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ELECTRICITY TQ CURE ALL ILLS OF WORLD, PREDICTS EDISON Orange, N. J., May 25. The future uses of electricity that - will benefit humanity mdst-vill be through its medical application. A new source of electrical supply will be direct Irom coal without need of steam boilers. These, are predictions of Thos. A. Edison, whose inventive genius is re- j W5.A."E6i5oix sponsible for the widespread applica tion of electricity. "Electricity has been the principal factor in the enormous progress of civilization in the last 35 years," Edi son said. "But greater and more won derful uses of it are held by the future. "It must be possible to generate j electricity direct from coal," he said. "When that is accomplished we will record a new epoch. It may come to morrow. We are working on it now. "Considerable is, being done to re veal the medical functions of electric ity," he continued, "but its possibili ties in this 'direction are practically unknown. "This research, work must be done secretly, as the thousands of quacks now applying electricity to humans for all sorts of ills" seize on every ad vance announcement from scientists to advertise their claims. "Till we know more about our bodies it will be difficult to tell what can be done with electricity- as a medical aid. "I once asked Du Bois Reymond, psychologist, what makes my finger move. It isn't heat, light, electricity, ( magnetism. What is it? Reymond had studied it 30 years, but he wouldn't answer me." Edison now sleeps about five and a half hours a night. For. years he only slept four. Mrs. Edison, he ex plained, doesn't perrhij: him to work all night any more. His daily diet does not exceed a pound and a half of food. He smokes cigars and- chews tobacco, but bam cigarets. He reads regularly 118 scientific and trade periodicals and five daily newspapers and keeps in intimate touch with every form of human ac tivity, including baseball, golf and the stage. "I read four Ijnes at once," he said. "They should teach that kind of read ing in the public schools." Two of Edison'-s closest friends are Henry Ford, auto maker, and John Burroughs, naturalist "Ford's profit-sharing plan holds a fine principle, if you have the money to carry it out," he commented. "I believe bis plan will have no bad ' effect on the industrial situation." JjggtjgMT uMrtUAlsa-, fi,'-'ii;mj