Show raison Edison's alS J S Annual A I interview ya Give wen tv College Men Flappers Prohibition Co Coue e News News- News p pbs p r I s and Helicopter Heli opter Topics Teb reb 1 12 WEST 1 r rOh oms Oh d f son todaY joday of th Upi Upi- e te l 11 l idi lie he had bad ad been president oC df if the na naval na- na Il val 01 consulting board oard but hut that ev every e- e eer e cry ery one of oC them had iad ad been reject reject- rejected rejected rejected ed I Navy officers seem to resent Ideas for tor the betterment ot of the navy lather than to welcome them he said The occasion was Hili the tho s a annual birthday Intel Intel- view Intel slew leW with nos no's writers He was 76 years old yesterday Y Edison began tho tim interview In I his laboratory office by y kicking over his hc head d to pro prove e his Asser Asser- Assertion Asser- Asser Assertion tion lion tInt that he lie was sias still oung oung I 1 am doing more work than thane thanes I es e eer er he said I 1 am ant Interest log ang in business theories as ell ft ell as mechanic and ancl electrical construction But I am nm not spend spend- spending ing log a fortune on bum um ideas As soon as I see a scheme is no goo good I 1 discard It Mr Jr idison lumped Jumped nImbly from inventions to politics and as readily from politics to flappers cd education and prohibition ColI College e then Ien nien he said Bald dont don't know Inow what Is going on Theare The are too dense dene Ne al ame a e a great force and the college collego boys over o overlook oer o'er- look them If 1 I had a n paper I d put more amoco science into ItI It itI I 1 d make mako tho the candidates for Cor jobs fili out d l L Questionnaire lu to see seo se If they kne knew an thing Id I'd want ant I men with imagination Imagination tion is a scarce Doe Does Docs Coue do any good he h vas as asked r t Jt tW Ao hand band iani something to- to fake falte lie Ha him I dont don't think hes he's a II seems to be In earnest What do I iou ou think of oC bilion 7 Sober America he said rais rais- raisIng mis- mis raising ing log both hands Im for Cor it by all means I know prohibition li is I a e In the cities but 1 when hen wood alcohol kills oft off all al the old soaks oaks prohibition will ha have hae e itz It d day lY The rhe bos boss and gills gimle of oC the next generation wont won t have hae ha ha e a any taste for the stuff The newspapers ne rs print too much scandal the Inventor de- de de declared dared We Ve all like a little but butI butI butI I think the papers overdo ordo it Th Tn politicians make suckers out or of orthe the publishers by Why should hould ev- ev every ev every ery cry one-horse one political aspirant use up good print to rant about He lie should bat he wants ants to do be bc made ma le to pay for Tor the space hu uses nat's good in the field of oC in invention In- In ho he was asked The Tho the helicopter helicopter the heavier than air machine that goes straight ht up James Gordon Bon Ben Bonnett Uon nett neit once give me 1000 to expEl expEl- one I made a it ma- ma machine ma machine chine that only onh weighed SO 80 pounds but I didn't do the trick burned I scorched mi m hands and oit olt head Ing most of the hair my m log Ing to perfect It but I didn't didn There is a great commercial I tiel I for tor the helicopter |