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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931. E FOR 1ST IN U. S. First Electric Light Glowed in Laboratory 52 Years Ago One of 1300 Inven tions Credited to Wizard Over Half of 6322 Fires This Year Caused by Bolts Smokers and Firebugs Next in Line As Cause PAGE EIGHT switch and ivTf i i iii m By W. W. Dun NEW YORK. (AP) Thomas Edison turned a "dark ages" ended. For the dim slectrlc lamp, that glowed In his laboratory 62 yean ago was the brightest spot in a pattern of Inventive progress that, transform ed his times. At the very moment that this pro- ' phetlo beacon lighted up the jeager face of the 32- l vMrolrf inventor I every gas light f 1 must have flic 1 Vrl apprehen- Lantern gasped In lte own smoke, and every horse car creaked om inously. For the genius of this sturdy youth of Dutch ancestry was the master key that unbarred the door to the age of electr 1 c 1 1 y, and rel e g a t e d ;hem to rubbish heaps, Q a 1 v a n had sensed a myster ious force which made the frog leg Jump when sprinkled with salt. But Edison saw In this same force the promise of a world turned electro mechanical. Under his guidance the principles linked with Volta, Ampere, Ohm and the others crackled their way from musty laboratories Into home, office1 . and factory. I They coursed through the filament of hli orude ' Inoandesoent lamp, energised the transmitter he contrib uted to pioneer telephony and be came his partners In Improving oth er devices' whloh have become Indis pensable In Industry and the home. Always the Inventor For this former train newsboy, who entered telegraphy when the grateful father of a child whose life he had saved taught him the subject, early learned to apply a teat to his Inven tive visions. It was. In effect, the question whether he would find at the end of his task a product or a method useful to the world. In the end he was credited with more than 1300 patents,. The electrlo Incandescent light, which first glowed for him. Is per haps his outstanding contribution. But the same persistency which kept him beside the first bulb until It burned out after 40 hours brought hint success In virtually every line of Inventive endeavor. Improved Telegraphy Even before this, while yet In hts twenties, he had profited from Im provements to stock tickers and had made valuable contributions to teleg raphy and telephony. In 1877 his carbon grain transmit' tar aided In bringing Alexander Gra ham Bali's telephone into wider use. The phonograph he invented fol lowing Inspiration from his tele phone experiments was destined to replace the old muslo boxes that shared with family albums the places oi honor in parlors of the period. Invented "Electrlo Pen" to omces which then had no means of duplicating letters and documents, his "electrlo pen" was the forerunner of the modern duplicator while his dictating machine was a later extension of the phonograph. His name was given to a phenome non observed In the passage of elec tricity from a filament to a metal . piate Inside an Incandescent bulb. And the principle behind this "Edi son effect" later was the basis of the modern radio. Motion pictures had their origin In his "Klnetescoplo camera" view ed through a peep-hole. Added to Nation's Wealth In 1938, when he received the con gressional gold medal, the value of his Industries dependent In whole or In part upon his Inventions was estimated officially at nearly 10 bil lion dollars. Based upon this estimate, he bad added S30.ooo.000 annually for a half century to the nation's wealth. Merely to catalog his outright In ventions would be to slight the con tributions he made in Improving what others had begun. , For Edlion found one world and left another. Our hero leads his braves today to battle there they go I And who should laugh If It's a corn crib that's their deadly foe? And who should laugh If at the end that foe Is brought to rcut. With red and white and yellow ears of corn strewn all about? .... Meteorological Report October 10, 1031 Medford and vicinity: Tonight and Saturday fair and mild. Oregon: Fair tonight and Saturday but overcast on coast; mild temperature. Lowest temperature this morning o oegrees. Temperature a year ago today; Highest 68; lowest 31. Total precipitation since Sept, 1, 1931, 1.23 Inches. Relative humidity at o p. m, yes terday 21 degrees; 5 a, m. today 70 degrees. - , Sunset today, 6:28 p. m. ' Tomorrow: Sunrise 6:20 a. m. Sun set 6:27 p. m. Observations Taken at 5 a. rn 1j0 Merldlai. Time. I Baker City 72 3 Boston -... 64 58 .14 Boise ....,. 78 44 00 48 . 68 88 . Chicago Denver Des Molnee ... 64 Fresno .. 88 Helena' ... 68 Los Angeles Medford 48 ... 63 36 82 41 .. 68 at 60 T. .... 80 83 New York 74 Phoenix 82 Portland 78 60 . Reno ,. 78 46 .. Roseburg . 78 42 .... Salt Lake 70 48 San Francisco.... 70 66 ... Seattle ...... 68 60 Spokane 70 40 .. Washington, O.O. 78 68 .82 4 LONGER LIFE FOR Clear Rain Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear . Rain Cloudy Clear P. Cdy. Clear Clear Cloudy P. Cdy. Clear Cloudy WASHINGTON (AP) -Lightning, beyond control of forest patrola, is by far the chief cause of such foreat fires as have charred and blackened northwest lumber areas larger than the state of Delaware. In recent 'weeks. More than half the 6322 fires in National forests, so far, In 1031, were started by lightning bolts, reports the United States foreat service. Careless smokers and Incendiaries were next In Importance a causes. Spreading campflree, brush-burning operations, locomotive sparks and lumber camps accounted for most of the others. Eighth of Fire Lou. Forest fire losses are roughly about 62.fiOO.000 annually, or one-eighth of the nation's total annual fire loss of about $600,000,000, forest service figures covering the past five years, indicate. Bo far In 1031 fires In national forests alone have burned more than 384,168 acres of timber. Damage to private timber lands, not yet estimated, has been far greater. Fires In the northwest are be lieved to have destroyed 1,500,000 acres of government and privately owned forests. The federal govern ment has spent more than 1)2,000, 000 already this year In fighting fires on its own land. Lookouts Spot Fires. More than 300 federal forest fire lookouts ceaselessly scan ridges and valleys for telltale columns of smoke About 67 per cent of forest fires are spotted and put under control before they burn more than 10 acres. When a fire gets out of control, leaping through tree tops and bur rowing through underbrush and the dry humus that covers the soil, flinging advance guards of sparks as much as half a mile, hundreds of fire-fighters are mobilized. While the forest ranger In charge of the battle soars over the burning woods In an airplane to learn the extent and direction of the enemy's movements, the ground forces dig miles of trenches In a double flank attack designed to gradually , narrow down and "pinch out" the fire's progress. Use Portable Pumps. PumpSi carried on backs of men and horses, are rushed to strategic points. Dead trees Inside the lire lines are cut down before they catch fire and explode, scattering sparks to start new fires. Fire fighters have the best chance to gain the upper hand at night when the wind usually drops, hu midity Increases, smoke clings closer to the ground, shutting off oxygen, and the fire has to reduce Its speed TOPEKA, Kan. Oct. 16. (AP) In a stormy session, a non-partisan meet ing of Kansas taxpayers adopted to day resolution demanding a special session of the state legislature on or before December 1, 1931, "for the purpose of providing means for dras tic reduction of taxes and for no other purpose." STEERS DROWN WHEN IS NEW YORK, Oot. 18 (AP) Pre diction that man's average life la about to be increased from SB years to 70 years, due to a "new type of medicine" was maue at the American College of 8 ur peons' meeting today, by Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. This new phase of healing Is a combination of medical care with the aid of the Individual efforts and In telligence o: the patient. 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'iPSsifm ETHEL M. HALL (Mildred Kitchen of the San Francisco 'Call Bulletin) in oharge of the Mail Tribune School of Home Economics. THE MAIL TRIBUNE is fortu nate in being able to bring to Medford one of. the Pacific Coast's most outstanding Home Economists, Ethel M. Hall, to direct a three-day free School of Home Economics. Ethel Hall, known to thousands on the Coast as Mildred Kitchen, is thoroughly versed in the problems of women. She has a large following in the fields of cooking and dietetics and is widely known as an authority on culinary matters. At the school her illustrated lectures will embrace Food Preparation, Combinations and Diet, Reducing and many other features of interest to Southern Oregon Women. You will enjoy these interesting talks and you'll like Ethel Hall with her won derful personality and wide knowl edge of your problems and their so lution. Plan now to attend every day from 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon. Watch for further details in the Mail Tribune. 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