THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1922
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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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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!
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