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Show Health Is Greatest Field For Inve4: ST1 Of Future Edison America's Wizard Declares That Solution of Sickness Will Be Outstanding-; Says Overeating- Is Deadly. NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UP) The outstanding inventors of the future will be in the field of health, and their creators will be biologists and chemists, Thomas A. Edison believes. America's greatest inventor gave his views in reply to a questionnaire submitted to him by the Review of Reviews magazine. "Sickness is pretty hard on the workman now,' 'said Edison. "It's hard for them to get a good doctor, and the propei- care is expensive. There is too much sickness, too. Something will have to be done about it, and that is where biclogy and chemistry come in." Some of the questions aiid iui-j iui-j 3wcr3 follow: Q "Do inventions come from necessity 'the mother of Invention' or from scientific curiosity?" A "Most of inventors work to earn money to get a modest living for their families. All they want is enough money to experiment, with." Q "Will science tell U3 to cut Jess, as it has fold us to drink less?" A "Eighty per cent, of our deaths are due to over eating. After the age of 21 a laige variety end quantity of food is unnecessary. All those things crowd the stomach and cause poisons. It takes courage to learn restraint, but all the eating is unnecessary. I find that my weight keeps up on a glass of milk alone, every two hours." Television Too Complex Q "Is there any inherent difficulty diffi-culty in making television as common com-mon as the telephone?" A "Yes, cost and complexity. Locomotives are pretty well developed, but you wouldn't want to buy one and have it In your house, would you? Television Tele-vision ts like that." C) "Is is your opinion that poison gas in warfare is efficient and merciful, or a horror to be bared?" A "I think it less deadly than bullets bul-lets and bombs." Q "Do you think the auto-gyro is the coming thing in aviation the best principle so far developed"?" devel-oped"?" A "Yes. And it cam; from Spain. They say that Spain is dead. But that man (the inventor) inven-tor) has the egg of Columbus. " |
