TOO MUCH ILLNESS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 6

TOO MUCH ILLNESS

EDISON'S OPINION. INVENTORS WHI, BE BIOJ.O--GIBTS. NEW YOPTC. Dro. 21, Mr. Thomas A. Edison said the outstanding inventions oF the futur.will he in the held of health, and that inventors will be biologists and ehpmisTs.

Mr. Edison ronlied to a ouostionnniro from the Review of Reviews. Mr. Edison himself is famous for his questionnaires. “Sickness- is pretty hard on the workman now,”'sa’d the S-l-venr-old wizard of Menlo Park. “It’s hard for them to got a good doctor, and proper carp is expensive. There is too much s'ekness. Something will have to he done about it, and that is where biology and chemistry come in!”

Here are some of the other questions and answers:—

Q.: Do you think your work would ho easier if you were beginning now —with business ready tb give mon<-v and facilities for research P—Yes. I was -id years hustling for payrolls Q. *, Do inventors come from necessity—“the mother of invention” —or from scientific curiosity ? ; —A.Most inventors work to earn money to get a modest living for their families. All they want i? enough money to experiment with. Q.: Will science tell ns to eat less, as it has told us to drink' less. —A.: Eighty per cent, of our deaths are dim to over-eating. After the' age of 21 a. large variety and quantity of food is unnecessary. All these things crowd in the stomach and cause poisons. Jt takes courage to learn restraint. But all that eating is unnecessary. I find that mv weight-lteeps up on a glass of milk alone, every two hours. Q.: Is there danger that life will grow too complicated, too speedy, with‘*so many new inventions? —A.;. No. People will live up to it. The brain, if used, has enormous capacity. ..People don’t begin .to .suspect what the mind is capable of.

Q.: Is there any inherent difficulty irt making television as common r.iis the telephone ?—A.: Yes, most sand complexity. .Locomotives are pr<»‘.tv ’well developed, , but you wouldn't want to bitv one-and have it iri’your House would youP Television is like that, , .

. .Q!:'I)0 you think the .auto-gyro is, the -coming thing in aviation—the best principle so far developed?—A.: Yes, and it came from Spain. They say that Spain is dead. But that man (the inventor) has the egg of Cobim bus. . Q. :'-Is it your opinion that poison gas ih wariare is , efficient and merciful, or a horror, to .be barred ? I thk>.k i.C" less, deadly than bullets and boTbbs. . i • _ On the wall of Mr. Edison’s office in West Orange, N.J., where the questionnaire was presented, hangs a cimtation from Sir Joshua Reynolds. ‘'There .is. no expedient to which man will net resort to avoid the real jjkbor of thinking.” Pointing, to it, Mr. Edison said to h’s interviewersIt what’s Hie matter with ns.’