Show THE GARLAND TIMES OAKLAND UTAH EDISON CENTENNIAL Early Efforts Backfired but Lessons Brought Lasting Fame WNU Features During his lifetime Thomas A Edison found time to root around in about everybody’s backyard doping out a gadget or a machine or a formula that would help hi3 neighbor He was crammed with ideas about many things some of which as everybody knows brought him enduring fame There were some however that his 84 years did not give him time to perfect As the 100th anniversary of his birth on February 1847 apthere are probably very proaches few people who know that Edison once won a patent on a “flying machine” Back in 1910 he doped out an idea on a helicopter In which field he thought the future of aviation lay On another occasion he was granted a patent on a method of preserving fruit and when he died he was working on a formula for extraction of rubber from the lowly goldenrod ’Wizard’ Was Human Edison once even worked on an Insecticide and this experience shows a human side that belies any that he had a ‘‘magic suggestion thumb” in the inventive business He was Just coming into fame as the "Wizard of Menlo Park” when he was approached by a neighboring farmer whose princlpaj crop was threatened with destruction by an invasion The of potato bugs year was 1878 Tom was 31 and he already had to his credit such ventions as the phonograph and a score of telegraph The patents farmer allowed as how an inventor ought to be young to able find a way to kill off the potato bugs Accepting the challenge although he knew relatively about nothing bugs and plants Edison collected a quart bottle' full of potato bugs and set forth to compound a lethal potion Testing every chemical in his he hit upon bisulphide laboratory of carbon as a potato bug killer Jubilantly he and the farmer sprinkled the Infested potato vines and waited to tabulate the results The bogs died like files— but so did the potato vines and Edison had to pay the farmer $300 damages for as he put It "not experimenting properly' He never again made the mistake of not experimenting enough some of his inventions Consequently took him years to perfect and because of his patience the world has become a much better place In which to live His invention of the electric light made necessary a system of electrical distribution which not only light but also brought scores of electrical gadgets to the farm home as well as city residence His phonograph put the best music into the home and his numerous other inventions the including motion picture made life easier more comfortable and entertaining Worked Too Well There was one other of Edison's which backfired creations but it wasn't because he hadn't perfected it this one on the contrary worked too well At one time he was working as night telegraph operator in the Grand Truck railroad station at Stratford Junction Canada One of the requirements of the Job was that Edison then 17 must check in on the wire every half hour by sending the signal 0 in Morse code to the train dispatcher at a nearby station Edison deplored this arrangement because it prevented him from catching up on the sleep he wasn't which getting during the daytime he spent in study and experimentation So he rigged up a device for automatically sending out the signal 8 He hooked up the instrument to the office clock so that every 30 minutes the signal went out over the wire thus reassuring the that Edison was on the dispatcher Job whereas in fact be was sound asleep This rase was successful an til ene night the train dispatcher tried vainly te contact Edison on the wire during one of his catnaps Alarmed by the prospect that the Stratford Junction telegraph ofllce was unmanned the dispatcher made his way te Edison’s office on a handcar He arrived Just In time te find Edison blissfully sleeping while the young Inventor’s machine obediently the prescribed signal The next day Edison started looking for another Job but the exof Incalculable proved periment it started value because him on a Two highlights In Thomas A Edison’s amaslng career are shown in these pictures Top Edison is shown demonstrating his first phonograph at the White House on April 18 1878 Lower the inventor Is shown operating an early and crude model of his first motion picture machine Nets' Misinformation the type on the Sunday supplement er feeds For example examine the of which data the Seminoles and snake killing: Baukhage When I called his wife reAgent Boehmer on Earns First Money With the idea planted in his mind of constructing telegraph apparatus send and that would automatically record messages Edison invented and patented an improved stock ticker so was much It better than the crude tickers which antedated his that a telegraph company paid him $40000 for it — the first money Edison ever received for an invention estabWith the $40000 Edison N J in lished a shop In Newark 1870 and began the manufacture of 23 and for stock tickers He was the first time in his life he had with enough money to experiment the hundred and one ideas that coursed through his agile mind One of a score of telegraphic patents he took out as a result of his experiments in Newark was on an could which automatic telegraph on a send and record messages strip bf paper tape at a rate far beyond the speed possible in sending and receiving by hand In seeking to- improve his first automatic Edison experimented telegraph with a machine employing a turntable covered with a paper disc Perforations in the papier disc sent out dots and dashes when the turnOne day howtable was rotated ever the turntable was operated at an excessive speed and instead the result was of dots and dashes Edison wa4 quick a musical hum to sense the possibilities of his disand on July 18 1877 he covery made the following entry in one of he filled with the 2500 notebooks scientific data and reports before his death at 84 on October 18 1931: “Just tried experiment with a diaphragm having an embossed point and held against paraffin The paper moving rapidly peaking vibrations are Indented nicely and there la no doubt to store be I able that shall up at and reproduce automatically future time the human any voice perfectly” Less than a month later he did Just that First Movie Was Talkie' Edison Ten years later in 1887 "to set out as he later commented do for the eye what the phonograph did for the ear” The result was the birth of what today Is probably the most glamorous industry In the world — the motion picture industry Thus it was that the germ of an Idea which took root in Edison's mind when he was fired as a telegraph operator ultimately led to vention of the stock ticker the tomatic telegraph the phonograph and the motion picture camera is best rememEdison probably bered as the inventor of the first The lamp practical incandescent was a handy symbol of lamp achievement seized upon by the pubonly lic but actually It constituted of his work in the a small portion Hypnotism Aids In Tooth Extraction w on In how s counted had appeared one day on their to announce his pressing doorstep desire that Boehmer come to the Semifiole camp— a 100 rods or so distant —to kill a rattler Boehmer He carefully obliged avoided carrying the corpse through the camp (a Seminole taboo) and he noted the usual fire lighted at the point where the victim fell As usual the Indian children had cooperated with him without actively participating in the execution There are two explanations as to why the Seminoles would not themselves kill the snake One is that once in the past the Seminoles iere ordered by the White Man to leave Florida for points west They prepared to remain even though it meant retiring deep into the Everglades However they decided it would be a good idea for both parties if they made a treaty with the snakes They did so on a “live and let live” basis That ia one ex- dian of electric lighting distribution field Front and power when he received his first patent for an electrically energised voting machine until his death 63 years later Edison created 1097 patentable ventions — by far the greates number of patents ever Issued to any one Individual by thi United Statea Patent office The wide range of his accomla almost unplishments 1868 believable The carbon transmitter that made Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone a commercial success was an Ediand for many years son invention the names of both Bell and Edison appeared on telephone instruments This same transmitter later was adapted to radio and served as the first broadcasting microphone Perfects Telegraphy Edison patented a system of telegraphy through space six years be- fore Guglielmo Marconi made the instrument that earned him the title Teleof “Father of Wireless graphy” Edison Invented built and operated the first electric railroad in Some of his patents America caused revolutionary changes in the cement industry and as early as 1908 he was building cement houses with prefabricated molds He invented an electric automobile a helicopter a method of making plate glass He patented a method of preserving fresh fruits in glass containers and vegetables called the he devised a machine for measuring and another fractions heat minute for registering the the odoroscope presence of odors however slight Worker Indefatigable Before Introduction of the typan electric Edison invented ewriter pen which cut stencils of handwriting mo that one letter could be reIn illimitable quantities produced Its modem counterpart is the mimeograph machine These and scores of other creations some of great portance and some like bln talk Ing doll hardly more than novelties came out of Edison’ mind fact that the day contained only 24 hours because it did not give him enough time to do h wanted to do His everything vorite motto — and one which he displayed prominently on the walls of his laboratory and offices— was a quotation silch said: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the serious labor of He rued the thinking" ' they always look "dressed up" The hairdress an innovation and a highly practical one dates back YOUR OWN DECORATOR only some six or seven years The woman’s smooth black hair is VX7HAT1 You made these gor- brought forward over a geous slip covers youcardboard form like the wide rself?” Music to your ears! And peak of a cap This gives her the It’s simple as ABC to turn out appearance of peering at you from lovely slip covers if you follow a underneath a wide hat few circular easy rules brim and is achieved easily without the aid of the beauty shop and The material is fitted pinned and cut without mirrors Furthervirtually right on the chair to be covered so your more the coiffure is one develop- finished slip cover is bound to fit your Why not brighten ment that has no connection with home this easy way? the White Man’s culture booklet tells you how to Our fit pin cut and finish slip measure Send 25c (coin) tor ers of type many Women’s Skirts slip Covers Successfully" to "Making Weekly Newspaper Service 24 W 17tk Are Real Art N Y St New York Print name dress booklet tlUe Unlike the hairdo the Seminole skirt and cape haven’t changed except to grow more artistic and more intricate with the advent of colored' DISTRESS OF textiles They likewise have become less difficult to create thanks to the sewing machine This gadget long since has been as in tepee common hogan or even in a modern igloo as an flat The skirts are made of parallel bands of a brightly colored design which experts claim are real art They are fashioned of hundreds of separate pieces of colorful cloth blended or contrasted to make a barbarically splendorous whole The skirts bell out widenas they aping in circumference the hem which according proach When your child catches to regulations must trail at least cold rub his little throat bedtime chest and back three inches or thereabouts on the warming soothing ground Vicks VapoRub special How can this be a practical everyaction goes day dress in a country of swamps to work instantly and and morasses of barbed and cutto hours working lor keeps That is the first ting underbrush? relieve distress while he question I (and every ignorant ob-sleeps Often by morning most distress of the cold Is gone Try itl Discover why most young mothers use the one andonly Vicks VapoRub I r at Its with planation Or it may have been one of those common sense arrangements embellished with the authority of mysticism There are few snakes which If left alone won't reciprocate Another interpretation may be Give that when a white man attacks the rattler the chances are that if anyone is bitten it would not be an Indian I understand Seminoles do kill snakes when it seems necessary Boehmer whose opinion your feet treat an extra with SOUS as well as Heels by O'Sullivan I learned to value as I pursued this subject thinks the rattlesnake situation is interesting but I couldn’t get him to say it meant the Seminole was superstitious Gaudy Coitumet Intrigue Observer Like pressed by the I was imevery observer by the Seminole attire Not men's— they wear conventional garments lightened by a gay handkerchief about the neck when they pursue their daily tasks hunt on the reservation or loaf in camp They have shortened the long garment (comparable to the woman’ cape) to length ven in ceremonial dress I found only Sam Huff reputed to be a medicine man as well as the bandy man at the school wearing the long garment plus the blouse Some say Sam clings to this outfit merely because of his love for the past others say it may have something to do with his special function as a medicine man a whisper that it is a badge there of repentance or punishment for some past sin Sam is a grandfather today He still lives in the nearby camp with the rest of his three generations The younger men save their gay shirts for dress up occasions (the annual green corn dance and the bunting dance) but they have Their adopted modem trousers shirts ara coverd with complicated geometric tracery their scarves are bound by a metal or wooden clasp they wear beads or other fobs The most striking piece of Seminole clothing Is the woman's billowing skirt next come the beads which cover her neck from shoulder blade to ear tips then her Although Edison lived to be 84 he continued to put in long hours of study and work right up until a few When weeks before his death friends chided him about not retiring to a life of ease his reply was that "There'll be plenty of time to think about retiring when I reach 100" Unlike the men the Seminole Tom Edison has “reached 100” women (except those who have been and he has (‘retired’ but his memconverted to modem thousand creations completely ory lives on in ways) wear their special garb and that have benefitted mankind wear It all the time Consequently Boy Peruses Comics As Home Fire Flares HlNfc By BAUKIIAGE and Commantator OF THE SOMEWHERE NORTH — Whenever one EVERGLADES tries as I did to study the human — side of the Seminoles that nation which has left so little written record of its short but historic lifespan — one is with information and train of thought that led him first to the Invention of a ntock ticker and an automatic telegraph thence to the phonograph and later to the motion picture camera QROoMIVq Analyst WNU Service 1616 Eye Street NW Washington D C (This is thi stcond of two articles band on visits to thi Seminolt Indian rasarvation at Brighton Fla) The consulting psychconsultation CALIF — HypBAKERSFIELD ILL — Even a fire CHAMPAIGN notism long considered good stage otherapist started talking to the trick but also utilized in medicine tient and within a few seconds she in his own home ceuld not induce was in a hypnotic trance Bernard Burke to and in curing mental ills during redenhis Mrs Nicola later book Firemen use new comic minutes a found in abandon cent years Thirty was brought out of the trance called to the Burke home to quell a tistry here blaze found Bernard in the bathWhen Mrs Violet Nicola went to minus her two teeth but completely that they were gone A- tub reading a comic book To a clinic to have two unaware teeth extracted it was discovered lthough the doctors and two other anxious queries Bernard calmly ex‘Tm busy The firemen that she was allergic to all types of witnesses told her the operation was plained: anesthetics The dentist called two over Mrs Nicola was not convinced will put it out” After the blaze was out into until she looked in a mirror Bernard was still in the tub doctors and a h Seminoles Misrepresented By Sensational Writers New Slip Covers to Brighten Y our Home ' 'ROOM BARBS Static in your automobile radio may come from your tires' A atatic suppression powder has been devised which will cure it The wild life census will be taken this month wonder if they have much trouble getting turtle to tell her age Seminole maid and brave sport native dress in Everglades asks But they are practiserver) cal say the experts who have seen them in operation Through wet ing and wading they are “histed" (there are no undergarments to comover plicate matters) Traveling the dry and dusty fields rife with snakes and other repannoying tiles they protect the bare feet and shins As Miss or Mrs Seminole moves forward toeing in slightly to good Indian custom according she gently kicks the dragging rim forward without baring the bare feet to inquisitive eyes or any flora or fauna that might obtrude The only other cloth garment is the cape This is usually a single solid and bright color matching the skirt The Seminole beads a remain mystery So far I have been able to learn little concerning the origin or excuse for them beyond purpose the explanation offered by Agent Boehmer and supported by his wife: wear them because "They they think they’re pretty” And what better reason in any woman’s lexicon? 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