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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1922 X SKEPTIC s SAYSCDNAN.DDYLE Pictures Declared. Really Made by Spirits. HEARERS ARE CONVINCED Cases Where Relatives Agree Re productions Are Better Than Any Life Photos Cited. Our American Adventure, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Copyright by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 302. for the United States and Great Britain. Released by North American Newspaper Alliance.) (Article 3. Continued.) Again I can only guage my effect from the kind messages in letters .nd from the splendid notices in the press. Said the lilobe: "Calmly, forcefully and impres sively. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle de livered his message to the American , people, facing an audience of 350O that completely filled Carnegie Hall, the newest exponent of spirit tialism told in simple, direct lan guage of his experience in the realm of the psychic. No cult ever had a more engaging proponent. In a clear manner, Sir Arthur told about conditions after death. He never argued, he never preached, he never s'nouted, he never con demned. He simply said, 'I saw and I kncjw. 'It Is so' or "It is not so.' The audience followed him with the most assiduous attention." The Evening Mail said: "No euch convincing evidence on this subject (has ever been presented to a New Tork audience." Said the Tribune: "An audience that packed Car negie hall to its utmost limit, ap plauded enthusiastically when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said at the conclusion of his lecture, 'I hope to have convinced you that there is method in my madness and that there is reason underlying all this which I have shown you.' " Listeners Are Convinced. Those at a distance might sneer, but I was able to convince those who listened to me that the thing was true, because I was personally convinced that it was true from my own experience. So strong is the rgument from the agreement of witnesses, from the checking fur nished by our own terrestrial expert ence and from the innate reason ableness of the whole scheme when Boberly stated that I have often wandered whether the time is not coming when, we may abandon the phenomena altogether as an argu ment and take our stand entirely upon the splendidly clear and defin ite explanation of the universe furnished by our new revelation. , Article 4. My photographic lecture followed Immediately after my religious one, and It set the absolute seal of suc cess upon my enterprise, for it cre ated such surprise and interest that I had to repeat It three more times In New York before I left. Thus, if I include the Brooklyn lecture, I filled great halls on seven occasions In the one -city, which is an absolute record. The record was held before by Sir Oliver Lodge with six lec tures, so it Is clear that psychic sub jects present a strong appeal to the public and that there is a vehement desire for information. The American public had never taken psychic photography seriously, having been "doped," as they would themselves express it, by all the ridicule and slander which have been spent upon the subject. When put face to face with them their native common sense at once asserted itself and both press men and public un derstood that the wholesale charge of fraud was quite untenable and unreasonable. Skeptic Is Reld Baffled. The course of the contention has been this: Says the spiritualist, "We can in the presence of certain people gret Impressions of the features of the dead." Says the skeptic, "Where are , they?" "Here by the hundreH," says the spiritualist, and produces them. "But those are fakes." "How, then, are they produced?" "Oh, by sub stitution of plates, superposition of negatives and so on." "We have guarded against all that." "You have not guarded well enough." "But the pictures represent the dead beyond all question of doubt in some of the cases and they differ from any existing photographs." In many cases the relatives agree that they are more like than any taken in life. What then? And there the skeptic is silent or talks falsely of "blurs" and "blotches." We have, then, received an abso lutely final proof of abnormal pow ers, and all talk of fakes and frauds Is forever beside the point. Even if these mediums were to cheat in other cases, still the existence of these good likenesses presents proof of at least occasional psychic pow ers which nothing can alter. The Americans soon saw the force of such an argument. They under stood that a hundred negative re sults cannot explain away -a single positive one and its implications. I showed them some forty photo graphs and explained the guaran tees of truth in each case. I also explained to them all that had been done about ectoplasm, and showed some of the Crawford-Bisson-Not-zing photographs. It took me an hour and three-quarters, but I think I ended with the mental acquiescence of all my audience. Press Notices Sympathetic. They were especially impressed by the case of Dr. Cushman of Wash ington, who was actually in the audience. He called upon Mrs. Deane at the psychic college in. London without any appointment or intro duction and he got, besides his own face, that of his daughter Agnes, who had died a year or so before. It was a living likeness, better than and yet unlike any taken in life. Surely any reasonable man will agree that this case, though only one of many, iB In itself absolutely conclusive and proves for all time that Mrs. Dearre is a true psychic photographer, though why her at mosphere should be more helpful than that of another to get this re sult remains, of course, a most ob scure problem. There has been a succession of people, from the days of Mumler in 1861, who have claimed this power, and I do not myself think that, with the possible excep tion of Beignet, the Frenchman, and Fallis of Chicago, there is one of them who was not a perfeptly genu ine medium, though I know that there is many a pitfall there for the reseacher. As usual, the press notices were most full and sympathetic. The New York Times said: "To an audience which filled every seat in Carnegie hall, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle showed spirit photographs of every kind men, women and children, land scapes and birds taken with the greatest precautions against fraud. Many of the latter were strangely pathetic. One ghost, plainly trans parent, was seated beside a printed page- containing five verses of St. Mark's gospel in Cingalese, a lan guauge unknown to the medium." Profound Respect Paid. The New York World said: "As on former occasions, the immense audience listened to what Sir Arthur Conan Doyte had to say with most profound respect. Nobody doubts all that he said excep a very ignorant person." There was hardly a word of ad verse criticism anywhere, and all the preposterous theories which bring psychic research into contempt the . explanations of ectoplasm by chewed paper or wax or other ab surdities were quite absent from the press. One remarkable result of the pub licity given was that whereas ecto plasm had apparently never been taken seriously in America before, there were now speedy signs that it was not a purely European product. One lady sent me several photo graphs taken of herself which showed ectoplasmic masses, which in one case were forming themselves into a head protruding from her own, exactly like the heads formed by or near Eva. Another experi menter sent me several excellent photographs of ectoplasmic rods, very much like those, described by Crawford. Two of the rods have claws or suckers, clearly visible at the end, which are used, according to Crawford, to grip distant objects, and so explain the movements of material things In the presence of an ectoplasmic medium. I may say that I have myself, in London, seen in the full light of a candle a disk of wood violently wabbling and turning with no one within six feet of it. Had ectoplasm been visible to the eye, I would no doubt have seen the little rods which caused the effect, though these rods are probably transmitters of force rather than the force Itself. (To Be Continued.) BIG MILL IS INSPECTED PROMINENT ME, (GUESTS OF WHITNEY COMPANY. Scoutmaster Is Named. EIDGEFIELD, Wash., Oct. 20. (SpeclaL) Rev. Lorenzo Johnson, pastor of the Ridgefield Methodist Episcopal . church, has been ap pointed as scoutmaster of the Boy Scouts of troop No. ,1- here by the hoard of trustees. Scoutmaster Johnson is experienced in Boy Scout work and headed various troops. He was scoutmaster for two years at Deer Creek, Minn., and a year ; at Pe Ell, Wash., prior to tois arrival at this place. About 30 scouts com nrtae the local troop, which will or ganize a football team at once in charge of Boyle, a-member of the high school squad here. Immber Activities at' Garibaldi, Idaville and Logging Camps in Timber Are Viewed. GARIBALDI, Or., Oct 20. (Spe cial.) A special train bearing W. F Turner, president of the Hill lines in the west: "W. F. Skinner, traff'c manager of the Hill lines; J. H. Mul key, freight agent for the Southen Pacific; Edgar B. Piper, editor of The Oregonian; John H. Burgard, president of the Portland dock com mission.; Dan J. Malarkey and John M.- Gearln, well-known attorneys of Portland, arrived 3ere early yester day and after a short stop proceeded to Idaville. At that point the part J was met by Russell Hawkins, presi-. dent of the Whitney company, who on behalf of hs company had in vited the visitors to come on a tour of. inspection of the big mill at this place and the logging camps' in the timber east of idaville. ' After inspection of the large boom pond at Idaville the party was taken by automobile over the Roose velf highway for an Inspection of the big mill here, being shown every part of its workings by Harry E. Morgan, Superintendent. At Bay City Mr. Hawkins and his party were joined by Mayor John A. Nelson, and the return trip to Idaville from the mill was made at 11. A. M. At Idaville, William Nor rls, superintenden'. of logging op-' erations, Joined the party, and from there the journey to the logging camps by train over the logging railroad was begun. Arriving in the heart of the mighty pine and hemlock forests, the train stopped at White Star camp, where a sumptuous feast awaited the travelers, after which inspection of the workings of that aid Red Star camp began. The party left in the evening on the return trip to Portland, being accompanied- by Russell Hawkins. CAPTAIN IS DETACHED Grand Officer at Hood River to - Attend School In East. HOOD RIVER, .Or, Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) Edward W. "Van Horn, one of the organizers of old Twelfth com pany, Oregon coast artillery corps and organizer and captain of com pany C, 186th regiment, Oregon na tional guard, has just received word from Adjutant-General George .A. White that he had been detached to attend the national militia school for Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. Captain Van Horn has been in structed to relinquish command of the local company, and W. J. A. Baker, world war veteran, who has been first lieutenant of the organ ization, will take command. JOHN Jj. DAY ASSAILS ACTS OF PIERCE. Candidate Took $467.50 for Exemption AVork and Sold ' $88,000 Wheat to V.-S. Attention to Walter M. Pierce's war record when he accepted $467.50 from the government for working on an exemption board and that same year sold to the government J8S.OO0 worth of wheat was called by John L. Day, who spoke to the voters of Alberta district at Vernon school Thursday night. Mr. Day also pointed to the record of the demooratlc nominee; showing that Mr. Pierce voted for 92 per cent of the taxes levied by the state which Mr. Pierce now says he wants to cut In half. Attention was also, directed to Mr. Pierce's stand on th $6,000,000 road bond issue of 1917 when he voted to have it levied against real property instead of against automobile licenses. Judge Richard Delch spoke in be half of the regular republican nominees. He dwelt with eojieider able stress on the fact that when voters entered the convention of the people the direct primary they voted for their choice and it was with the thought that If-their candi date won the followers of the losinsr opponent should join in ratifying the choice at the general election. Judge Delch raid thai the golden rule should apply and while he had not supported Ben Olcott or C. N. Mc Arthur in the primaries, they are now entitled to every republican vote upon their records. Big Shingle Cut Made. . KALAMA. Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) A record cut of shingles was made at the Barr Shingle company's mill Thursday, when 245,000 were put out with only five machines. 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Every type of ; hat and practically every color 1 " " ESTABLLSHEDJ864 3 -t ft 1-1 .a ADAPTED FROM HUGH McNAIR KAHLER'S SATURDAY EVENING POST STORY "SAWING A LADY IN HALF" BEFORE YOUR EYES A GIANT SAW DIVIDES A LADY IN HALF A MYSTERY WHICH HAS PUZZLED SCIENTISTS AND BAFFLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE MILLIONS HAVE SEEN r JOHN E. COUTTS SAW A LADY IN HALF ON THE LEADING VAUDEVILLE STAGES OF THE WORLD EXPOSED IN MOST STARTLING FILM EVER PRODUCED EXPOSED! "River's End!" "Go and Get It!" "Dinty!" ' "Bob Hampton of Placer!" Remember them? Now -here's the Daddy of 'em all! EW TODAY Some Story! Tommy Frazer, not a crook, but a fool, plots with Ann Whittaker to rob a bank. Breaks with the old gang. Works a year to line up the haul. The money's in the vault. So is he. The girl's waiting. They can get over the borderline to night. But something won't let him take the cash. Can't un derstand it. And then the gang breaks in to get it! That's just the start! Fol low it through for thrills! And laughs! WHEW! HERE'S DRAMA! WEEI IPs N m 4 t 1 Far. , - ro,m.Jte-. .mrrr ,t;"MlMia f I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I J I I I I I I I I I I Claire Claude Gil- Raymond Richard i ' Helen Windsor, lmgwater, N. Griffith, , Dix, Lynch, the the trl the JX the ifS, the Girl Jeste , Crook iiiii iiminiaiiV iniwM-'i --f KEATES' CONTEST AND CONCERT SUNDAY AT 12:30
