Show parapsychology could do just fine on election bets by newt news analyst and commentator washington it wont be long now before bo be able ibler to settle those election bets A few days after aft erthe the release of the official record of the negotiations with the russians over the berlin situation I 1 wax was sitting in the club with R couple of members of the democratic administration talk had grown pretty tall in paris and that morning every other person I 1 met it teemed seemed asked me are we going to have war but washington was as calm as i A sleeping tabby cat the club dining room window was op open en and a la lazy zy 0 autumn sun steeped down through the me trees ot of the park squirrels loafed around showing little or no interest in preparing for or the winter and e when I 1 repeated the question ahad I 1 had heard so often that morning to my two democratic friends friend st it aroused very little interest said they the russians went dewey dewcy so we wont have war tow ilow tho soviets know it they start id 0 a war at this time it would tinch inch Tr election naturally my friends that they had any doubts double as to the outcome of al tho election but when we started talking odila adds I 1 noticed theaon tho coo vcr gatlon was confined largely to the race for the senate after all said my friends even some republicans concede thai Dewey might faco face a democratic up per house it take much of a push alther way the democrats have 45 deats now and the republic republicans anil amly 51 the democrats are c confident on that only one or two of their candidates pre are in danger on the other hand there are a number of stif state lights in progress in which the republicans are be being ing bashed pashed pretty hard the democrats feel that if they can get wit out a largo vote in these uncertain tales they have a chance of winning tho the four seats feats that would give them the edge in other words tho the count then raould be democrats 49 republicans 47 thai two vote margin assure democratic domi ianco on ell all senate policy matters tf df course because too many sen igors are given to leaping out of lie party corral these days on the ither hand bond many issues are bound I 1 to be settled along purely partisan les ines but far more important tho the party of the majority gains gaias control if df the senate committees the pre election battles la in which the democrats teem seem to havo have the edge are in oklahoma west virginia wyoming Wyom lue and kentucky about in that order also minnesota illinois iowa and idaho P the democrats admit their we weak ak lit points era are in montana ond and colorado the republicans by no means means conce concede deNew new mexico ril rhode le island and tennessee but the e democrats dont seem too worried bout about those states at this writing it Is useless to make predictions for even between this calm moment and the time these lines are in print skies in may ay fall all or some individual may stub rde we toe bets are collected otter after not before elections it Is fortunate of course that til all writers as well as all bettors bettorf ore ire not equipped with extrasensory extra sensory powers it if and when the day comes dhera we are the fun will be taken wt out of reading writing and betting and that day may come believe A it or not I 1 feel quite quit positive from the scientific proof offered that most of the various forms of at the i supernatural luper natural are untenable out bu t after attending a couple of lectures lecture i and reading considerable material n parapsychology I 1 have become convinced that certain things MAY exist which aro are at present preising sint considered impossible I 1 refers refer to io extrasensory extra sensory per iner ciphon clairvoyance and cho kinesis and I 1 see no reason why more scientists dol give these subjects a more thorough looking into than they have deigned delt ned to indulge la in up lip to ta now non some have dr J B rhine director of the laboratory at duke university has been conduct ing experiments al along ong these eerie unes lines for nearly two decades ile he Is n R very modest man and he leans over backward to avoid offering any conclusions or making any hat flat 3 statements concerning these thelie experiments ments I 1 have read his book heard him speak to an intimate group take part in a forum and later answer questions at a private gathering under the auspices of the washington society tor for parapsychology for almost two decades as I 1 said dr dj rhine and hal h assistants have been trying to determine whether or not there is a scientific basis for telepathic tee tele pathy the transfer of thought from one human brain to another clairvoyance the ability to visualize 1 things or events taking place b beyond the vision or knowledge or for that ability which may involve bothof both of the former precognition the tha ability to predict things which will oc curIn the future and also the ho hardest one of all for the cynical to swallow that to I 1 the power of mind over matter eg ee ability to make dice fall the way you want them to by thinking tit at them roughly this Is an example of what has been done by dr rhine and others after affer long experiment and mathematical calculation it is determined that thai by chance alone anybody can pick correctly five cards out of a pack of 25 that Is just guessing end and it Is even money the can do it if he Is right oftener and may have hava been right consistently more often than ave in 25 that Is MORE than chance if he is right often enough it is said that ho he has extra sensory perception in other words hei is able to perceive what the card Is without the use of his senses but rather by some gome undefined ned unmeasured me alured unclad unclassified sl red ability which science as yet cannot explain clairvoyance is a comman common experience an example might be of the mother who has a vivid and alarming impression of a train wreck it may bo be a nightmare a waking hallucination luci nation or just an intuition the wreck seems to be connected with her son perhaps with some definite plate place like a tunnel it turns out later that her son was actually injured in a wreck tit at the spot where her dream assigned it careful checkIng cherk lne of s such cb experiences per perien lences ces Is now glow going on and dr rhine feels that the results in these oases cases to too ardear to show that some borne unknown process Is involved unexplained in ordinary benses censes cen ses As to experiments have seemed to prove that dice rolled in a mechanical cage could be made to fall oftener than they would by the laws of chance ac aci i cording to the way the subject wished them thern to far fall dr rhine and his bis associates associate are trained psychologists they say they are not trying to convince anyone that the abovementioned above mentioned qualities are actu actually aly possessed by certain individuals but they are trying to investigate their apparent existence i androw and now a book on john garner I 1 had another adventure advent urt which might be called para political there was nothing psychic about it but it included a piece of hindsight that Is interesting the hindsight is that of former speaker of the house and vice president dent john nance mance garner Us ile said ald lie ha wished he had never left the house of representatives to run tor for vice president ile he felt that if franklin roosevelt had had a man like ilka speaker joo joe cannon in the speakers chair chaira ai noman no man roosevelt could have avoided some of the mistakes garner thinks lie he made in other words garner would havo have liked to play cannon to roosevelt tills this came out in connection with a gathering catherine of a low few of the he news friends of that over six feet tall texan who looks like abraham lincoln and talks like will It Ilo gera egers A man who was brought up on a ranch but thought cows were a novelty until he was 10 because all they raised on his fathers ranch were buffalo lie Is s washington correspondent for or more moire dailies than any ong one 1 11 ever heard of oft and once wo we wangled him one voto vote for the vicc nomination for the lark of it now noir hes hell author of it ft book bock im talking about bascom TIM mons and his book garner of texas the only complete record of that fiery gentleman from uvalde whose record for integrity and political ability in the he house of representatives is one few can rival timmy wrote it from his bis 0 wn own notes and absolutely tree free hand I lie ile le probably knows garner better than anyone on earth its a good book it contains many interesting things including the hindsight I 1 quoted timmons is not only popular among newsmen but hes popular with congressmen presidents cops copi and cats one ol of his cats had its portrait painted by howard chandler christy another was operated on by a specialist at johns hopkins both thereby setting up feline records in their respective fields as their master has in ills his if 11 youre interested in garner of texas be interested in what tim mons of texas has to 10 say about hinl him |