Montana labor news., 1937-10-07
WHOLE CONTINENT LABORATORY FOR
ZENITH'S TELEPATHIC EXPERIMENTS

WHOLE CONTINENT LABORATORY FOR
ZENITH'S TELEPATHIC EXPERIMENTS
The first experiments in telepathy ever
0nducted on a nationwide scale are now
being staged each Sunday night in the
Chicago studios of the National Broad
casting Company. The series of tests is
supervised by several of Americas leading
university scientists and is designed TO
determine whether telepathy as an extra
sensOry power exists and, if it exists, to
mine are, how common they may be, to
what extent they art cultiVable, INT how
they function.
The first radio telepathy program ever
ON the air was put on by Commander T..
+. Mcdonald, Jr., of Zenith Radio CorpOr-
alton in March of the year 1924 under the
direction of Dr., Gardner Murphy of CO.
lumbia University, DR.. Robert Gault of
Northwestern University, and Professor
IL. b.. English of Antioch College. This
went over the Zenith owned station WJAZ
from the Edgewater Beach Hotel at Chi
cagO.
The present experiments are being con-
Quoted over the cOaSt-tO-cOast NBC-Blue
network each Sunday at 500 p. m. MIST,
by the Zenith Foundation, conceived and
founded by Commander Mcdonald, and
radio listeners themselves are active
participants.
Thus, for the first time in history, radio
is being utilized to bring together the
minds of millions of persons throughout
an entire continent for the investigation
| and possible solution of one of the great
mysteries of science.
The first test of the series, primarily
designed to familiarize the audience with
the procedure to be followed in subsequent
/ brOadcasts, was held with a battery of 10
specially selected "telepathic enders' pro-
jecting their thoughts to the nationwide
army of broadcast listeners.
A selecting machine in the studio
brought into view, by chance, either black
or white. The 10 senders concentrated
upon the proper color, seven times in sue
cession; and seven times in succession
projected it to the unseen audience who
were asked to send in return cards with
their choice of color on the seven runs.
An analysis of the answers over a series
of weekly tests is expected to establish
whether or not a mass perception beyond
ordinary chance exists. Such tests are
expected to become more significant
through the weeks, as the senders and
their vast audience become more accus-
toned to working with one another.
ESP CARDS TO BE USED
In some of these tests to come later,
there will be used the ESP or Extra Sen
sorry Perception cards developed by DR.,
Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University,
one of the foremost experimenters on
telepathy in the country.
Each of these cards-there are rs in a
deck-carries one of various symbols
either a square, a star, a cross, a series OF
wavy lines, or a circle. DR.. nil has
been using these test cards for several
years in a series of remarkable tests al
Duke University.
Using cards with these five symbols, one
of DR.. Rhine's students made a score OF
Il correct calls out of rs, and Is of them
were consecutive. The same student
called 238 out of 800 cards correctly. Since
five different symbols were used, the
mathematical average barring extra SEN
sorry powers would be 100 correct calls in
900. The chance of calling 238 of 600 cor
rectly by accidents is one in one hundred
1 deciliiOns.
MANY ADMIT TELEPATHIC
EXPERIENCES
In thousands of tests, other students
averaged nine, 10, and Ii correct calls in
each series of rs. Once, in a series of sc
calls, one student scored 26 correct In
succession. The mathematical chance Of
doing this by accident is in 29S, 1923, 223,-
of less scientific value, but Indicative OF
the universal public interest in This phe.
nOmenon, is a recent inquiry made OF
10000 men and women Of the type appear
was willing to admit a personal expert.
ence of an extra sensory nature, such a!
the sudden thought or knowledge of an
event which was later proved to have
taken place elsewhere at that time, anc
yet about which the person could have
learned nothing through the five senses
Previous laboratory tests of teIepathS
have indicated that the distance between
the sender and the receiver has no effecl
upon the outcome of the test. In 600 test.
behind a screen in the same room witt
the sender, one subject averaged min
correct answers in rs. In three hundred
tests in a separate building, he averaged
9.9. In two hundred tests taken at q
distance of $50 miles from the person will
the cards, other students averaged more
than 10 correct calls in each rs.
WHOLE CONTINENT is LABORATORY
The radio, linking the minds of million,
of listeners simultaneously to those of the
~"senders" at the micr0phone, is %uniquel,
adapted to a series of experiments sucf
as the Zenith Foundation plans to con.
duct. And thus il is possible, for tn,
first time in the history of mankind, fol
millions of persons in their own homes {,
participate in the actual search for tn,
solution to a great scientific problem
making an entire continent the laborator,
for the scientific investigation of Fxtr:
Sensory Perception.
The results OF the third weeks ties
will be broadcast at 800 D. m. INST, Sun
day, October 10. Each weeks tests AM