Show DEAFNESS NOT HANDICAP CLAIM Edison Says It May Do Be Beneficial to Shut ShutOut ShutOut Out Noise NEW YORK Feb B 10 By 10 10 By The Thc Associated Loss Iress Pret Loss of hear hear- hearIng hearing Inc Ing Is not worth orth worrying about and besides everybody e may be deaf In a 0 hundred years ears because e 0 oe our increasingly noisy civilization civilization tion ton Thomas A Edison said in a messagE tonight to a IL deaf deat audi audi- audience once ence The noted inventors inventor's philosophy on deafness was trans transmitted by Professor Protestor George Georgo Bur Bur- Burton Burton ton Bur ton of ot Ne New York un uni- uni uni university 1 also deaf Dr Hotchkiss at a dinner In tho hotel McAlpIn spoke Into an amplifier his hi words word being carrle carrIed l by wire to the various tables which were equipped with to- to re sets set Those rhose near enough to the speakers speaker's table to see clear clear- clearly clear ly ly Iy the speakers speaker's lips 1118 discarded these devises and listened by lip reading Mr Edison said deafness may maybe maybe mayb be a I very ery beneficial thing Ho He ascribed his hi long lack of nerves and his powers power of o cots con con concentration largely lar ely to the protection protection tion Ion from distracting sounds Deat Deaf people his message continued should take to reading It beats beat the babble of ot ordInary conversation The eye cye I Is the whole thing thine and hearing a very ery minor affair The dinner marked the opening ot of a endowment cam cam- r carn-r ln for or tho the school for forthe the tho teaching of ot lip reading op 00 |