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The Washington times., 1931-05-23
THE WEATHER

Fair and continued cool tonight; Sunday fair
with slowly rising temperature; diminishing
northwest winds. Temperature yesterday-Hish-
est, 73j lowest 81.
Full Weather Report on Page
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made Dy tho same individual who made tla0
wax hand cast due to the similarity of thumb
and thumbprintS on each Stimulated by
these researches and fully cognizant of tina
possibilities OF teleplasn1ic prints, the Margery
group all had their hngerprints taken By q
police expert and fled. Among them was
Judge Hill, the wen known Boston lawyer.
Last September Judge Hill passed away and
last Oct0bef IA, under strictly controlled con-
ditions, there were produced on three pieces
OF wax three thumbprints pronounced by
neutral BertiIlon experts to be the same prints
left by the Judge during his lifetime"
Psychic phenomena have intrigued many
brilliant minds during the last century Serious
scientific investigation Of the subject began
with the work Of Sir william Crooks Of the
Royal Society In 1870. Since that time many
great scientists have admitted the belief that
something Is behind the mysterious psychic
manifestations which science has yet to recog-
nize. Some Of them were Sir william Barrett,
Sidgwick, Wallace, Myers, F1ammarion, Lom-
braso, Aksako6, Siaparelh, Bozzano and WA.
liam James.
"\k/TTH the passing Of the years." continued
w Maj. Van Wyck, "the problem Of OBJ
tanning material proof Of the existence Of spirits
began to impress psychical students more and
more. For instance, some time ago DR.. Cran-
don, husband Of Margery, wrote The prOb~
lem Of . satisfactory method by which the
study Of psychical phenomena may be raised
from the status Of q mere haphazard observa-
ton to that Of . satisfactory scientific effort
is by no means easy Of solution. The diversity
Of phenomena, the conditions Of obscurity
which ordinarily obtain and the perplexing in
terweaving Of the personal equation of all con-
ceFned-obServeFs and spectators as wen as the
medium-all present elements of difficulty The
rational observer realizes at the outset that
certain desired tests of purely rational quail
ity are difacult If not impossible, to obtain
"Sir oliver Lodge has said: BY psychic me
vestigatton not only the existence but the activ~
titles Of the dead have been demonstrated; and
the power Of intercommunion has been shown
to be . fact. This may be discredited. Not
every investigator q yet convinced I am sure
that continued inquiry win demonstrate 4 %
the FULL"
cCopyEfght, lssl.)
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far-famed '1Gazgegy" group OR INVESTIGATOR
died after leaving his right hand thumbprtnt
with an 0fneia1 expert. In less than dix weeks
after his demise he, Il reported 70 have Inn
pressed his highland thumbpTint on three
pieces Of warm dental wax during o sitting Of
the 'Margery" circle IN Boston, and these prints
have been declared By Bertillon experts TO
correspond exactly with the print made during
his lifetime and preserved for possible post
nnortem comparison.
And now comes Maj CFittenden Van wyck,
q. 8. A, retired, now living In Honolulu,
spir1tualtsts believe viii establish beyond the
shadow Of doubt that spirits live In another
world 30 that they can communicate with the
living Of this world
I'VE are living In o mateF1alistic age" ex-
plains Maj Van Wyck, ~and therefore the
skeptics must Be shown actual material evidence
that those who pass On are with rs all the time.
This can bo accomplished simply BY in
ducing Thousands Of persons to file their hand
prints, footprints photographs and death masks
with several institutions for physical research
In various parts OF the world. These impress
sions should be kept under strict surveillance,
in charge Of BertiIlon experts engaged for that
purpose, and no one permitted access to them
except for purpose Of comparison.
For example, II during o seance q spirit
leaves an imprint Of his finger, hand or foot
upon dental wax placed m the dArkened room
for that purpose, that impression could be sent
to the archives for possible identification.
Heretofore when such impressions have beer
obtained-and many have been got during the
has been NO means OF absolutely proving their
ownership because the persons failed to have
their prints nled away before they passed on.
And by having al four means OF discrimination
hands, feet, face and actual photograph
available m future comparison. even the most
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a
WI Of THE four-way spirit Identification when
hngerprints before his death. It isn't strange
that the novel scheme should have occurred TO
the major, because he Is . retired dentist. He
was the first dental surgeon ON the Pacific
Coast to enter the United States Army from
civil life during the war. He served for several
years after the war and then was retired.
&. He has studied psychical phenomena for the
last 80 years In many parts Of the world and
Is q well known lecturer and writer ON the
subject. Since conceiving his plan he has
communicated with the British College OF
Psychic Science and several other similar or
CARNATIONS and has received favorable indica-
tons that his system Of spirit Identification
WIN be adopted. To set q good example, he has
forwarded his hand, foot and face impressions
and photograph to four different archives.
Ftngerpr1nts Of spirits have been obtained
frequently says Maj. Van Wyck.
The famous Margery Circle In Boston, con-
tributor OF many startling proofs Of psychic
phenomena, was the hrst," he explained.
"Margery is the gifted wife Of DIR. L. r. @.
1911 her brother, Walter, was killed IN an auto
mobile accident. In 1928 Mrs. Brandon. always
referred to In psychical annals As Margery,
nrSt displayed characteristics Of psychical me-
d1umShip, the alleged control being her de-
parted brother, Walter. Once during seance
Walter Is said to have made Q wax mold OF his
hand from molten wax placed In the room for
that purpose. Neutral scientists have tdenSt-
ned this materialized hand as that Of human
being.
During 1926 and 1927 Walter made many
impressions In warm dental wax with his
thumb. The scientists reported that they were
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Keep on 1Vlng In the ncrc1IUeT
in such form that they can and
do communicate with those living IN this world?
win famous skeptics Of the alleged spirit
existence at last be forced TO admit that spirit
ualism is based on proved fact?
Yes answer q number Of leading opponents
Of spiritualism. Due to recent contributions
from various research laboratories, they assert,
It won't be long until the man In the street Is
as spirit conscious Is he Is hunger and thirst
conscious.
How? BY actually Identifying the spirits they
claim are lowering about Us at all hours OF the
day and night; identifying them by the same
unique method used by police detectives to catch
criminals: the Bertilon system Of hngerprint-
ing. To make the Identification quadruply skep-
Ucproof an international file Of footprints, pho
tographs and death masks In addition to the
hDgorprlnts Of tens Of thousands of persons
who will attempt to communicate their iden-
ttty when they pass into the next world, win
be maintained.
NNE Of the first to suggest the possibility Of
~ proving spirit existence once and for all
was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, probably the
most active and sincere Of all proponents OF
sptritualsm. Before his death he had his I'm
geTprints filed away. While many mediums
have since reported conversations with him
from the ''other side," none has produced his
nngerprints to prove to the satisfaction Of the
bay mind that the creator Of Sherlock Holmes
= sin alive"
Several months ago Judge Charles Stanton
III Of Boston, who vas associated with the
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aleptical lay mind can be convinced Of the
authenticity Of psychical phenomena.
at isn't difncult to have your impressions
made BY IN expert. ANY ofhcer In charge Of .
police Identification bureau win be glad 10
make your hand and foot prints, and any
dentist can take an impressiOn-Or death
mask'-of your face"
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BY KENNETH ". BARR.

HONOLULU, April %, 1891.
kuL spir1tualists succeed In pro-
da1cing evidence that there Is
n no death In the accepted sense
NM Of the word; that 0ur spirits
" keep on living In the hereafter
in suel1 form that thew can and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
The Lure of the Sea

A reading of the list of casualties in the recent clash
between the U. S. marines in Nicaragua and a band of
sandino's troops reminds one. once more, Of the way in
which inland parts OF the country contribute to our
naval forces.
In the old days the navy and the marine corps drew
their enlisted men chiefly from the seaports. New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore-these ports were,
literally, home ports for most of the sailors and marines
with the U. S. fleet. But now the recruits come from
the interior-from places where men of war arc never
seen, and never will be seen.
This casualty list, for instance; the boys whose names
appeared in it came from such places as Des Moines, Ia,
Washington, Pa, Chilncothe, No., and Lawrencevule,
Ga. The lure of the sea has a potent effect. in places
where salt air is never smelled. It drew these young
chaps far afield-to unexpected death in a Nicaraguan
jungle.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
The New Year
(NapoleOn Homestead)

tNapOleOn HOmeStead)
Inc idea OF spending as well as saving in order to
Judicious spending is as necessary to the well-being Of
the individual and Of the rest of the people as is ju-
olclous Savl1g-the kind that can not be called boarding.
For the year of 1881 there will be many resolutions
made. Some OF them will be unwise; others will be
foolish. Few will be kept to the letter. To think that
one can change his habits and manner of living Just
because the calendar shows January / instead Of May 6
or August IA is not sound. To "resolute' because it is
January the first means nothing. To resolve to do bet
ter. to save wisely, to spend more advantageouely, to
eliminate those things that tear down the body or
weaken the mind-tbese are good and wholesome. To
DO so January first is also good, but not because 1t Is
January first.
Some business men, otherwise, rated as sane, began
cutting overhead expenses along about the first of
every new year. II the things that are cut were MOI nee
esSary or convenient to the business they should have
Deen eliminated as unnecessary overhead long ago. A
saving spree Is as detrimental to a business as a spend
ing orgy.
But the new year does good, even if no more than
10 eau our attention to what we have been doing that Is
bad and emitting what ives good. It is a time for in
ventory for stocks and souls. A time to stop searching
other peoples minds and hearts and to search our own.
Another wholesome thing about a new year is that
there Is always a squirt OF good times following it. These
new resolutions people make do change the course Of
affairs to an apprecablc extent. But We can not kid
ourselves into prosperity; we can only work ourselves
into 1t. Artificial means can not build the foundation
solid. There Is the problem Of the individual as well
as OF the government, and the problem OF the state, the
county and the municipality. These political units Of
government are Independent Of the calendar SO far as
Is concerned the question of economy. The individual
at abundance. It can not be done.
Let us rejoice that q new year is at hand. But let us
not hamper our opportunities because Of a false sense
OF economy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
Insurance PAYMENTS

An idea OF the scope of the insurance business in
this country is given in a recent statement by B. D.
Flynn. vice president and actuary of the Travellers In
slrance Co. showing that more than 81 $780, 100000 was
paid out to American policyholders and beneficiaries
under all kinds of insurance in this country during the
past year. This total exceeds the total for 1929 by nearly
$4,000 ,o00.
More than $2,OOO,OO0.OOO of this was paid out under
policies protecting people-such as life insurance. &C
cident insurance, liability insurance and the like. The
remainder was paid under policies protecting property.
Accidents causing personal injuries were responsible for
the payment of $780, 0OC, 900.
Few OF us, probably, had realized that insurance pay
ments reached any such tremendous totals. Probably
Mr.. Flynn Is entirely correct in remarking that this pay
ment of $2y800Oo0,000 has been an important factor
in the sterilization of business conditions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
Land Beckons

Twenty years ago one-tnird of all the people in this
nation were on the farm. Census figures just compiled
show that in the last two decades farm population has
dropped from ~32.O76,960 to 1922, 900, a loss of 1854, $50.
Today not quite four out of every five Americans live in
towns and cities.
The exodus from farms in the grain states west of the
Mississippi has not assumed proportions to be alarming.
In Minnesota there is an increase of 1000 farms; North
Dakota, 800; South Dakota, 5000.
Figures could be given at length affecting the move
ment OF population from the farm to the city, but these
suffice. The indications are though, that before long
there will be a movement back to the land. Land was
never cheaper within a decade than it is now. 1t beck
ons to those thousands who find life hard in industrial
centers. Enough can be produced to feed and clothe
humanity on the farm, and the bread line is absent in
the rural communities.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
A Typical Bow

The most interesting thing to us in this story of the
kidnapping of the Busch grandson in st. Louis was the
attitude the boy himself displayed towards his kidnaper.
questioned after he had returned home, the boy
revealed that the first thing he said to his kidnaper
Was-not. Where are you going to take me?" Or What
are you going to do with me?" but what kind of a gun
have you got " And when the kidnaper told him, the
boys curiosity was appeased.
That is interesting because it is so typically boy like.
Guns and desperadoes have always had a fascination for
boys; and this boy, finding himself in the presence of
a real desperado, was asasied first of all by a desire to
know just what sort of weapon his captor carried. Could
anything be more in the tradition of Tom Sawyer?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
DR.. McCoy's menus suggested Tor
the week beginning Sunday, January

DR.. McCoy's menus suggested Tor
the week beginning Sunday, January
18th:
Sunday
Breakfast-Coddled eggs; Meloa
toast; stewed prunes.
Lunch-Potato on the hall sneil'
spinach: salad of head lettuce.
Dinner-Baked chicken with
Shredded Wheat Biscuit dressing;
buttered parsnips; cooked lettuce;
ice cream.
Breakfast-Toasted breakfast &C.
real with cream; applesauce.
Lunch-sBaked squash rings;
string beans: salad of raw celery.
Dinner-vegetable soup; stuffed
beef rolls; carrots: turnip salad; Jelo
or Jell-Well.
Tuesday
Breakfast-Crisp bacon; we'll cooked
waffle with small amount OF butter
and maple syrup.
Lunch-Cornbread; spinach; ripe
olives.
Dinner-Roast mutton: escalloped
celery; combination salad; carrot and
date pudding.
Wednesday
Breakfast-Baked eggs; wholewheat
mullins with peanut butter; stewed
raiSins.
Lunch-Oyster plant; string beans;
lettuce.
Dinner-Celery soup: roast beef;
,stewed tomatoes; small lima beans;
stuffed beet salad: cup custard.
Thursday
Breakfast-Spinach Omelet; Melba
toast; stewed prunes.
L~unch-Mushroom soup; combina-
ton salad of lettuce tomatoes and
cold cooked vegetables from day be-
fore.
Dinner-Roast pork: rutabagas;
string beans; salad Of grated raw car
rots; stewed apples.
Friday
Observation-Disclosures mush with
cream; stewed figs.
Lunch-Baked egg plant; small
green peas: salad Of raw spinach
leaves.
Dinner-Baked sea- bass; artichoke
hearts Canned; salad Of sliced to-
matoes; Jello or Jell-well.
Saturday
Breakfast-Broiled ham; coddled
egg: Melba toast: applesauce.
Lunch-Fresh fruit, all desired Of
one kind
Dinner-vegetable soup: Salisbury
steak; baked ground beets and car
rots; celery and ripe olives; apricot
whip.
Baked Squash Rings: Wash and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
The Day of the Bicycle

It is a little bit surprising to learn that the Newburgh
Wheelmens Club of Newburgh, N. Y, has finally passed
out of existence: surprising, not because the organiza-
ton has d~kbanded, but because few of us realized that
any OF those old associations Of cyclists still existed.
This Newburgh group, it develops, had been in exist
ence for A years; and while a. years do not make a very
long time, yet the changes that first brought that club
into being and then finally left it high and dry on the
sand are a measure Of the tremendous upsets that mod
ern life has inflicted on its people.
The Wheclmen's club! What a far-off and forgotten
sound that title has, anyway! It carries one back to the
early days; days when that strange new invention, the
bicycle, was taking the country by storm, when men were
exulting in a new and enjoyable method of transporta-
ton, wheeling themselves over city streets and country
roads, and getting a whale of a good time out of it all.
Young city chaps would get up at dawn, on Sunday
mornings, to spin out into the country for the enjoyment
that fresh air, country scenery and a pleasant dose of
exertion could give. SWANS and their maidens pedalled
off down leafy lanes-and what an adjunct the bicycle
was to courtship! Lads in their early teens found the
new sport as exciting as flying. and vowed that it was a
great world that could produce a bicycle.
But 1t didn't last. A new invention, the automobile,
came along; and although it did not directly affect the
bicycle. 1t indirectly killed 1t by filling the roads with
such a turbulent stream Of traffic that a man on a BIZ
cycle would not be safe for two minutes. We have given
up bicycling for pleasure, not because it isn't fun-it is,
and very good fun, too-but simply because our automo-
biles have left no place where a man can ride a bicycle
in. safety or comfort.
The automobile. Of course, has been all inestimable
boon: but IS 1t out Of order to shed q tear or two for the
vanished bicycle, and these "wheelmen's clubs Of the old
Gsys? And Is 1t being too old-fashioned to express the
rhous hope that one OF these days there will be a revival
81 bicycling IN this country? 1t is very fine to get from
place to place in the automobile: but for the man who
likes to dawdle along the way. and take his pleasure leis-
urcly. the bicycle holds unsupported possibilities. Can't
we, somehow, restore It to something like its old posi-
ton?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
The Dreams of Boyhood

rhe adventures of boyhood-thosew wild, confident ques-
tings in which dragons hide just behind the next hill.
and pirates lurk in the cove a few miles down the old
creek-alwdys make good reading. And 1t seems to us
that the boyhood anecdote they are telling now on Floyd
B.. Olson, the new governor of Minnesota. is one Of the
best
When he was very young, Mr.. Olson and his playmates
got to reading about the Crusades. The Crusades looked
like very fine stuff to them, so they agreed to go to Pal
estine and fight the Saracens; and half a dozen OF them
fitted action to the word by leaving their homes and
walking 10 miles or so to the river docks at st. Paul.
They planned to get on a boat there, float down the
Mississippi to New Orleans and take a steamer there
for the Holy Land. Evidently they were up on their
geography If not on their history.
But the expedition came to grief, as such expeditions
always do. They got to the docks all right, but when
they asked for jobs as cabin boys on a river steamer they
met establishment. Instead of furthering their designs,
an unfeeling mate bluntly and profanely told them to
get off of the boat or they would "get throwed In the
river"
So ended the boyish quest for adventure; and when
you stop to think that all Of boyhood's strivings for ro-
nance end in precisely the same way, you may wonder
why it is that so many grown men yearn eternally for a
return of boyhood. For boyhood is doomed to disap-
pointment. and disa~ppointments are not pleasant. What
sensible adult would care to go back to an age where
every fair Surmise is followed by unmistakable disnluSion-
ment?
The answer, of course, lies In the fact that II boyhood
gets let down with pitiless regularity, it at least has the
dreams. 1t has the capacity for believing things; the
capacity for imagining that the world, beyond the hori-
zoa if not at home, is just what one would have 1t. the
innocent courage to suppose that one can be what he
wants to be and do what he wants to do If only he can
get away from the prosaic surroundings and skeptical
grown-ups of his immediate neighborhood.
That capacity is simply invaluable; and what makes
most of us look back with wistful eyes is the fact that
we lose it as we grow up. We do not drop everything to
go half way around the globe and hunt Saracens, be-
cause we know that the Saracens are not there-or that
there is, at least, a closed season on them. We know, in
short, too much for our own good.
But we never completely lose that childish expectancy.
Or, if we do. we die forthwith. For life is mainly a look
ing-forward. an anticipation. There must be a better
country, a clearer air, a brighter sunshine, somewhere
ahead Of us. We may know better, but we cling to a
shadow of belief, just the same. We could not keep
going if we did not.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
Too Much for the Nayv

It seems just a little bit too bad that the Naval
Academy found itself unable to get along with the in
-vcntive genius of that young Kansas midshipman who
monkeyed with the wires on elevators, clocks and similar
academy devices so that he could control all of them from
his own room.
or course, his action was doubtless highly subversive
OF discipline. and a military school must have discipline
If 1t has nothing else. Just the same, there is something
rather appealing about the young man. The inventive
faculty that he displayed surely ought to be valuable
to the navy, some day; and any man who can play
pranks with such a stern and august institution as the
United States Naval Academy must have an i~ntrepidity
and a dash that ought to carry him a long way.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-09
Today Is the
Anniversary Of
MTSsYssTPPI

.>~~e~~ -E
On Jan. 8, 1861, Mississippi seeded
from the Union.
The question Of secession had been
agitated for some time, but it re-
NAMED for the election of Lincoln
to bring the movement to a head.
The ordinance of secession was
passed by q convention, "a to Is,
and the state constitution was
amended to bring into conformity
with the constitution Of the Confed-
crate states.
During the Civil war. the people Of
mississippi suffered greatly. and in
1863 and 1864 q large part Of the
state was devastated by the contend
ing armies.
This day also commentaries the
anniversary Of 'Connecticut's ratifi-
cation Of the United States constitu-
ton, the fifth state to do so.