DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 237, 27 December 1927, Page 5

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

WHAT OF IT? (Copyright, 1927.) rpHERE Has recently been a meeting; of the International Congress for ■*" Phychic in Paris. There were the most astounding declarations. A Mr. Bird, of America, and a Dr. Reitz, of Leningrad, produced a lot of evidence to rehabilitate the mediums. Dr. Reitz stated that they all operated in good faith and the audience applauded the sentiments. He said that in some performances the mediums had found articles that had been introduced into safes doubly locked and sealed and others tied knots in a cord attached to a seat. There were other mediums who ■vgrote upon the typewriter and many were able to move all sorts of objects without help of any material agency. Mr. Price, ox America, told how mediums produced changes of temperature in a room, and Professor Cazzamali, of Milan, claimed that the human brain emits radio waves that had begun to be photographed. He said, also, that the brain put forth sounds which were audible by radio. Rappings of ghosts were possible, it was claimed, and messages from another world could be received. Charles Richet, of France, the president of the Congress, declared that metaphysics is on the verge of becoming an authoritative science, and that there is a sixth sense or psychic power. Another power produced what he called thumb-prints of spirits, which corresponded to the thumb-prints of the person during his life time. To all of which the public makes the query, “What of it?” If a dead person has uothing better to do than to go around rapping typewriters, moving tables and making thumb-prints, he is not very busy. All of this material teems merely to be in the interest of astounding people. It adds nothing to the sum of human learning and is simply a continuation of the oldest craft in the world, which is witchcraft.