| Show value of psychical research why should not psychical invest gatlon lead to practical results asks sir oliver lodge F R S in the world today to day are we satisfied with the preaching of chaplains that Is as people content to grow a perennial class of habitual criminals and to keep them in check only by devices appropriate to savages hunting them flogging them locking them up exterminating them it Is unwise and unscientific to leave prisoners merely to the discipline of wardens and to the preaching of chaplains that is not the way to attack a disease of the body politic I 1 have no full blown treatment to suggest but I 1 foresee that there will be one tn the future society will not be content always to pursue these methods of barbarism the resources of civilization are not really exhausted though for cm aurles they have appeared to be the criminal demands careful study on the psychical side and remedy or pallia alon will be a direct outcome of one aspect of our researches the influx ance of the unconscious or self the power of suggestion the in fluence of one mind over another tho phenomena of so called possession these are not academic or scientific facts alone they have a deep cal bearing and sooner or later it must be put to the proof apropos of its bargain list i firm of manufacturers announces that it recently sold a 1907 secondhand automobile to the vice president of one of the largest transcontinental lines another to the president of a national bank a third to a prominent real estate dealer another to a fa wall street operator one to a well known and popular man of aels ure another to the president of a great commercial enterprise and yet another to a noted corporation actor ney this is a class of buyers it Is added who in the past would not consider any but a new car perhaps the reason Is not tar to seek they are not the only persons who are economizing it la pleasant to hear of the bravery and unselfishness of american sailors even in time of peace when they aro supposed to have little to do outside of routine duty rear admiral evans commander of the battleship fleet re ports to the naval authorities al wash ington the highly commendable con duct of tour seamen while at punta arenas chile this consisted of en terling at great personal risk a boat that was leaking badly and proceed ing to th rescue of two midshipmen who idd been thrown into tho water by the c of a dingy and aeo in imminent danger of drowning but tho yankee sailor Is always cool beaded resourceful and dependable an educator in new york opposes the feminizing femin izing of boys citing as an illustration of his theory that women are not in favor of war lie evidently never followed tho proceedings of a D A R business convention or election when in full blast in belgium bleeders breeders bre eders are obliged to keep a record of all cattle raised by them and each animal has a registered trade number which la en graved on the ring fastened to its ear |
