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THE 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1922 FACES HELD BUILT BY PSYCHIC MEA S Committee Reports on Pe culiar Mediumship. FEATURES SEEN CLEARLY Controls, by Taking Short Cuts, Bald to Expoe Unconscious Person to lTnjus Suspicion. Our American Adventure, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Copyright by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-, 1022, for the United States and Great Britain. Released by North American Newspaper Alliance.) t ARTICLE IX (Continued.) The seance ended by a letter 'for each of us, written in the dark and presumably by the direct hand of the entranced medium. Mine was from my sjn and was lni the high est degree evidential. He wrote: "Oscar and Uncle Willy are both here with you." These are father and son, both upon the other side, of whose existence or relation to my boy the medium had no possible means of knowing. "Uncle Willy" was only uncle by marriage, and yet my eon always called him by that name. Altogether, if I hod not proved this matter a hundred times before, this sitting alone would have brought me conviction. I only hope that the pure and beautiful medium ship of Miss Besinnet will remain fresh and uncontaminated, so that she may continue to be the very spe cial Instrument of God which she n o w i s. Faces Built by Psychic Means. A committee in connection with the Psychic college in London re ported upon Miss Besinnet's me diumship and came to the conclu sion that the faces were always built up upon her own by physic means that is to say, that her con trol forms an ectoplasmic mark upon her own face. I am convinced that when the .power is weak this is what actually occurs, and I have myself, as I have said, clearly seen the medium's features. : Controls often take short cuts to produce their effects and so expose the in nocent and unconscious medium to unjust suspicions. But Miss Besin net's health was bad and her pow ers were proportionately low at the time when the London commit tee reported upon her, and I am con vinced that Mr. Hewat McKenzie, w'ho drew up the report, did her a serious injustice. I have not only my own clear observations to support me and those of my friends,' but I have had access to a number of detailed re ports from close observers in To ledo which show result-s which could in no way be accounted for by a mere ectoplasmic transfiguration of the medium's face. Thus Mr. Sud fcorough of Bristol, in a careful and detailed report, says: "The spirit of a powerfully built Indian chief sud denly stood .in our midst on his head was a war bonnet made of eagle feathers and round his neck a necklace of grizzly bear dawk This figure came so close to us that we could have touched it had we dared. It remained in evidence for about two minutes and then slowly faded away." This form was no doubt that of the laconic Indian control. Toledo Rich Psychic Center. One lady whose husband had be come blind before passing over says: "The first materialization I had was that of the nerve 'and of the con gested eyeball. Then came his eyes, big, blue and beautiful, as they used to be." It will be admitted that this at least must have been an inde pendent materialization. Another in describing a spirit, says: "The light was so Etrong as to show the seated form of the medium behind the figure." Another says: "I have distinctly seen the form rise up from the center of the table." An other says: "Dan materialized in uniform and stood at salute." On several occasions a mother ! holding a baby had appeared. I have so keen a sense of the good ! work which Mr. Hewat McKenzie has done for psychic science that it I is repugnant to me to disagree with him, but I am convinced that he has! argued too much from temporari and personal experiences and not given sufficient weight to general evidence, and that in so doing he has done a serious injustice to one of the greatest mediums that the world lias ever known. Toledo seems to be a rich psychic center, .for there Is a second medium, a Mr. Johnson, who is said to have exceptional powers of materialization; but he was in California at the time of our visit, and so it was impossible to test him. It seems that during our Besinnet seance four enterprising old ladies' in a Ford car drove up to the house and stationed themselves under the window of the seance room. As it was pouring rain and as the pro ceedings lasted several hours, they certainly deserved whatever they got whether information or rheu matism. Bogus Medium Seen. I have 'spoken of the possible short-circuiting of the control dur ing trance, which lays the unfor tunate medium under suspicion of fraud. It may be the control or it may be the half-automatic Instinct of the medium herself acting inde pendently of the higher centers which are out of action, being pos sessed by an outside entity. You will find mediums do eilly and ob vious things which are quite un- necessary and clearly bogus. Then the next moment you may see some really psychic manipulation, quite beyono. an possibility of fraud. I fancy that every student of the oc cult has had such experiences. Pala dino, for example, with whom I have never sat, would think nothing of kicking the leg of the table to produce sounds, or putting up her hand to weigh down a pair of scales. Such obvious tricks disconcerted Hodgson and others who pronounced Iier to be a cheat at Cambridge, and yet the small committee, Feilding, Carringto-n and Baggaley, which fol lowed her to Naples, found ample proofs of her real powers. Yet, even while indorsing her, Feilding savs: "She does silly little tricks by slip Ing one hand or one foot, or kicking . you, or pulling the curtain all ab solutely unlike the real thing. Even then she Is in a real trance. Is. I em sure, unaware of having cheated when she wakes up." I have al ready mentioned Howard Thurston's similar experience with the same medium. It is an important mat tar, for It illustrates the pitfalls of psychic research and emphasizes the Jaot that so long as you get posi tive) results which are certain, you 1 can afford to regard the negative ones as of no consequence. The pres ent method is to concentrate upon the negative ones and imagine that they entirely do away with every thing positive. (To Be Continued.) LAND TITLE RECEIVED Washington State Gets 6050 Acres From Government. OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) The state of Washington to day received from the United States general land office title to 605 acres of lands, selected by the state land department, in lieu of lands due the common school grant of the state, Clark V. Savidge, state land commissioner, announced. The lands, which include some highly valuable timber tracts, are located in Jeffer son, Whatcom and Kittitas counties. This leaves less than 7000 acres unapproved by the federal govern ment, out of 125,000 acres that were pending three years ago when Com missioner Savidge and Attorney General Thompson obtained a de cision in the state supreme court which removed objections to the fur ther clear listing of lands on the part of the general land office. Some of the lands clear listed since that decision have been pending sine 1900. MATURE CLUB TO QUIT Local Organization Win Exploit Mount Hood Scenery. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Because the launching of the Oregon State Scenic Preservation committee will tend to prevent ob taining members in all parts of the state, the Oregon Nature Lovers' club, tentatively organized here last spring, will go out of existence. The nucleus membership of the statewide club plans, however, on effecting a local organization, the primary purpose of which will be the exploitation of the Mount Hood scenic district, especially Eden park, a new wonderland discovered by members of the club last sum mer. C. E. Graves, promoter of the new club and its secretary the past year, reported that It had been found ad visable to sell the clubhouse and IVz acres of land overlooking the Co lumbia river just west of the Colum bia Gorge hotel. Commercial Delegate Named. OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Appointment of Ralph Met calf of Tacoma, state senator, as a delegate to the southern commercial congress, to meet in Chicago, No vember 20 to 23, was announced to day by Governor Hart. Senator Met calf, who is returning from a tour of Europe with the international trade commission, will attend the meeting and is preparing a report on the tour to be read to the con ference, which will be attended by financial and commercial leaders from all parts of the nation. Apple Display Awards Made. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Prizes for apple displays staged here under auspices of the International Apple Shippers' as sociation were awarded as follows:. First, tie between E. A. Franz com pany and Mount Hood Motor com pany; second, Donnerberg & Deth- man; honorable mention, F. A. Cram. Every merchant of the city partici pated in the contest. State Senator Resigns Seat. OLYMPIA. Wash., Nov. 6. (Spe cial.) Resignation of C. E. Hughes of Seattle as a member of the state legislature from the 45th district, King county, was accepted by Gov ernor Hart today. Mr. Hughes re signed to accept an appointment as assistant district attorney. Zuna Wins Road Race. HAMILTON, Ont., Nov. 6. Frank Zuna of Newark, N. J., won the Hamilton Herald road race around the bay, a distance of 20 miles, this morning in 1 hour 51 minutes. Jamcf Dello. Toronto, was second. Warm, Roomy CTCO ATS for wintry days! $25, $30, $35 up to $55 Why take the trouble to make comparison else where! My coats are the acme of value; there's a size, style, fab ric and weight for every man priced within every purse. BEN SELLING Portland's Leading Clothier for Over Half a Century MORRISON AT FOURTH BATTLE DN OVER CHILD MRS. G. WESLEY DEER ASKS CUSTODY OF DAUGHTER. rather Contends Woman's Home in Portland Xot Proper Place for Girl to Be Reared. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. G. (Spe cial.) A petition for the custody of her 7-year-old daughter by Mrs. G. Wesley Derr of Portland, who was divorced in July, 1919, from Leo C. Despain, occupied the court of Cir cuit Judge Wilson today.- Mrs. Derr cited that under a stipu lation between herself and her for mer husband, Mr. Despain, who was plaintiff in the divorce case, that the child should be cared for by Mr. and Mrs. George H. 'Despain of Silverton until the mother became financially able or was in position to care for the child. By affidavits from Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Derr, parents of her present husband, she tended to show that she was occupying their home now and that she was amply able to care for the child. The change of custody was fought, however, by the father, who in an affidavit declared the Portland home of the Derr family adjoined a hos pital for the cure of drunkards and narcotic addicts, the institution be ing operated by the elder Derr. It was cited that Mrs. Derr had remarried at Spokane within less than six months after the decree was obtained here by her ' former husband and that sle had divorced the second husband less than two months. Mr. Despain declared that the third had been fined in a Port land court for Illegal possession of liquor. Mrs. Derr' s attorney, how ever, read affidavits from prominent Portland citizens and physicians at testing to the high moral standing of the Derrs, senior and junior. One of the affidavits was sworn to by William P. Merry, formerly a resi dent of The Dalles. SsSH THESE EXCEPTIONAL OFFERINGS NOW PLAYING AT PORTLAND'S LEADING THEATERS Tom Meighan as a rich, romantic rover who can't choose between two beautiful women. In a drama that blends a primitive South Sea Isle with super-civilized London society. The brilliant supporting cast includes Theodore Roberts, Leatrice Joy, June Elvidge and Eva Novak. 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