Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-22
Rs;5,oo0 TO
 |DyE FALs|Ty OF VIEW

,6e Made to Sir Oliver
 edge, British Ex-
 ponent
 vork Feb. 21.-Joseph F
 farmer member of the So
 { APsvchical Research, who
 rt in the exposure of Palla-
 ards i, has made a hobby fol
 Ssars M of exposing so-called
 tural phenamina, wrote a
 or s5,0OO, which he offered
 = soeiety as part of it's en-
 4. if the society or Sir Oli-
 ss s or any one else could pro-
 medium who could offer un-
 entific conditions the slight
 sble evidence of communica-
 Al the spirit world or super
 feats of any kind.
 I will offer another $5,O0O
 endowment which the Soci-
 Psychical Research is ask
 a basis of having further
 nerpetuated on it," said Rim, i society, Sir Oliver Lodge or
 else. will meet this simple
 tell us that there are hon. Hiums and quacks. Dr. Hys-
 s he has been and now is in hication, through mediums,
 e late Dr. Richard Hodgson,
 spirit messages from Dr,
 n all the time. Now, I used 1 friend and co-worker of Dr. n and Dr. Hyslop, and seven before his death Dr. Hodgson ne a letter, which I have in e. I will give the, $5,000 if n find a medium who can tell l in that letter. These are al- Se last words of Dr. Hodgson. 1 he does communicate from er world, what would be sim |an for him to tell it's con. hditions of $5,00O Offer.
 ll give $5,0O0 if they can pro- he of their honest mediums, ll get any message from the world with any evidence of hess, or who can tell a sim ), under scientific conditions (ny one of five persons with will confront them. I will It that they are persons con- whom the mediums get none advance knowledge, by which be their wonders. I will have lindfolded, so that no express f their faces will betray a hit, when the lady mentions 'Susie,' Johnny 'Willie,' or her names or common facts they have the spirits recite purpose of getting a reaction cir dupes, which gives the in on for the starting point.
 l give the $5,0OO if they can
 a medium whose tricks can duplicated by myself and oth- urors. I will give $5,O00 to who will prove, under scien- 'nditions, any violation of g call the laws of nature.
 fact is that men of the type Oliver Lodge and Dr. Hyslop
 easiest marks in the world e creatures. I can give Sir
 Edge slate messages or any md of messages from his under the precise ns under which he thinks he n from 'psychics' in England. not an assertion, gut a fact ny, that these great men of are the easiest dupes in the or clever fakers. Palladino .er here with the indorse- Lombroso, Binet, Flamma- Oliver Lodge and other men est eminence. We proved ab- that she had nothing but
 tricks. Their attempted in- ons of facts, for which they t fitted to investigate, was IS to any man who has a ge of these tricks,
 led volumes were written on ze that came out of the top skull after the seances and ne hair of the top of her some of the greatest living s fell for it. At a seance at 3 University, attended by lentific men, I put my hand ldshield across the bridge of }. Then I asked them if the 'as still coming from the top head. No, it had stopped. " has seen little girls pro- the under lip and blowing ITS. That was exactly the lich had amazed the scien- rid' And, mind you, Palla- no never did anything but
 her life, was one who help 'nvert Sir Oliver.
 srms of the Challenge.
 challenge is for a public ratlon, at which an unbiased se can pass on the work " mediums selected by Sir Lodge, Dr. Hyslop, or any ponent of psychical research ':empt to show their art un- ltions laid down by him, his to De posted publicly. Rinn
 exhibition recently at the I, at a meeting of . the Club, which lasted into ear ing' In which he duplicated ne series of mediumistic rom elementary parlor phe- to the high arts of slate ana spirit communication, ondltions which, as his au- greed, made trickery abso- His first work pc mind-reading tricks in s 6 allowed his audience to lo add up figures while he totals, and in which he
 messages from the other {. reply to letters written by 'ience s;ae and supposedly un- mplaining in the profession er or "antagonistic influ- ,l ana "inharmonious~ condi- Ao skepticism, he kept the under the impression that aed his work to be accent- orl Al