Such a “spirit wireless” as Mr. Edison is now perfecting at his laboratories in Orange, N. J., will mark a new epoch in the history of mankind. Its establishment will settle for all time the question of the soul’s immortality. If it proves that the dead do live on in a world beyond the grave and are able to communicate with us when supplied with suitable means, the “spirit wireless” will do away with the ouija boards, the slates, cabinets and trances of the mediums, and all the other crude, unsatisfactory methods now employed in the effort to pierce the veil of death.     Will the earth soon be dotted with “spirit wireless” stations where the dead may get in touch with us as readily as our living friends do over the telephone? Will the new invention, perhaps, enable us not only to hear the voices of the spirits, but to catch fleeting glimpses of their wraith-like forms?     These are questions which Mr. Edison may be answering any day now to the world’s everlasting satisfaction.     It any one can solve this ages-old problem and give scientific confirmation to man’s belief in immortality, surely it is Thomas A. Edison. In all his career he has seldom if ever attacked a problem that has proved too much for his genius. Although seventy-three years old he is still active in mind and body and able to work more hours at a stretch than most men in the prime of life.     How better could he crown his proud record of service to humanity than by perfecting a method by which the spirits

of the dead can transmit whatever messages they may have for the living friends they have left behind? From—Richmond Times-Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 24 Oct. 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.