Evening journal., 1921-02-11
BY WHIT HADLEY.

WEST ORANGE. n. j.. Feb. ii-On
the 74th anniversary OF his birthday
today. Edison is working on an lmpor-
tant machine.
This machine Is only one Of the 50
inventions occupying the worlds
greatest inventor. But he regards
It as the greatest OF all the hundreds
Of devices small and sreat that he
has contributed TO make life more
happy g
By this immortality machine Edi-
son expects TO prove his theory that
life is eternal-that he will live for
ever
In the individual entity which the
world knows as Thomas A. Edison,
the inventor expects to live as did his
grandfather and great-grandfaiher 10
the age OF i03.
It is the one hundred trillion en-
titles that he believes make him up
that make up every man and woman
win continue 20 live on after his body
Is laid 10 rest.
Interviews peeve Edison. He says
he dislikes to talk for publication be-
cause this always multiplies his mail.
II wouldn't open the letters at all
he says, sniingly. hut there might
be checks in them"
Possibly. the real reason. however,
Is that he's sensitive about his deaf
ness. when he listens he presses his
fingers against the nerves OF his neck.
The interviewer must shout. How
ever. he hears quite well the phono-
graph ne invented.
The inventors secretary. 6. II. Mead
oworaft, stands between him and the
world. He announces visitors by sig
nal lights. In his library Edison has
a cot often ne doesn't leave his lab
oratry for DAYS at time. His meals
placed on a tray outside his door, are
frequently untouched.
The usual term death Is mis-
applied word" said Edison IN his
birthday interview. 1T Is not az AT
accurate. II by you mean that the
life which keeps man at work
ceases 10 exist. Life cannot cease "a
exist because IKE matter II Is lnde-
strucfFhle.
There has always been certain
amount of life and there always VII
he the same amount You canno
create iife: you cannot destroy life
you cannot multiply life"
Bdison expects his immortality ma
chine 10 establish his theory sclentif
icaIly.
He discredits ouiis boards. mediums
and other methods or spiritlsm.
III Is the crudeness or these meth.
DDS that makes me doubt the authen.
ticity of purporied communication
with deceased persons. he said. "Why
should personalities in another exls
tence waste their time moving (
three-cornered piece OF wood over Z
board with lettering on it9 VIII,
should such personalities tin tables
The whole business seems childish
Nevertheless. the life units whici
form a man do not die They pas
out Of one important mechanism {,
seek another habitat.
7 believe that one hundred triiliol
entities go to make up a single man
twenty billion cells each consisting q
commune Of 500 entities.
These entities OF personality
hope TO detect with my apparatus o
mechanism. Who created them o
where they 60 after they leave a give
body I do not yet know.
TO detail my theory and plan
would he futile: what the public e1
poets are results. However. the de
vice is OF The nature of a valve. an
Che slightest conceivable amount. Z
energy exerted on IL is multiple
many times
1T will enable psychic invesilgs
tors to give a scientific aspect TO ihei
work.
Next to the immortality machln
comes in Importance a radio inventio
by which Edison hopes TO make pos
sible communication with Mars
Copyright, 1921, n. f. A.