Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-17
THE FOURTH DIMENSION
EXPLAINED
By DR.. Frank Crane

One of the most helpful little publications
that finds it's way to my desk every few years
is Zero on one side and Orez on the other
Orez looks like it is--just Zero spelled back
ward. But it is more than that. You should
keep your eye peeled for cryptic meanings
these days when Lodge, Doyle, Maeterlinck
& Co. are getting wireless news from the
spirit world right along, and every theatrical
| manager on Broadway is rehearsing a spook
pay.
l. Really and truly, when you get the esoteric
idea, OreZ is The Fourth Dimension,
+. Maybe you don't know what this is? This
magazine tells you, as follows: "Abstractly,
1.-the Fourth Dimension is the characteristic of
7 identity; concretely, it is specific gravity"
So there YOU are. Please don't ask me again.
Zero seems to have been suspected during
the war. The editor explains that this is due
to "such straits of hesitancy ingrained or i'm
posed as intensity or Subdue determination to
selG-assertion." In other words, shell shock.
It is also stated that Zero enters existence
possessed of nothing but inherent pOtentialty.
1t has no assets, contributors, readers or edi-
tors" If it don't watch out some one Will
buy it.
The present issue is in four sheets of four
separate colors The first is kinda yellowish
and contains, besides news of Fourth Dimen-
SION happenings, a picture called Evolution.
It is considerably MKT, this picture, but is not
original. 1 saw the same thing once when
"ANAA ~
baseball bat when 1 was boy.
One sheet is tinted Orange and Miss
Beatrice Irwin, "Who contributed tints of
paper used in inserts of Zero published in
October, 1919" allows that this color is
equivalent to Nervous Recuperative, CORE
lating with Contentment.'
Greenwich Yellow, we are also informed
sis equivalent to Nervous Stimulant, CORE
lating with penetration, whilst Violet is
equivalent to Mental Recuperative, CORE
lating with determination"
Hold on. Don't go away. There's more.
Pleased subscribers testify to the good they
have got from reading Zero. For instance,
Fania Romanoff writes: Dear Zero, You are
thrice and once welcome as the unit released
from surfeited to the receptive 4. l wonder
how rare are those who will absorb, mentally,
the generous value of opportunity you present
to chaos charged era"
| wonder, too.
Now wait, Mabel Don't GO Here's the
whole business clearly explained in figures
and figures don't lie. Looket: Since "a
equals .25 and lip: .0833 plus, and 1-16:
O625, .0833-.O625X12 .2496, it follows
that is to 1 as .2496, or more exactly .2496
plus, which is slightly less than "A cannot be
proved by the existing system of arithmetic to
be exactly one-fourth." (Shut the window.
Don't let those squirrels IND
I remember once in the good old days an
Amherst professor Of mathematics got drunk
at an initiation at the fraternity house and
said something like that.
And here's the whole gist of the matter in
NUTSHELL and plain as pikestaff
Universal principle is universal character
isttc universally fixed in specific function uni
versally adapted to specific restriction, and
universally adequate to ordained lability
Now it's all explained, so run along. And
l do hope you will say nothing to anybody
about this. 1t might get to the keeper and
he d take me back to my CELL E.t.