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...Peabody presented Dry law endorsements from Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Mrs. Henry Ford, echoes of the endorsements their husbands gave fortnight ago (TIME, March 17). From Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, she offered this statement: "In my circle of friends, with two exceptions, I have found no man, woman or child who drinks, brews, smuggles, purchases, sells or distributes any form of alcoholic liquor. These enormous dry circles appear to me to represent the climax of normal civilized growth. Those who still crave alcohol must acquire self-discipline before they attain the civilized standard. For them Prohibition...
...about 69% of New York Steam's stock at present outstanding. While no actual merger is proposed, operating economies can take place. One of these is already practiced by New York Steam's purchasing part of the output of the Gas-controlled New York Edison Co., since steam for heating is needed in the morning, steam for generating in the afternoon...
Just what were Inventor Edison's inmost thoughts about that celebration, or about his whole career and the fruits thereof and the uses to which they have been put, the public may not know. But last week Inventor Edison and the public could read in the Nation (pinko-liberal weekly) a fantasy by James Rorty, Irish-American free lancer, entitled "The Inventor Enters Heaven," which took for its point of departure a ten-minute interval of darkness and silence all over the U. S. in tribute to a deceased Inventor whom none could fail to recognize...
...Mister Edison sits on a throne...
...lights the way?Mister Thomas A. Edison...