Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-27
Arthur Cotton, Mechanical
Genius, Believes "Shot'l of
Current Eventually VII!
Make Rest Obsolete in
World

NEW YORK, Oct, 26,~Whim'
Bzzz, Crkkk! It's, the last expiring
shrek Of the alarm clock before
the ash man takes it away forever.
For folks aren't going to sleep
any more and pretty soon the work.
ing mans going to find eight hours
on his hands that he won't know
what to do with. Arthur Cotton,
24-year-old English inventor, has
come over to these shores to tell
Americans SO.
"All life is electrical" he says,
land sleep is merely a time when
the body is generating new cleo
trical energies with which to carry
on it's work. Soon it will be posi-
BILE to work all day, take shot of
electricity-and go right on, just as
clipper as though you'd had a
whole night of refreshing slumber.
Beds will become obsolete"
The gloom with which bed spring
and mattress manufacturers will re-
ceive this announcement can well
be imagined. But just fancy how
the all-night cabaret keepers will
start capering!
May Revive Dancing
For Mr.. Cotton Gone would like
to call him Arthur, but it seems he
pals around with Lord Louis Mount
batten and the Prince of Wales and
so has to be treated with reSpect) is
working on his invention right now.
So certain is he of it's success that,
anticipating the time when nobody
will sleep any more, he has already
made a monograph attachment
that'll play q dance record forever
without stopping.
That, however, is only one of the
little trifles with which England's
foremost mechanical genius is cred
tied. When he was Is and
school boy at Elton he made an
attachment to his alarm clock SO
that when the clock went off it
walked him up, pulled the blind,
shut the window and stopped it.
self. AT night it pulled the shade,
lit the light, lit the fire and opened
the tea cupboard.
Then he invented a device for
dropping bombs from airplanes and
England promptly took the 16-year-
old boy from school and put him
in the service of the admiralty.
After the war he went to Cam
bridge and, none Of the professors
there being able to answer his ques-
tions, he was allowed to dispense
with the usual lectures and roamed
at will among the laboratories.
Business houses have offered him
salaries varying from $4,000 to
$150,00e year to turn his uncanny
genius to their account. But Cotton
prefers to play around with his in
ventions. OF the several hundred
contrivances which he has hit upon
he has taken the trouble to patent
only about 20.
Just at present he is engrossed
with his theory that the human
body is, nothing more nor less than
an electric motor.
eff one will look at a strong light
through a screen of dicyanin, a
very strong aniline dye" he says,
land will then lower the light and
observe any human body, the body
will be seen to be surrounded by
the same sort Of aura that comes
from magnet.
1.-THE body is continually giving
off electrical energy. AS soon as
this fact is taken into account we
will be able to dispense with sleep,
prevent disease and prolong life, all
by means of electricity
Works Both Ways
And 1t sure looks as though there
might be something in it for when
l went up to see Cotton I found
him sick in bed with thin coppery
little wires leading from the bed
post and out through the windows.
How Gomez? I said, pointing to
the wires.
"Oh," said he 'it was necessary