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Show HOW MR. EDISON . JUDGES HIS MEN If you have been regarding Edison as a gen(us and nothing 'else, you have been mistaken'.' The Vice-President of Thomas Edison, Inc., says la in article about Mr, Edison in February American Magastne: !No one knows or probably ever will know exactly what standards of Judgement Mr. Edison employs in forming his preliminary judgment of a man. There are .treaties on the subject of character, reading, but Edison Ed-ison would scorn to adopt the rules expounded in any of them. Whatever What-ever rules be uses are drawn from his own experience. Although partially parti-ally deaf, Mr. Edison has not cultivated culti-vated the faculty of Up reading. However, be is an expert reader of human faces. Very possibly, he long ago decldede that It Is lessim-portant lessim-portant to read a man's words than to divine the Intent behind them. He Is a close observer of man's eyes. Also, he appears to entertain a collateral col-lateral Interest In ears, chins, foreheads, fore-heads, and heads, "Thomas"A';vEaUoa,s activities have brought him In contact with many men in various walks of life. - ,r He has sat at countless conferraces) ' B deaf and indifferent to the ceaver- .jjfl sat!6nai camouflage which mosmen r'l Use to saask their-motives, and har' ,H studied faces, cataloguing each type Sh H I think, and ths arrived at the ;- standards of judgment .which, he nowv " uses. This is merely, siy opinio:' V Perhaps tit. Edison Would not admlt'( W that his opinions ot men rare, basW'vV' I on any such classification of .hk;eiV w ' servatlons. Perhaps' he Isai.mif " conscious of having' made 'bserva"A(vl, W tions of this kind; but it you wllli ' I cultivate reticence, study Yaees W ' fl all the me.you meet, aa4!rVlaasitf ,-, J them by types In tha IHrhVt 'theerg subsequent acU, I m '!''' TOT'ssi that you wlH'altlmatrty awUrt'WifiAsjl habit of forming A-ltplsW$&; rM estimate of a maa Ttr h as Ur .jm Edlsoa,galns bis first isjpresslens." v, ' |