Worlds" told how the invading in md
labitants of Mars used against the Gel
arth folk powerful light ray that =
'urned everything in the path it
wept.
Is Edison ready, through Westing-
ouse made machine, to turn this
ght ray on the German sharks?
The wonderful war mystery is the
nost gripping war thought of to-
ay.
1t will be the greatest world news
em tomorrow.
Wouldn't you like to know, in adj
ance, just what it is?