PHOTOGRAPHIC THOUGHT

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1418, 20 October 1923, Page 6

PHOTOGRAPHIC THOUGHT

A professor of psychical research out in California has evolved a means of photographing thought and has demonstrated it to the satisfaction of one and all, the New York American tells us. The embarrassing part of the thing is that he can work it on anybody and without a camera. All he does is to hold up a sensitive plate, and if you concentrate sufficiently, your thoughts will appear on the plate all pictured out truthfully and lifelike. It is now up to all men to take an inventory of their thoughts and rearrange them so they will look well in print, just as a man combs his hair and gets a shave before he goes to have his photograph taken. Tn other words, he has got to pose his thoughts. But the little machine is going to be very valuable when people generally learn how to operate it. How handy it will be when a man goes into the financial district to buy a few stocks to have one of these thought plates with him. He can even go into a bucket shop with perfect security. If he knows what the stock salesman is thinking about he will never he stung. A lady will

be able to sit at the dinner table in the evening with one of these plates ready for action, and when her husband says he has got to go down town and meet a customer from Chicago she can learn the truth in the twinkling of an eye. The supreme test of the machine will be to try it on some of our present-day statesmen. Nobody in the world can imagine what they are thinking about, and we have an idea the machine will fail. Turned on the average wife, it will show a picture of a new hat. On a motorist, it will show a large red gasoline pump in front of a filling station. On the average hard working husband and father, it will show a set of income tax figures. The safest thing to do when these machines are abroad throughout the land is to think about nothing, and a large percentage of the people do that too.