Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-14
EDISON, AT rs, ADVISES
PREPAREDNESS FOR u. S.
Likes Ford, But Not for Him
as Observation-Disclosures
Sarah Bernhard as Most
Remarkable Woman i.

, ORANGE, N. j., Feb. 1S.-"Amer.
lea should prepare for war and be
ready to give any other nation q
dose of it's own medicine and big
ger DOSE" Thomas A. Edison said
here in a birthday interview. He
is seventy-five. @
1--WE should prepare for war, but
only experimentally, he continued.
I'VE should not cease to experiment
on deadly gas. We should know how
and be prepared to make big guns
and we should be up-to-date on ev.
cry piece of human deviltry. Con-
tracts not to do this and not do that
are not safe. We should have our
experts and be prepared for war i'll
seven days time"
Americas inventive genius cele'
brated his birthday by arriving III
flower-filled library in his labora.
tory fifteen minutes late.
He smiled and remarked, glancing
at the clock:
Its 915. I'm 7double-shift man,
however, and hours mean nothing to
me-
He said he considered his friend,
Henry Ford, great man in one
sense of the word. He said he would
not vote for him for president, but
he would support him as director OF
United States manufactures, if there
were such a post.
Discussing the Muscle Shoals prof.
ect he said:
Ford can manufacture nitrate
cheaply and at profit and 1 shall
help him.
Edison said he wasn't sure about
Americas greatest man, but he
thought lot of Theodore Roosevelt.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard was his nom
ination for the worlds most remark
able woman, and he characterized
her as being "full of pepper"
He expressed himself as being OPP
posed to a soldiers bonus until
America gets on her feet.
He also is opposed to the collecs
ton of foreign loans until Europe
gets on her feet.
He considers the radio the great
est scientific advance Of the age.
with the new amplifiers we
might be able to hear ants talk some
day." he said.
Expects Fifteen Birthdays
II hope you will have several
more birthdays" said one of the
reporters as they were leaving.
II shall have Is more" said Mr..
Edison simply. He did not elabo-
rate on the process by which he ar
rived at this conclusion.
A moment before he had an
swered question as to when he in
tended to retire, with never"
Asked what he was working on
at present, Mr.. Edison said he had
several 'red-hot irons in the fire."
but that he wasn't ready to talk
about them.
He said he would give Ford his
full support if the automobile man
ufacturer obtained Muscle Shoals
from the government.
II do not think he should go into
it," he added. HE is too ambitious,
and wants to help the farmer"
But he declared he did not think
Ford would fail in his undertaking
if he obtained the plant.
The Washington conference on
armament impressed Mr.. Edison as
"good-better than nothing at ALL"
but he declared in favor Of continu-
ing naval preparations "experi-
mentally"
1--WE should experiment with the
most deadly gases and the biggest
guns" he said. mot that we will
ever make use of them, but so that
we may be prepared in case some
other nations, through rascality,
should attack us. l want all ma
tions to be prepared so that it will
be so terrible that the game is up"
Many Congratulations
The radiophone, he said, was the
greatest electrical development of
the past year, with the amplifler,
demonstrated at the burial of Ameri=
cas- Unknown Soldier at Arlington
national cemetery, as a close Sec
ond.
Receipt Of congratulations from
his family, reading of a sheaf of
kilograms of fluctuations from Pres
ident Harding, Sir Thomas Upton,
Charles M. Schwab and many others
on the passing of his 18th milestone.
and the interview with newspaper
men about ended the days celebra-
ton for Mr.. Edison.
AS the newspaper men left, he
plunged into his laboratory to work
on his red hot irons"
HENRY FORD WIRES EDISON,
1.-THE WORLD NEEDS YOU"
DETROIT, Feb. lion the oc-
casion of the seventy-fifth birthday
of Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford
sent him the following telegram:
please accept my hearty con-
gratulations on your seTenty-ffth
birthday.
cat that age most mems work is
done;
yours is just beginning. The
world needs to be shown the way
out of it's confusion and you can
greatly help"
Tonnoceoo Chootinn