Evening star., 1923-02-18
BY THOS.' n. MARSHALL.
Former Vice President OF the
United States.

pOI"cI VICE FIe1I0ent OF Ine
United States.
the earlier years of the ap-
plication OF electricity to sup
plying the comforts and con-
veniences of life it was the
custom to string the transmission
lines on poles. As the use Of this
subtle influence grew. these lines
were found to sag, strike each
other. create short circuits and
disorganize things generally. Out
OF this condition OF affairs was
evolved the idea OF running the
lines underground in tubes or
Joining them in cables to secure
transmission directly from the
initial source OF the power to the
point OF utilization. This change
helped amazingly. Another de-
volpment of advantage to both
producer and consumer was
plan to hook up many little plants
into one. This still further les
sened the chance Of interruption
of business. Quite recently the
American people have had oppor-
tunity to observe a striking in
stance of the crossing of lines of
though, a short-circuiting Of brain
current, which may have put many
of US temporarily in the dark.
Each age discovers what 1t
thinks to be something. new. al
though 1t may prove to be the re-
discovery of a forgotten principle.
DR.. Coue braved the storms OF the
Atlantic to convey to us his re-
discovery Of the principle Of au-
tosuggestion. Every day in every
way the lame and halt are getting
limberer and limberer. Who am
to say that they viii not continue
agile to the very grave? Yet l
remember seeing a man pro-
PEELED in a wheeIchair to a wagon,
where an alleged doctor was SELL
ing a sure cure for rheumatism.
I saw the remedy applied, tho
rheumatism disappear, the chair
abandoned and the man walk
home I saw him again the next
day with most of the outer skin
off his body and his rheumatism
as bad as ever. He had had too
much liniment and not enough
autosuggestion.
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knew a man who graduated
from a poultry wagon into the
medical profession. He claimed to
have obtained from the seventh
daughter of the seventh daughter
of an Indian princess at TT
7th avenue, some city, a mys-
terious glass and a marvellous
cake OF soap. This glass placed
upon the human anatomy enabled
him, he said, to look inside a per-
son and ascertain what allied MIN.
1t was a sort OF medical radio.
His theory was that disease was
caused by different kinds OF blood
which made different kinds of
spots on the bones. The method
Of cure was revealed in a law
suit-somewhat like this: A big
iron kettle was partly filled with
milk of temperature as high
as the body Of a human could
bear 1t; the cake of soap was low
cred. with incantations unde-
scribeu, into the milk, into which
had been placed the hulls from
walnuts of the first crop; the
patient was then boiled therein
for a definite period Of time.
Marvellous cures were reported
and generous sumo were paid for
opportunity to come under the be-
nign influence OF this "quack."
Even conservative doctors OBJ
served many cures, actual and
permanent. whether the result of
the milk. the soap, the walnut
hulls. the suggestion of the doc
tor, resulting in the autosugges-
tion OF the patient. or of plain
old fashioned faith, / do not pre-
tend to say.
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DR.. Coue, evidently resenting
criticism Of lack of faith in a
Supreme Being, declared he was
not engaged in a crusade against
any religion on earth. He said