Evening star., 1922-03-26

DR.. L. F. Free, lately Of the Carnegie
Institution, a scientist so hard-headed
and practical that recently 1 wrote
an interview with him upon the sub
ject Of poison gases in the future
warfare. with regard to which he is
world-recognized expert.
Startling enough? Wait!
1t was an utterly uncanny episode
in my own life which brought about
the conversation. I personally vouch
for the exact truth Of every state
ment made here with regard to that.
A member of my family resident in
New York has little girl in ia
nous convent school about 100 miles
from the city. This member of my
family called me recently at, say,
. half past in the morning.
something has happened TO- -
(naming the child), she said. II have
just heard her scream. Can you get
word to and from the convent quick
lly?"
Puzzled. skeptical, but anxious to
relieve evidently real distress, I tried
at once by long g-distince. telephone
and to my amazement learned that
the little girl had slipped upon some
ice, had fallen and had been rather
badly injured at just about the mo-
ment Of the alleged scream. And, in
fact. she had screamed loudly.
THIS is simple fact The sue
cession OF events is almost equal
ly interesting. That same morning.
just after the occurrence I have de-
tailed. friend. John W. Harding. the
London Daily Chronicles correspond
ent in New York. DIR. Frees close
friend, telephoned me saying that the
distinguished scientist had an inter-
esting new theory which ought to be
given to the people of this country.
of which he is a native. I in turn
telephoned to DR.. Free, and his ex-
planation OF his utterly new theory,
as he presently made it. and as it is
recorded in this interview, seems to
be the only possible explanation out
side of ventures into the realm OF
supernatural of the fact that my rela-
tive in New York city had been in
Simultaneously aware OF the injury to
the little girl 100 and more miles
away.
"Unquestionably the possibility OF
the solution of some Of those prob
lens contained in the relations of
ono human mind with another and
the universe. which previously has
seemed to be immeasurably remote.
has became Immediate" DR.. Free
went on. Gold, hard-headed science
is beginning to accept phenomena
which only recently 1t would have
laughed at. Those electromagnetic
waves which are the basis Of wire
less communication seen. to be con-
nected with the most astonishing OF
them. Conceivably they may lead US
into revelations with regard to the
mysterious beyond. Almost certainly
they will explain telepathy.
The many great minds recently
proclaiming tho approach OF new and
startling basic knowledge are those
Of practical men Of physical science.
psychology and literature, rather
than those of religionists.
scIR WILLIAM cRooKEs. Sir
Oliver Lodge and Lord Clifford
of Chudleigh, in England. have pro-
claimed that truth in some proper
ton exists in certain startling theo-
ries, but have been unwilling to lend
their sanction to declaration of its
measure and exact identity. Senator
Marconi, discoverer Of the wireless
telegraphy, has seemed to be a link
between the theoreticians and the
laboratory scientists and between
both and the great goal, not inten-
tionally. but because his cold, techni-
cal experiments have swept him, willy
nilly, into the mysterious field.
"One is compelled to wonder II ma
terial science is not, indeed, to admit
a fact basis for most OF the honestly
claimed phenomena Of the supernat-
ural which hitherto It has denied. II
it does 50 it will be only because 1t
realizes that they are natural mani
festations Of laws not revealed by
the crude formulae Of past science,
although sensed instinctively by cer-
tain men and women Of peculiar
sensitiveness.
u,
these are to be fully recognized and
wonderfully explained by that same
science which hitherto has been so
skeptical. Surely the possibility, for
instance, Of the actual solution of
some Of the problems contained in
the relations Of one human mind with
another and the universe. which pre-
viously has seemed to be immeasura-
bly, remote, has become Immediate"
THAT would mean telepathy.
thought transference. mind reading:
in the colloquial term. Note thecon-
nection between this scientists deep
thought and the episode Of the little
girl whose injury hundred miles
away was instantly known to the
mind Of a woman who loved her in
New York.
Thousands Of cases Of such appar-
ent signaling from one human being
to another across distances and with
out the possibility of words. rough
ly resembling that which passed be-
tween the little girl and the woman
who loved her, are Of record.
PLAINLY there are hints Of possi-
bic relationship between what the
world knows as 'telepathy' and the
physical phenomena grouped under
the heading Of wireless or radio and
of which tho wireless telegraph and
the wireless telephone, suddenly Of
such intense interest to the whole
United States, are manifestations.
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