Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1929, Page 5

LAMP'S INVENTION CELEBRATED HERE Huge Searchlights Are Part of Demonstration Given | By the Associated Press. DEARBORN, Mic] October 22— | President Hoover's address here last night in conection with the Edison cele- | bration follows in full: Fellow Country Men and Women: ‘This ceremony is & part of the cele- bration of Mr. Edison’s invention of the | President Lauds, Edison Genius | Contributions of Electric Lamp and Other Inventions to | Comforts of Humanity Told Vast Audierice at Celebration. | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, 22, 1929. * 5 D. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER EDISON'S BIRTHPLACE! 'HOLDS CELEBRATION Schoolmates and Relatives of In- ventor Honored at Milan, Ohio. | not the major.accomplishments of the { men of this genius. These are the riv- ers of sweat saved from the backs of men and the infinite drudgery relieved from the hands of women. | T mav emphasize that both scientific discovery and its practical application sociated Press. , Ohio, October 22.—Citizens | holders, the directors further ,recom- | to 15,000,000 shares and that the addi- mended that the authorized ® capital |tional 9.000.000 shares be for stock be increased from 6.000,000 shares | future expansion of the company. EDISON EXPRESSES CONTENT IF HE HAS GIVEN HAPPINESS| Modest Address Is Delivéred at Banquet; Given in His Honor at Light's Jubilee Celebration at Dearborn. are the products of long and arduous of this community, the birthplace of | By the Associated Press. honoring that vast army of thinkers | on Anniversary. DEARBORN, Mich.,, October 22.—|and workgrs of the past, and those who | electric lamp. It is also the dedication | Tesearch. Discovery and invention d'Z,‘Thomu A, Edison, held & celebration Thomas A. Edison is content if he has|are carrylhg on, without whom my of the Edison Institute of Technology, | not spring full grown from the brai e ot e, Pord. “Both wre ' a3 | of men. The Iapor of a host of men, |all through last night in connection 1 ‘ Washington took its place yesterday | national tributes to Mr. Edison. Ifl;nb lnhoxrutnrln. long. patient. sclen- | with the golden jubilee anniversary 01’:‘10:“;1";& 'n}::a g?‘fl:‘on‘ (;&z\;as"gn}ger- vrm'lkr ‘;’fl]\:ld have go‘x;e for r':‘nmngi 3 i . | tific experiment builds up the structure g s v ap- | ave spurred men eat ef- in the international celebration of the| The muitiplication of the emount pe up. |mation's creation ot the' incandescent [ SHIINE and ven's mesturelof hapC] I Tiwve spurred men to grest &| fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the incandescent lamp by Thomas A.| Edison, with a serigs of events com-! memorating “Light's Golden Jubilee.” Beginning at 7 o'clock last night huge searchlights played their beams across the sky above the city, spotting air- planes from Bolling Field giving a flying exhibition. In the public schools there were held #pecial ~ceremonics, featuring speeches on the life and work of the great in- ventor. Many of the larger motion- picture theaters showed special pictures | of Edison. | The model electric home on upper Fourteenth street was formerly opened | last_night to remain on exhibition two | weeks, James S. Taylor, chief of the Housing and Building Division of the Department of Commerce, paid tribute to the great inventor. 1 In one of the rooms of the model home the history of the stages of the development of the incandescent lamp i& shown, | TWO BOYS INJURED BY PASSING AUTOS One Has Collarbone Broken, Other Severely Shocked—Man Hurt When Cars Collide. while playing in front of his home, at 951 Fourteenth street southeast, George Fuller, 7 years old, ran against the automobile of Sherman Fraser, 953 Pif- teenth street southeast, and was se- verely shocked and his collarbone broken, Fraser took the injured boy to | Casualty Hospital, Eight-year-old Jack M. Pearson, 5320 | Eighth street, ran against the side of the car of Willam E. McQuay, 917 Fourteenth street southeast, and was Eeverely shocked. He was given first aid at Walter Reed Hospital. Herbert W. Lewis, 39 years old, of 1607 Kearney street northeast, received hody injuries as a result of & collision | between his automobile and a_north bound street car, which threw his ma- chine against another at Rhode Island avenue and Fourteenth street about 4:. o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was given first aid at Emergency Hospital His condition was reported serious. Tt is believed the accident resulted from Lewis being confused by the auto- matic traffic lights. Street car traffic | Was interrupted as a result of the ac- cident. MODERATIONISTS WIN. Australian Labor Ministry to Be Headed by Scullin. CANBERRA, Australia, October 22 (#)—Australia’s new Labor ministry, named today, represents a victory for the moderate séction of the paity. Henry Scullin, premier, also 1 take the portfolio of external affairs and territorial questions. J. Fenton, min- ister of customs and trade, is a high protectionist. Mr. Theodore, who 10 years ago was premier of Queensland, was named treasurer. o s 'A Wish COmc True ACH season finds the home in need of some replacements or embellishments. ‘It may be an odd chair, a sma table, a comfortable sofa, or perhaps a secre- tary that is needed to complete the comfort of the home, to add to its attraction, 'perhaps to satisfy a long existing desire. The gratification of such a wish need | been driven back into the farthest re- | tor to peer into the recesses of our in- | sides: of light in the world & thousandfoid is | 0f knowledge, not stone by stone, but worthy of celebration, for darkness is | Particle by particle. This adding of a forbidden limitation upon righteous | fact to fact some day brings forth a human activities, | revolutionary discovery. an illuminating When Mr. Edison invented the elec- | hypothesis, a great generalization, or a tric lamp he may perhaps have though* | Practical invention. just to produce plain light and more o: | Research both in pure science and it at less cost. I surmise that his wild- | In its applicaton to the arts is one of est ambition was to relieve the human | the most potent impulses to progr race from the curse of always cleaning | FOF it is organizcd research that give oil lamps, scrubbing up candle drips | daily improvement in machines and | and everlastingly carrying one or the | Processes, in methods of agricuiture, other of them about. He may have | the protection of health and in under- | thought to add safety to Chicago | Standing. From these we gain con- | against a second accidént from an ofl |stantly in better standards of living, | lamp. But the electric lamp has found | more stability-of employment, lessened infinite variety of unexpected uses. It |toil. lengtheneds’human life and de- enables us to postpone our spectacles |Creased suffering. In the end our for a few years long; it has made read- | leisure expands, our interest in life en- ing in bed infinitely more comfortable; | 1Tges, our vision stretches. There is by merely pushing a button we have in- | MOFe oy in life. troduced the element of surprise in Blasts Malthus' Prophecy. | Mrs. | grandmother was Mr. Edison’s sister. dealing with burglars; the goblins that | lived in dark corners and under the bed | have now been driven to the ouidcors; evil deeds which inhabit the dark have | DY science that shattered the gloomy | | prophecies of Malthus. More than a | century ago that great student held | that increasing population would outrun | the food supply and starvation was to be the inevitable executioner of the | treats of the night; it enables ihe doc- it substitutes for the hot-water bottle in aches and pains: it enables our cities and towns to cloths them- | Overcrowded earth. selves in gayety by night, no matter how | _But since his day we have seen the sed their appearance may be by day.| PAradox of the growth of population far And by all its multiple uses it has|beyond anything of which he ever lengthened the hours of our active lives, | dreamed, coupled at the same time with decreased our fears, replaced the dark | constantly increasing standards of liv- It is the increasing productivity of | Mayor E. G. Gler, when the pilgrimage men’s labor through the tools given us|is mpde. | constantly strengthen the fiber of na- electric light. Hundreds of Milan people banqueted | at an Edison dinner, at which child- hood friends of the “wizard inventor were the honored guests. Among those honored were George Mackey, 80, and | his sister, Mrs. Margaret J. Driver, 78, | who attended school wich Edtson, and Marian Wheeler Page, whose From windows in nearly every home in Milan smiled out a photographic likeness of the inventor, with a ribbon of gold attached to signify the occa- sion, but outdoor festivities were pre- vented by a_heavy downpour of rain. School children, who had planned to visit the Edison birthplace to_ sing | patriotic songs there, were forced to postpone the visit until = later day. | They will be received by Miss Meta Waewortn. “eouris of aron who Teet | 10 EDISON BROADCAST in the old Edison homestead, and by tion is not merely a question of the de- | velopment of our industries, of reducing the cost of living, of multiplying our harvests, or of larger leisure. We must tional life by the inculeation of that veracity of thought which springs from the search for truth. From its pursuit we shall discover the unfolding of beauty, we shall stimulate the aspiration 0 ( natural laws of electricity were discov- with good cheer, increased our safety, decreased our toil and enabled us to | read the type in the telephone book. It | has become the friend of man and child. Tllustration of Value, In making this, as in other great in- ventions, Mr. Edison gave an outstand- ing illustration of the value of the mod- ern method and system of invention, by which highly equipped, definitely or- ganized laboratory research transforms the raw material of scientific knowledge into new tools for the hand of man. In earlier times mechanical in-| venticn had been the infrequent and haphazard product of genius in the woodshed. But science has become too sophisticated a being to be wooad in such surroundings. Nowadays a thou- sand applied science laboratories, sup- ported by industries of our country, yearly produce a host of new inventions. I can perhaps illustrate this modern method of invention. The fundamental ered three-quarters of a century ago by Faraday, Hertz, Maxwell and other great investigators in the realms of pure physics and mathematics. Faraday dis- covered that energy could be trans- formed into electricity through induc- tion—the theory of the electrical gen- erator. It was one of the momentous discoveries of history. It is related that Mr. Gladstone was induced to visit| Faraday’s laboratory to see this new scientific contraption. When Gladstone is said to have made the characteristic practical man’s inquiry, “Will this ever be of use to mankind?” Faraday re- plied, “Some day you will collect taxes from it.” Mr. Edison, using organized, sys- tematic laboratory research, has been one of the great leaders who have con- | verted the pure physics of electricity | into a taxable product. Today the go ernments of the world levy upon up- ward of 60 billions of new wealth founded upon electricity. But the taxes and new wealth are ing and ever-increasing surplus of food. Malthus was right except for a new con- testant in the race with his principlé: ‘That was more scientific research, more discovery. And that race is still on. If we would have our country improve its standards of living, and at the same time accommodate itself to increasing population we must maintain on an even more liberal scale than ever before our great laboratories of both pure and ap- plied science. Our scientists and inventors are amongst our most priceless national pos- sessions. There isino sum that the world could not afford to pay these men who have that originality of mind, that devotion and industry to carry scientific thought forward in steps.and strides until it spreads to the comfort of every home; not by all the profits of all the banks in the world can we measure the contribution which these men make to our progress. And they are the least in- terested in the monetary results. Their satisfactions are in their accomplish- ment—in the contribution of some atom of knowledge which will become part of the great mechanism of progress. Their discoveries are not. the material for headlines. «Their names are usually knowff" but to a few. But the Nation owes them a great honor, and is proud to demonstrate through Mr. Edison to- day that their efforts are not unappre- |clated. The country can well pay its tribute to the men of this genius by ex- panding the facilities for their labors. The Nation today needs more support to research. It needs still more iabora- tories. To that Mr. Ford is making & generous contribution. And in establishing this institute, Mr. Ford is doing honor to Mr. Edison in % manner which appeals to a sense of fit- ness—that is, by founding an institution | dedicated to education and scientific re- search, Research Increases Comfort. And scientific research means more than its practical results in increased living comfort. The future of our Na- 'not necessarily involve any great expenditure for OUR ONEIDACRAFT SHOPS have specialized in moderate priced furniture of reliable construction and we are today displaying examples of excellent taste which, in our opinion, lead all ‘gthers in the moderate price class and in real value to the buyer. { We would like you to see them. . 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M., including Sltul:d.q Charge Awcounts “Our Telephone Number is now> DISTRICT 7262 Conveniently Abranged " ) for knowledge, we shall ever widen hu- man understanding. Mr. Edison has given a long life to such service. Every American owes a debt to him. It is not alone a debt for great benefactions he has brought to mankind, but also & debt for the honor he has brought to our country. Mr. Edi- son by his own genius and effort rose from modest beginnings to membership among the leaders of men. His life gives renewed confidence that our institutions hold open the door of opportunity to all those who would enter. Our_civilization is much like a gar- den. Tt is to be appraised by the qual- ity of its blooms. In degree as we ferti- lize its soil with liberty, as we maintain diligence in cultivation and guardian- ship against destructive forces, do we then produce those blossoms, the fra- grance of whose lives stimulate renewed endeavor. give to us the courage to re- newed effort and confidence of the fu- ture. An Imperceptible Difference The difference be- tween the payments on cheap furniture and our furniture is hardly noticeable, Ask us about our CREDIT plan. Peter Grogan & Sons :h GROGAN'S 817-823 Seventh St.N.W. “Homefurnishers Since 1866 honor attended by President Hoover horizon of man's understanding even a | last night the inventor said: | little and given him a measure of hap- | “Mr. President. Ladies and Gentle- | piness in the world, I am content. | men: I am told that tonight my voice | “This experience makes-me realize as | will reach out to the four corners of [never before that Americans are senti- | the world. It is an unusual opportun- | mental, and this crowning event of ity for me to express my deep appre- | light's golden jubflee fills me with ciation and thanks to you all for the gratifude. I thank our President and countless evidences of your good will. | you all. | I thank you from the bottom of my| “As to Henry Ford, words are inade- | heart. + |quate to express my feelings. I can| “I would bs embarrassed at the hon- | only say to you that. in the fullest and | ors that are being heaped on me in this | richest meaning of the term, he is my | unforgettable night were it not for the | friend. | fact that in honoring me you are also “Good-night.” o EINSTEIN'S GREETINGS | made the development of & great elec- trical industry possible. “The great technical _creators, ot which you are one of the most suc- cessful,” have produced in the course of a century an entirely new situation to which mankind has not vet adapted himself. For man today requires for the production of things necessary 1o life hardly any muscular labor and no lozger needs to be & motor or a slave. he great creators of future gen- erations probably will be organizers whose task will be to see that sucn technical powers no longer serve taw purposes of war. but of economic sw. curity and the liberation of mankind Mr. Einstein's speech was received | Monday evening shortly after 9 o'clock, Eastern standard time, in America, but, due to the six hours' difference in ‘time between Berlin and Eastern America, it was not delivered here until 3 ‘o'clock this morning. Only Five Words Spoken in Eng- lish by Scientist in Short Talk. By the Assocfated Press. BERLIN, October 22 —Just five words of Dr. Albert Eirstein's message from across the seas to America today over an international radio broadcast- ing arrangement were in English and therefore understandable to the vast majority of his listeners. ‘Those words were at the conclusion of his short address, when he saia, addressing himself to Mr. Edison, whose honor he was on the air: “Good night, my American friend.” ‘The famous scientist’s speech, very poorly heard in America, due to faulty reception, follows: izati on el Me Edlior, 16 4 Propose Higher Capitalization. | a unique pleasure to me to be able| NEW YORK, October 22 (A).—The | to send you from a far-away country |board of directors of Paramount-Fam- | these cordial congratulations. The " | Themeal Corrers, e ormily the Ous-Lasky Corporation yesterday called | technicians and physicists of the whoie | special meeting of stockholders for | world, are today thinking of you and | December 10, to consider a recommen- | your work with admiration and sym- | gation of the board to split the capital | pathy. “You have been equally successful |Stock on a two-for-one basis, creating | as a ploneer, executive and organizer. | 6.000.000 shares instead of the 3,000,000 Your construction of the electric in- | nowjauthorized. candescent lamp has to a great extent this is authorized by the stock- PLANNING EXPANSION. 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