The New York herald., 1922-02-26

hear it, then there can be no crash; there
is no sound where there is no ear to
hear it.
But will Miss Eugene Dennis, mere
high school girl, and not tremendously
adept one at that-will she be the means
of refuting this time old and intriguing
theory? Perhaps. Perhaps not. 1t is with
in the range Of the believable that she may
be the medium to prove that there is In
mortal life new sense, new perception
which is a far flung development from that
primitive, crude instinct which the first
man had and which exists in the name of
"acumen" until the nascent generation.
What If we all have, submerged, that
power which makes Eugene Dennis
unique? What il she has only discovered
and uncovered her subtle perceptivity by
accident? Many things are being learned
to-day It would take great deal to
startle the world But it would be startling
If some psychic or physical scientist should
break forth with the theory that Eugene
Dennis lives to demonstrate the use of
common faculty. glorified instinct =
CnaL SHe Is u living pIooL thdI shC huAA"A
mind, which all the ages until now have
arrogantly held to be personal and private
property, is in reality-or unreality-the
property of the universe, the cosmic mind
somehow related to every other machine OF
thought under the stars of heaven. Even
in some vague but growing relation to the
planets and the spheres.
Told American Legion Boys
Many Things of "Buddies
That is a flight of imagination, but, after
all, Imagination is conservative. The madt
dest envisioning of the past is occasionally
outrivaled by the truth of the present.
But to come to earth again:
At the recent national convention Of the
American Legion in Kansas City Eu]genie
appeared, and her readings" on that occa'
sion were mysterious in the extrelme to
some of the veterans who "got intP COM
munication" with comrades who ha(d been
killed in France. She proved definitely
to the minds of some of these vetera ms that
she was conveying messages frorh dead
soldiers. for the voices" reminiscted over
incidents which were dear memories and
of which she personally could have in no
wise known.
In Omaha she has located long lost pa
pers; she has recovered lost jewetry; she
has told mothers where wandering Jchildren
might be found. She has repeated test
conversation" agreed upon years ago be-
tween Abbott and a dying friend, who
promised to fulfill the agreement whenever
he found a medium of communa acation.
Some will believe that it isI Spirits"
that call to the schoolgirl and reveal to her
those things hidden to others; the majority
will not Many of those wh6 have wit
messed extraordinary demonstrations do
not believe that it is aught ,pf the occult
or supernatural They merely admit they
have witnessed what they ca nnot explain,
but insist, of course, that there is an ex-
PLANTATION. But all are agreed that the
little schoolgirl is innocent Of all pretense.
None has discovered grounds for an Tex
pose" She seems to be above suspicion.
II do not know how l do it," Eugenie
Dennis says. "It seems to just come to me.
do not try to know things-to see things
far away. just can't help myself when
the things begin to come"
1t Is because of the startling aspects
OF some OF this schoolgirls revelations that
II has been decided to take her to New
York city for a "psychical laboratory test"