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Show 1 EDISON AT 74 WORKS ON DEVICE TO PROVE HE'LL LIVE FOREVER Through Valve-like Instrument Inventor Hopes to Give Scientific Aspect to Work of Psychic Investigators; Also Vants to Talk to Planet Mars. . (By Whit Hadley ) WEST ORANGE, X. J. Feb. 11. On the 74th anniversary ol his birthday today Edison is working on an immortality machine which is only no of forty inventions occupying the world's greatest inventor. Hut he regards it as the greatest of all the hundreds o( devices small and great that he has contributed to make life more I happy. M?: j -. I "Tficf ! ; j : ; i THOMAS A. EDISON By this Immortality machine Edison Edi-son expects to prove his theory that, life Is eternal that he will live forever! for-ever! In the Individual entity which ihej world knows as Thomas A. Edison, tho inventor expects to live as did j his grandfather and greatgrandfather to the age of '101. It Is the one hundred hun-dred trillion entities that he believes make him up that make up every man and woman will continue to live on after his body Is laid to rest. DOESN'T LIKE INTERVIEWS. Interviews peeve Edison. He layi he dislikes to talk for publication because this always multiplies his mall. T wouldn't open the letters at all," he says, smilingly, 'hut there inlKht be checks in them." Possibly the real reason, however. Is that he's sensitive about his deafness. deaf-ness. When he listens he presses his fingers against nerves In his neck. The Interviewer must shout However, ho hears quite well the phonograph he Invented. The Inventor's secretary'. S. H. Mca-dowcraft, Mca-dowcraft, stands between him and the world. He announces visitors by signal sig-nal lights In his library Edison has a cot. Often he doesn't leave his laboratory for days at a time. His meals, placed on a tray outside his door, are frequently untouched. "DEATH" Nor VCCUH W I "The usual fi rm death' is a mlsap-J plied word." said Edison In his birthday birth-day inierview. "It is not at all accurate. accu-rate. If by it you mean that the life which keeps a man at work ceases to exist. Life cannot cease to exist, because be-cause like matter It Is indestructible. ' Thre has always been a certain amount of life and there always will be the same amount You cannot create life: you cannot destroy life, you cannot multiply life." Edison expects his immortality ma-1 chine to establish this theory sclen-j tlflcally. He discredits oulja boards, mediums and other methods of spiritism. M i rHODS TOO Kl I" "It is the crudeness of these mcth-I mcth-I ods that makes me douht the authen-j authen-j tlclty of purpor'.ed communications with deceased persons." he said. "V hy 1 should personalities in another exist-I exist-I ence waste their time moving a three-I three-I cornered piece of wood over a board with lettering on it." Why should su-h personalities tip tables" The whole business seems childish. "Nevertheless, the life units which form a man do not die. They pass out of one Important mechanism to I seek another habitat. T believe that, one hundred trillion 1 entitles go to make up a single man; I twenty billion cells each consisting of a commune of 5000 entities IK i I LIKE V MX 1 "These entitles of personality I hope to detect with my apparatus or mechanism. mech-anism. Who created them or where they go after they leave a given body 1 do not know. To detail my theory and plans would be futile; what the public expects ex-pects are results. However, the dcMco is of the nature of a valve, and the -difrhtest conceivable amount of energy en-ergy exerted on It Is multiplied many Ul'Tt will enable phych'ic Investigators to give a scientific aspect to their WNext to the Immortality machine comes In Importance a radio invention by which Edison hopes to mako possible pos-sible communication with Mars Copyright. 1921, N. L. A - PIONEERS PRESENT WEST ORANGE. N. J . Keb. 11 I Thomas A. Edison. 7-4 years old to-iday. to-iday. was assisted in celebration of tho anniversary by the Edison Pioneers. ian organization composed of tho m-I m-I Venter's associates of tifty years ago, I The Pioneers, With their wives and children, gathered early at Glenniont. the Edison homo In Llewellyn park. and held a business meeting Mr. Edison entertained the women and children While Mr. Edison and his "pals." as he chose to call them, talked of days gone by. oo |