Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-09
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now

that / don't know What IN
writing about today usher!
Please throw out that guy IN
the back row who hollered,
whats new about that?D
The topic for to-day : argtt..
ment is mental telepathy, and
we will approach It with an
open-not 10 say vacant--mlnd.
One Rolf PaSSer, "A CzechoSlo-
vakian, appeared IN our Office
this week and demonstrated his
meltan telepathy act. If he had
tried 10 peddle US a bill OF
goods about being a great
Scientist, we probably would
have him heaved out on his ear.
But he crossed us up by adj
hitting that he didn't know the
WINS and whercforeS Of telepa-
thy. Grateful for his frankness,
we crossed him up by not throw
ing him out
Passer and his assistant did
some Of their tricks for uS. His
assistant l. cute little dolly
named Dee C0stciioP. She Is
from East Orange, y. j., wears
her black hair I'm Veronica
Lake (Old-style) hair-do, and
was a Powers model. She has
had some offers 10 work In films
hut explains CriSply, II don't like
wolves" She II now Mrs. PaSSer
in private life.
Either they really use tclcpa-
thy or they have worked out
some tricks that are much too
good for Us 10 detect For eN-
ample. he goes out of the room
and out Of ear,hoi. We tell Dee.
Have hlm hight a CIgaret for
Miss MaCDoucll have MN pick
that package of the floor and
put II on The radiator, and have
hun put tins bookmark IN tins
book
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through Some hocuN-pocuS tor
dram9tc effect ne admits and
then performs The tasks Wc have
set tor h.m Dee doc>n speak
10 him She doeSn utter a
sound
He saws that the brain sends
ont waves, and that he reads
these waves, hoHgh he
doesn't know how he does II.
Wei. IT'S true that the human
brain cnIt~ tiny electrical
waves Hospitals have .nS'ru-
mcnt, which can measure AMI
record these waves There's no
argument about that
But whether these waves con
tain the thoughts that a person
Enthusiastically knows.
Maybe telepathy depends on
these waves, and maybe II de
pends on something entirely diff
fercnt. A. said. I don't know
what this il all about, and
neither does ANYBODY else.
Passcr SAYS DO roads tho
thought waves tl touching ms
assistant, wrist Bur 20 make
me thing more altrG. poe
took TWO people M the office
strangers 70 him and asked
them - concentrate on some
thing they wanted him 20 do
They didn't say b. They
didn't write d. They Just
thought IL They say that be
did exactly What they were
thinking about
So there You are I'm 'ue'
telling YOU Whar happened and
YOU can accept d OF not
Al said. ne doesn't offer any
exact explanation. anyway, he's
a lot more interested in eating
regularly than ne is in unraNcl-
ing scientific secrets. "Betv cen
rs" he said TIM mainly inter
eSted in getting $3.50 for the act
40 can keen on buy ing Dee nice
clothes" They are doing their
act at the Wonder Bar, and
using the same phenomena that
they performed for us here.
All he SAYS Is that he can toll
what other people are thinking
about some people. sometimes.
Duke University has been eN-
perimcnting with telepathv. and
they think there's something 10
n. And in the current Coronet,
Harold VI sherman tells of eN-
perimcnting with Sir Hubert
wilkins in 1887. and getting Ger
tain general impressions from
Sir Hubert while ne was in the
Polar regions. They were vague
impressions, hut they seemed To
jibe uncannilv.
These DAYS. besides. many huS-
bands and wives insist that there
Is some strange sense Of aware
ness between them--a husband
overseas. p wife NJ home, and
some mysterious feeling of con
tact between them AZ times.
Call D. telcpa'hl or call j.
what you want TO- Call me a
dope for believing that there Is
any such thing al all Say that
lot Of takers are doing stunts
by trickery. and TT agree with
Won But / still think that things
happen which We cant. a. yet.