The Ordway new era., 1920-01-30
Sir Oliver Lodge
Victim Of Fakes
BY e. J. II.

~ &c Worlo greatest ana most path
tic dupe.
Il have personal knowledge Of at
least one occasion when he was tax
el in by fake clairvoyants. who real
T.. deceived him by the same old clap
trap used by all mediums in the
profession. He. and the entire
pspchial Reseach Society that in
cludes Conan Doyle and other en-
1oInced this exhibition not only gen.
uine, but remarkable.
Every fraud. hoax. magician.
,pook-artlst, and fake spiritualist of
ny skill whatever, has trotted out
his time worn tricks before Lodge
aud his friends. with the most as
urding response. The Psychial
Hesearch Society has become stand
sg joke in the profession. Med
inns have We'd with each other to
s.re how crude they o.dld he, ana
ut get caught.
THE thing has 81 own to such pro-
portions that tho time has come to
auit. Spiritualistic flim-flam today
as passed the joke stage. have
ipent my entire life In the game;
now I am going to tell the truth a
,out 1t.
"And the first thing say ISL pity
'oor old Sir Oliver Lodge
Robert NJ. Cunningham. famous
;iruout the world as Professor
cunning. the Mystery Man." makes
erve or qualification In an endeav-
r to stem the mania for Spiritual
ism" which has cropped England
.ince the outbreak of the war. and
= now becoming epidemic In the
United States.
Sir Oliver Lodge British scientist
whose son Raymond, was killed in
4 he war, is just beginning lecture
cur of the United States Lodge
q author OF the book Raymond"
lade up of messageG which nc says
hs has received from his son ION
he other side" His first American
lecture. delivered few days ago in
the Cooper Union. New York City,
vas attended by huge crowd lnd
vas reported at length by news pa
pers thrucut the country
A--d every word of the alleged
communications says Professor Gun
ming, Was the deliberate invention
" taking mediums" skilIful dram
attic artistic whose secrets. tho freely
passed around in "the protesh." have
been mystically guarded from the
general public.
Nobody on earth has ever COM
municated with or seen a Spirit"
He declares flatly and nobody ever
will.
There are a thousand tricks IN
tho second-eight game, says Cunn-
ing. Some of them exceedingly n
droit and clever, and some of them
are very simple and crude
These tricks get by because the
people who con1ult mediums are al
most always yearning for mess
age from some person they loved. |
This grief. which should be sacred,
is deliberately exploited by the
'mcdiums'
THE occasional visitor who is
skeptical is readily deceived, first be-
cause he has an interest in the sub
ject, and is half ready to believe
anyhow, and second because, while
he may be clever in mis- own gone,
he doesn't know the game of the
clairvoyants. He is off his beat.
"The famous Paladino, the woman
medium who repeatedly bafflad
Lodge. Conan Doyle and their
conferers had the simplest tricks
imaginable. l admit she was n gen.
ius. But every successful medium
is a genius. / know positively that
Paladino was n faker like the rest
Take the Zanziks. for instance,
Their real name is Jorgenson. Mr..
and Mrs. julius Jorgenson. They
started out years ago in the mind
reading game, making what was prac-
tically there start in Salt Lake City.
Il knew them first in 1896, when
they were doing second sight code
ect in the streets. They were on
the zone at the Omaha exposition
and later set up 'Zanziks Temple of
Palmistry' in Chicago. They went
into the theatrical end of the game.
touring the world and in London. in
1906. they performed before Lodge
and the Society of Psychical Research
And their demonstration was SOL
EMMY pronounced genuine by that
august bodyl
Recently they have been giving a
ten-cent exhibition in Luna Park,
Coney Island.
one great American medium is
at present driving people crazy by a
new dodge in crystal-gazing. His
crystal" has a slot in it, loaded with
a tape on drum, which is turned by
a wheel Thru the slot he reads the
name, the question. and then gives
his spirit" answer in a dramatic
fashion that is very convincing.
People not only believe HMM
deed, they refuse to be convinced
that he hasn't mystic powers.
Before the war. 1t was all COM
harmless joke. / work
ed the suckers. like the rest of them.
But nowadays. when thousands of
women come weening for a message
rom sons who have died in France
onging to be told that the dead boys
re happy in the life beyond that
hay are still with THAR m NJ Ia baro e.,