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Radio A Bridge To Another World

By

Dr. Nandor Fodor, Research Ogleer. International Institute Jur Paychical Research

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HIE ultra-microscope has opened up vast ranges of life in the very smult. An ultra-radio may lead to the discovery of another world in- finitely. Inrge.

I am hot thinking of any of the planets. Marconi Ines been receiving mysterious wireless signals from the outer space for many years. From wireless operators one hears rumours of puzzling extra-terrestrial interrup- tions. Yet I doubt if we can look forward to exciting discoveries in that direction.

The other world which I have in mind is not a work of matter. It

of intense

a world beyond our senese percep- Gons. I is the world of the dend. If there is a world beyond this one It must be The bunun nelivity. I possible to imagine should not be made world to reach us.

f almost im- that an effort from such a

Instrumental communication is the only means which could bring one to the world of science the stupend- ous reality of the existence of an- other work. Seres of past genern- tions frequently predleted the ultimate constructions of such an instrument. Conspicuous merits have |· been clained in recent years for childish contraptions and for some intricate machines. None of these stood the acid test.

Edison seriously concerned himself with the problem. Perhaps it is as the result of the world-wide pub- licity given to Edison's attempts that wireless is still being suspected, at Teast in germs, as the leat bridge between this world and the next.

I would approach the problem this way: If the dead exist there must be an exchange of thought or per- hops also of speech amongst them. There must be a vibratory medium through which such an intercourse takes place. For speech, this medium could not be the air. It is too gross for anything but the com- plicated vocal mechanisin of body.

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Is the vibratory medium the ether of space? Let us assume that it is let us assume further, that the spirit body of which St. Paul speaks has orgins that can produce the neces sary vibrations. is it impossible to imagine a detector that could trans- form the disturbances in the other Into waves of sound? Spirits, how- ever, may Just communicate

Ly spoken word but by thought afone. Would thinking set up waves in the ether too?

Registering Thought Waves

There is a man in Italy, who claims thut he can register thought waves. He is Professor Ferdinand Cazzn- moll, lecturer in psychiatry and neurology at the University of Rome. I met him at the International Congress for Psychical Research in Oslo, and i saw his flim records of the electro-magnetic radiations which are emitted by the brain during intense ercative activity or in light trance.

In a normal frame of mind the brain does not emit there waves. Emotion, a great idea, thinking of a masterpiece, a prychic experience, or another khud of thell will produce various patterns on the oscillograph, which

โค Cazzamalli's

recording medium.

Over subs

-subterranean waters or underground metal specific varin-

Occur

which the brain of diviners interprets unfallingly. Ac- cording to Cazzanall, it is from the reception of similar electro-magnetic waves that the brain of mediums derives the knowledge which we call supernormal,

tions

Cazzamalli's discoveries, however, do not lead us very far. I asked him what he makes of his wave charts. He shrugged his shoulders. He can record them, but it cannot read them. The chart in there but Is a closed book. He cannot even be certain that the oscillations car- respond to the actual emotions or thoughts,

We must find another line of ap- proach. Certain mysterious pheno- mena seem to suggest that the brain is not only a wireless receiver, but ឯlso

a complete television set.

is no better attested psychi menon than apparitions of the dead or dying at the moment of death to those to whom bonds of affection te them. How the brain perceives on apparition we do not know, Saying that it is by telepathy does not help much. By intensely thinking of us, the dead or dying should transmit, by a telepathic process, our image and not theirs.

A Woman's Vision

It is much more likely that some- thing similar to the chemical pheno-

known memon

0.9 Osmosin takes place; that the consciousness of the dying, under the effect of Intense excitement or strain, expands and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1937.

• Men and Things Abroad by W. N. Ewer ●

"SEE IT IN PERSPECTIVE

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FILES"

NE of the worst, and yet one of the wisest, poems that Kipling ever wrote is a plece called "The Files." It is dread- ful doggerel. But its theme is stark wisdom. It is that before you get excited over men or events of the moment you should "see it in per-

•spective in the Mes "-les being newspaper files,

**Witere uurisited, n-cold

Ide the crowded years of old

In that Kensal Green of greatness called the files."

That is good advice for all who write, and all who talk, and all who have to act, on and about politieal happenings.

We all tend so much to live from day to day; to forget the past, to ignore the ruises of things, to get them out of perspective, to see Diem myopleatly,

so that only the immediate is clear, tha rent blurred and hazy to our vision.

And that fa dangerous. It means, almost inevitably, bud and sty judgment. based less on understand-

Chuti

the emotion of the moment.

on

Ther++ no passion so much trans- ports the sincerity of judgment "us aloes anger," says Montaboy, esimest of phyllosophers; but the more or less is no great matter; al passions mar the judgment.

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Look Back

TE know that well enough

In private affairs: un-. happily. We are less

guarded in public matters, in which It' Andidly and dangerously, counted rather a good thing to base judgment

and take action-at the dictate of anger or indignation or some other emotion

And for that-Kiplug is surely right the best cure is to look back to the puit, and see coully and in perspective how stale and foolish seem now things which not so long ago seemed to the hot mood and the distorted judgment of the moment all important.

Morcover, you cannot hope to’under-. stand any issue or any problem unleas you know anmething of its causes, of the past which has determined the present; Marx rightly insisted that You cannot Stop Lo understand economics without some knowledge of economic history.

Now Kipling's advice to "dig among the les" is good: but maybe the good. No busy man has time to dig and grupe among all those files of news- papers and despatches and speeches and diaries and documents which are the day to day record of those hap- penings of the past which have mhdo the problems of the present.

Tint is the historlán's job. But we, who cannot dig. at least use tho results of the daring. And if not from the Aes, then at least from the booku, we can recall the past, and, use il to understand the present.

Two Surveys

F we do not do that sometimes, then, quite certainly and very peri- lously, we shall see the present all. askew and all out of perspectiva.

How many people, for example, who talk to-day about the Spanish war, have in mind, or can remember, what happened Spala before last July- why Alfonso tell, or, for that matter, why he ever reigned; or what passed between his flight from Madrid and the revolt of the generala.

Yet without that "background " what is any opinion worth?

So If we want to think, or talk, or act, sensibly, about things abroad." about international relationa" and the real of it, it is quite essential that how and again we turn back among

Interpenetrates a kindred conscious- ness, thus producing instantaneous awareness. Here is an instance from my own family history:—

One night when I went to bed dog- red my wife woke me up. She was almost hysterlent,

"A dreadful thing has happened,” she said. "As I was falling asleep I saw Uncle Willie foaming at the mouth and shouting, I will show you that I can kill myself."'

1 tried to calm my wife, saying that she must have been dreaming. A few days later I went on business to Budapest, where Uncle Willie Ilved. My sister-in-law told me:-

"We had an anxious letter from your wife, and we answered her that everything was O.K. But the fact is that Uncle Willle, who for some time was going from bad to worse, and had tried to kill himself, has finally succeeded. He saved up hly sleeping powder, and took it all in one dose."

I inquired about the date of the tragedy. It was the very night of my wife's vision.

It consciousness can expand in this mysterious manner, it may nol be the product of the brain. It may be only associated with it, and; per- haps, it could exist without it. In fact, It is impossible to picture survival of bodily death without postulating Uls apartness.

Will radio ever help us to under- stand the mystery of our own self? Will it ever bridge this world and the next? At our present rate of progress in knowledge the next ten years may bring an answer to these exciting questions.

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The Congress of Vienna framed ptace which look two generations to straighten out. (Picture from a film.)

the records (memory, even for recent years, being no trustworthy guide) and try to get aur perspective right. Here, on my desk, are two books very helpful in an attempt to see alraight, One is slim, the other bulky. One sums up the history of the years since the Treaty of Versailles, the other rveys Britain's policy ever since the French Revolution.

One of them is easily and quietly read. To read the other is a more for- midable task; but a task well worth the dulag.

Proteor Carr's rurvey has the re- pellent title of "International Rela- tions since the Penne Treatica" (Mne- Tilina, s.1

Professor Seton Watson's is "Britain In Europe-1780-1914. (Cambridge

University Press, 20.)

Now from the signing of the Ver- sailles Trenty to the present day is a mere 18 years.

But it is an eighteen years which have been so crowded that it is easy to get bewildered and lost in the throng of events,

It is a good service then that Pro- fessor Carr does-to marakol the atory of the eighteen years into 300 lucfd pagea

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Adjustments

NLY eighteen years. But I am aure that reader after reader will over. and over again pause to say: "Yes, of course. I had forgotten about that. It does make a difference."

The main thread, of course, is plain enough. Almost every important political event of an interntional character which has happened in the world since 1910 has been the direct or indirect product of this settlement."

I suspect that when we get in little

I TOOK

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66T is a chance," said the manag- ing director, "of a lifetime, my boy. Of course, it means Durban for you, years of hard work, giving up your old friends--but at the end I at it....."

At the end of it managership of

farther away and our perspective is better all we ahali see these years a a period of inevitable adjustment. A settlement" like that of 1010 could not possibly be rigidly per- manent. Even had no passions entered

decisions. ito Its

Our political engineering is not equal to such a task. Adjustments had to come: partly because of bad designing partly be cause of changing circumstances,

Looking back the statesmannship of those years fund thes) is going lo be gauged by a success or failure in maklug the adjustments of that structure without any major collapse. It all begins to look so obvious now. But the astonishing, and tragic thing is that the treaty-makers did genuinely believe that they had produced i permanent settlement, and that it could be permanently and rigidly maintained by the application of force.

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Porallels

HEY had failed to EO and dis among the files. More than once that flood has run so-in the files."

It was so after the Napoleonic Wars, The Congress of Vienna thought it had settled Europe for a century.

In fact, Europe spent two genera- itons in revising and adjusting that settlement, mostly by the worst of all possible means,

The

More than two generations." last instalment of revision of Vienna camo in 1900— peaceably enough — when Norway was released from the union with Sweden, foreed on it as a personal reward to Mamhai Bernadotte for betraying Napoleon and ns n punishment to the Danish King for supporting him!

That is one reason why, having read Professor Carr, you should turn back to read Professor Seton Watson,

It is chastening and stimulating to thought to see how "more than once that Пood has run so."

"Meanwhile, the quarrel between the

Bpanish clericals and progressives→→

· Exaltados and Serviles with their significant alzkumnes grew daily more acute... The British Govern~ ment leant lightly towards the con- atitutional party, but held aloof from nl ideas of intervention ... Its im- mediate policy was to allow the Spanish

Revolution to run ita course and to use all its influence in order that the other Powers should do likewise."

That la 18231

Of course, auch coincidence in detail In Just coincidence. But there is a more general and a more useful parallel be tween past and present,

in a world of independent States. some big, some arinil, some strong. sume weak: 151 A world whase geography in a permanent factor, but whero relative strengths are always changing as a consequence of political or economic change, the problems of International politics retain a startling similarity: arid so the past is full of Icons for the present, if the present will only learn.

It may be that we are passing out of that age of repented disturbances. adjustments and readjustments of the "Balance of Power" Into a new age of collectivism.

The big task of to-day is to effect that salutary change.

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UT we can see now that the change has not by any means come about: inat in fact" power politics "have been The reality all along: that far more is needed to bring about the transition than the signature of a Covenant: that there are dangerous problems that must be solved before transition and during transition.

All that has to be apprehended if wo are to avold catastrophe. Tho past is still with us. And we have to learn from It if we are to cope success- fully with the present.

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BUT WAS I RIGHT?

a South African branch, £2,000 a A Question of Marriage

and no real wretchedness, but will you marry me?"

"Yes," she said. "I think it would be the wisest thing either of us could possibly do."

Was I right?

Happy-But Conscience!

It is fairly early days, but I am

I married my very best friend, beginning to think so.

year. Travel. Blue skies of Afrles. Certainty. The teasing. fretting problem of what to do about a We career solved in a twinkling.

cach known

other us

harl

We like the good things of life, bul children, grown up together. There we are neither of US wildly

When had never been a time when slic was ambitious.

1 married I was to fair

a

At the start of it the fear of leaving not there. The idea of her not being on the way to SUCCC93. It meant the girl I never eventually married, somewhere in my life was unthink- London, diplomatic entertaining and

had seen the girl to whom I never said n word able. She

me through being entertained, ceaseless busyness, about the job I turned down for her, most of my troubles and I had done push, contacts, and all the rest of

no it. We did not like London. the girl for the sake of having the the same for her, There was

ume

We left it. love story, no romance

We look

a thatched immediate to-morrow's dancer and passionate cinemas with whom I thought £2,000 in the understood sense of the world, cottage in the country. I exchanged

there we a year well lost.

and moderate success with searchings and were no heart

garden and heart burnings. We secined

for to start a green gale almost certain Somebody else got that job, some

in where

alm to get at success

W centrally heated marriages body else is half-way to the £2,000 certainty

where most

and quiet contentment, seventh storey London dal. I am year which might have been mine. She said, "You see, you're the only happy, but conselence often accuses Somebody else, for all I know, has

person I understand, the only per--this is a laziness, you can do bel- married that girl. haven't seen her for five years. She couldn't face son who's really rest to me, yet the ter, you should make the effort and

idea of, say, writing passionate love do better; you should try to go big.

When ollier men are going big in the uncertainty of marrying a man with a literary career which she, in- letters to you is quite ludicrous."

the cities. I potter in my garden. eldentally, urged him to take up.

I said, “I don't suppose it'll be I needn't. Maybe I shouldn't."

I lost the big steady job. I lost wildly exciting, there won't be many I chose to. the girl I lost it for. I goined from thrilling discoveries, not many ups

the whole business an occupation and not many downs, no raptures which, if it brings in a mere fraction

of that £2,000 a year, I thoroughly

enjoy.

Was I right?

A Mother's Claims

Was right?

But

Charles Gordon.

Your Health: General Debility

My father died. My mother and WE can define many diseases with expend her store of love and sym-

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strawberry patch in the back garë I loved her, the words seemed to stand.

den.) suffocale me, "A

"At least," she would

In cases of generol debility, pos- After lunch naturally comes your Bay end

"I've got you."

sible mental as well as physical afternoon nap, from which At the end of the year I sald one causes must be looked for. Finan- awake to find tea ready and a letter morning, staring out of the window. not daring to meet her eyes, "Mother, clai worry is very often at the back from home asking how you are get-

of the trouble, and the only real ting on. I've decided to take a fet of my

Under this sort of treatment the own-you mustn't be hurt; you must cure is a handsome prize in a sweep-

stake or a cheque from a sympathetic poor tired nerven brisk up

liko understand, I owe it to myself and to

friend or relauvel

flowers put in water, and a tow the pair of us, too."

"You can't,"

methods generally used to days of nundo's kindness are enough The she said, "want to

debility

This is are to make a new man of you, general leave me? I mean, why?"

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She cried, She was sentimental, numerous. First and foremost is known as the "rest cure,"

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bitter, angry, and sensible in turn, the recommendation

this

It was one of the hardest, most ruth-holiday--not a mad, wild rush to the nerves are frayed by the hurry- less things I ever did to take that Continent, but a real rest; there is scurry of everyday life in flat. But I took it

Was I right?

always a kind aunt somewhere who civilised world of ours. never gets married

and loves to

M. D.

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