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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
EDISON VIEWED IN
DESPAIR AT SCHOOL

veloped his laboratory that was I'M
equaled in its day. A toy built pure
ly to amuse his assistants led him
to invent the photograph. Chance
has played vital part in many of
Edison's great inventions.
UneguaIed in Day
The idea of bottling electricity for
illumination purposes challenged
Edison. He and his workmen
started out to create an electric
light that would burn indefinitely
within a glass bulb. On Oct. 81,
1879, after spending $4,000 and per-
sonally conducting more than 16,-
900 tests, Edison, almost totally dis
couraged, met with success.
He succeeded in carbonizing a
length of cotton sewing thread
which, when placed in an alright
glass bulb, burned for forty hours.
An argument about horses led
the wizard of Menlo Park" to in
vent the first successful motion pic
ture camera. Governor Leland
Stanford of California, in order to
prove his contention that a running
horse landed all four feet on the
ground simultaneously had a pho
tographer set up forty cameras in a.
row and snapped a horse in motion.
He was right.
Edison saw the photographs.
which was more important, and de-
clded to reproduce the human fig
ure In motion. He finally devised a
workable machine in 1891.
The outbreak of the World war
stirred anew EdiSon's inventive ge-
MUS. Moved by patriotism. he
worked more Strenuously than at
any time in his life. Numerous de-
vices to aid the country in it's war
came from his laboratory. He be-
came head of the naval consulting
board and directed the work of
producing many new implements of
war. In recent years he sought a
substitute for rubber, working on it
until death.
Edison was married twice, his
first wife dying in 1884, leaving
three children, Thomas Alva Jr.,
William Leslie and Marion Estelle.
He was married to the present Mrs.
Edison, the former Miss Mia Miller.
two years later. Three children re-
suited also from this marriage,
Charles, Madeline and Theodore.
Charles is acting head of the Edison
plant at West Orange today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
BASE OF EDISON'S
FAME LAID HERE
Began Tinkering in 1854 IS
While TeIegrapher at
Union Station.
Inventive genius of Thomas A.

Inventive genius of Thomas A.
Edison first attracted attention
when he began tinkering with old
telegraph instruments during his
residence in indianapolis in 1864
and 1865.
He still was in his teens, but
gained the title of the boy who
always is experimenting" while he
was employed as operator for the
Western Union Telegraph Company
at the Union station.
Charles E. Tweed of 9O4 Tecumseh
place, who worked with Edison, and
who probably is the only surviving
telegrapher with this honor, tells
now Edison always seemed to be
dreaming, and never was a very So
ciable workman"
leased for Old Instruments
"FIe seemed to have something on
mis- mind, to be thinking of some
thing all the time" Tweed declared.
Tweed, now go, retired twenty years
ago.
Not satisfied with being an opera
tor, the youthful Edison haunted the
Office of William Wylie Smith, tele-
graphy superintendent for the Belt
railroad, teasing for old telegraph
instruments.
This story was told today by Miss
Ida F. Richardson of 312 Burgess
avenue, daughter of Foster Richard
son, an executive of the railroad.
City Man Was Associate
1t was Richardson who per-
Suaded Smith that he ought to give
the lad the discarded instruments,
when Smith protested that II can't
be bothered with him."
Thomas Spencer of 1923 Balsam
avenue, now an employe of Prest-
O-Lite Corporation, was associated
with Edison in his early work on
the incandescent lamp, considered
by Edison his greatest invention.
Spencer worked for the inventor
from 1888 to 1890, and relates how
short circuit once perplexed the
wizard" but not for long,. for Edi-
son soon found that "double-pointed
tacks on the electric wiring we're
causing the Shorted circuit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
Action Without Harm
Whenever Constipoted

Here's way to be rid of consti-
patton and its ills-a way that works
quickly, effectively, but gently.
A Candy Cascaret at night-the
next morning you're feeling fine.
Breath is sweetened; tongue cleared;
biliouSneSs, headaches, dizziness, gas
vanish. Repeat the treatment two
or three nights to get the souring
waste out of your system. See how
appetite and energy return; how di-
gestion improves.
The action of Cascarets is sure,
complete, helpful to everyone. They
are made from cascara, which doc
tors agree actually strengthens bowel
muscles. All drug stores have tf1~
10c Observation-Disclosures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
YEGGS' LOOT IS $500
Crack Safe in Offices of
Eagles Lodge.

Working a combination on the
safe in the offices of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, 43 West Vermont
street, yeggmen early Sunday eS-
capped with $50 in cash and $3.50 in
jewelry.
The thieves entered the lodge
rooms by climbing a fire escape and
then forcing a window. The glass
in the door of the office had been
removed.
William Beswick, 1925 Linden
street, building custodian, told po-
lice he noticed an automobile
parked near the building when he
closed the lodge offices at Sunday
morning.
A safe in the office of the I. j.
Case Machi' cry Company, 8O2
South Missouri street, was blown
Saturday night. Floyd Richardson,
los South Butler avenue, manager,
told police the vault contained no
money. The yeggs gained entrance
by forcing a window.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
The
Chief
Tire
Changer
Speaking

Edison is dead. The last lines of
the most colorful career in con-
temporary American history have
been written. Today not only
America, but the entire world,
pays homage to this great Amer
can. SO much has been said and
written about him that to most of
us he has become somewhat of a
legendary figure rather than one
of our own times. The good that
men do lives after them Edison,
the man of flesh and blood is
dead, but Edison, the genius who
brought us the wonders of electric
light and recorded speech, will
live forever through the children
Of his brain.
In a nationwide hook-up Sunday
night, President Hoover opened
the Community Drives of hun
dredS of municipalities through
out the country with an earnest
plea for each to put over its quota
one hundred per cent. We are
our brothers keeper, and to each
of us falls the responsibility to
aid our unfortunate during the
coming winter. We, here in IN
dianapolis, will launch our own
drive this week and the extent
of its success will be true meas
ure of our attitude toward our
own needy and helpless.
=
No man ever died the poorer for
giving to charity. Providence
seems to feel a bit more kindly
toward the generous of heart and
purse. And life that may have
grown dull and aimleSs takes on
new zest and happiness when
you have given your less fortunate
brother lift.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
One Teacher Declared He
Was 'AddIed'; Always at
Foot of Class.

! BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. - Thoma.
Alva Edison was born in Milan, o.
Feb. II, 1847, the son of Samuel anc
Nancy Edison He was not especial
ly brilliant in school and, in his
own words, usually was at the foot
of the class" One teacher went sc
far as to call him added" ano
after a year at school his mother
decided to teach him at home.
AS a result, before he was II he
had been made to digest such intel
leCtual fare as Gibbons Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire,
Sears History of the World" "Dic-
tionary of Sciences" and Burton'S
Anatomy of Melancholy"
Edison intense interest in science
however, was noticeable early
When he was 8, he discovered what
propelled a locomotive. He next
became fascinated by chemistry
after trying an experiment de-
! Scrlbed in a text book.
Had Laboratory on Train
He sold newspapers, peanuts and
candy as a news butcher" on the
Port Huron-Detroit line to get
money to buy chemicals.
He set up his first laboratory in
a baggage car, without asking per-
mission, and did his experiments
while on the run. He was permit
ted, without formal permission, to
go ahead with his tests until one
day jerk OF the train shook a tube
Of phorphorus from its rack and
set the car on fire. The baggage
man cuffed Edison's eart-an act
which some early biographers say
resulted in his partial deafness.
Edison for a time went into jour-
naliSm as a career. He set up a
hand press in the baggage car Of
the Grand Trunk express and be-
gan publication of the Grand Trunk
Herald 1t was the only paper
known to have been written and
published on the train. He gave
this up, however, when a passenger
threw him into the ST. Clair river
because. of an Objectionable item.
Often Slept on Job
Through working at night he
was sleepy by day and often slept
on the job on the trains. Caught
mapping frequently, Edison was in
structed to signal the letter "a
once every hour to another station
to prove he was awake. This led
him to make his first invention.
He devised an apparatus which
automatically clicked out the letter
"a" on the hour. 1t worked flaw
lessly until he was caught sleep
ing and dismissed.
From then on through the year;
his inventions or improvements or
inventions came with rapidity. He
improved the stock exchange ticker
when he noticed it one day running
an hour behind, and got $4,000 fol
it from Marshall LeffertS, president
of the Western Union. That gave
him his first real Start-it was or
Sept. "a, 1869-and his economic Sc
curity settled, he proceeded to de-
vote his entire time to invention.
He bought an old building al
Menlo Park, N. j., in 1870, and de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
His Memorial

By UHitCd Press
TIFFIN, O., Oct. 19.-In the
Haulted ceiling of st. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal church
here is a reminder of Edison's
pride in the incandescent cleo
trio light. 1t is an ornate
chandelier, resembling a huge
spider. In it are sixty electric
bulbs.
Edison made the church a
gift of the chandelier in 1885
on the church's completion, be-
cause it was the first public
edif1ce in Ohio lighted cleo
trically.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
BOYCOTT TO PREVENT
WAR MAY BE URGED
Nicholas Murray Butler Names Is
Leaders to Study Proposal.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Dr. Mich
olaS Murray Butler, president of
Columbia university, has appointed
a committee of thirteen nationally
prominent bankers, industrialists,
diplomats and others to study posi-
bic use of economic boycotts to pre-
vent nations from going to war.
The group will be known as the
committee on economic sanction. -
1t was selected by Butler at the in
vitation of the Twentieth Century
Fund of New York, which will I'M
derwrite the expenses. Butler will
be chairman.
The committee will undertake a
scientific study of the possible use
of economic pressure by the United
States against a nation going to war
in violation of treaty provisions, and
make report to the public sug-
costing specific proposals"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
ROAD BUILDING URGED
Congressman'S Plan Would Give
Millions Jobs, Is Claim.

A plan whereby $4,000 of Indian
apolis' unemployed would be given
jobs building roads is proposed in a
copyrighted article in the November
Plain Talk magazine by Congress-
man William P. Holiday of Illi-
noiS.
Holiday asserts his $4,000, 000 900
federal road act, first introduced six
wears ago. would provide jobs for
10000 HOLSTERS and for 100000
men throughout the nation.
The congressman proposes to
press for early passage of his bill at
the next session of congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
MEXICANS RETURN TO
OWN COUNTRY BROKE
More Than 1900 Quit U. s., Hungry,
But Glad to Be home.
Police Control Crowds

BIZ United Press
NUEVA LAREDO, Mexico, Oct.
IGNORE than 1900 MeXicans who
emigrated to the United States in
search of riches, ran into the de-
preston, and came back destitute
and hungry, celebrated a joyous
homecoming in Mexico today.
One family after another, the
Mexicans Streamed back across the
Rio Grande, many of them hungry,
but all happy to get back to the
country which once they left be-
cause they though they could find
more opportunities elsewhere.
Friends on this side of the border
cared for many of the returning
families Sunday night and gave
them enough food to last until they
reach their old homes in the in
terror.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
Hoover Calls HOoSier

BID IHfttU FFtNH
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct 10. -
Rome c. Stephenson, president of
the st. Joseph Loan and Trust
Company, here, and retired presi-
dent of the Amer IAN Bankers AS
ISOLATION, will go to Washington TO-
night for a conference with Presi-
d mt Hoover. A -ough Stephenson
said he was not informed of the
subject of the conference, it was be-
lieved it will concern banking and
other financial r~ohlems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
CLARK WINS ACQUITTAL
Jury Holds Former U. S. Attorney
Shot Two in Self Defense.

By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 10. -
David H Clark, former deputy dis
trict attorney, whose campaign for
the office of municipal judge was
climaxed last May by the shooting
of two men was free today
acquitted of charge of numbering
Herbert Spencer, magazine editor.
Freely admitting the killing of
Spencer and Charles Crawford,
politician, but claiming he shot in
self-defense, Clark was congratu-
lated by the jurors, who believed
his story. Women members of the
panel embraced Mrs. Clark.
Superior Judge Harry w. Falk,
who presided at the trial, Clarks
second on the same charge, added
his congratulations with the state
ment that had he been hearing the
case without jury, his verdict would
have been the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
Princess Helene to Return

By United Press
BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 10.
Princess Helene, divorced wife of
King Carol, will return to Rumania
next week for the celebration of
Crown Prince Michaers birthday,
and remain several weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
Burglars, Toll Nets Only s.

Saving hole in the floor of a
room over Haag drug store at 1850
North Illinois street Sunday night,
burglars gained entrance to the
store and took IS from the cash reg
lister, Howard Glenn, 1868 Byram
avenue, manager, reported today to
police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
SCREEN RIPPER ACTIVE
Gets $40 in Two Raids ION North
Side Residences.

The screen ripper" burglar re-
newed activities in the city over the
weekend, looting two homes of $40
in cash.
D. H. Lewis, 6429 Winthrop ave-
nue., reported to police a screen in
his home was ripped Saturday night
and SIS taken from a purse.
Miss Mayme Anderson, 2211 North
Meridian street, apartment IL. re-
ported window screen had been
slashed with knife and SIS taken
from a purse. The thief left the
purse, she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
ARRANGE HOME-C0M WING
Grid Game, Barbecue on Program
for Indiana Central.

Annual homecoming of Indiana
Central college alumni will be held
Saturday and Sunday. The Indiana
Central Rose Poly football game, a
barbecue supper and three-act
play, Cracked Ice" presented by
Alpha Phi Omega, dramatic frater-
nity. will feature the event.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
PARKED AUTOS LOOTED
Clothing and Blankets Worth S235
Stolen From Three Cars.

Stolen From Three Cars.
Loot totaling $235 in value was
stolen from automobiles parked
downtown Sunday night, police re-
ports disclosed today.
Pearl Ormslee of Detroit reported
an overcoat, a blanket, a jacket and
a suit we're stolen from his car near
the Sheffield Inn. He valued the
merchandise at sos.
Carl Bruner of Rushville, said
thieves broke the handle on the
door of his car, at Capitol avenue
and North street, stealing 500
worth of belongings in suit case.
Theft of topcoat from his car
near New York and Illinois streets,
was reported by Russell Paugh of
Springfield. O.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19


A desk and several chairs are in
one end Of the room. That was
Edison's own little nook, or study
corner.
Police Control Crowds
One corner is partitioned off for
an office for Charles Edison, son
OF the inventor, president of the
Edison Laboratories
The center Of the room for years
purposely had been left bare for
reception of visitors. There Edison S
bier, banked with flowers, was
placed today.
Flags on buildings in the nearby
communities and West Orange were
at half staff, while school children
Informed of the death of the man
who had been familiar figure to
them all, planned to visit the bier
in groups late today.
Made Valiant Fight
Death of the man whose inven-
tons have meant so much to man
kind came after valiant fight
against uremic poisoning, compli-
Gated by Bright'S disease, diabetes
and ulcers of the stomach.
Edison first became seriously i'll
In July He had been weakened for
two years by pneumonia. And last
spring he spent weeks recuperating
in Florida. When he returned, he
was unable to continue his active
interest in the laboratories.
He suffered a collapse Oct. 2, and
soon thereafter newspapers of
America and fore n countries and
news association correspondents be-
gan their vigil on the Edison estate,
that the world might have immedi-
ate news of the death.
That came just before dawn Sun
day. 1t was flashed to the world by
means of communication, many Of
which Edison had helped perfect.
At the bedside was every member
of the family, summoned Saturday
night by DR.. Hubert S. Howe, Edi-
sons personal physician.
Edison was ready to die, Dr. Howe
revealed as the aged genius assured
his family he would rather leave
this world than leave his burden of
age and illness for his loved ones.
DR.. Howe also revealed a cryptic
comment of the dying man as he
once apparently reused from his
fatal stupor. Edison, he said
smiled and spoke:
1T is beautiful over there
Edison often had been attacked
as an atheist, or an agnostic. His
religious beliefs we're not confined
to theological teachings, his rela-
tives revealed with his death.
The inventor believed in a "su-
preme intelligence" they said, but
subscribed to no orthodox creed"
He never was an atheist, they said.
They referred to this quotation
from Matthew xxi:
Then one of them, which was
a lawyer, asked him a question,
tempting him eAnd saying: Master,
which is the great commandment
IN the law?' Jesus said. unto him:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy mind. This
is the first and great command
ment and the second is like unto it.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself. On these two command
ments hang all the law and the
prophets"
Edison, they said, lived the life
that reference suggested.
1t was recalled that once an in
terviewer asked him how he ex-
pected to spend his life after death,
if any.
Experimenting" he chuckled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19

from the railway station to the nearby village of Port
Huron, Mich, when he Is.
3The speedy typewriter of today is a perfection of
the machine that Edison helped build in 1871.
4In 1877 he invented the carbon telephone transmitter
forerunner of the radio mcrophone.
SIN the year he invented the monograph The
first words he spoke into it MARY had little lamb"
6-Hs invention Of the electric lamp 1879 turned
night into day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
EDISON LOSES
VALIANT FIGHT
AGAINST DEATH
inventor Was Ready to Die;
Views on Religion
Are Revealed.
Continued From Page II

Edison would sleep for an hour or
so when tired by his persistent
labors.
A desk and several chairs are in
one end Of the room. That was
Edison's own little nook, or study
corner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19

Tn 1891 he invented the forerunner of today motion
picture machine. Only person time could see into
the boxke device containing pictures rapidly revolved
8-Careless of his personal appearance and slave to
his work Edison spent long hours laboratory often
getting only four hours Sleep
Gin $780, the aged inventor asked five more years
OF lie in order that he might complete work in ex-
tracing rubber from the golden me five more
years. ne SAID land the United States have rubber
crop that can be utilized in twelve months time
The Republican., 1931-02-12

tention. Unfavorable conditions of
the heart were observed in 1875, and of
the lungs in 80. Defective vision was
recorded for 110; defective hearing
for Sc, and so were found to be men
tally retarded. Of the 3,485 eligible
for admission to school, nearly half
1,737-h d not been vaccinated
against smallpox.
The total number of conferences
held was 398, and in connection with
them 264 places were visited. Ale
gany county led, with $50 children in
attendance at the conferences, which
were held at % places. Hartford coun-
ty came next, with a total of 639
children examined, at 81 conferences
held at 81 places. Cecil was third
with 437 children examined at 81 con-
ferences at 20 places.
The Republican., 1931-02-12
Home Project for Students
Explained by Instructor

An explanation of the Home
Project, carried on by girls of home
economics classes in the high school
of the county, was made by Miss Eva
Falkenstein, home economics instruc-
tor of Oakland High school, linking
it up with the aim of vocational edu-
cation in the state.
"One aim of vocational education in
home economies" Miss Falkenstein
said, sis to train girls and women for
the vocation of home making. One of
the fundamental principles of voca-
tional education requires that the
training, to be efficient, shall be con-
Quoted under conditions that duplicate
as nearly as possible those under
which the vocation itself must later
be carried on.
"Since the school can hardlyprovide
conditions that are found in a normal
home, it becomes necessary to sup
plement the facilities afforded by the
home, by providing for the participa-
ton of students in normal home max
ing activities in the environment Of
their own homes. The work thus car
ried on in the home to supplement the
work of the school is known as the
home project. Better still it is a
large, interesting problem requiring
planning, managing, keeping of rec
ords, besides actually doing the work.
"The home project is not only a
valuable means for training in home
making responsibilities under normal
home conditions not afforded by the
school, but it is also a valuable means
of promoting desirable relationships
between the home, girl and school.
"The most worthwhile projects are
the every day activities that the girl
would or should normally be doing
preparing supper for her family, car
ing for her bedroom and keeping
it attractive, doing the family mend
ing and marketing-all may be made
so attractive as to enlist the pupils
wholehearted interest.
eve are attempting this year to
have some projects carried on in
which not only our school but the
State Department will be interested.
Miss Amery, the state supervisor,
sent US letter asking for these pro-
ject report books so that she might
send them with others in the State to
a Regional Conference to be held in
March, so we are depending upon the
mothers of our girls to help us carry
on some purposeful projects.