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Show : EDM BED AT 74 YEARS OFJE Famous Inventor Now Poring Over Intricacies of Immortality Im-mortality Machine By WHIT HADLEY, (Copyright, 121. by Newepeper Enterprise Associatien.) WKST ORANGE, N. J , Feb. 11. . On the 74th anniversary of J1'" birth-day birth-day today Edison Is working on an Immortality machine. Thta machine, la only one of forty Inventions occupying the world' greatest Inventor. Hut ha regards It as the greatest of all the hundred of I devices small and great that he baa 'contributed to make life mora happy, j Hy this immortality machine Kdion expects ta- pror hla theory that life i la eternal that he will live forever! I In the Individual entity which the I wiirinniowiitTTiom.nl "A." Miami,-; ithe Inventor expect to live aa did his, ! grandfather and great grandfather to; Ithe uge of It la the one hundred: trillion entitiea that he bellevea make, him up that make up every man and Tgoman will continue to live on after his body is laid to rest. j INTERVIEWS PEEVE. I Interviews peeve Kdlaon. He says he dislikes to talk for publication be- ( cause this alwaya multiullea his mall. "I wouldn't open the letters at all," he says, amlllngly, "but there might be: checks In them." possibly the real reason, however. Is that he's sensitive about hla deafness. deaf-ness. When he Helena ha presses his fingers agalnat the nerves In his neck. The Interviewer must shout. However, How-ever, he bears onlte well the phono- graph he Invented. I The Inventory aeoretary, B. H. Meadowcraft, atand between him and the world. He announces visitors by signal llghta. In hla library .KdHon haa a cot. often he doesn't leave his laboratory for day at a time. His meals, placed on a tray outside bis door, are frequently untouched. 1 MISAPPLIED WORD. I The usual term 'death' Is a misapplied misap-plied word." aaid Kdlaon In hla birthday birth-day Interview. "It la not at all accurate. ac-curate. If by it you mean that the life which keeps a man at work ceases to exist. LJfe cannot cease to exist, because be-cause like matter It Is Indestructible. . "There haa always been a certain amount of life and ther alwaya will be the same amount. You cannot create cre-ate life; you cannot destroy life; you ennnot multiply life." Kdison expects his Immortality machine ma-chine to eatabllah this theory clen-1 llficnlly. 1 He discredit ouljn boards, medium I snfl othrr methods or spiritism. "It Is the erudeness of these meth- ods that makee me doubt th authenticity authen-ticity of purported communications! with deceased persons." he said. "Why should peraonalitlea in another exlt- : ence waste their time moving a three- ! cornered piece of wood over a board I with lettering on It? Why should such I peraonalitlea Up tables? Th whole busineaa aeemr childish. DO NOT DIE. "Neverthelesa.the life units which form a man do not die. They pass out of one Important mechanism to seek another habitat . "I believe that one hundred trillion nntltlea go to make up a single man: twenty billion cells each consisting of. a commune of K00O entitles. "These entities of personality 1 hope to detect with my apparatus or mech-snlsm. mech-snlsm. Who created them or where they go after they leave a given body I do not yet know. "To detail my theery and plans would be futile: what the public expects ex-pects are results. However, the device de-vice Is of the nature of a valve. nd the allghtest conceivable amount of energy exerted on It 1 multiplied many times. "It will enable psychic Investigators to give a scientific aspect to their work." Next ti the Immortality machine comes In Importance a radio Invention bv which Kdison hopes to make possible pos-sible communication with Mara. |