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Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-09-02
BLANKET Enabling ACT PASSED
BY THE LEGISLATURE Of 1918
Makes Possible New
School Building
at Once :
SENTIMENT FAVORABLE
FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION

/ Lets go!
1t is now an assured fact that
Dresden does not have to await the
converting of the next legislature for
the passage of an enabling act for
the issuance of bonds with which TO
construct school building. There
is, as this writer contended some
months ago, when the subject of a
school building was being discussed,
blanket enabling act which permits
municipalities and taxing districts to
issue bonds for the purchase of
school grounds, for the purchase of
water and light plants, for the con-
struction and improvement Of school
buildings, and so. Let's go!
The act will be found on page
SOB of the Acts of 1913 Judge
Robt. A. Elkins, then member of
the senate, is the author of the bill,
and discussing the school situation
here Tuesday with Judge Elkins,
during the recess at court, the ques.
ton Of awaiting the converting of
the next legislature for the issuing
of school building bonds for Ores
den was brought up, whereupon the
judge stated that was not necessary,
that blanket act was passed at the
1913 session which would enable us.
to issue bonds. He got copy Of
the Acts and read it to the writer.
Let's go!
There is no mistake about it this
time. We felt we were sure before,
but after some Of ablest legal lights
said it couldn't be done and after
they had searched the records, we
became convinced that we we're
wrong and gave up the ghost-also
the hope of early relief for adequate
school facilities. But Judge FL
kins' finding revives those hopes.
Since this act has been pointed out
and read we find much favorable
sentiment for immediate action. The
question will, of course, have to be
first submitted to the qualified vot-
ers of the municipality of Dresden
and with their approval there is no
doubt as to the authority to issue
school bonds.
1t isn't necessary to rehearse the
embarrassing conditions existing
here with regard to school facilities,
or, rather, the lack of school facili-
ties. The only question is, will our
citizens be content with present
school facilities or will they vote for
a bond issue and have a decent
building? Let's go.
Some of the tight wads will, OF
course, oppose a bond issue. This
is their privilege. We shall not fall
out with them. If man is iontent
to live in this modern, progressive,
live age under conditions that OBJ
tanned so or 100 years ago, why,
that's his right-but for the balance
of US, we don't propose to do so.
Neither do we propose that children
of school age shall knock for admit
lance at our school door, only to be
told, too full, crowded, overrun;
come again. We want to see these
children of our neighbors given the
very best educational advantages
possible. We can't do it with our
present equipment. Let's 90.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1921-09-02
GETS 2 YEARS FOR
MANSLAUGHTER
Sensations Develop in Now Fa-
nous Murder Case. Court
Adjourned last Tuesday

Circuit court adjourned Tuesday
afternoon, following hearing on the
Alexander will case, the will of the
late Mrs. Mary Alexander being sci
up, as per agreement Of contending
factions. This proved the longest
term of court held here in a mum
Der of years, covering on Monday
Aug. l and adjourning Tuesday
Aug. 30, lacking just one day Of
! consuming the entire month.
The grand jury adjourned or
Tuesday of week before last, after
finding 1876 indictments, 120 OF
which were for violation of the dog
law. During the term many inter
esting cases were heard, and in all
about nine were given prison sen.
fences.
The case of the State VS.. Jas. W,
Wilson was heard Friday and Satur-
day of last week, the jury returning
verdict Saturday night, finding
Wilson guilty of manslaughter and
recommended punishment at two
years in the penitentiary.> Argu-
ment for new trial was heard
Monday, being overruled. This case
will be appealed to supreme court.
During the hearing of this case
one or more mild sensations devel-
oped. Considerable comment has
been had over the county as, to the
action of Judge Elkins in naming a
panel for jury service in the Wilson
case, since this is new practice in
this county. Judge Elkins has been
misquoted in this matter and that
the public may know just what he
did and said and that the court may
not further be done the injustice Of
misquoting him, the Enterprise pub
fishes what he said, which follows:
Some people are endeavoring to
prejudice Sheriff Bullock on &C.
count of the action of the court in
appointing a special venire in the
Wilson case. The court has the con-
ceded power in such cases to name
the venire, and exercises such pow
er upon proper application by either
the state or the defendant. In or
der that there may be no misunder-
standing about the matter, | desire
to say that / have great confidence
in the integrity, honesty and abili-
ty of Sheriff Bullock. Mr.. Arm,
who is present in the courtroom,
was a deputy sheriff during the
first two years of my administration,
and l desire to say for him that he
is an honest, upright, worthy young
man. Any person who undertakes
to use this action of the court to the
prejudice of the sheriff not only
does the sheriff serious injustice,
but he imputes to the judge of the
court a motive that he never at any
time entertained. Any statement
made by anyone that / do not have
confidence in Sheriff Bullock is I'M
true, and no fair minded person
will give circulation to such reports.
This statement upon the part of
court, being made after the last is
sue of the Enterprise, could not
have been published at an earlier
dav. 1t ought to set at rest the ru-
mors that are afloat and Judge FL
kins ought not to be furtehr embar-
raised by its repetition.
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Will Edison Be Able to Solve Problem?
BY HARRY E. TUDOR.

TIME interest occasioned by the visit of
Sir oliver Lodge and the publicity
given to the theme of his lectures
may be lil<ened to a breeze i'm comparison
with the storm of protest and heated dis
cussion that has marked the entry of Thomas
A. Edison into the problematical and-as
many would have 1.-THE forbidden field of
psychical research. The determined sceptic
cares nothing for the fact that many of the
more eminent scientists of Europe have
Joined the ranks or the believers in the possi-
bility of intercommunication being estab-
lshed between those of this world and that
other" nor is he interested by reason that
the European clergy in increasing numbers
have professed their willingness to investi-
gate the statements of the "spiritualists."
To the student Of the subject-either from
the scientific or philosophical aspects-the
most remarkable feature of Mr.. Edison's an
nouncement In his emphatic attitude toward
the published views of his European con-
temporaries in the fields Of science and who
have asserted that the essential teachings of
the orthodox creeds are to be found in this
ultra-modern conception of the term i'm
mortality and that "spiritualism," as a re-
ligion, has its outward and visible signs in
what is scientifically classed as psychic phe-
nomena" Where the meaning of the phrase
may apply in so far as the physical happen
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

ings of the seance room are concerned, the
word visible" may be accepted in a wider
sense.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the more
aggressive apostles of spiritualistic thought
has hurled a warning at the established
churches that will find a worldwide echo
should Edison succeed in his determination
to solve the problem of spirit communication.
1t would seem impossible for any human
mind to grasp the full import of that success
in that it's contamination would demand a
reconstruction OF the varied forms of Chris
tian creeds to conform to a universal ac-
ceptance of as Conan Doyle styles the new
thought. The New Revelation" In his
opinion It rests with the church to accept
n form of belief that revolutionizes all age
old teachings duty that must be per-
formed by the church authorities no matter
what sacrifices such may entail Those who
are familiar with the varied forms of psychic
phenomena can best understand the reason
ing that stands back of the gifted authors
strenuous defiance of the ridcule and abuse
of those who have denounced all medium
istically gifted persons as frauds; that pur-
ported manifestations by the dead find
their source in the devils" and that he,
Conan Doyle, and his colleagues are men
tally deficient or the victims Of roguery.
The foregoing may serve to convey an idea
Of the factorship Of Edison's success in any
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

some interesting results have been obtained
in the use Of the electroscope by DR.. w. j.
Crawford.
I'm seance rooms where tables are moved
without physical contact" DR.. Crawford re-
ported, II found that after sitting was well
started 1 was always unable to charge an
electroscope, even though tried to do so in
a corner farthest from the medium. In
order to charge it had to take it from the
room. / asked the operators (intelligences
directing things, apparently, in the seance
room) If there was any power in the seance
room so far away from the medium, and
they answered in raps that there BY
power I understood them to mean particles
of matter taken from the medium.
'I took the electroscope to the table in
the corner, then placed il in the circle near
the medium. I asked the operators to touch
the disk of the instrument very gently. They
did this almost at once, the touching con-
sisting of a metallic scraping upon the brass
disk quite audible, similar in type to the imi-
taton of the floor being rubbed with sand
paper, a phenomenon I had often observed.
"Result-On examination found that the
electroscope had been completely discharged.
'I took the electroscope to the table in
the corner of the room and tried to recharge
it but found that was unable to do so even
after repeated trials. Accordingly i asked
the operators to put back into the body Of
the medium the matter they had taken out
(for the production of the sledge hammer
blows) and to give few raps when they
had done so. In minute or two some very
light raps were given, and when l asked if
the process was complete received no raps
in reply at ALL which seemed to indicate to
me that all the matter used for rapping had
been returned to the medium. At any rate,
/ found that could now recharge the cleo
troscope; which done placed 1t on the floor
f.AG- osr avxI nalyA Fn.N H..
disc should be touched lightly. After little
time there was the same metallic scrapng as
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Mediums Should Be Studied.
Nervous Reactions Csfafogued

DR. Darlington estimates that $1,000 would
establish a psychical laboratory for the
United States and equip II with the most
necessary of the instruments that have
been devised for testing mediums and in
vestigatlng phenomena. The upkeep Of
the laboratory would cost somewhere be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 year, depending
upon the number of Investigations of phe-
nomena made, but this sum would defray the
expenses of equipment and the hire OF an
investigator an electrician and a neurolo-
gist who would be employed to study
mediums from a medical standpoint. prin-
cipally to determine and analyze nervous and
muscular reactions
The equipment Of such a laboratory would
include machine suggested some years ago
Sy Sir Oliver Lodge--a delicate registering
balance so adjusted that IL would record
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

before, and on examination the electroscope
was found to be completely discharged"
The problems that Immediately confront
an investigator who is called upon to solve
such problems as this are the physical
miracle itself and the nature of the intelli-
gence lying behind and directing or con-
trolling the manifestations. This latter Is
purely psychological question, which
though immensely important does not enter
into the physical problem
1T will be at once apparent" says Dr.
Darlington, that physical and electrical ap-
paratus have played an important part in
such Investigations in the past and are GER
tainly destined to play a far more important
part In the future. These curious phe-
nomena, like all others in world, depend
upon invisible forces or energies for their
production. Those interested in electricity
should realize, more than all others, the
power of the invisible; and the fact that the
invisible is the real. Anything we see con-
sists merely in bundle Of phenomena-of
effects The real cause is always behind.
and is always invisible.
There is nothing inherently absurd or i'm
possible, therefore, in these odd manifesto
tions. however bizarre and unusual they ap-
pear to US at first sight An unusual combi-
nation Of circumstances might bring them
about. Stones do not ordinarily fall from
the sky, yet at times they do. Water does
can be made to do So The curious freaks
of lightning are well known. There is moth
ing inherently impossible, therefore, in sup
posing that table can be levitated into the
air under unusual conditions; it is simply
the manifestation of unknown energy
of which doubtless there are many.
An Open Mind Essential
In Studying These Curious Forces
We can manipulate and control the cleo
trio current but we do not know yet pre-
cisely what 1t is. Similarly, we can study
the effects of many of these curious biologi-
cal forces without understanding their true
nature. Above ALL IL behooves us to keep
an open mind and not to cry impossible just
because we have never seen such facts or
because they appear to us to be innately
improbable.
Here, as elsewhere, we depend upon hid
den and unknown energies. Could we but
find an energy common to the two worlds
the spiritual world and the material world
we should have here a means of direct COM
munication, possibly by instrumental means.
Delicate physical and electrical apparatus
may be the means after ALL by which such
communication will ultimately be established
At all events, when subtle causes and forces
are in operation, they doubtless dur
ing a seance, 1t is only natural to suppose
that instruments far more delicate than our
senses should be the logical method of de-
tecting them. and as yet such experiments
have rarely been attempted"
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

the mediums weight, unknown to her, at all
times during the seance, the fluctuations in
weight, If any, to be recorded on a revolving
drum. 1t would also include means for
studying the pulse, temperature, muscular
eXertion, breathing of the medium, and the
lighting of the test room would be carefully
attended to and capable of almost infinite
graduation. There would also be such instru-
ments and devices as X-ray and radium
tubes, high frequency currents and delicate
field of electrical force. together with in
struments for testing the ionization of the
air in the immediate vicinity of the medium.
DR.. Darlington believes that photography
would also play an important part in the
equipment of such laboratory. Means
could readily be provided for taking moving
pictures of the medium and her audience at
all times during the seance. and If the sit
tings were held in darkness these photo
graphs could be obtained by means of ultra
violet rays. with which the room could be
flooded, and quartz lens would be used in
stead Of glass. There would also be appa-
ratus for making thought photographs SINH
lar to the one of cross with which this
article is illustrated. which was made in
California by holding a sensitized plate be-
fore a subject and having him concentrate
his mind on a cross.
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Delicate Devices of Inventors to Weigh Spirit


~~ ~~ devices Photographic has
from % tn
The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Thought Photographs but One
Uncanny Demonstration Promised


forehead. Distinct likenesses of objects upon
which the subject has concentrated have
been obtained, and scientists expect many
important results from a continuation OF
such experiments.
Another interesting and important expert
ment which such a laboratory would be
fitted to make would be careful and COM
prehensive examination of the body sub
stances which exude from some of the more
highly sensitized mediums during a seance.
This matter has already been examined un-
der microscope by French scientist who
reported that it consisted of a conglomera-
ton of living cells of a type not found in the
human body, but resembling somewhat
tumor growth with which physicians are
familiar. In some instances these cells have
issued from the head mouth and breasts of
mediums. but no photograph of them at the
actual moment of exudation has been OBJ
tanned Such a photograph could be OBJ
tanned, however, in a laboratory where the
means were constantly available.
Among the other phenomena which will
he thoroughly examined and investigated IL
DIR. Darlington succeeds in establishing MS
laboratory are these: Experiments in
thought transference; experiments in clair
voyance normal and induced; the so-called
polarity of the human body; automatic
writing, crystal gazing. shell hearing; the
projection of the double; self-projection:
exploration of the subconscious mind; ex-
periments in magnetizing animals and in
animate objects; experimentaafy induced.
dreams; experiments in magnetic healing:
experiments with the so-called human
fluid study of the power of the will over
inanimate matter; experiments in levitation;
experimental study of the Yogi exercises
breathing, awakening of the so-called Chalk
rams, &C.. spirit photography; materializa-
tion study of the cold breeze felt at seances;
study of the action of drugs on conscious
ness and the influence of powders, perfumes.
incense, &C., on the senses; experiments In
Duplicating spritistic phenomena by physi-
cal and electrical means; study Of dousing
or water finding experiments with mag
nets: experiments in trance, ecstasy, &C.;
study of the psychology of deception; study
OF suggestion. normal and abnormal ex-
periments in the induction of illusions and
hallucinations: study of secondary person
ality cases: psychoanalysis; experiments in
telepathic hypnotism visions of the dying.
weighing and photographing the soul at the
moment of death and hundreds OF others
besides.
II Is very likely that one of the first tasks
Of an American psychical laboratory would
be to continue the experiments OF DIR. Tmoda.
who concluded that there was fundamental
similarity between the radations Of a
mediums body and those OF radium and the
cathode radiatons Of Crookes tube. In
addition to the experiments OF Dr. Imods
The New York herald., 1921-01-02

TT is generally admitted that Aristotle
possessed the greatest single intellec
q that the world has auar knnurn. ,,o.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-09
CrCiL COUNTY NOTES.

tp.elal Correspondence Every Evening
ilkton, Md, Dec. e.-Charpcd with
Uinnlng Tor ducks from motor boat,
Adam Cooper, Alonro llcrgcnfother and
Morton Nowmyer al of Hsvrc dc Grace,
were hncd slpO each, with costs, Nednc.-
da, hy Justice Frank q Pratt. in rlkton
An appeal was taken In each case
The December term Of court for
Cecil county viii convene IN Elkton on
Mondhy next The trial docket has l62
enses, "a appeals. II appearances and Ia
criminal eases held over from the
September term
Burton Harris, respected colored
mhn " Ccrilton, was found dead, yester-
dsy Va field on the farm OF pickron
smith, with whom be was employed.
,otonef MapfaN, issued n certificate Of
death itum huns trouble
FORMER Deputy sheriff Oscar Humes
oi this town has been appointed by the
County commissioners constable for
The First, scconde Third and Fourth
dis 'firta
Miss Carolyn smithson Of Port De
roslt has secured q position on the staff
oi The baltimore News and entered upon
her n,v duties on Monday last
William X Scott Of Newark, Del,
underwent an operation for appendicitis
NJ Union Hospital, Elkton, a few days
Nso, and u now recovering
iofmcf Police Magistrate Charles i.
HARTLEY ~ tlkion has purchased the
Andrew T. Miller farm, near Union,
ior H,as0
umnd Secretary n G. Simpers Of
che Reindeer will visit the Elkton
lodge, Tuesday evening next a ban
uurl will follow the meeting.
Mics Craze Anderson, primary school
superintendent b making her irs, official
slsll ~ the schools IN Cecil county, this
week.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-09
TEACHERS Compliment
N. HOWARD JESTER
nsy Express Appreciation OF
hIs Uniform Courtesy To-
ward Them.

NJ Howard Jester, retiring secretary
VI the honfd oi iducatlon, and who
has hecn appointed state Tax Commis-
ssnuvt hV Governor Dcnncy, n IN receipt
ui letter from the teachers IN public
srhnoln Nus la nnd - IN which they
rsp,rss tn him their appreciation OF his
uniform courtesy 90 them NJ all times
and the consideration he has shown them
durlny nll the time he has held this office.
They wish him sicccss m his new office.
Me leairf, naturally, feels highly com
plmpnird hy this tribute from the
ipnphcfs in these schools.
The letter from the teachers is as
iulluws
Wilmington, Delaware,
December q, 1921.
"Nf NJ Howard lester
"bpnt Slr
We che teachers of schools 10 and
~, wish ln express our appreciation ol
the uniform courtesy and consideration
,uu have shown us during your time
of prNirr ns Secretary oi the Board OF
lWhir idurntiun We realize that YOU
have sacrificed yuur own convenience in
rplmflnn the salary checks always
hhund ul the tunr limit, and We take
pleasure w thus acknowledging your
rpfNiuV ~ ua
with hes, wishes for your continued
MtrVm IA Your new office we are
Yours sincerely
ELLEN Samworth,
Emma NJ. Doud,
Meta kcttlcwood,
"llclcn & Oakley,
"ii Dorothy Hamil.
Gertrude Mcdaniel,
lena l., Yates.
barbara Miller,
mildred &. Perkins,
"Gcneyicve A O'Connor,
mildred r. Mock,
Marion II Brown,
Catherine & Connolly anC
"lNlclc NJ Black"