The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
SPIRITS COULD
SAVE WORLD,
MEDIUM STATES
Arthur Ford Urges Ghost
Government of Dead
Statesmen.
BY H. ALLEN SMITH
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 24-The gen.
eral assembly of spritualists con-
vened here today, prepared to fur
nish proof that the government OF
a distraught world should be turned
over completely to statesmen who
have passed over" such as Wilson,
Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson.
Between seanceS, the Spriritualists
will devise ways and means of purg
ing their ranks of ''racketeers." And
from the spirit larynX of
Arthur Ford, recognized as the fore
most spiritualist in the United
States. they will hear how ghost
government could bring prosperity
around that corner.
Ford, who looks and dresses like
a movie idol, explained in his hotel
room just why the spirit world
should be entrusted with dictatorial
powers in setting the affairs of our
! planet in order.
Dead Lawyer Is Guide
Take my own caSe," said Ford.
"One of my guides is John Reilly,
New York lawyer who passed over
four years ago. 1 commune with
Reilly frequently. His messages are
not to me, but to other lawyers
prominent members of the bar who
knew him on earth.
You would be surprised at the
number of important cases Reilly
has figured in since he died. He has
spoken, through me, on procedure
to be followed in criminal, as well
as civil cases. And in each case, his
lawyer friends have followed the ad-
vice they received from beyond, and
the advice has been infallibly right.
Thus, the statesmen who have
died and who now inhabit higher
plane, progress in their mental de-
velopment much more rapidly than
they did on earth. Woodrow Will
son, for example, is a much more
intelligent man now than he was
before he passed over. We should
let Wilson, Lincoln, Jefferson and
Washington, pull us out Of the hole
we are in"
Webster Advised Lincoln
Ford said that the emancipation
proclamation would not have been
issued had it not been for Nettie
Colburn, trance medium. Lincoln,
he said, had the proclamation writ
ten, but had about decided not to
announce it when the spirit of Dan
iel Webster, through Nettie Col
burn, told him to go ahead.
I'VE would not have the Smith
Sonian Institution" said Ford, had
it not been for Spiritualism. Robert
Dale Owen of New Harmony, Ind,
was the congressman who intro
duced the bill for the institute. His
bill was based entirely on informa-
ton he received through trance
medium in New Harmony.
THE same medium furnished
Owen with the information on
which our public school system was
founded. The spirits told Owen just
how the system should be organized.
Horace Mann went out to New Har-
mony and got the dope from Owen,
and was the founder of our school
system"
Leaving the realm of government,
Ford said that the linotype machine
was invented by a spirit. Morgan
thaler, he said, had been working
on the linotype, but fell short of
success. Finally he went to trance
medium and got in contact with a
mechanic who had been dead for
some years. The mechanic dictated,
through the medium, until Morgan
thaler had blue prints completed
From then on, setting the linotype
up was simple, Ford said.