The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-04-18
SEEN WITH THE SIXTH
SENSE.
BY Professor Pohunks, Seventh Sol
of n Seventh Panic.

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of Seventh Panic.
There's nothing like being gifted
with the sixth sense | was born
that way and always had It. AS the
| spirituaists would say, ! am both
clairvoyant and clairaudient-I can
see and hear things as they really are,
and not as they seem to be to the dim
vision and plugged ears of common
creatures. Lots of folks besides my
self nowadays are becoming gifted
| that way. When n majority OF the
people get their sixth sense fully de-
veloped there'll be something dom in
America.
It's some gift, this sixth sense. For
! instance, when / look at a sign on
great granite building, | see blazed in
big gilt letters, "NATIONAL BURG
LAR" To ordinary guys it reads
National Bank" Their sixth sense
is lying dormant in their noodles, and
they can't read what the sign really
says The only way they can tell
when their pockets are picked is for
some one to hit 'em in the head with
billy. They can't see or hear worth
shucks, but they can feel crack on
the skull. Again, when | got to a po-
| litical rally run by the old line poll
| ticians and gaze upon the rostrum,
see a common, ordinary liar trying to
make people believe that the interests
of the slave and his master are identi-
cal The enthusiastic crowd that are
taking it all in think they see, and
| hear a message, from a patriotic, hon
est statesman whose lone aim in life
/ is to make the dear people all happy
! and prosperous.
! | look at a public library building,
and what do | read over the door? 1t
says, "THIS MAGNIFICENT EDI-
FICE WAS ERECTED WITH MONEY
| ROBBED FROM THE MEN WHO
| WORKED IN THE PENNSYLVANIA
/ STEEL INDUSTRIES" People with
| out the sixth sense look at it and think
| it reads, "This Magnificent Edifice
| Was Erected Through the Generosity
and Magnanimity of Good Saint
/ Andy" | go to great national con-
vention, assembled for the purpose of
nominating a candidate suitable to Big
Biz for the office of president. When
the convention opens, the first thing
| witness is a snake crawling up on
the platform, led by creature with
horns on his head and forked tail
sticking out behind. The snake rises
from it's coils, opens its mouth and
runs out it's fangs, and addresses the
cuss with the horns and forked tail.
That's what I see. Everybody else
present imagines they see a pious pre-
late following in the footsteps OF the
lowly Jesus offering up a prayer TO
Our Father It's great thing to have
the sixth sense and see things just as
they really are
/ | go into a grocery store and read
signs all over the establishment
Grape Nuts, Made of Peanut Shells
Swept UP in the Streets" Sugar Re
fined With indigo" Flour Bleached
With Carbolic Acid" Pure Food
Soaked With Formaldehyde," Canned
Goods Preserved With Embalming
Fluid" Fruit Extracts Put Up in
Wood Alcohol" Vinegar Made of
Drug Acids"-such signs as these l
see all over the store. Most people
never notice these signs. You see
they have never developed their sixth
sense. Some of 'em haven't even got
their first sense in good working or
der
I pick up a big daily newspaper,
turn to the editorial page, and this is
what | read. "This editorial on the
prosperous condition of the farmers
and working people of America, to-
gether with the honesty, purity and
love of the common people and other
ridiculous rot that this editorial at
tributes to our national rulers and rep
resentatiVes, was written by kept
editor of the Plunderbund-a mental
prostitute-who has to write parcel
of political punk to hold his job.
That's how the editorial reads to a
person that has the sixth sense de-
veloped. | go to the schools and pick
I'D one of the histories, such as taught
to the children. read about the wars
and war heroes, and discover how
wars are carried on by the big hood
lers in order to fill their pockets with
plumber, and how the working men,
who have nothing at all to gain by
the war, go out and butcher each other
to beat hell It's simply amazing,
when | read about it. Other folks
think the war story is all about glory
and love of country. They don't even
notice that the history tells us that
most of those that do the fighting
have no country-they live in rented
homes. .,
IT'S something fierce to be blind,
like most folks are. My advice is to
begin at once developing the sixth
sense You will be surprised at the
things you will discover.