Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-08
$5,oOO CALLS NO SHOCKS, SIR OLIVER
 LODGE DECLARES
Would Spurn $20,0OO to Dis. prove Charge of Ghost
 Fake

medium who, under scientific an- | alysis, will yield to the slightest manifestation of communication with the spirit world or perform a feat in the least degree supernatural.
 Nonsense, nothing but nonsense,"l declared Sir Oliver Lodge in Pitts burg, when his attention was di- | rected to the offer made by the man who for 15 years has made it his pastime to expose alleged superna- i tural psychic manifestations.
 You can not get things by simply offering money" continued Sir Ol- tention to it if $20,000 were offered. 1 am not seeking a controversy with any one.'
 That Letter
 When informed that Mir. Rim hadl gone further and offered an addi tional $5,000 if any medium would disclose the contents of letter to MT. Rim written by Dr. Richard Hodgson shortly before his death, the noted British psychist's com ment was:
 Rubbish, all rubbish. As I said before, will have none of it."
 With this statement he dismissed MT. Rinn's challenge.
 Prof. James K. Hyslop, secretary of the American Society for Phy- chical Research, laughed when ask ed what reply he cared to make toI Mr. Rinn's offer.
 "The whole thing is ridiculous" said Prof. Hyslop. "Mr. Rinn knows it is ridiculous. For years he has been going around making the same offer, and in, this instance, in accord with precedent, the offer will be ig nored. That is the only thing to da with Mir. Rim. You can't take him seriously, so ignore him."
 Asked about the contents of the Hodgson letter, Prof. Hyslop said:
 Ut is not at all probable that Dr. Hodgson can remember what he wrote to MT. Rim before he died. How many of us remember what we have written in letters? couldn't, for the life of me, remember the or three letters I have written. No, the whole thing is not worth serious consideration. Simply say we intend oi8nore MT. Rim now, as we have done on similar occasions in the past
 Don't Dare Accept, Says Rim.
 sOf course, they ignore me-" said MT. Rinn when the comments of Sir Z Oliver and Prof. Hyslop had been re- counted. What else can they do but ignore me? They don't dare to come out in public and meet my chal-
 Prof. Hyslop says an opportunity for laboratory research in the super $ natural, such as is afforded in med icinee by the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, is needed to es. tablish definitely the facts of the "other'' world. Here is his chance to get the money to start such an institute.
 If he will provide an honest me- z dium who will toll me what is con tained in the Hodgson letter l will hand my check for $5,000 over to < him., acknowledge that my position as skeptic is not we'll founded and he will be in the way to make mil lions of dollars.
 ssIt is easy for him to dismiss my challenge by saving Dr. Hodgson can not remember what is in that letter have securely locked away in my safe. Itell Prof. Hyslop that if pr, Hodgson's spirit, or shade, or what ever you want to call it, remembers anything of this world, he remem- bers the contents of that letter. If his shade has any memory left, will stake everything own that, he recalls the last discussion he and had and just what he wrote to me { concerning it, just before he died.
 Has Hyslcp Letters, Too.
 "Dr. Hvslop says he can not re- member things he wrote in letters. That is doubtless true. l have in my possession letters from D. Hyslop, which, if I ever published would make his present position untenable. { He wrote things to me in letters that he has flatly contradicted in his pub lie writings. If he is anxious to know what these things are, which he has forgotten, let him get some trust worthy medium to inform him.
 aNeither he nor Sir Oliver dare come out in the open and accept my challenge. I am the one man they are all afraid of I've travelled with that crowd for years and l know them. That's why they ignore me. I used to be member of the Amer ican Society for Psychical Research. Twenty seven years ago I began to 5 hunt spirits. The purveyors of spooks invited me to their seances. Psychical researchers asked me to cooperate. I was trying to satisfy my hankering for truth But after had been paving around for some time among so-called supernatural phenomina woke up one day to the fact that I had never encountered one that could not be disprovcd.
 "Then l began my work of show ing up these people. Mark me, do not ridicule sincere believers in spir- itualism, but what 1 do show IS how easy it is for fake mediums to im- pose upon the crcdulous. No me, diunl, however sincere, ever laid claim to unusual psychic power that was not predicated on delusion of some sort.
 Honest to- Goodness" Spooker.
 "Prof. Hyslop says he knows the difference between trustworthy and fake mediums. If this is so, l have him. Let him apply the test for trustworthy mediums, satisfy him self and then meet me publicly and have his honest to goodness medium rchearse the contents of the Dr. Hodgson letter.
 ssHc recounted the other day the case of a girl who was in communi- cation with the spirit of Frank Stockton. He took the girl to me ' dfum. who, he says, knew nothing of Stockton's communication with the $ girl The medium got busy and old E FrankS Stockton butted in and iden- s .: 2: i l,; ,,, eaIf fov inc benefit of the