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New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
Simple Cinema Apparatus
for Amateurs

A cinema apparatus comparable with
the ordinary film camera for simplicity and
cost has recently been placed on the market
in America. The camera-for in appear
ance it is nothing more-measures seven
inches in length by five inches in height,
with thickness of only two and half
inches. No adjustments are needed, and
the only fitting in addition to those COM
mon to all roll-film cameras is the handle
for causing the film TO travel. A special
feature is daylight loading film container,
which is operated with facility equal to
that of an ordinary camera. Each roll Of
film contains fifty feet and lasts for about
two and half minutes; and the small size
OF the pictures brings the cost within reach
of the amateur. The protector is neces-
sarily larger. A seven hundred candle
power half-watt electric lamp, connected
to the nearest lamp socket, forms the source
of light-Chambers's Journal.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

tent. And Kuehmann is not generally
considered the man to do it. He belongs
to that part of the wealthy aristocracy the
principle ambition of which is to become
cbedient officers of the army or navy, or
not less osedient public officials. They
are different than "the self-conscious and
stiff -necked landed junkers."
Secretary Kuehlmann is alleged to
favor the reestablishment of friendly re-
!ations with Great Britain and to be op-
posed to the ruthless U-boat warfare.
That is considered less surprising when 1t
is recolected that he married Miss Mar
garet Won Stumm, relative of the late
steel magnate of Saarbruecken and Neun-
kirchen, and is, therefore, financially in
terested in the speedy economic recon-
structon of Germany and of her COM
merce, after the restoration of peace.
Nevertheless, he accepted the post of For
egn Secretary under Chancellor DR..
Michaelis, who must be regarded as the
confidential man of the reactionary, pan
German junker clique who, in their blind
hatred of anything liberal, apparently aim
at the destruction of Great Britain at any
price.
While the Chancellor is the manikin of
Field Marshal Hindenburg and General
Luedendorff and their hackers, Kuehl-
mann, it is contended, will be the puppet
of Michaelis All his life bureaucrat,
Kuehlmann executed orders without re-
gard to consequences. While Ambassador
to Constantinople he managed the plot by
which the former German cruisers "Goe-
ben" and "Breslau" attacked Russian
Black Sea ports, without the knowledge of
the Turkish government, and brought
about the entrance of the "Sick Man"
into the war. His task was facilitated by
his thorough knowledge of the Turkish
language. Kuehlmann was born in 1873
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
''NO'' g
Bu EDWARD CLODD
Author of Myths and Dreams" "The Story
of Creation" etc.

of Creation" etc.
Theories broached by scientists can be
proved or disproved by observation and test
ing; and, dismissing Sir divers expert
ence," we can deal only with the "fact" on
which that experience ultimately rests
He tells us that the primary impulse tow
ard his conviction that the soul is immortal
came from some Investigations into the valid
ity Of so-called observation-disclosures" in
lSS3-'84 the result of which was to satisfy
him that there is, in certain persons perhaps
he says, derived from animal ancestry" a
hitherto unrecognized faculty making possi-
BILE what is called "telepathy," or communi-
cation between mind and mind, without the
Intervention of the material channel of the
senses.
The evidence of that faculty is denied by
the majority of men of science. Sir Ray
Lancaster and Sir II. B. Donkn, among these.
affirm that "telepathy is simply boldly in
vented word for a supposed phenomenon
which has never been demonstrated; an un-
fair and unwarranted draft on the credit of
science which its sgnatories have not met
by the assignment of any experimental
proofs"
Following on this preliminary inquiry, he
(Sr Oliver Joined the Society for Psychi-
cal Research bringing thereto a mind "open
to evidence" This evidence was, in the
main furnished by medium, Mrs. Plpen
who came here from that land of ''many in
ventions" and market of medium supply
ha Of
with her in her trance state, or out of it,
was to convince him that her organism was
the vehicle of communications from the de-
parted, conveying facts known or unknown,
the latter being subsequently verified.
While he pours encomIums on her, and will
not admit IAN ota of fraud" in her, he be-
trays a certain uneasiness because some
times the alien body seemed intractable and
lucdity was unattainable." Guilelessly he
gives his case away when he suggests what
as will be seen presently, others found to be
the fact, that there was sometimes guess
ing on the part of the control'-i e., the
second personality through whom the spirit
communicates with the inquirer. At a
seance there are at least four characters:
" Inc Hlquilei' ~ '"e he"iu''i' '"' '"S
control, (4) the spirit; and in my belief the
last "three are one'
The controls, anyway, are very mixed lot,
ranging from philosophers and parsons to
little Indian girls and char-women, and, as
spiritualists admit, the inquirer cannot be
sure, when he desires to be put into touch
with a dscarnate relative or friend that
some tricky spirit may not personate them.
Is this among the facts" whereon conviction
rests? Sir Oliver tells the truth, but not the
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
Can Spirits Talk? "Yes" Says Doyle; "No" Says Codd

who adds to his gulibility acceptance Of the
statement of an American doctor that he has
proved the existence of the soul because he
finds decrease of weight of from half an
ounce to an ounce in the body when placed
in the scales at the moment Of death.
1t is with the psychical phenomena that
spiritualsts are now mainly concerned, and
when we examine the materials for belief in
and knowledge of the conditions under which
the departed exit in another life which
these supply one is staggered that minds Of
lofty conceptions and ideals can build on
them the superstructure of personal immor-
tality. From the enormous mass of commu-
nications purporting to come from discar-
nate spirits not an ennobling nor high-toned
message can be extracted all, all is nauseat-
ing, frivolous, mischevous, spurious drivel.
Through his control, little Indian girl,
Feda, Raymond Lodge tells his father that
the houses in the beyond are made from
sort of emanatons from the earth" that his
white robe is "made from decayed worsted
on your side" that he has his little doggie"
with him, that cigars made "out of essences
and ethers and gases" are provided for smok-
ers and "whiskey sodas" for drinkers!
Faugh!
ITO WHAT manifold causes can we trace
l. these delusions of men who, followed
as authorities in expert matters, are there
fore looked up to authorities on every
thing else?
Not on fact, but on sentiment; not on rea-
son, but on emotion, do these delusions build
their unstable foundations. Impelled by the
wish to believe, the dupes attend seances by
mediums, who, like the spirits they pretend
to represent "love darkness rather than
light, because their deeds are evil"
To the question, as Sir Oliver Lodge
right" the emphatic answer is, MOI!
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whole truth; he suppresses what candor
should have included
In 1894 he attended seances given by a Nea-
poltan medium, Eusapa Palladino, at the
house of Professor Richet, on the lie Rou-
baud, near Hyeres. His verdict was that the
woman's performances were due to super
normal agency; in the movements Of chairs
and other objects not near her he saw evil
dences of a scientifically ,unrecognzed
/ truth" In 1895 she was brought to Cam
bridge and detected by DR.. Hodgson and Mr..
Maskelyne as vulgar trckster. Of course,
, Sir Oliver had to admit that he had been
| hoodwinked, and in "The Daily Chronicle" of
| November 5, 1895, he expressed his regret
that "on the strength of few exceptionally
/ good sittngs e.. e., when Eusapia was at her
best in deceiving the very elect he had
made report testifying to her genuineness."
! II an Italian peasant woman could thus hum
I bug this distinguished physicist, why not
also the more astute American. Mrs. Piper?
THE phenomena of spiritualism-spir
ism, it should, more correctly, be
called-are twofod: physical and psychical,
| but they are, more or less, intermngled. The
| physical include raps, table turning, slate
writing, naturalization and photographing
of spirits, mediums floating in the air or pro-
| longating their bodies, and all the apparatus
| of ghosts and haunted houses. The psychical
{ includes clarvoyancy, crystal gazing, telepa-
| thy, hallucinations and the trance state, and
automatic writing of mediums. 1t has much
L IL. l.
Science-twin delusions.
/ As modern movement spiritualism began
| in America in 1S48. It's inception was In
/ fraud, and tainted atmosphere has clung
round it from that time to the present. Its
history is a record of the detection and con-
fession, one after another of pack Of sorry
rascals of both sexes, some of whom have
been committed to prisons as rogues and
vagabonds.
The list is too long to be quoted here. At
the start the tricks were chiefly Of the horse
play sort, many of the performers being of
| neurotic type, mingled with cunning, like the
appropriately named Fox girls, with whom
the movement began, and who ultimately con-
fessed the fraud. Rappings and table fittings
manifestations have vanished; the larger
number of spiritualists are discreetly silent
about them.
1t is not convenient to recall the fact-not
an isolated instance-that the distinguished
physicist, Sir William Crookes, averred tha.
he had seen the spirit of one Katie King at
seance given by Miss Florence Cook at his
house in May 1874, the same Florence Cook
having been seized By the hand and waist
when personating Katie by a Mr. Volckman
! five months before Sir William told his won
derful story!
As for spirit photographs, although the
method by which these are faxed has been
admitted by their producers, their genuine
ness still finds defenders in men even of the
intelligent type OF Mr.. Edward Carpenter,
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

4 BOUT this time | came into personal
~ contact with General Drayson, one of
the pioneers of this movement in England.
He was a man Of great force of character and
with singular gift of clear exposition. He
gave me an interview in which laid some,
at least, of my difficulties before him. | still
remember the clever analogies with which
he tried to clear my mind
"You complain Of the low level of spiritual
messages" he said. "Are you aware that
death causes no change in the character, and
that so long as a stream of very undevelopet
people are passing from this world the pop
ulation of the next will contain these folk?
II is they with whom you have been in touch.
If a man shut himself in his house in this
world all his life, and then in middle age for
the first time put his head out of the win
dow, it is probable that his first experience
of the outer world might be some rude re-
mark from a passing guttersnipe. If he with
drew his head, shut the window, and argued
that the outer world was a very low-down
place which contained nothing but gutter
snipes, he would argue as wisely as you are
doing What you have to do is to go further
and see whether you cannot get in touch with
things higher, not lower, than yourself. II
you are worthy, it will be given to you"
TT TOOK me many years to get as far as
L telepathy. Many more had passed before
could feel that I was sure about survival
and communication. | could have reached
conviction much earlier had l used the rec
ognized methods. An astronomer who dis
cards a telescope may expect to be handi-
capped. l pushed caution to an excess.
Since then, however, have had personal ex-
periences which leave no doubt in my mind.
II is treacherous and difficult ground, where
fraud turks and self-deception is possible
and falsehood from the other side is not un-
known. There are setbacks and disappoint-
ments for every investigator. But if one
picks ones path, one can win through and
reach the reward beyond-a reward which
includes great spiritual peace, an absence Of
fear in death and an abiding consolation in
he death of those whom we love.
1t is, repeat, this religious teaching which
is the great gift that has been granted in
cur time. So long as a man can refer to his
witnesses ana tnelr testimony, can see no
reason why he may not adopt it and enjoy
il without such frst-hand experience as may
take a lifetime TO acquire. There is no ne
cessty for every man to blaze his own trail.
All other religious systems have come from
the East.
Here at last is one from the West, not
supplanting, but clarifying and strengthening
the others. 1t is the very special glory Of
England that she has done far more than
any other country tn rescue this system from
being a mere playing with Poltergeists, and
to dignity it into a scientific philosophy
Myers, Gurney. Hodgson, Crookes, Wallace,
Stead-and. may | add, Oliver Lodge
names which will be forever associated with
il. The last inspiration took three centu-
ries for its acceptance.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
Important Germans Now Under Fire
AN Illustrious Son of
Bohemia

EMPEROR CHARLES, Of Austria, has
II recently adopted conciliatory policy
toward Bohemia. Disregarding the ener-
eetic protests of the Germanophiles, the
Young ruler of the Dual Monarchy par
doned number of Bohemian, or Czech,
political prisoners. Among these was
DR.. Charles Kramar, one of the most illus
trious sons of Bohemia, leading spirit in
the Czech national movement. Dr. Kram-
ar's return journey from prison was re-
ported last week to have become tri-
umphal march through Bohemia, with
hundreds of thousands of his compatriots
welcoming him back to freedom.
DR.. Kramar is a statesman of the first
rank. He was arrested shortly after the
outbreak of the present war, charged with
high treason, and sentenced to death; but
this sentence was later commuted to fif-
teen years of penal servitude. The main
charge against Kramar was based upon
his endeavors to bring about a rapproche-
ment between the Czechs and Russians.
Until his liberation he was incarcerated at
hard labor in the Moellersdorf prison. He
was freed by the Austrian government as
matter of political expediency in an
endeavor to concliate the Czechs, who are
in open rebellion against the government,
demanding complete independence.
His liberation is also considered a part
of the systematic campaign Austria is
conducting for a separate peace, and is in
tended to prove that Austria is capable of
reform. The Czechs, however, are said
to maintain an uncompromising attitude
against Austria, and Kramar himself is
as strongly anti-Austrian as he ever was,
il not more so; Imprisonment did not
soften his opposition to Austrian policies.
For Kramar, aswell as for most Czechs,
g. demand for the liberation of Bohemia
means complete independence and the dis
memberment of Austria.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
A Former Cologne Mayor
DR. LUDWIG THEODOR FERDI-
- NAND WALLRAF was Mavor of

'DR. LUDWIG THEODOR FERDI-
- NAND WALLRAF was Mayor of
his native city of Cologne when he was
appointed Prussan Minister Of Commerce
and Industries. His newly created post is
very important on account of the mobiliza-
tion of the civil population of Germany,
and fair achievements may be looked for.
The mayors of the big German cities are
generally able and energetic administra-
tive officers. They are men with vision
and often an individuality. Among the
best ministers Germany and the Federal
States have had since 1870 were two form
or mayors, Hobrecht, ex-Mayor of Berlin,
and MIGUEL, ex-Mayor of Frankfort.
Miguel, the noted National Liberal leader,
was, next to Bismarck, the greatest Ger.
man minister since the erection of the
Empire. But Miguel, who had been fire.
brand when he joined the Nationalverein,
was conservative after he had accepted a
portfolio.
No serious reforms are to be expected
from DR.. Wallraf, who is a brilliant
speaker, but so much of an opportunist
that he took very inactive part in the
debates of the Prussian Herrenhaus (up-
per house of the Diet), of which he was a
member, in Difference to the reactionary
majority. He did not join in the occa-
sional fights that were started by the
liberal Oberbiirgermeister-G (group
of mayors).
But in the city administration of Col
ogne he initiated some meritorous and, in
q certain sense, radical measures for in
stance the non-compulsory Unemployed
Insurance Fund, which was patterned
somewhat after the Swiss institutions of
the same character.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
The New Minister of JUS
tice in Germany

DR. PETER SPAIN, who at the age
- of II years has been made Ger
man Minister of Justice, is not the
man, it is generally felt, to bring about a
change of the Prussian policy even had he
free hand. He was member of the
Reichstag for thirty-three years, and dur
ing this long period the mouthpiece Of
the reactionary wing of the Cent
rum, as the Catholic Party is called
in Germany. He made common cause with
the Conservatives. When he entered pub
lie life the "Kulturkampf," during which
the Centrum stood out in strong opposition
to Bismarck, was over, except for the anti
Jesuit law that has recently been revoked
DR.. SPAIN is best known for his utter
ance: "The non commissioned officer is the
representative of God" By this phrase he
attempted to excuse the maltreatment of
German soldiers by their superiors when
the matter came up in the Reichstag, and
all parties except the Conservatives and
DR.. Spahn's followers were up in arms
against what was termed "an Infamous
scandal"
An eminent jurist, but of outspoken
formal tendencies, SPAIN was rapidly pro-
NOTED after he had entered the service of
the State. He was associate judge of the
Reichsgereicht (the highest court of the
German Empre) before being appointed
Observation-Disclosures presiding
Judge of Court of Appeals); he was also
a member of the Committee that drafted
the German civil law.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

the list longer, declaring in an editorial
cautioned "Get the Kaiser Out Of Con-
gress" that:
"The National Security League might more
properly begin with Congress get
confession of faith from the Manns, the
Masons. the Maddens and McLemores Of the
House; from the La Follettes, the Gronnas,
the Shermans, the Reeds, the Cores and the
Hoke Smiths of the Senate. Individual
disloyalty is bad but dsloyalty in Congress
is a continuing menace"
Some insight may be gained into the sit
uation by consulting some of the news
papers published in the districts which
some OF these gentlemen represent.
"The Daily Oklahoman" asks:
HAS any Oklahoma paper, regardless OF Its
rolitics. encouraged him Senator Gore) to
ioin in this movement to heckle and harass
the President and to impair the administra-
tion's capacity for prosecuting the war? Has
an Oklahoma organization Of any Nnd urged
him 10 take this stand? Has any Oklahoma
grain speculator, describing himself as
farmer. written to Senator Gore commencing
him for his participation in this inexplicable'
unworthy antagonism to the President|
And there is Senator Stone, who is the
subject of this comment by newspaper IN
the largest city of his state, "The st, LOUIS
Post-Dispatch"
Senator Stone again demonstrates that his
retention in the chairmanship of the Foreign
Relations Committee is menace 70 the
nation by starting a discussion OF peace on
the basis of the German Reichstag's resoiu-
tion.
ain his muddled state of mind and morals
he should be placed where his capacity for
harm will be minimized. He ought by all
means to be removed from the Senate For
eipn Relations Committee, and il he were out
of the Senate the country would be better
of. If there were a Senatorial recall, Gum
shoe Bills term Of disservice would be
short"
"The Milwaukee Sentinel" speaks thus
of Senator La Toilette:
1--WE venture to say he has grossly under
rated the America First Americanism Of the
very element he thinks to curry favor with
that rather indeterminate and certainly not
solid or gregarious political entity-the
'German-American vote When will politi-
clans get over the deluson that this partic-
ularly individualzed class Of voters can be
herded like flock Of sheep, or swarmed like
hive Of bees to the beating of tin pan ?"
As for Senator Reed, his own colleagues
have done best in rebuking him for his
DELAY of the Food Control bill. Senator
John Sharp Williams said:
"If had my way would appoint one man
to take charge Of this food control, and
would name Mr.. Hoover / would name him
particularly because of the vicious, unpro:
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

only a Chancellor whose immediate subor-
dinates, the chiefs of the different depart
ments, are known as Secretaries of State.
Only a strong and exceptionally able Sec
retary of Foreign Affairs, such as Baron
Marschall was under the Soldier-Chan-
cellor Won Caprivi, could, it has been
pointed out, even influence the foreign
policy of Germany to a moderate ex-
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
The Un-American
Party
PENING the castle gate from with
in to the marauder awaiting with

fENlNG tne caSlle RdCe 1IOii "iIh-
in to the marauder awaiting with
~ out is not new artifice in war
fare. But it is varied in modern times,
because the development of opinion and
that powerful instrument of modern times
which is called publicity have made unnec-
essary so clumsy a method of conquest
Nowadays the attack is by subtle insinua-
tion, by internal attacks on the causes for
which men fight.
So it is that Congress has developed its
own un-Americanism, type of attack from
within that to many appears particularly
vicious, carried on as it is under the cloak
of official delegation of authority from the
electorate. The country is in no way blind
to any of this; able even to forget momen-
tarily such marauders as the Industrial
Workers of the World to mark with con-
templative and remembering eye such gen.
tlemen as Senator Reed and Senator Gore.
"The New York World" would even make
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

vokeA, unjustifed attacks that have been
made on him"
And Senator Ashurst Of Arizona added ::
"Those who would overthrow Mr.. Hoover
have attacked him with cold cruelty. The
chief assailant has Il dirk In his belt ready
10 give him a thrust"
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

A GREAT deal of interest has been
"A manifested of late in the newer
phases of psychic research and af-
frmation. "The Strand Magazine" prints
side by side two articles on the assertion of
Sir Oliver Lodges that the dead can COM
municate with the living-an agreement
by Sir A. Conan Doyle and denial by
Edward Clodd. Portions of these two ar
ticles appear herewith:
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12
Germany's New Foreign
Minister
RICHARD Won KUEH

HR. RICHARD Won KUEHL-
l \ MANN, who has been appointed
German Secretary of Foreign Al
fairs, succeeds DR.. Alfred Zimmerman,
noted for the Mexicap-Japanese intrigue
against this country. Like his predecessor
he is described as a submissive bureau
crat of the diplomatic service content to
execute the orders of his superiors.
The German Empire has no ministry,
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

at Constantinople, where his father was
Director General of the Anatolian Rail-
way.
New-York tribune., 1917-08-12

out is not a new artifice in war
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-14
PRINCE WORSE THAN KAISER.

current Opinion: What renders the
Berlin situation politically delicate. as.
suming the accuracy Of French newspa.
per impressions. is the disagreement be.
tween William II and the heir to his
throne. The crown prince says The
Figaro, has set his mind like a wise
upon Verdun. He is militaristic. reac.
tionary, welded to the ideals Of Jun.
kerdom. II his father were to pass
away before the constitutional crisis
does. 1t might prove impossible TO set
tie 1t without a revolution on the Rus.
sian model. The liberal and progressive e
elements are determined to adjust the
institutions OF Prussia and Of Germany
as a whole to the new conditions before
the crown can pass from father to son.
The crown prince is alleged TO oppose
this. Precisely as he was to the head
OF the militarist clique prior to war.
just as he headed the "westerners" in
the war. he becomes now the hero OF
Junkerdom Thus do the French tell
the tale.