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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1923 3 V r IK EST EXPLAINED II FULL Author Fears Jest Will' Hurt Important Cause. POE'S HOME IS VISITED Lack of Humor Is Said to Have Made American Writer's Nature Sinister. Oar American Adventure, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Copyright by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922, or the United States and Great Britain. Released by North American Newspaper Alliance.) ARTICLE XI (Continued). "Sir Conan Doyle, who was intro duced by Harry Houdini, president of the club, said in his speech pre ceding the exhibition of his ethereal monsters, that he had a friendly feeling for conjurors because they destroyed the great enemies of true spiritualists, those- enemies being the fake mediums. " 'On the other hand.' he eald. 'when a conjuror does occasionally attack spiritualism as a whole he deals in a subject which he does not understand.' "Sir Arthur said that it 'had taken ten years and much laborious exper iment to convince himself of the truth of spiritualism, so that he had no right to be indignant with per sons who were skeptics. On the other hand, he said, no man showed good judgment in regarding as fool ish ' o-r easily deceived such great men as the late Sir William Crookes, Lord Raylelgh and Alfred Russell Wallace or men now living. suoh as Sir Oliver Lodge. Fake Mediums Scored. "Sir Arthur called the fake medi ums 'human hyenas' and deplored the fact that spiritualism was brought into disrepute by 'a fringe of camp followers' who got into the newspapers. The author then asked permission of Mr. Houdini to give ills strange exhibition. He gave no idea in advance as to its character, but said nothing to discredit the suggestion that he considered the coming exhibition to be genuine. " 'If I brought here in real exist ence what I show in these pictures it would be a great catastrophe," he said. " 'These pictures are not occult,' he continued. 'In the second place, this is psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic. It is not supernatural in the sense that it is not known to our ordinary senses. " 'It is the effect of the joining on the one hand of imagination and on the other hand of some power of materialization. The imagination, I may say, comes from me. The ma terializing power from elsewhere. " 'These pictures are not occult,' the originals were shown.instead of the counterfeit, but what you will see is a living presentment.' "After this mysterious utterance Sir Arthur said. " 'I would like to add. to save my self from getting up again, that, if permission is granted for me to show this, they will speak for them . selves. I will answer no questions regarding them either for the press or the others present.' " Explanation Given Out. It would have been amusing to leave it all at that until the appear ance of the film partly cleared the matter up, but I reflected that I might cast a doubt upon the reality of my own psychic picture if, even for a joke, I were to put forward what might be regarded as a mis representation. Therefore, on the morning after the banquet I wrote the following letter and handed it to the various press agencies: "My dear Houdini: My cinema interlude upon the occasion of the magician s dinner should, I think, be explained now that its purpose is tultilled. That purpose was simply to provide a little mystification for those who have so often and so successfully mystified others. In presenting my "moving dinosaurs I had to walk warily in my speech so as to preserve the glamor, and yet say nothing which I could not justify as literally true. Thus I was emphatic that it was not occult, and only psychic in so far as all things human come from a man's spirit. It was preternatural in the sense that it was outside nature as we know it. All my other utterances were, as I think you will agree, within the actual facts. "The dinosaurs and other crea tures have been constructed by pure cinema art of the highest kind, and are being used for the "Lost World" picture, which represents prehis toric life upon a South American plateau. Having such, material at hand, and being, allowed, by the courtesy of Watterson Rothacker to use it, I could not resist the temptation to surprise your asso ciates and guests. I am sure that they will forgive me if, for a- few short hours, I had them all guess ing. Question Asked Houdini. "And now, Mr. Chairman, confi dence begets confidence, and I want to know how you got out of that trunk. "Tours sincerely. "ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE." June 3., 1922, Ambassador Hotel. So ended a very amusing episode. It looked for a- few days as if the magicians might have the last laugh upon their side, as some disgruntled inventor threatened me with an ac tion in the press, but it all died away, and certainly never gave me a moment's uneasiness. One continually realizes what a glorious thing is this knowledge of ours. We had two examples of its workings in one day. A shop girl on getting an order from my wife broke out at once as to the effect our teaching had upon her. "It makes everything happy again whenever am down," said she. The same evening I met a man who stood high at the American bar. "It was 2 in the morning when I as sured myself that this was tru.e" said he, "and I walked as if on air until 5 and hardly kner where I was." He had been, like myself, a seasoned materialist and the sud den change was staggering. It is the religi of happiness and that is what the race needs in these years of darkness. "Joy cometh with the morning," and that morning is surely dawning now. Fear must be dropped out of religion. Lov and fear do not go together. The father who is really feared is not really loved. We may fear ourselves and our weaknesses, but love God, who will help us like a wise elder brother to overcome them. Perhaps 'love' is the wrong word. It is, I admit, hard to 'love' a great . central creative force. To work in conscious har mony with it is the most one can do. But tha Christ Is different. There you have something inter-1 mediate, something human, personal, yet nearer the divine. That is why every religion has its Christ, just as each has its God, and they are essentially and spiritually the same Christ and the same God in such aspect as fits best that stage of human mental development. So. I read the Tiddle, and if the world would read it so how quickly all religious shadowy would vanish. We have spent one Sunday after noon hunting out the little cottage at Fordham nearvNew Tork where Edgar Allen Poe spent the last years of his life. There is a doll's kitchen, a small sitting room, with tea things still upon the table, and the tiny bedroom where Virginia Poe passed away. His face looks at you from every wall, austere, coldly intellec tual, -cruel in its precise accuracy. He had every quality save humor and of that there was not a trace. But he was surely the greatest orig inator of various story-types that ever lived. Poe Praised Highly. He was so sure of himself that he never troubled to work out a reef but he just picked a nugget or two and then turned away to prospect elsewhere. He was the real father of the detective story, of the buried treasure story, of the Jules Verne semi-scientific story, of the purely morbid story, and of nearly every other sort ftiat we now use. If every man who owed his inspiration to Poe was to contribute a tithe of his profits therefrom he would have a monument greater than the pyra mids, and I for one would be among phe builders. But. his nature was sinister. A na ture without humor is always sinis ter. But he had glamor to make amends even as a youngster he had this glamor. Did ever schoolboy write such lines as those which speak of "the glory that was Greece, the splendor that was Rome"? They haunt the mind. There was a sug gestion of the rarified literary at mosphere in which he lived in the desk and the book shelves, with a little written criticism in his ex quisite script in which he accuses Cijleridge of plagiarism from Schil ler with very complete proofs. (To be continued.) WIFE-BATING CHARGED DOUGLAS COUNTY HOME STEADER IS AKRESTED. A. R. Kennedy Said to Have Fired Shots at Auto, Then Dragged Out and Beat Slate. ROSEBURG, Or., Nov. 13. (Spe cial.) A. R. Kennedy, a homesteader residing 15 miles from Roseburg on Willis creek, was arrested today and fined for carrying concealed weap ons. He was then held in jail while he is investigated by the grand jury on a charge of snooting at his wife and a neighbor, Earl Lucas, and also of beating the woman quite severely. Kennedy and his wife have been having some trouble, according to information received by the officers, and he returned only a few days ago from Klamath Falls, where he has been working. Mrs. Kennedy came to Roseburg with Lucas and his mother. On the way back Lucas left his mother at his home and went on with Mrs. Kennedy alone. As they neared the Kennedy home the hus band darted out from the bushes, firing several shots from his revol ver, and leaped on the running boar4 of the. car, which was traveling slowly because of a muddy road. He fired two or three shots into the car, but the bullets struck none of the occupants. He. told the officers he fired into the air to frighten the woman and her companion. Kennedy is then alleged to have dragged the woman out of the ear and to have beaten her about the face and head with the gun before Lucas could interfere. The woman was brought to the Roseburg hospi tal, where she was found to have been badly beaten. She refused to bring a charge against her husband, however. The grand jury made a thorough investigation today. MAN DIES IN FIREBOX Clinker in Windpipe Causes Death of Boilermaker. ROSEBURG, Or., Nov. 13. (Spe cial.) The death of Tony Mossa. Southern Pacific boilermaker, while making repairs to a locomotive fire box Saturday night, was caused by a clinker lodging in his windpipe, according to Dr. F. R. Menne of Portland, who performed an autopsy today. A fragment the size of a marble, was broken loose from the firebox and caught in Mossa's throat. Mossa had partaken of a heavy meal just before jsoing to work and as a result felt a need for more air in the firebox in which he was working. He sent his helper to con nect on another locomotive to pro vide more air and when the helper returned he found the boilermaker unconscious on the firebox floor and death ensued shortly after he was removed. TWO ROBBERS GET $800 Bunkhouse at Independence Log ging Camp Held Up. ABERDEEN, Wash., Nov. 13. (Special.) Two masked robbers ob tained about $800 in cash when they held up a bunkhouse at the Inde pendence Logging company's camp Saturday night, according to word received here. No clew to the identity of the men was found. "My Ship has come in" GOATS $25, $30, $35 up to $55 One cannot imagine a more complete line of overcoats than the shipment which has just' been received in my store. Of which, foremost in real value, are MANDELBERG ENGLISH COATS & HIGHLAND HEATHER COATS in the season's most popular styles and fabrics. No matter how little or much one is willing to pay a liberal measure of corresponding value is always given. BEN selling; k MORRISON I AT FOURTH Portland's Leading Clothier for Over Half a Century 1 POWER PLANT EXPANDS $150,000 TO BE SPEXT ON TILLAMOOK IMPROVEMENTS. x Coast Power Company Proposes to Rebuild to Handle In creasing Needs of County. TILLAMOOK, Or., Nov. 13. (Spe cial.) The Coast Power company in this city has closed lor hree months pending improvements, en tailing an expenditure of more than $150,000 in the building of a new and up-to-date plant Tlie improve ment concerns the whole county, for the company will be in a posi tion to furnish electricity to every part of the county, and with the assurance that all new industries will be able to obtain power at reasonable rates. While the new buildings are be ing erected and the new machinery installed, power is now supplied by- the Whitney company at Gari baldi, the Coast Power company having had to send one turbine and other machinery -there to take care of the present needs. In the past few months the. power company increased the capacity of the line between this city and Garibaldi three times its former capacity. The capacity of the present plant of the Coast Power company was 800 kilo watts. This will be increased to 2500 kilowatts, and the power com pany has made arrangements with the Whitney company for an addi tional 600 to g00 kilowatts, which will give fhe new plant a capacity of about 3200 kilowatts. The machinery that will be in- stalled in the new plant in this city will consist of a 1500-kilowatt con densing steam turbine and two 420 horsepower Sterling type water tube boilers, carrying 200 pounds pressure and 100 degrees super heat. The new plant will be located on Hoquarton slough, on the south side of the water front, in the city, and the new building will be of heavy mill type construction. C..J. Ed wards is at the head of the Coast Power company, and since he has been connected with it many im provements have been made owing to the increasing demand for elec tric power. Crews at Work on Highway. WHITE SALMON. Wash., Nov. 13. (Special.) Work on the new North Bank highway between Un derwood and Bingen is now under way. The engineer's camp has been established at Bingen. Four con struction camps have located on the route. Forty teams soon will be at work west of the Standard Oil plant at Bingen. This stretch of highway should be open in 60 days, weather permitting. The steam shovel at work just east of Underwood is making splendid progress. Seized Silk to Be Auctioned. ABERDEEN, Wash., Nov. 13. (Special.) One hundred and ten yards of silk, seized by customs men on the Japanese steamship July 6, will go on the auction block at the United States customs department in the federal building here tomor row at 2 o'clock. 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