Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-10
Mr. Edison WARNS
BUSINESS MEN 10
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strmeassm Pr0hlems
ON the eve of leaving for midwin-
ter vacation on bis plantation at Fort
aver. Fla Thomas A. Edison chatted
with reporters a. his laboratory IN
Orange. II. j The inventor will be-
seyenfy-tWo years old tomorrow
it am feeling great, Mr. Edison re-
piled to 4 question about hts health
81 have always taken pretty good care
of myself and. judged by my ancestors
am really only middle aged man
now. NY greatgrandfa.her lived 70 be
l04, my grandfather was 1O2 when he
died and my father reached "a
Nj. Edison then made rapid calcu-
latlon and said. n see their three ages
totalled 800 years, and then, with
twinkle hope ID maintain this cen
fury average =
When asked about the problems of
reconstruction. Mr. Edison said he
first thing to do Is to find Jobs for all
the fighters and workers who helped
to win the war
This Will be easy enough, II pub
liz officials everywhere will resume
making permanent improvements and
business men 90 ahead promptly
about their respective businesses. The
buying public Is hungry for goods Of
all kinds. / no.ice that Shedd, Of Mar
shall Field e Co. says that December
and January. were the two biggest
months In the history Of the retail dry
goods business The purchasing power
of the people IL enormous and they
have absolute faith Al the future The
only danger is the business man who
thinks he is longheaded and hangs
back when he ought to 20 ahead There.
Ii such 3 thing as being too shrewd
and too close q bargainer =
In Wall street the man who tries
TO buy at the lowest point and sell at
he highest usually gets left Tt Il the
same way In business Readjustments
lii prices are already in progress, but
the man who lets his business run
down at the heel waiting for prices to.
reach their lowest level is likely 20
lose great deal more than he gains,
and even III he should happen to strike
ii lucky and make little higher profit
Uncle Sam will take part Of the extra
profit ID taxes, SO that the percentage
is pretty heavy against the business
man who lets his business stagnate IN
order to gamble on lower prices.
# believe IN business prudence, but
right now think the most prudent
thing business man can do is to go
ahead. He should not be afraid To go
after orders and buy the materials that
he needs to fill them
When questioned Iii regard to his
own business interests, Mr. Edison
smiIingiy answers We are behind
on our orders III most lines and doing
our best To catch up should not be-
going away to Florida II my industries
we're not in shipshape condition Ny
son Charles managed the business dur
ing the two years was engaged on
war work and when got hack was
had handled things have gradually
very much pleased to see how well he
developed an organization which re-
lieyes me from the details Of business,
but. Or course, I keep III general touch
with conditions
Occasionally | have to scold the
boys for being little slow or some
thing like that, he added You know
We are used to working here at high
pressure. It's the only way to work,
and everybody likes ii.
Il also have good bunch Of men
IN the experimental laboratories who
are wide awake to the needs of our
various industries. feel that am
now going to be free 10 devote most Of
my time to special research work. and
when SCI back from Florida ! intend
to take up some work which / have
long desired to do Ny ambition Is To
lay out line Of work that will keep
my laboratories busy for the next hun
dred years.
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