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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1939-05-05, Page 6kat sa reee'ed, ,ified!da R • lie Nature cif Telepat nideased from .Haeper's Magazine in Reader's Digetat) ftettale for any man to 'read' that lies only in the mind ler? Oan any man 'see' an hat is hidden. from his eyes bis ~other scmses? Is there h 'flung as telepathy, or Jtave elair- ne argumneet of my own to ',and, far less, any personal faith ?I*Ose. I want to set forth an array 'facts. I shall be willing to let the "d_ make of Chem what he can. dOnee they may startle him, however, '146 pouch as they have startled me, 1 aught to ,tell him that I have made ee,„realre of all the facts I am presenting. There have ,been plenty of good , talk to tell us about dreams that ;• came true, Almost any one of us Meet have a friend who is certain he has seen an apparition and perhaps two ar three who are sure they have had mimetic's:is ,of events that were on ' th3 point of occurring at some distant pause. Aerecent inquiry made of 10,- 000 men and WOmen of the kind, who appear In eVellioar Who" revealed the, fact that -onto in every four was will- ing to admit a personal expeaienee of this nature. in .the main we have simply put aside these stories for the good reason that they were at such vaaiaece with everyday experience as to be highly improbable, and for. the even better aeason, that they were sel- doma capable of proof or real investi- gation. But there is something we may now report as sue°, and it is very differ- ent from any unauthenticated lore. It is the outcome cif a long sersles of ex- periments, simple but purely scientific and more rigorous and therouah than any we have seen before. At Duke University, I have just been sitting across a table from. a MULTI -USE -A smooth Rowing, quick drying high gIaaa enamel that will add sparkling beauty to your home. For wood or metal surfaces e or outside. 26 gloricias colors to choose from. 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W EIS over I found Ghat she had nam- ed an amazing number of cards ear - 1 ectly-so many treat there was onty one chance in 600 million that she might have done it by luck or acci- eent. About six :years ago Professor Jos- eph Bank Rhine, of Duke University, a gen these tests to find out aura to all wh,ether Liere is any such thing as t eiepathy or clairvoyance percept e.i. The tests have gone on without a res - tete, and mc a than 100,000 have ae,v oeen recorded. The various tests are all made with a 25 -card pack, each card bearing on its face one of five different designs -a circle, a rectangle, a star, a cross or a set of wavy lines. Anyone who took the test, under whatever consie Coes, was simply asked to name as rtany of the cards as he could wale out looking at them and without other sensory access to therm In pure ohance, of course, he would average one card right in every fie. The idea was simply to see whether anyone could stead* name enough of the cards eight to show something mere than mere chance at work. About half of the tests were for clairvoy- auee and, the other ha ;f for telepathy. For instance, if the experimenter removes thecards one by one with- out looking at them all the performer has called them, and if the performer coin succeed in these conditions he would seem to be displaying pure clairvoyance since no ane else can know what the cards are. Again, there may be no actual cards in use. The experimenter (may merely imag- ine one card after another and ask the performer to, name th.e card he is im- agining. In this case the test, would be ane of pure telepattiy. The result of these experime,nts bas been amazing. About a score of men and women were discovered who could regularly name so many ,of the -cards correctly, in such a variety of tests, that there was not one chance in many a million million of their hav- ing done it by accident; and the suc- cesses of them all taken together were so great as to stagger trhe imagina- tion, leaving us but little apparent choice between believing in clairvoy- ance and telepathy or believing in sheer nonsense. The first extraordinary score was made by A. J. Linzmayer, a student at Duke. In his preliminary test be --nave You Ever Seen Your Home Town Paper Thrown into the gutter or waste paper basket before it was thoroughly read But gutters and waste baskets are filled every day with unopen- ed, unread, expensive direct advertising, sale ammunition shot into the air, and cheap publications promoted by fly-by-night artists. 0 • • Intelligent advertising in home town newspapers is known to be the most effective form of advertising for local business. - • • • An advertisement in The Huron Expositor will reach the- buyers in the local trade territory and will be read by thousands of people. • • • Expositor Ads Assure Results • THE HURON EXPOSITOR PIIONE 41' SEAFORTII Opening/ Up The Night called 21 cards right out of 45, where chance would have allowed him only 9. During the ,next few days, he call- ed 600 tarde and got 238 of them con rect. ',The chance of doing this by ac- cident is 1 in 100 deciaions, or 1 fol- lowed by 35 zeros. In one series, of 25 calls Linen:layer made a score ef 21 correct, and 15 of these were con- secutive. Anybody who has ever dealt a head at bridge may be inter- ested in figuring the &ranee of such a feat. Hubert Pearce, a divinity student at Duke, las taken 11,250 tests and, counting those attempted when he was ill or worried, he has still aver- aged nine calls correct in every 25 through the entare series. !George Zirkle in 3,400 tests made an average of 11. ,connect in 25. Remember that chance would have allowed these men an average of fire correct out of 25; and note that their scores are always above the chance allowance. If the performers were operating under chance alone, their scores would be just as likely to fallbelow the mean allowance as to rise above it. In most cases the distance between the performer and the pack of cards in use would seem to make little dif- ference in his success. In 600 tests behind a screen Mr. Pearce held to an average of 9 in 25, and in 300 In a separate building to an average of 9.9. In 200 tests taken at a distance of 250 millet; Miele Sara Ownbey and Miss May Frances Turner made all average of 10.1 correct in every 25. On several ,occasions Ziekle called 22 right in a given 25, and once, in a series of 54), he seared 26 correct in straight suceessien Pearce once call- ed ,every card. correctly in. the pack of 25. And the "chance_ of doing that is one in 298,923,223,876,953,125. If we were calling cares at the rate of one every half -minute far ten hours a day' every day in the year, it would take us about 600 billion years, to make as many calls as the number just put down_ So once in every 600 billion years we could expect to duplicate the feat of Pearce by chance. The results of these 100,000 tests constitute formidable evidence. Dr. Rhine and his associates are so sure that clairvoyance and telepathy are , now a part of scientific fact that for ,sanne time they leave hardly been in- terested in further tests intended merely to prove the case. They are still hard at work to find out, not whe- ther these powers of the mind exist, but what tate owere are -how coni - mon they may be, how far they may be cultivable, and above all hew it is that they doetheir work. If we take the powers of clairvoe- anee and telepathy for real, as does Professor Rbine, what can we say in explanation of them? Are they going te remain another mystery for us, like gravitation or cohesion, or are we go- ing to discover something of their na- ture? We are still too deep in the dark to "speak with certainty but there are a few things we may sug- gest, if only tentatively. In the first place, the powers would seem to be truly extra -sensory. They do not seem to constitute a sixth sense. The mea and women who pos- sess be gifts are all firm in the opin- ion that they cannot localize the !pow- er in the way in which they can so easily localize their eight in the eyes, their hearing in the ears. Their re- sponse is general and total. Nor can we see our way to clairvoyance or telepathy through any theory of radia- tion.' They mast be taken for mental gifts apart from sense.. The power would appear to be any- thing but passive. And that puts at rest an ancient notion that the first duty of a good clairvoyant is to put himself to sleep, partly ar entirely af- ter Wheel he may be able to "see" things as they somehow drift into his vacant mind On the contrary, it is necessary for the percipient to be alert. In nearly every ease a marked decline in scoring has occurred when the performer was indisposed or war: lied, when he wee very tired, or When thane was any other reason for undue distraction. A good many times, in the middle of a long run of tests, the performer has been given a capsule containing a narcotic to see how it might affect his scoring, .and about as often one containing a stimulant. Of- ten the man did not know Willi ch of the 'two, if either, he was taking in his capoule, or what he might expect as a result. In every case the narco- tic has brought a notable decline in scaring, usually to the mere chance ratio; and the stimulant has inear- iably raised the score, however, high it may have been before. The gift would seem to be an ac- tive function of the mind, more deli- cate than most of our other mental powers, but it appears to be an alto- gether normal power, and to have no kindred with infirmity of mind er bo- dy. It would seem to be appearing in our species., rather than disappearing; and it is probable enough ,that, since the extragensery power is of a higher order than the sensory, it comes later in the evolutionary process?. Clalevoyance and telepathy would seem to be one and the same gift manifested in two different ,media. So far the two gifts have been foetid in. every person who enjoys either of them, and both are of equal vigor. A percipient's score is always the same .for !pure clairvoyance as for pure tele- pathy. Now if that be true it may lead us to a final bokl eurmiee. All thirou,gh history, and all around the world to- day, there have been and are a good many men and! women having mental experiences of various kincle which they cannot begin to understand. The kind of thing that happened famously tO Joan of Arc and to SavonaroTa, is reported to be happening still to far too many humbler fait for Us be, go "ea • eiei se,he eel (By W. CliffordHarvey. in Science Monitor) When night blankets the sports field, the baseball umpire bawls: "Garne called on acoorad of darknetia," golfers pick up their clubs and head for the showers, tennis players Shake banter over the net 'and, "call it a day" and'even the football iron men who weather everything else from cloud- bursts to bliz7iards break ranks before the advance of darkness. But when Old Sol retreats from the macadamized playing field of Amer- ica's great autiemetive game, the, mo- torist, ane of some 36,000,000 partici- pants in that national pastime, snaps en a pair of miniature searchlights and goes roaring off into the night as though nailing had happened. He bas no time to consider that in the few moments it took for the sun to drop behind the horizon, the scope of his vision had been reduced by 60 to 70 per leant. Perhaps the Ignorance of motorists concerning the mechanics involvedin piloting a tonanceahalf of steel, cap- able of mile -a -minute speeds, is the reason for a sudden, sharp up -curve in eight -time mishaps on the nation's 3,000,0e0 miles of improved 'highways. Then again., it is charged by safety experts that highway illumination has failed to keep .step with improve- ments in automobile speeds, and equip- ment. At any rate, .statistics reveal that motor fatalities after dark have increased from 15,0110 to 22,000 a year while fatalities during the daytime have 'dropped as fifharply from 32,000 . to 15:000. These facts are particularly arrest- ing to safety officials and organizers of a great llatIonai highway safety machine built up during the last de- cade in an effort to wipe out the an- nual $2,000,000,000 economic loss in- volved in. automobile accidents. For they nalean that if any farth,er sub- stantial peoples's, is to be made in curbing the human traits of careless - nese and recklessness behind the wheel as well as on foot, engineering must be more effectively geared to meet the challenge of after -dark driv- ing. Paradoxically the 25 per cent of motorists who use their ears at night, cause more than 60 per cent. of all the highway trouble. yet essentially the drivers after dark are the same as those operating in ,the daylight. They use the same cars and the same roadis. But the es,seatiial flifferease is - visibility. Hence, the attacks rpon night-time aceidents are direct- ed into three channels: ianpravemeats in headlights at eliminate glare; per- fection of overhead illumination; ed- ucation of drivers to keep their speeds within braking distance of their range of vision. Many drivers have not ellen heard, of the expression: "Overdriving your' headlights," although it 1., largely re- spensible for most of the damage at night, . It means driving too fast to i+verid hitting an object tilia'r suddenly looms into the headlight focus. En- gineers agree that modern headlights permit a clear view of the road ahead for not more than 150 feet. Yet a car going 50 miles an hour covers 73 feet or nearly one-half of the head- light vision in, one second. In two seconds, the car will reach the ob- ject. Statisticians of the -Oreater Chicago Safety Council estimate that during the time required by the 50-milean- hour motorist to see the object, re- cognize it as a hazard and get his foot to the brake pedal, the car hiss travelled 201 feet It takes another 131 feet to depress the brake and come to a stop. If the brakes are loss, the tirea worn, the road a bit slippery er the driver less alert than usual, stopping distances are increas- ed. On that basis, the motorist going 50 miles an hour Ls overdriving his head - fleets by at least 182 feet. And, the overdriving distances are proportion- ately greater if the headlights are dirty, the bulbs weak, reflectors des- ty or the focus out of line. , Now what about that motorist try - on ignoring it. AB such experience has came to bear the name parapeycholo- gy, Which means only that it is psy- chelogical experience of a nature we cannot yet exptain. It is the realm of Parapsychology which Professor Rhine has taken for his province. He and les associates are eager to ex- amine all these species of experience and to put them to every test that science may require. He feels he has made sure that many of us have a way finding out a little about dm World outside us without tem .use of any of our eenaos. He has reason, to believe that all of us will show a lit- tle of this power, or perhap,s a good deal, as soma es we are more familiar with tho delicate conditions that al- low it to unfold; though as yet he eel quite properly 'experimented, mainly with the men and women who are most highly gifted in it. Now it may be a signal fact that every one of the eight most gifte.d extrasensory percipients •so fear dia- oovered cameo from a family' in which one or more members. have been known for Various other parapsycholo- gical experieeces. One of them had a rarather and an un -ole who were given _premlonitiona. Another had a fa- ther whose prophetic dreams would fairly commonly come true; and, once ou two suoceesive tailgate both his fa- ther and his mother dreamed oe an unanticipated event. which duly came to pass. A third had a mother with unusual clairvoyant power who believ- ed she was in ,league, with various "spirits." Since there has been no Fear performer without" at least one relative given to sock experiences, it begins to look as if unusual gifts of this mart may ram 41, families. And our bold surmise is this: If the two erommonest parapsychological experiences shave now been isolated and discovered to be ,one, end if the men and women who are signal for them commonly have close relatives who are given to all the other various experiences in the field, it may be that in these two we shall find a key 90 some or all of the other mysteries in the realm of mind, which leave so long been a Puzzle., . • . , Ing to sass another car travelliug ahead of him in the same direction at 40 miles an leeriel That beingup a slew set of statistics, ,for this achievenferat ie. the (equivalent of pass- ing a line of peeked cars 260 feet long So, to speed up, pass and get back into line again, the driver requires a safety margin of 600 feet of clear roadway ahead. At nigibe he must survey the 600 feet with headlights that chine only 150 feet ahead, plus overhead illumination which throws splashes of concentrated light epou ihighway surfaces, leaving circles, of blind areas all along the roadway. The question follows: "Shall this lack of adequate vision be corrected by increasing the power of headlights or by improving the quality and effi- ciency of overhaul illumination?" Around this query revolves a merry- go-round of laboratory researcch, en- -gmeerang calculate:mg aired energetic argumentation from which is emerg- ing a factual 'basis for the next 10 - year campaign ,againet human an,d ein- gineenthg weakneese,s on the nation's poorly -lighted highways. High light of this campaign is the apparent agreement among engineers that the answer to -safe driving after dark Nee in apProximating daylight with overhead illumination, perhaps to the point where headlights may be unnecessary on main, through aven- ues of travel. Tthst is why motorists will hear More and more about "sil- houette lighting' socalled by engin- eers because of lis proficiency in Winging objects into bold relief by setting them against a background! or For a long time, engineers have known that clear ViSital for the hu man eye is largely a matter of con tea.st between objects in the road and their background. To find a capper cent, for instaarce, on a floor with a, natural Wood finish is like looking for a black cat in a dark cellar.- But put the cent on a piece of white paper and it is easily located. ,... Similarly, a pedestrian in a dark suit, set against a background of shrubs avid trees is a difficult object to pick out with 150 -foot Meadlight beamee In a light suit, he can be seen quite clearly even without the headlights. And even in a da,rk suit en a well -lighted road teat provides diffused' light behind as well as in fleet of the ped.estria.n. le can be distin,guished reaaile. That is the basis of silhouette lighting setained by overhead illumination which paints the entire highavae with 'ight 'Bemuse the need is for more light behind the objects retard than in front of them, engineers do. not theta that say increase in the Never of headlights will help the situation. In fact, the inoreased glare :slight well con,stitute an added haza.rd. T ec braicall y speakine, heael ght s provide only low levels of lasht un- der which the eye loses its ability, f0 re cogn i color. Aa 1 los Mg its sense af color, the eye fails to dint objects readily. In briget ligat, the iris of the eye closes to prate itself noel over-exposure. But this, is not sufficient ,protection against high-pow- ered headlight beams. Pence, for the space of a few secoeds, when opposing headlights strike the iris, the car cov- ers many feet with the vision of the driver completely oblitereted. Efforts to eliminate headlight glare were climaxed recently in the inven- tion of a material callci polaraid. classified by Dr. R. W. Wood_ of the Johns Hopkins University as "the most significant advance niade in the held of optics within bhe Inert 0114 'misdeed yeame." Polarieed light h light frrom which all reflected ray .have been eliminated. And since re- flected light is the cause of glexe, pol- arized light may prove the aneawer the headlight problem, ,sitree glare will be era:veil without the loos of ac- tual illumination. But what doe e overhead illumina- tion offer? First, it, provides illum ination at distant points far beyond the reach of headlights and thus pro- viding backgrounds of light far ob- jeets in the .road. Second, it adapts the eye of tee driver to higher levels of light thus reducing glare awe em- anates from low levels of light pul- sating from head) ights. And thi al, it maintains, ma xi re u ra efficiency at. all ti rues, whereas 50,000 candile-pow- ered headlights, developed art the fac- tory, are usually struggling along with Several candles snuffed out by a va- riety of disorders peculiar to head- ligihts. The ultimate to be expected from headlights is a glarelese beam diffus ing light over possibly 200 feet of clear roadway "ealead. The nuost to be expected from overhead illurmina- tion is a daylight vision for several thousand feet ahead that may even obviate eh° need for .he,a,clitights, Here we have shoe reason why state legis- latore, Congress and highway safety agencies are concentrating on plans to turn night into day on the reetion's main trunk ,bighways. "But that will cost millions of dol- lars," the taxpayer retorts. And Chat is true, only the taxpayer should reap Tinge dividends ini lower insurance costs and the satisfaction of delving over highways at ntigh.t. as safely as he does in the daytime. At the same time, the greater utilization of ,Itigh- ways after dark with the ultimate in clear vision and comfort, is a likely answer to ,prevailing highway conges- tion. New Jersey alone estimates that the average east per capita for highs, way aceidenteeid$12 while its average lighting cost is only $1. The Street Lighting Committee of the Illuminat- ing Engineering Society figures that 'avoidable night accidents cost the country $187,000,000 a year or twice the amount that would be necessary to support an adequate nation-wide highway lighting system_ The challenge of night mishaps is not necessarily one that affects, ev- ery highway In the oountry. The fact is that most of the .nightstime dam- age eau be prevented by adequate lighting of only the most troublesoine amid heavily travelled, piorbians,of main high -Way -9. Kirk M. Reid, illu,nlinating engineer of Mie' General Electric fiOnl'!! Gode0e.h DEAF IS MISERY that, /14 many peroato with defeetive lwfi and Meal Mama sae *sate slakring eat- eation, go Ito Thal* ad church • LEONAAR orvisnas EAR 'Any lgotaphionen MOW the Ear out of skate No Wires No Batteries No Mad Jrcd They are Uneden. Ocanfontis and btexpenaive. Write for booklet and putcatu statemout ot the inventor who wall Markel (leaf. A. O. LEONARD, IND., Suite 172. Canada Cement pHs.. Warm/ pany, contends that the limited ntifee age necessary to Meet the night -lintel highway fatality ehellettge is not Mora than 50,000 ,miles of modern lighted highways for the whole.United States: On this limited mileage, he Said, mord than three-quarters of the accidents occur after nightfall. He believed that the lighting of this mileage to be located through in- tensive studies would prevent 60,000 casualties and 100,000 (meal of pro- perty damage every year. On tae other hitiati, Roy p. Britten, director of the National Highway Us- ers Conference, is unwilling to accept Mr. Reid's claim without more sup- porting data. Mr. Britton says that the elimination of 60,000 casualties alluded to by Mr. Reid, which include such inherent weaknesses as drunken driving, carelessness and sheer reck- lessness. He suggested that better lighted highways would encourrage drivers to go faster at night and would add to algae congestion on the roadie That, however, has not been the ex- pedience of dozen of cities, including Detroit. This city reports teat on 31 miles of main 'highways in 1934,-1935 and 1936, there occurred 144 night fatalities: and 21 daytime tartalitieis or a ratio of nearly 7 to 1. These streets were selected for !special attention and improved lighting with the result that during the year and one half ending in July, 1938, erightetime fatali- ties had been cut to 20 and daytime fatalities to 14. Syracuse, Hartford', Akron, Evans- ton San Francisco, Cleveland, Schen- ectady, Los Angeles and many other American, cities report similar experi- enee‘s to show the effectivenesa 01 thionoughfatres as a. clue to where the nation may well expend some of its billions of gas -tax dollars to the best advantage during the neld- decade. !Jones: "1 wanted 90 visit you yes- terday and found the gate locked." Robinson: "It is not lockeff-itiust sticks," "Then why not get a workman to do some thing ?" "1 have. This morning I 'got a painter to make a nice n.oticts: Pusiz hard. ,This door stickle." sow STEELE BRIGGS SEEDS MID GROW BETTER CROPS SOLD BY LEADING MERCHANTS LONDON and WINGHAM • NORTH A.)1L Exeter 10.24 Hens -all 10.44; Ki ppen 10.52 rucefteld 11.00 Clinton 11.47 bombes boro 12.06 Blyth 12.16 Bel grave 12.27 Wingbam 12.45 SOUTH 'PM. Winghem 1.50 Beligrave 2.06 Myth 2.17 Londesboro 2.26 Clinton 3.08 Brumfield ▪ 328 Kiprpen 3.38 Bengali 3.45 Exeter 2.58 C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST A.M. P.M. Goderlch 6.35 2.30 Holmesville 6.50 2.53 Clinton 6.58 3.00 Seaforth 7.11 3.15 St. Columban Dublin Mitchell Mitchell Dublin Seaforth Clinton Goderich WEST 7.17 3.22 7.21 3.29 720 3.41 11.06 11.14 ,120 1A5 12.05 928 926 9.47 10.00 10.25 C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAST P.M. 4.20 424 4.33 4.421 4.6S 6.65 6.15 9.00 Oodmich Menet McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto Toronto McNaught Walton Myth Auburn McGaw Menset WEST 8.30 ,• • . 12.03 12.12 12.22 12.33 13.40 12.46 1155 k • It e ti 11 18 ;