Show i CINTI T I It t D ii cj OLATH I Edison I Is Skeptical onS on S 1 Psychics Yet Works S O on Machine to Signal the he V World orld Beyond S NEW 1 YORK O Oct Oat t. t 23 Thomas Thomas yA A. A Edison inventor and scientist ic docs does not believe c that the J an personality as we know i it on earth exists after death S I Ho 0 reasoned the problem out and came to o his this conClusIon conclusion in the presence c of t an interviewer Austin C. C Lescarboura Lescar Lescar- b boura Ura editor of the Scientific Amer f Ian ican n. n I Yet et after atter h he had wound up his ar argument art ar- ar t and stated the finding he added with a a. smile that notwithstanding ing irig his brief for nothingness beyond death he still sUit was working on his ap apparatus apparatus apparatus ap- ap for communicating with the dead d ad NEW APPARATUS I I do hope that our personality survives sur sur- vf vives c s said Mr Edison It If it does then my apparatus ought to be of s some me use That is why I am now at work on the most sensitive apparatus I t I have ever undertaken to build and andI andT I T await t the results with keenest in int in- in n t r Mr Edison would not describe the apparatus but he compared it to a valve which turned by the comparatively puny human hand wielding on one eighth horsepower releases th the energies of a mammoth turbine with horsepower The apparatus will Ill be some unusually unusual- unusual IT ly delicate instrument capable of ot magnifying the most minute presence minute presence thousands of times VERY DELICATE The slightest effort which it Intercepts Inter Inter- will be magnified many times so as to give us whatever form of record we desire for further investigation tion explained Mr Edison But ut if It this apparatus fails falls to reveal anything of exceptional interest I 1 am afraid that I shall have lost all faith in the survival of personality as we know it in this existence The inventor made mode light of the ouija board and table tilting methods of communicating with the beyond and asserted that if there was any foundation foundation foun foun- dation for the belief that a life lite beyond existed the methods for communication tio tion ought to be placed on a scientific basis He lie said SCORES OUIJA Why should personalities in another sphere waste their times Umes working a triangular piece of wood over over a board with certain lettering on It ft II Why should such Luch personalities play pranks with a a. table The whole business s seems ems so childish to me that I frankly cannot give it serious consideration Jf v we ve e are to make moke any real progress S I in the field of psychic Inv investigation w wp we must do it with scientific apparatus apparatus' and in a scientific manner Yr Edison discussed the problem S p Pc life and death slowly reasoning ott step leading toward the depress depress- ii inS ing conclusion with great care turning turn turn- turning urn urn- ing frequently frequently- to the interviewer for c. c corroboration S said he he lie had discarded a long Jong JI e ago the accepted theories theories- p pf life and death for those which his sixty active pears ears ea s of scientific experimentation tation led him to adopt S BODY TH THEORY EORY These Theae theories urged him to the be beS be- be S lI lief t that the human bod body Just as every S. S other organic existence was composed S Jot entitles entities so to small that they defied r i th the most powerful magnifying glass lr the human body 95 per cent of the theS I. I S entities did the routine labor while 1 the remaining 5 per cent directed the of th the others S Is li in 11 Uli this Una 5 per cent that the se- se of personality lodges according tg Ir Edison And they are all cono con- con o 5 cp in that portion of the brain T wn as Uie e field of broca he whole question to my mv way of in declared the Inventor is y at t happens to to the master entitles entities S t ted d in the field of broca Now NovIt it to suppose that the diS ding diy di- di S y I ng ing ng entities are are loc located ted in that ion Of our bod body These entities entitles as I sert oser knit give us our I 1 jal ial and our PersonS person- person 1 S P ERSON pERsoNALITIES tig lair fair to assume assume that the other r s those which S f have been doing Jf ork of the body disband S T so 0 of off in various directions seekS seek- seek i Mew new work worle to do But how tho those y been directing things in iny dy- dy y which Identify me as asand dikon f on and ou as ab Lescarboura and andS S S' S t T Do o the they remain er as t art p emble or do they also break up ai g 9 about th the universe seeking n new 0 as individuals and not as a a. collective body J If it they break up and set iet out as individual entities then I ver very verj much fear that our personality does not s survive While the entities entitles themselves themselves them them- selves live forever thus giving up the eternal life which many of us hope toj- toj thIs soP this means little to oU u and me if lf when we come to that stage known as s death our personality simply breaks up Into separate units which soon combine with others to form new structures This is substantially substantial the Edison credo lIe He intimated that he would soon have an opportunity to test the value of his hI apparatus because caus one of ot his collaborators a man wh who had un uti- uti the idea and helped perfect the details had died And now if anyOne any any- lone one would be De in a a. position to by way of tho the new apparatus the collaborator would |