Evening star., 1937-07-04

Recent Advances in Televson, Mental Teepahy and Other
Phenomena, Once Considered Pipe Dreams Suggests Moth
ing Is Beyond the Realm of Possibiliy

another A freely a& they now do by
telegraph or radio. without any in
struments other than two human
brains. and until then we could not
say we had 50 much as touched the
minds capacity.
Another crazy idea" But in the
laboratory at Duke University an
erstwhile Harvard University psy-
chologist and Z young psychologist
from the University Of Chicago sat
one night with = synchronised watch
and are said to have actually trans
mitted thought waves to another in
vestigator at Stanford University,
hundreds Of miles away In California.
Some day" observed Ed Bodin,
veteran psychologist, Il will be able
to sit in the silence of my own room
here in New York and converse
mentally with = friend In Los Angeles
And I will need neither sight nor
hearing TO do 1t. win 60 even
further In 4 prediction. Before 1850
you will be able to send out 4 mental
fash to some friend. not knowing
where that friend might be, and In
a few moments you will receive a
mental flash in return. Perhaps some
scientific instrument will be used, but
communication will be established"
The Literary Digest, commenting
on this prediction, states: 1T sounds
like romantic thought wish of 4
superscienoe writer, but 1t isn't" It
then recounts matter-of-fact expert
ments In our modern universities bear
ing out the contention in exotic stud
les that in addition, have proved ''te-
lepathy' and "clairavoyance" to be
one and the same powers.
7 TITLE known to the public, investi-
gators have conducted more than
500, 900 tests in the last six years in
the kboratoxy Of Duke University.
They have isolated telepa thy and clair
voyancy from the field Of psychical re-
search and believe they have struck
upon - possible key to other mysteries
OF the mind"
A young student of the University
Of Chicago, J. B. Rhine, Is the pio-
neer in these studies and has devised
. system Of cards, designed for the
tests, that Is making it possible to
accumulate laboratory data In this field.
He first became interested in the sub
ject IS years ago and communicated
his interest to Prof. william McDou-
gall Of Harvard University. the emf
nent psychologist. Prof. McDougall,
with professors Of Stanford University
and the University Of Pennsylvania,
had been investigating the "phenom-
ena"-a word, by the way, that is
passing with miracle" as light u
shed in dark places.
DR.. McDougall moved to Duke Uni
versity and Rhine went with him, en-
couraeed to inaugurAte his expert
ments tn telepAthy. He based his ex-
periments upon = deck of rs cards
whose faces bear five symbos-a star,
. cross, . rectansle and . series OF
wavy lines. One psychologist would
imagine these cards rs they might lie
in the pack. Another psychologist sat
tn desp abstraction and told, by card,
what the frst psychologist was think
ing.
When sitting beside the first psy-
chologist, the second experimenter
achieved an average Of right calls, In
calling the pack $50 times, Of IA cardl
. pack. When he sat In the next
room, his average was las In 7sc
packs, and when he sat two rooms
away, his average was 16 cards right
In each Of $50 packs. When sitting
beside the f1rst psychologist, the ex.
perimenter made one perfect score oi
IS and numerous Close runs Of 20 on
more. Another psycheaogist, 750 milsl
away. averaged 1o.l cards correct II
calling eight packs.
The results of moro thaa 1oo,0o(