Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02

(From the Toledo News-Bee)
 ORANGE, N. J.. Sept Here il the wonderful war mystery. More thrilling than trench capture. More important than wheat. More roman tic than air duels. More engrossinl than these and all the rest, becaus' it is still a mystery.
 What is the mysterious. secret in vention Edison, America's wizard has perfected to destroy the U-boats This is the big question mark of tht entire world war.
 Here are the facts: Almost year ago it was widely an nounced that Americas electric gen jus had a marvellous scheme by which electric rays would set off explosives at great distance.
 Several months ago a leading mem Der of the naval consulting board o. experts announced that American in ventive genius was about to turn against Germany a mysterious de structive agent that would rid the sea of U-boats.
 July IA Edison himself, in one of his rare statements, issued to his subor dinates, said cryptically: We now have all the rebellious elements under control. 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 de vice to detect U-boats ten miles away was nearly perfected.
 A high government official said only a 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 1000 men willing to be ab- solutely locked in from the outside world, holding no communication with it for ten months. making war mun;- tions"
 Edison, white haired, had been working for months-16, IS, 20 hours a day-in a veritable frenzied debauch of sleepless nights and days, on the submarine problem before he made any headway.
 No government official will say a word
 Now-what is the conclusion?
 Was the announcement of the new rays of remarkable power somebody's dream?
 Was the naval consulting board ex- pert either liar or maniac? The board is not made up of that kind of men. Furthermore, Edison's state ment was not denied.
 Did Edison boast wildly when he said he had solved the last war pug gle? Well-you can number 100 ma gical inventions from Edison's brain Can you number one boast?
 Was the navy department talking through its hat when it said U-boats were unmasked 10 miels away?
 Is the high government official who said Edison had finished a job that would make him the worlds greatest man" crazy?
 Is the Westinghouse company turn ing itself into a prison because it be- lieves that will attract labor in these times of labor shortage?
 Why doesn't some high official put these speculations to rest by an off cial denial of them all?
 Isn't it plain that. instead of more than the facts being revealed, there exist more facts than have ever been hinted at?
 Jules Verne predicted the U-boat.
 John P. Holland built it.
 H. c. Wells in his War of the Worlds, told how the invading inhabi- tants of Mars used against the earth folk powerful light ray that burned everything in the path it swept
 Is Edison ready. through a West inghouse-made machine, to turn this light ray on, the German sharks?
 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- vanca1