The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14

action the established churches would take should that success determine-as he him. self has expressed it-either that spirit communication is possible and can be sys- Iematized scientifically or that it has never yet been actually experienced by any human being and never will be The dominant note of the assertions accredited to the greatest living inventive genius is his regarding ;hc- result of his own experiments and investi- gations definite and incontrovertible lution of life after death" problems and even to the extent of the possibility of his preparing to assert that death" is but an- other word for "annihilation' of the human being. physically. and spiritually
 Edison Is Neutral, Taking Sides
 Neither With Science Nor the Church
 It may be taken for granted that each and every word published in MT. Edison's maga- zine interview had been carefully weighed and analysed before being submitted to print to the end of there being no possible misun- derstanding of his assertion that the instru- ment he is presently engaged upon will prove that spirits can or cannot communs- importance of his undertaking one can readily realize the truth of the words of that famous British statesman, w F. Gladstone in his statement when becoming charter member of the CBritish) Psychical Research Socirty that the subject (psychical re- search) is not only important but by far the most important of any subject"
 Where the world at large Is more or less familiar with the varius phases of me diumship" as purported channels of commu- nication with the beyond" 1t is not Eener- ally known that others have preceded Edison ig attempts to devise delicately sensitive instruments calculated to serve as a means of transmission of communication with dis carnatc entities. but far without apar- ently achieving measure of success war rantins the attention or indorsement of the more eminent men who have identified themselves with the progress of spiritualistic belief On the other hand. a number oi scientists of Continental Europe have pro- fessed their opinion that an instrument dc- signed by two eminent authorities cleo tricity, liquid air and compressed gases of Holland. have satisfacto: -ly and conciuslVely proven its efficiency in a long series of slc- cessful results in its supernormal appiica- ton.
 Drs. J. L. W. P. Matla and c. T. Zaalberg Zeist the scientists referred to. haze. according to their statements published Ia volume entitled "The Mystery of Death, devoted over twenty years in experimenting what would seem to be along tle lines of Edison, in that electricity plays apparently an important part in the construction ot their instrument and it's operation Such however. can only be determined when the time comes for the latters announcing tho success or otherwise of his research work. Where the principles of the invention of the Dutch scientists are available for publication and reasoning upon one cannot. on that ac- count. anticipate decide that the essential mechanical construction of the -dynamisto- graph" as Drs- Natla and Zeist have named their contrivance. has its counterpart in the instrument that Edison at work upon.
 , Machine Invented by Dutch
 Scientists May Be Like EdisoD's , There is, at the same time, similarity in the deductions of the inventors of the "dy- namistograph" and Mir. Edison in that the | former contend that the spirit of dead human being is composed of molecules and that communication may be established where some method may be devised that will permit the gathering together of the myriads of invisible atoms and in thus hav-