The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-13
Great Field for a Commission.

The psychologists the sociologists the neuroogists
the crimnologists and the psychologists have all
brought their various oogies to bear on the great
question of first for crime insanity immortality
pauperism, and all the shortcomings of the human
race but they have failed to agree just as those who
mixed up with any of the oogies have failed
to locate the primal evil influence. An Arkansas
psychologist claims to have discovered the real
cause in the wireless currents the air and on these
he lays all the responsibility He urges the govern
ment to take control of all wireless equipment and
make careful experiments in regard to telepathic
thought which he insists has for long time been a
devastating blight the world filling insane asyIums
and causing white slavery. He also contends that
physical as well mental sensations are carried by
these wireless currents and that telepathy or
thought transferrence is the great first for all
physical, mental and moral defects.
The idea of malicious malevolence by means of
teepathy is not entirely new as it appears to have
been responsible for the burning of old women as
witches and sorcerers three hundred years ago. but
Arkansas psychologist has applied the theory to
the latest discovery in the of transmission of
messages by the wireless current. His suggestion that
the government take control of all wireless currents
might lead to the discovery of the of original
sin and relieve of the other cocksure methods of
preventing crime disease, and poverty to which we
have been treated by the various oogists who have
taken the center of the stage in the sensational maya
zines.
1t has been said that "the whole choir of heaven
and the furniture of earth included in psychology
and yet that it transcends the individual that
had we been born blind, the world would be without
color, If deaf it would be without sound and if
idotic it would have had no meaning So, this ques-
ton of the sourceof crime being all absorbing one
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oIogists in that he can include heaven as well as
earth in his investigation. He need not stop with
the development of sin or its immediate associa-
tons, but can go after the great primal cause
wherever it is to be found. The Arkansas man has,
however, only suggested the medium and if the gov
eminent will take possession of that medium it may
trace the originator of crime to his lair. This is
big proposition big for the Individual psychologist
and therefore government job
Congress has created many commissions and given
them extraordinary powers of inquiston, and it is
now about to create the Trade Commission with no
pretending to understand or comprehend all the
to be given to it 1t may be that the duties of
this commission will develop along the line of sug
gestion made by the Arkansas psychologist and that
it can possibly locate the source of original sin The
old orthodox teachers located this first cause or foun
tain of evil influence in the immediate neighborhood of
his satanic majesty and we have Scrptural authority
for close association with the battle at Armageddon
of the capture of the old dragon pitching him into the
pit and there claiming him for thousand
years 1t to be pretty generally conceded by
the war correspondents at home that Europe is now
the field of Armageddon and it might be well for this
government to be ready to assume the role of the
avenging angel who is carry out the final promise of
the Revelation.
To be properly equipped for this work the Trade
Commission should be composed of psychologists with
the Arkansas man at the head The commission
could then pass immaeral the great and small
sins in business men take control of the wireless cur