The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 16, 1915, Image 7

Newspaper Page TextMR. EDISON TO HEAD INVENTIVE BOARD PROPOSED BOARD TO ASSIST IX PERFECTING NAVY. The Submarine Peril Especially to Be Rv Hip \p? Body. West Orange, X. J., July 12.?Thomas A. Edison has accepted an invitatioD from Secretary Daniels to t. ead an advisory board of civilian inventors for a bureau of invention and development to be created in the navy department. \ \1> Tioniolc' nf nrili'/incr tho 1T1 iUA A/UUiViO iUV^U \SL v* w*^ v ?v * ventive genius of Americans in and out of the military and naval service to meet conditions of warfare shown in the conflict on land and sea in Europe is outlined in a letter written last Wednesday asking Mr. Edison whether as a patriotic service to his country, he would undertake :he task of advising the proposed bureau. The plan is to have several men prominent in inventive research associated in the work. ;Among the problems to be laid befor the investigators, the secretary mentioned submarine warfare, adding that he felt sure that wiich Mr .Ediscn's wonderful brain to help them the officers of the navy would be able 'to meet this new danger witi:1 new devices that will assure peace to our country by their effectiveness." A Trup Patriot. r "I have been intending for some time," Mr. Daniels said in his letter, "to write you expressing m-y admiration at the splendid and patriotic attitude' you have taken, as reported in the public press, in refusing to devote your great inventive genius to warlike subjects except at the call of your own country. * * * I have deferred writing, however, because, at the same time, I wanted to take up with vou another matter to which I have given a great deal of thought? a matter in which I think your ideas and mine coincide. * ? * There is a very great service thait you can render the navy and the country at large and one which I am encouraged to believe you will consent to undertake. "One of the imperative needs of the navy, in my judgment, is machinery and facilities for utilizing the natural inventive genius of Americans to meet telle new conditions of warfare as shown abroad, and it is my intention, if a practical way can be worked out to establish * * * a department of invention and development to which all ideas and suggestions * * * can be referred. * * * There is at present no adequately equipped de partment to which to send them for! jie careful study required. In addition, our naval officers, particularly those at sea, are in a position to note wuere improvements are needed and to devise ways in which these improvements can be made. (They have, however, neither the time nor the spe cial training, nor in many cases, the natural inventive turn of mind needed to puc these ideas into definite shape. A Great Opportunity. "Were there a place where they could be sent to be worked out and perfected, I am sure we would get many noteworthy improvements from this source alone. * * * There are, unfortunately, no officers now detailed who can take time from the mass of work wmch they are called upon to 00 in order to devote it fully to studying new suggestions and inventions. The department is also unprovided wi;h the best facilities for work or pure experimentation and invention I wife'; the exception or our testing station at Annapolis, which is yet a small affair. * * * "I have in mind a general plan of organizing such a department. * * * 1 feel that our chances of getting the <pul)lic interested and back of this project will be enormously increased Air tt?/> n r. V* tfr\ n 4- 4V1 a otn r?f- c rvm r\ m n r? w c v:ali ua?c, at ciic w, oltuic aiau whose inventive genius is recognized by the whole world to assist us in consultation from time to time on matters of sufficient importance to bring to i_is attention. You are recognized by all of us as the one man above all others who can turn dreams into realities and who has at "lis command, in addition to his own wonderful mind, the finest facilities in the world for such work. What I want to ask is, if you would be willing, as a service to your country, to act as an advisor to this board ito take such tlbings as seem to you to be of value, but which we are not, at present, equipped to investigate, and to use your own magnificent facilities in such investigation if yx>u feel it worth while. This is a great deal to ask, and I, unfortunately, have northing but the thanks of the navy and I think, of the country at large, together with the feeling of service to your country that you yiU have, to offer you 1)y way of recompense; yet so clearly have you shown your pa r w, to L a a) IS-' S-:- Iw ? & ^ l i: . etf w cfl j 5 - d) r * .a t1 ? ! ~G ? I ' 0 3 2 ; I O 9? o a p. ol, in ? m "k fBZ W o .h ~ ll he 3 (6 x 8. y sf ' OS g iNCi S ? 51 R x o I o % I ?w ?n 25 y psissS dM !sS "S 1 triotism i:hat I feel justified in making Should you feel this request. , | however, I knc The Jfeiv Terror. i country would ,: times at the < "We are confronted with a new and i .., . . _ . .. , i are aiding us terrible engine of warfare in the sub? matter. marine, to consider only one of the i ? - - - - - - ' - - ! "If von noulf big things wlndi* I nave in mma, ana j ? - I feel sure that with the practical'as J0U maJ ( knowledge of the officers of the navy, j 1 would aPPre ! with a department composed of fthej*aits upon y< keenest and most inventive minds that *e can not we can get together, and with your are going t0 Of r\ 1 1 ** own wonderful brain to aid us, tfce L a11* United States will be able, as in the past, to meet 'this new danger with In announc new devices that will assure peace to would gladly a< our country by their effectiveness. * * invitation, Mr. "With you, it might be well to as- lieved t?e proi sociate a few men prominent in spe- it should be j cial lines of inventive research, and i time when thi I would like to consult with you a3 bringing befor< to who these men should be. 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Magazine i_?_ - m{11 United States senator writes an e leas that will e feasible at tremeIy amusing article entitled " 'Senator's Mail," in which he tel benefit or exk ! about the strange personal reques which ibis constituents make. He sa; [visory board t~nat out 0? the hundred and fifty le ild suggest a ters a ^ay which receives, at lea Ltation where a third are requests for personal f t. The cost ivors. in the course of the article 1 a few acres publishes a number of these remar 3 ^ith proper a|jje letters, one of which follows: efficient men 4<T . v . I need a pension, but the depar experiments ><- mq t -orao illCI1L V>uu L 51 v/uv, x e suggesting gaged to be married in 1862. The mi 1 approved. went away to -war, and I married hi matter and after the war. He died in 1885, ai at once. 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He st has a big farm and he employs a good _ many hired men in tine course of a fear, one at a time. iThey are expected to eat their meals in the dark. ?very new hand is shown where the few dishee are set on the table. Then rt/v^cro.j. inrna oiuf thft lieht. say Q_ I tli-1 C VIU I.UX.U w lQ ing:- "You know where the vittles m is now and you don't need no lamp; it heats up so." 20 An Irishman who worked one meal ne for the rustic screw is said^d liaVe L't replied on that occasion: "Be gorra, iy j you're right; the dinner's light enougfl* j without it." i * j - ? ? . 11..? i ^

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