Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-06 | Page 4 | Doubts Sir Oliver Lodge Can Talk to Spirits

1 uu DOUBTS SLU OLIVER LODGE CAN TALK TO SPIRITS (By International News Service.) EUGENE. Ore. Claims by Sir Oliver Oli-ver Lodge, eminent British scientlst-mystfc, scientlst-mystfc, that he has been able to communicate com-municate with doparted spirits through .mediums, are scouted as unwarranted by Dr. R. II. Wheeler, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, Ore-gon, In reply to a letter received from Dr. Joseph Jastrow, of the University of Wisconsin, who Is asking the opinion opin-ion of American men of science on the subject. Dr. Wheeler contends that the British scientist's claims arc based on Insufficient ovldence and that everything to which he attaches a supernatural su-pernatural explanation can be ov-plalned ov-plalned by perfectly simple and rational ration-al means. 00