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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, FEBRUARY, 1916
Within the Edison Gate
OUR FRONT COVER
This picture was taken during what is lunch time for employees of the Edison works, when they lay off for an hour's respite from their labors. This is the hour Mr. Edison puts in at his desk, solving the problems that come up in the morning's mail. It is characteristic of him that he should be at work while others rest. In this picture you see part of the famed library of the equally famed private laboratory, where achievements that have time and again startled the world have been thought out and wrought out. You also see a desk that is as hallowed for the material progress it has witnessed as the table on which the Declaration of Independence was signed is for the political progress in which it played a part. Where one saw the shackles of tyranny struck off, the other sees the binding cords of nature and custom torn asunder.
SIXTY-NINE FEBRUARY 11th AND THE YOUNGEST OF US ALL
If a man is only as old as he thinks, Thomas A. Edison is entering the prime of super-manhood, constantly developing in keenness of insight and foresight, brilliancy of intellect and vigor of thought.
While we could pay no tribute that would extend beyond the innumerable honors bestowed upon him during his unmatched career, we will say that we still look up to him as the first son of Mother Necessity and the right hand of Progress.
The many "Down East" friends of J. W. Scott, who has been a member of the Edison demonstrating force for the past year, will be glad to learn that he has been made a special Edison sales representative and assigned to the Maine district. Mr. Scott "came in" for the holidays.
An interesting and unique feature planned for Mr. Edison's birthday is the wearing by every employee of the big Orange plant of a button inscribed "EDISON 69."
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AN IMPROMPTU CONFERENCE
Unlike the Presidents of most large corporations, Mr. Edison does not sit at a desk and direct the affairs of his varied interests by means of messenger boys, call bells, telephones, etc. His work takes him to all parts of the Edison Laboratories, and wherever he happens to be is the President's headquarters. The day when the accompanying photograph was taken on December 30, 1915 (and not summer, as Mr. Wilson's straw hat would seem to indicate), and it shows Mr. Edison in consultation with C. H. Wilson, VicePresident and General Manager, and William Maxwell, Second Vice-President and Manager of the Musical Phonograph Division, outside of the entrance to the Laboratory.