Show Mental Telepathy Puzzles Students Mental telepathy Is it or is it not That is the question which is fretting the minds of University students and anda a number of town downtown people who i recently saw the so-called so mental telepathy act of Mercedes and 1 Mlle Mile 11 e. e two Orpheum performers this week The two in addition to their Orpheum performance presented present present- ed the same study to a large assembly assembly assembly assem assem- bly of University students Tuesday In demonstration of his theory of telepathy Mercedes blindfolded his partner at the piano and going through the assembly had her play selections suggested to him by the students without using other than mental means of communication according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to his statement A bod body of University solons headed headed headed head head- ed by Dr Joseph F. F Peterson tried to stop the performers but buo were unable to do so judging from popular ion Several theories accounting for the phenomenon were advanced by certain certain certain tain professors Little Eva Barton accounted for it through a system of intonation in Mercedes Mercedes' command for forthe forthe forthe the woman to use the selection she was playing in order to take up a new one This theory was effectively refuted in the Orpheum bill of the same night where a University student gave the command to stop and nd the woman again the desired s selection lection without a word having been said by Mercedes who read from the students' students paper the piece wanted Professor ProCessor Peterson although rather perplexed stoutly denied that the exhibition proved the theory of telepathy telepathy telepathy tel tel- and said I do not believe in mental telepathy The performance may be explained b by the theory of muscular vibration set up by the intense intense intense in in- tense thought which effects both parties v This explanation did not satisfy the students especially well since it in I turn involves a physical phenomenon as wonderful as the psychic one suggested suggested suggested sug sug- by Mercedes Of the faculty Dean Bean Byron Cummings Cummings Cummings Cum- Cum seemed less Inclined to disbelieve disbelieve disbelieve lieve the theory of mental telepathy He said that possibly the theory of the vibration of thought might prove a key to the solution At all events the question proved a puzzling one to Utah students and gave rise to many arguments o 0 |