The Washington times., 1921-02-08
EDISON ADVOCATES ]
LESS Time IN BED
Five Hours Sleep a Night
Enough, Says Famous In J.
. ventor at Seventy-four.
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Of borrowed money to establish . cir
cult to Rochester. but had TO give It
UP because in spite of his minute ex-
plantations nobody could operate the
other end.
asked Edison what the most vital
problem the world now has to solve
Is. He said:
~Generally. labor and capital So
called"
"What has been the most important
event in your lifo?" asked.
THAT the crude model which !
thought might give a clue to the pos
sibiiity of recording and reproducing
the human voice actually worked on
the first test. Ny atsonishment was
profound"
DEFINES EDUCATION. v
what is education?- I asked him.
Edison had no regular schooling TO
speak of and has attained by methods
all his own the vast store of varied
knowledge through which he has
worked his maryels.
"The main essential Edison
| answered, sis to avesteachers who
can explain the reason for and work.
lhk VI w hh0iVby "tth ehthb
which the scholar already is familiar
| with, instead Of words of which the
sch olar does not know the meaning"
Personality he puts to the fore,
here, as in all else.
ITO hAWssteachers who can" Is
the heart 81 the answer. His own
achievements have been dependent
not only upon his own intelligence
and methods but upon apt co-opera-
ton of his associates and employees,
of whom In his various Industries
there are now about a million, many
thousands of whom are highly train
ed; and any good method Is futile
without good personality to work It.
"Right education would train chill
dren to right tendencies" Mr.. Edison
said, talking in his rapid. vigorous,
epigrammatic way, people go in the
direction in which they are inclined
They do what they want to do. They
will know what they want to know
They generally get what they want
and will become what they at bottom
want to become. For good achieve
ment and for good health too, chill
dren and lot of gfown-up people
ought to be trained to restraint in
things that are not helpful but hurt
full.
CLAIMS PEOPLE OyERDO.
People will not only do what they
like to do; they over do II 100 per
cent. Most people overeat 100 per
cent and oversleep 100 per cent, be-
cause they like n. That extra 100
per cent makes them unhealthy ana
Inefficient. Persons who sleep eight
or ten hours a night are never fully
asleep and never fully awalse-they
have only different degrees of doze
through the twenty hours. Most
people seem to think they must eat
until they are no longer hungry. Most
OF their energies are taken up in di-
gesting what they eat. I see what
people eat; and for myself, half as
much In enough.
For myself I never found need OF
more than four or Ave hours sleep in
the twenty-four. I never dream; it's
real sleep, when by chance have
taken moro, I wake dull and indolent.
we are always hearing people talk
about loss OF sleep as n calamity.
They had better call II loss OF time,
vitality and opportunities.
LAUGHS At INSOMNIA.
Just to satisfy my curiosity I have
: zone through the fles OF the British
Medical Journal and could ind not a
single case reported OF anybody ever
being hurt by loss OF sleep. Insom-
MIA In different entirely--but some
people think they haze insomnia n