EDISON ON GAS BOMBS AND WORSE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 6378, 19 July 1916, Page 1

EDISON ON GAS BOMBS AND WORSE.

[ A writer who visited Edison lately, asked him whether he couldn't invent something deadlier than a gas bomb. " Ves, I could," was the prompt reply, " but I can't get myself to work on swell stuff. 1 don't want to destroy life. I want to make the world a better place ti) live in." " lint if our country were attacked .'" insisted the interviewer. The kin.llincss of the blue eves gave way to the grim expression of the jaw. " I know of worse things than poixon gus," he said slowly. "War is bad enough as it is, without my helping to make it nurse. Only in case my country were attacked would I devote myself to such work ; but, if we were attacked, I would make war worse than it ever lias been before."