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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
To Willis J. Bsllineer

Editors Note. This is the
 eighth of 12 exclusive stories on
 Thomas A. Edison by Major
 William Joseph Hammer, his
 scientific associate and lifelong
 friend, who reveals the human
 side of the great inventor. By WILLIAM JOSEPH HAMMER Lifelong Friend and Scientific As-
 sociatc of Thomas A. Edison,
 as Told to Willis J. BaIIinger Copyright 1891, NEA Service, Incl | The American people are the worlds greatest inventors. Of the 20 greatest inventions, Americans have accounted for II. Or, to take it further, of the 40 greatest in- ventioris, Americans have produced more than 20.
 And there is no doubt that Edi- son outranks all as the worlds greatest individual inventor. Ger tainly his incandescent lamp, his photograph, his motion picture ! camera are safety lodged in the hall of fame of inventions. But even these triumphs are only a small part of the labors of his pro- I life brain.
 There are really two Edisons. l There is Edison the successful in- ventor, and there is Edison the un- successful inventor. His active | mind contemplated thousands of things; he brought to perfection only few. These few seem | amazing by numbers, when Edison is contrasted with any other in- ventor. But back of these bright success there are innumerab1e Etii. son patents that never came to anything.
 Years ago the United States commissioner of patents spoke of Edison as that young man who keeps the steps of the Patent office hot with his footsteps" | In prying into thousands of Edison blueprints the range of the mans mind seems unbelievable. To Major Hammer, who spent a life time of study on the Edison pa- tents, Edison once said:
 You are better posted on my life's work and on my inventions and patents than any of the men ever had around me-" Edison could jump from a pro- saic invention like his belt con- veyor to the realm of pure poetic fancy.
 One day he said to Hammer:
 Hammer. if I could only neu- tralize gravitation I could do a lot of interesting things
 And the great man actually cogitated seriously on such a stu pendous subject!
 Edison's agile mind perceived dimly, through the immense by- steries that surrounded it, the coming of wireless. He devised what he called his "grasshopper | telegraph" by which the top of a moving train was so arranged that message could be made to leap from it through space to the reg ular telegraph wires running be- side the track without interfering with the regular messages they carried.
 i ing message by means of the Edi- son "grasshopper telegraph" from Long Island train to his home. Upon arriving at his home in Newark theer was the message awaiting him:
 "1f I were a fugitive from jus tice, such system as this would seriously interfere with my ar engagements"
 The train from which the mes sage had been dispatched was travelling 50 miles an hour. Edison toyed with the idea of making a current jump. He be- lieved that, by coating the sails of a sailboat with tin foil, an electric spark could be made to jump miles to another vessel or to shore or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
GEORGE GRAHAM
 RICE DEFENDED
 HIMSELF IN CASE
Stock Promoter Came Out of Atlanta Prison to Do It and Did It We'll

New York, Oct. 30.-OP).-- George Graham Rice, stock pro- moter, serving a four year sentence for mail fraud. is eligible for parole to-day because he got a leave of absence, conducted his own de- fense on another charge-and won.
 A jury in federal court acquitted him last night on a charge of evasion and non-payment of in- come taxes in 1925 on an alleged income of $1,700,000.
 Rice cross examined government witnesses for hi. defense, after asking the government to pay ex- penses of 125 witnesses he wished to summon. They included James A. Reed of Missouri who defended him in the previous trial.
 At his side in the court room during the To-day trial was his 2S- year-old wife who had moved into a furnished room near Atlanta prison to visit him a few minutes each week. He is 61.
 Why am I defending myself? 9" he exclaimed in reply to a question during the trial. Because I can't afford to pay a lawyer. Lawyers would cost me thousands. and I'd get no more out of the case than can get by myself"
 Anyway" he added, tits a va cation from Atlanta"
 Rices summation Wednesday lasted more than three hours and in it he repeated his claims that the money alleged to have been his income was in reality income of companies he controlled the George Graham Rice corporation and the Wall Street Iconoclast," Wall street paper.
 The indictment did not name the companies.
 Carlton Fox. special assistant at- torney general, charged the com- panies were dummies and that Rice had appealed to the jury for sympathy. Rice had asked that fur ther prison years not be added to his term.
 Rice will return to Atlanta to serve out his sentence on the mail fraud charge in connection with sale of Idaho copper mines stock from which it is alleged to have received $17,000,00O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
Annual Report Of
 Yale Treasurer
Increase in Alumni Fund d-New Haven Benefited By
 Building Program-Decrease in Yale Securities

at $1,256.120; 40.139 shares Stand ard oil company of California with e book value of $1,485,143; and 10,554 shares United Steel corpora tion preferred worth $1,477.560.
 Continued growth and satisfac- tory operations of the university dining halls are shown in the fig ures covering the Freshman res- taurant and the Upperclassmen's cafeteria. In the latter, a total of almost 100000 meals were served during the year, on an average of 1900 a day. at an average cost of less than A cents: as compared with 203.000 meals in 1923-24. the first year of its operation, on an average of S62 meals day, at an average cost of 41 cents.
 Statistics published in regard to the work of the department of university health show a total of 1,077 medical, orthopedic and den- tai examinations for the year; and and aggregate of 30.97s consulta- tions of all kinds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
SMUGGLING OF
 ALIENS AND THE
 PRICE THEY PAY

Hartford, Conn. Oct 30. (UP)- ;ates varying between $4O0 and
 1000 a head for smuggling aliens nto the United States from. Brazil were revealed here to-day when immigration officials questioned two Portuguese arrested at Dan- bury last night.
 Jose Simoes. 21, said he paid $400 and Manuel Amadachichero, 25, said he paid $10O for being smuggled into this country aboard Brazilian coffee boat. They will be deported to their home, Miro Porto de Moz, Portugal.
 The men escaped from a room- ing house during raid here last May.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30

New Haven, Oct 30.-ln the annual report of the treasurer or Yale university for the year end ing June 30, 1881, issued to-day, the section dealing with the work of the bureau of appointment, through which scholarship aid IS granted, shows that 1,792 students or approximately one-third Of the entire number of candidates Tor degrees, were registered at the bureau during the year as being meet the expenses of continuing in need of financial assistance to their studies at Yale. This com pares with a total of 1868 thus registered the previous year.
 Awards from scholarship. fellow ship and loan funds for 193O-19Sl aggregated $6S5,545.0S, including the special gift by the Yale Alumni fund for this purpose in the emer- gency confronting the university and so by it's students.
 Firgues summarizing the work of the Yale Alumni fund for the year show that over 7200 graduates contributed to this, and made It possible for the Alumni fund to give $256,008.51 to income of the university so as to enable Yale to balance its budget and finish the year without a deficit. As a result of the help of the Alumni fund further probress has also been made by the unicversity in it's faculty retiring allowance and group fn- surance plans, the cost of which to the university was $123,630.46 in 1930-31.
 In the section dealing with Yale's building operations, where specific mention is made of 20 projects ac- tually under way during the past year, mention is also made of the immediate economic gain to New Haven through the disbursement by Yale of s13,50O,000 in 1930-31 for materials and labor. or more than $1.100.000 a month. Through It's bureau of purchases and stores, the university also placed with New Haven firms during the year to- tai of $452,214.85 in orders for ma terial and supplies of all kinds. as compared with a total of $337,234,- .36 in 1929-30. f
 Depreciation in the market prices for all securities is reflected in the figures showing the value on June 30. 1881, of Yale's holdings of bonds and stocks: the former show ing loss on that date of four per cent from cost or bunk value. and the later loss of approximately IS per cent. The average yeield for the year on Yale's investments fig stated at 4.96 per cent. compared with 5.1S per cent in 1929-30. sOf the university's investment hold ings 27 per cent are in the form of bonds, 50 per cent in stocks. and 10 per cent in real estate mort gages. Largest holdings of stocks reported as of June 30. 1881. were 9027 share American Telephone & Telegraph. then valued at s1.615.- s83; 11944 share Consolidated Gas of New York preferred. inventoried
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
SOUTH SUFFERED DROUGHT, BUT
 DIDN'T KNOW IT
Weatherman Only One That Checked l93l
 Rainfall

Memphis-The south has ex- perienced a drought this year. but only the weathermah knows it..
 Crops that withered last year because of lack of rainfall and De- cause Of blistering heat, this fall are abundant. Record yields are being harvested.
 W. s. Brist, government meteor ologist, explained the rainfall this year has been at opportune times, while last year it came in short period of time and the lack of moisture during the growing season resulted in the worst drought in the south's history.
 From Jan l, 1880, to Sept %. 1930-the drought period total definciency of rainfall was 6.0o inches. The official records here showed. that for 103 days after May 19 there was no rainfall.
 For the same period this year, Jan 1 to Sept 29, the rainfall de- ficiency has been 15.18 inches, more than twice that recorded during the drought spring and summer of 1880.
 Brist explained July is known as the most important month of the year to farmers.
 Last year in most southern states, July passed without any rain. This year there was an ex- cess of 1.19 inches during July.
 Brist said observations over the entire south and mid-south showed there had been less rain fall this year in comparison to last year.
 As a result. the crop yield this year will surpass that of the past several years.
 Cotton. still the major crop. de- spite the diversification programs r tly begun, Is above expecta- tions and farmers are now har- vesting record yields.
 The lack of rainfall. while a blessing to cotton farmers. wl,o saw in it good harvesting season. has caused complaints from truck gardeners, who say they are need ing rain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30

send two to four messages simu- taneously over single wire. (This invention saved the telegraph com panies hundreds of millions of dollars in cost of line construction alone.)
 His carbon transmitter-which today is used universally in the telephone system.
 Few people know it, but with every telephone in the world one talks into an Edison carbon trans hitter.
 When Hammer first went to work for Edison in 1879 the in- ventor was striving to perfect his loudspeaking telephone receiver that is to say, the inventor in the early days had a perfect trans hitter, but no independent receiv- CT.
 Five thousand people could hear one form of the transmitter known as the "Belcher" telephone; If used for great gatherings of people. Here was the predecessor of the modern amplifier as today used. Edison's receiver, called the "Moto- graph" was a wonderful instru- ment, but too loud and too compli- cated. It was later eliminated.
 Edison was never a good busi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
TEACHERS WERE GIVEN CHECKS
 FOR SOME WAGES
Chicago Tutors Hadn't Re-
 ceived One Cent Since Last April-Got About
 One Months Pay

Chicago, Oct 30-CUP)-Chica- go's 14,000 school teachers today received their first pay checks since last April. The payments averaged $250 each.
 Issuance of the checks marked the first step in the long struggle to solve Chicago's tax muddle. It had resulted in the teachers serving without pay and delays in payment of the city employees.
 Teachers viewed the payment of vene one months salary as a
 od-send. Many had exhausted heir last credit accounts. Many cachers in extremity had cashed n scrip offered in lieu of cash at enormous discounts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30

further to land, and he took out a patent on the idea and he proved it.
 Later he sold it to the Marconi Company.
 Or we find Edison devising way to measure heat of the stars. Or, again, so interested in poli- tics that he turns out, the first vote recorder, his first patented invention, which he thought would end filibustering. Or so concerned with the safety of his country that he patents an electric torpedo. Or, far past 70, turning naturalist and, with Burbankian genius, rearing golden road IA feet high and verS- ing on the very edge of success in creating a new source of rubber.
 The following inventions may fairly be listed as Edison's great est:
 His universal stock ticker.
 His automatic telegraph-a de- vice by which $500 words a min- ute are sent from New York to Philadelphia, where ordinary man. ual transmission by telegraph key is not more than 40 to 50 words a minute
 His duplex and quadruplex tele- graph-by which one operator can
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
APPLE BLOSSOMS IN BETHLEHEM
Pupil Brings Basket OF Blooms To School DECORATIONS FOR HALLOWEEN. PARTY
ESPECIAL TO THE DEMocRAT)

Bethlehem. Conn, October 30 = The old refrain When It. Apple Blossom Normandy is of date The locale and have changed It's apple blossom time Bethlehem just When teachers of the consolidated Central school Bethlehem were pondny on possible their Haowe party today Joseph Wyleske pupil solved their difficulties
 informed teachers that his home there apple tree in blossom Joseph the old William Howard farm Wood which in the section of Bethlehem. Joephs suggestion seriously few believed there could ply be apple blossoms in Bethlehem in October.
 However bright and early this morning Joseph appeared the school busel basket filled with fragrant apple blossoms The immediately took aspect of spring with those fragrant blossoms centnp the air
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30

900 horsepower or enough electri- cal energy for the wants of a city of S0.000 people.
 Every convenience to be had in a first-class hotel is found aboard the President Coolidge" from the electrically controlled air condi- tioning and electrical heaters in the suites, staterooms and living spaces throughout the ship. which guarantee comfortable living con- ditions of all kinds from the ex- treme heat of the tropics to the wintry blasts of the North Atlantic: the fifty-one radio loud speakers that are placed at strategic places aboard the ship, complete sound picture theater equipment all for the passengers entertainment; the stock exchange board room shop ping corridor. swimming pool, sand beach, children's play room gym nasium. to the. one-hundred car garage, together with the machine repair and service station for pas- seng>ss' automobiles. which are driven aboard through side ports.
 All Officers Americans
 American standards of living prevail aboard the President liners. All the officers are Americans and are selected for their ability and character and also because they understand the requirements and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30

Kerwin, Edward Pelletier. Rose marie Condon and Francis Sheehan are programmed as soloists. The Four Horsemen Quartet will also make its debut.
 The Bellecourt sisetrs are down for a speciality tap dancing num- Der while the comedy will be fur nished by Endmen Paul and Billy Gugliemo, Oscar Greenwood and Vincent Lerz, plus Francis Sheehan, who will fill the capacity of master of ceremonies,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
PARK ON OWN SIDE

Milwaukee, Wis.-Several Mill waukee motorists received parking tickets recently when the suburb of Wauwatosa changed it's traffic regulations over night. The motor- ists had been parking their cars on the Wauwatosa side of the street marking the boundary be- tween the two cities. because Mil- waukee ruled parking off it's side. Wauwatosa has now ruled parking off its side.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
PLAZA A. (.
 MINSTREL SHOW Sheehan Directs Program at Grange Hall This
 Evening AN ALL STAR CHORUS
AN ALL STAR CHORUS

The first anual minstreis and dance sponsored by the Plaza Ath- letic club will be presented this evening at Grange Hall under the direction of Francis Sheehaa. Harry Brinkman's orchestra has been secured to furnish the music for dancing.
 Charles Connor, golden-voiced tenor from Mill Plain, Theresa O'Connor. Ralph Thomas, Jerry
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
CONGRESSMAN
 AND SON ILL

Bangor, Me, Oct. 30.-(UP).- A congressman and his son were in hospitals, 160 miles apart, to-day, both recovering from operations.
 The condition of Representative Donald F. Snow. republican, of the fourth Maine district, was reported favorable at Eastern Main General hospital here after an appendicitis operation.
 William P. Snow, "A, was in State street hospital in Portland, after an Oneration
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
Convict Set Free After 21 Years
 Is RearreSted

Boston. Oct Released from state prison to-day after serv- ing nearly 21 years for two crimes, Celestino Adelino, 55, was arrested for the Brooklyn, N. Y, police on murder charge which reportedly had long been pending against him there
 Detective George Patten of Brooklyn was given custody of Ar delino as soon as he was freed on parole this morning. t-
 Details of the Brooklyn murder charge were not disclosed here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
A HORSE. A HORSE.

Memphis, Tenn.-A king once offered his kingdom for horse. but while Mrs Anna Stout, 53. has no kingdom. she'd be willing to do most anything for horse. The one she had recently died and she is now without one to use in hauling firewood. by which she ekes out a living. She is widow and has been supporting her young daughter for six years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
DON'T QUOTE ME
(By United Press)


 Washington. Oct 30.-(UP)-A new organization holding to the belief that you can't do physical harm if you don't. know how to use a weapon, has been formed here. It Is known as the Nation al Anti-Weapon association" and its purpose is to discourage the use of lethal weapons by young and old. Such Encouragement Is to be fostered through education, legislation, and letters to the edi- tor.
 The association twill seek to se- cure cooperation of parents and educators in proper training of children in their attitude toward the use of guns. knives and other dangerous or deadly weapons. T Parents who give their children toy weapons to play with, 1t ex- plains, should not be surprised when those children grow up to use weapons that are not toys and in ways that are not play full"
 Senator Arthur Capper of Kan sas Is a charter member, as Is the Rev James Shera Montgomery chaplain of the house of repre- sentatives. Dues are a dollar a year.
 They've cut down the longest and most picturesque name in the whole diplomatic register here |. Last year. 1t was Wing Comman- der, the Honorable l.. J. E. Twis- teton -Wyckeham-Fiennes. R. F. A.. Air Attache to the Embasy of his Britanic Majesty in the United States" Now he's been promoted to group captain and foreshort- ened to "The Honorable L. J. E. Flennes, R. F. A."
 Warren Delano Robbins. federal fashion arbiter and social admin lstrator. reported to the White House to-day. one up on his long standing competitor. the Prince of Wales.
 Robbins carried his left arm in a sling. He broke 1t falling from a horse. The prince was once known as the worlds champion of equestrians dismounting in flight. but he never broke his arm.
 The comparison between Rob- bins and the Prince dates back to an occasion when the executive ceremonial dictator appeared at a public function with cuffs on his morning trousers. New York sa- torial experts complained. Rob- bins pleaded that he was only amulating the recognized best dressed man in the world. the Prince of Wales.
 Memorable sayings of the great <:
 President Hoover-"This is background material.
 Secretary of State Stimson- e'Ihfs is not for quotation or at- txlbnfion."
 Secretary of Labor Doak-"Now douf put this in the papers"
 Undersecretary of the Treasury 1fills-"You know as much about ' as do."
 Four other cabinet members n know only what I read in the
 Iheodore Joslin. secretary to I,rrrfdent Hoover-"I don't know 2 f6lng about it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
HINT ON CLEANING STOCKINGS

If you -ut your silk stockings in luke-warm water and soap studs and leave them for ten minutes. you'll have to squeeze them only a couple of times to get them clean and they'll wear twice as long as if they were rubbed vigor-| ously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
HIGH FLYERS

Chicago.-Plant pollens are high flyers, the microscope of O. c. Dur ham, Chicago botanist, has dis closed. Taking an airplane, Dur ham, after exposing his slides. found pollens deposited on them at heights ranging from 100 to 5000 feet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
rr CDsTs MORE. BUT-

Milwaukee, Wis.--Mrs Minnie <5- z b1lux is willing to pay $l4.01
 .1<e than her $1 fine to obtain an
 <neeI xffer she was fined that . ;=.@sznt on disorderly conduct X<SE~s she contends that X~Sz eetra nred husband had '.-<.elfine 10 do with the charge. Er1 (6af he was using it to thwart /<< aff>souf to secure Q divorce. 11ss col,nsel had her fine -aised to <1S.0i s0 she could eI1tal the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
American traveller.

interests of the American traveller.
 The President Coolidge" is 653. feet long. s1 feet beam. with a depth of 52 feet. and is designed with a modern slightly raked stem and semi-cruiser stern. with two stacks and masts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30

psoylch The bofiiers of CaiUornid Fig Syrup respectfully wnrn n,ofh- CTS thdf the promises made here apply only to fhe genuine product iil botiles plainly marked CALL F0RNIA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30

NEXT: Edison's wartime serv- Ice. Making synthetic carbolic acid. and rubber. z. Forcing the Jumbo" dynamo to behave. {. Discovery of the principle of the photograph as the result of a needle prick in his finger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
The one way to conquer
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