The New York herald., 1922-02-28
RADIO TO WORLD OF
SPIRITS TO GET TEST
New Phone Will Connect You
With Your Pet Celebri-
ties, 'Tis Said.
Hello. Shakespeare I"

Hello. Shakespeare 70
American Psychical Institute? Just a
minute, please. Napoleon and William
Rufus are dining with me and if you will!
permit me to excuse myself
That's quite all right. VIII. If YOU
see Queen Bess in the restaurant. please
give Her Majesty our regards
That. or something like that, is the
wireless telephone aim, as applied to
spiritualism, OF Hereward Darlington
and considerable group of more or
less important persons who obtained
from Justice Ford in the Supreme Court
yesterday approval of a form of charter
for the American Psychical Institute and
Laboratory. Included in this group, in
addition to Mr.. Darlington, are Mrs.
Enrico Caruso. Magop Kvorkian, Janet
Beecher and others interested i'm getting
a satisfactory connection with the Back
Of Beyond.
On the face of their petition to Justice
Ford appears these principles of scien-
tific conduct
ITO determine the credibility of
psychic phenomena and to endeavor to
discover their relations. thus rendering
their laws available to daily life.
The study of these phenomena in a
properly equipped laboratory, especially
adapted to that purpose.
"The publication of monthly maga-
zine setting forth records of expert
ments and Investigations.
"rhe establishment of a library and
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"rhe exposure of all fraud in oonnec-
tion withsmanifestations of psychic phe-
nonema."
Edison Tests.
But that doesn't tell the half OF II.
Mr.. CarriiGton and his associated in
quirers approach the problem of spirit
ism from distinctly scientific angle.
Ever since the time that determined
doubter craWled under n table and
gSlbbed Signora Palladino's plump right
ankle when both of the lady's feet were
supposed Co be tucked into q chair OPP
posite the rest of her. there has been
demand for coldly scientific tests of
psychical demonstrations.
The new institute intends to furnish
these tests with apparatus built by
Thomas A. Edison-wireless telephones,
electric coils. dictagraphs and all the
rest of the giveaways. So that. as they
see 1t, It Is entirely possible TO tune up
with The infinite, to get Bill Shakespeare
of South Avon on the wire and hold n
perfectly good conversation with the well
known scenario writer OF the late six
teenth and early seventeenth century.
If Napoleon or Caesar wants to talk.
we'll and good. The institute is ready
for all comers.
To Solve Old Problems.
Seriously" said Mr.. Hereward Car
rington last night, at his home 504 West
1l1th street "there Is great need of per-
fected scientific apparatus in the investi-
CATION OF spiritism. We are not yet
ready to take the public into our confi-
dence as regards all the apparatus to
be used, but there will be a telephone
without wires and there will be a spe-
cially prepared electric coil which should
register the presence of anything not OF
material being.
mo. we are not in opposition to DR..
Hyslop's school Of inquiry. Not at all
But we are attacking the problem of
t.e ages from coldly fixed point OF
view. We want to know the truth.
Already, l may say. we have conducted
certain experiments with scientific APP
paratus that might amaze the world
For example. in levitation tests. we have
demonstrated by our apparatus that
group of persons, using the forefinger
test in lifting. have lost. all together.
total Of sixty pounds of weight Where
did that material substance go to? In
our future experiments We confidently
expect to solve great problems that have
tugged at the intellect and the imagina-
ton of human beings for 5000 years.
Yes. Mrs. Caruso is Interested in our
work and we have with us many other
well known people"
Mrs. Caruso herself said that she Is
not really seeking a message from the
dead, but that she is intensely interested
In an impersonal manner and that SHE
has been greatly impressed by expert
ments conducted by DIR. Darlington.
These experiments have been conducted
for the most part at 40 West Fifty
seventh street where Mr.. Kvorkian. one
OF the founders of the new institute.
resides.