THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1923
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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;
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POWER PLANT EXPANDS
$150,000 TO BE SPEXT ON
TILLAMOOK IMPROVEMENTS.
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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. The silks were
seized because they were not de
clared in the manifest of the Tpres
Maru when she arrived here. The
silk is in five pieces, ranging in
length from nine to 44 yards.
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