Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1922, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR,|nosing out of the shelter, dragged on With Sunduy Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. . .October 18, 1922 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor the ground, the fabric torn and fire started, with the result of total de- struction within a few minutes. When the war ended it was an- nounced that the United States had Just developed the production of helium gas, and that if the conflict The Evening Star Newspaper Company | had continued but a little' longer this Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. ssau Bt. ndon, England. European Office: 16 Regent St. - The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, 13 delivercd hy carriers within the clty at 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mall, or telephone Main 5000. ~Collection is made by carriers at the end of euch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Marylapd and Virginia. 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Some ago that part of the former District in Virginia outside of . known then as made ¥ or throush proxies the county offices, i d at the very threshold of 1 a most demoralizing array es and gambling dens. The law-abiding citizens of the county were helpl They were dominated by the divekee noters of gam- ling establishments. The county lan- guished. Though it offered exceptional attractions for suburban dwellings few would go there to make their homes because of the disgraceful and often dangercus conditi Finally the case was carried to the attention of Gov. O'Ferrall, who had been a member of the House of Representatives and knew the conditions. He sent a special prosecutdr, and in the course of a few months the county was purged of the evildoers and lawbreakers. It then be- gan to grow in population, and this growth has continued unchecked since then, during a period of over twenty years. The people of Arlington county have reason to be sratified at the present activity aimed at the demoralizing in- fluences that are seeking again to dominate there. This evil must be gripped directly and resolutely. The county has had a bitter experience, and while perhaps the major part of its present population has no direct knowledge of the bad times of the lat- ter part of the last century, the older residents can tell the later comers of the sad state of affairs that resulted from the gamblers’ grip upon the county. With the indictments already returned as a start the capital's neigh- bor should be able to clean house ef- fectively. Lodge and Roosevelt. An organization calling itself the Liberal Republican League of Massa- chusetts has declared in favor of the democratic candidate for United States senator in the following terms: The overshadowing moral and po- litical issue of the present senatorial campaign is the imperative need of eliminating Hénry Cabot Lodge from the position of leadership that he now occupies in the republican party and the association of a new, liberal, for- ward-looking leadership which will redeem our party from its present re- actionary bondage and make possible its reorganization in accordance with the principles of Lincoin and Roose- velt. Mr. Lincoln is remote. He has been dead nearly sixty vears, andso many changes in party issues have taken place since his day placing him defi- nitely as to the issues of this day is but a matter of speculation. But Mr. Roosevelt has been dead only a few years, and was so active in politics up to the day of his death he can be placed with safety on the issues now in evidence in the Bay state campaign. Hence there is no risk in stating that if living Mr. Roosevelt would be in agreement with Mr. Lodge on the principles the latter is advocating, and probably a stumper for Mr. Lodge's re-election—certainly one of his warmest well wishers. The two men were in the closest re- lationship, personal and political. On one occasion when asked for an ex- pression as to a presidential candidate for the republicans Mr. Rooseveit sug- gested Mr. Lodge. The eulogy of Mr. Roosevelt before Congress was de- Hvered by Mr. Lodge, at the joint re- quest of Congress and Mr. Roosevelt's family. It is a sort of outrage, therefore, for this Massachusetts organization to usé Mr. Roosevelt's name in an effort to destroy the senior senator from that state. ———— The fact that Wilhelm Hohenzollern can afford to get married may be taken as evidence that he did not in- vest heavily in paper marks. ! American politics has a way of maintaining in attention men who are active though unempicyed. > Another Dirigible Burned. Another big American government country’s dirigibles and observation balloons in Europe would have been immune from the danger of explosion and ignition, which so seriously less- ened the value of those devices on both sides in the campaign. That was four years ago, and still helium is not yet used for gas-bag aviation. These three tragedies are a consequence. ‘They have cost seventy-eight lives, forty-four in the ZR-2 and thirty-four in the Roma. The cost to the United States is at least $1,500,000. All three of these accidents show that it is dangerously unsafe to use large flotation containers filled with inflammable gas. The structure of the great dirigibles cannot be rendered 80 stiff as to be resistant to sudden whips of wind, especially when near the ground. If any break occurs a non-inflammable gas may keep the ship afloat long enough to permit the escape of the crew. With inflammable gas, however, destruction is immedi- ate and complete. The funds of the Army and Navy have been pooled for the production of helium gas, but it is stated that not enough is being produced to fill more than a single blimp for each branch of the service. Thus, evidently the ex- pectations encouraged at the close of hostilities in 1918 on the score of helium production are not justified by results, or else there has been some slackness in appropriation or in use of funds in the development of this in- dustry. Had the war continued it is possible that the making of helium would have been speeded to the point of actually sending American non- inflammable gas overseas for practical use, yet in four years this country has not turned out enough of this ma- terial to fill its experimental dirigibles. This failure has cost dearly. e ———————— Parties and the Future. A New York dispatch: The American labor party was of- ficially launched yesterday at a meet ing presided over by Morris Hilquit, for many years active as a sociali He said that the new party is a polit cal partnership of the socialist party, the farmer-labor party and a number of local labor organizations. * * * He predicted that in the presidential election of 1928 there will be only two parties, one representing a property- owning class and the other a prop- erty-renting class, Men of more consequence politically than Mr. Hilquit—some of them re- publicans, some democrats—are talk- ing in this strain. They are of opinion that the two old parties have lost, or are fast losing, their usefulness, and should be scrapped in the country’'s interests. To take the places of the old organizations they see arise two new ones—one frankly radical, the other as frankly conservative—and then for a gignt tussle for full control of the affairs of the greatest republic in history. These men, however, are more con- fident than Mr. Hilquit. In their opin- jon this change will take place as early as 1924. The tide of discontent, as they think, is rising so rapidly, two, years will be sufficient to bring it to the full. Mr. Hilquit, although radical in other matters, is conservative in the matter of a date for this great event. He gives it six instead of two years to ripen. He fixes the triumph for 1928. ‘Well, whether in 1924 or 1928, it will be a big thing if it does happen— 8o big a thing that the whole world will sit up end take notice. For, in effect, it will mark so momentous a change in American sentiment as to popular government that America as a guidepost or beacon will lose the character that has always attached to | safeguard the morals of New Jersey * = ™ usually traced to their source and the perpetrators caught and puniihed. Sometimes the solution comes with the' death of the criminal, who con- fesses. Occasionally long afterward some bit of evidence is developed by chance, too late, perhaps, for any prosecution. © One case, however, in the metropolitan records remains to this time unexplained, and that is the murder of Banker Nathan in that city more than fifty years ago. It has never been solved. In the McBride case there was a divided jurisdiction. The body was found in Maryland, but there was some reason to believe that the crime had been committed in the District. A like possibility in respect to two counties has been suspected in the New Brunswick slaying. But here, unlike in New Jersey, there was no conflict of authority and no time was lost in consequence of the division of responsibility. The District police pursued the inquiry diligently, with the full co-operation of the Mary- land authorities, who were eager for District help. Yet, despite this prompt and efficient investigation, the case has baffled all inquiries. Still the hope prevails that the slayer of Barney Mc- Bride will be found. ———— The Tariff and 1912. In a speech delivered at Denver Monday former Secretary McAdoo said: The republicans have passed the most extortionate and indefensible tariff bill ever enacted in our his: tory. The Payne-Aldrich bill, which destroyed Mr. Taft politically and brought the republican party to de- feat in 1912, is outclassed by the Fordney-McCumber bill. The Payne-Aldrich tariff bill found rough going in Congress, and caused a serious division in the republican party. Finally, however, it made the grade, and was sent to President Taft for his signature. Then came two suggestions. The first was that the President veto the bill, and force Congress to go over the business of revision again and pass a new bill, eliminating the fea- tures that had made the one in hand so objectionable to its republican op- ponents. The second suggestion was that the President withhold his signature and let the bill become a law without it, copying Mr. Cleveland's course toward the Gorman-Wilson tariff bill in 1894. President Taft signed. The bill was not entirely to his liking, but as it had received the indorsement of a large majority of his party in Con- gress he indorsed it, too, and took the risk. It was not the Payne-Aldrich tariff law that “destroyed Mr. Taft political 1y and brought the republican party to defeat in 1912, but the overwhelming desire of Theodore Roosevelt to return to the White House. The tariff law had really little if anything to do with the matter. The probability is that had he been President at the time Mr. Roosevelt would have signed the Payne-Aldrich bill for the same rea- sons that governed Mr. Taft. L — The Minneapolis lawyer, Romg G. Brown, says that the devious laws relating to water rights resolve themselves into the one essential law for humanity, the golden rule. Such a simplification of the law offers little encouragement to the attorney who relies upon artificial complication for the collection of fees. ———t——————— Two hundred and forty-eight miles per hour constitute top speed for air- planes at present. Locomotive speed is far less, but, as there are no tele- graph poles for the aviator to pas: the difference is not so easily noted This earth, as well as the rest of the | universe, has “relativities” of its own. ————— New Brunswick has made it clear that something more is necessary to it in the eyes of the progressive por-|than an occasional raid on the Atlan- tions of the outside world. i England does not seem to be in es- pecial fear of a “labor government.” | feyville, Kans. As the home town of Any good government involves genu- | one of the most distinguished pitchers ine labor. An idler government is the | known to base ball, Coffeyville should kind most likely to cause embarrass- ment. l References are being made to con-|gives John Barleycorn occasion to be templated aerial attacks on Berlin, | sTateful to John Bull for a few kind which lead to the startling suggestion | words. that even the great world war was not so terrible as it might have been. i Great mechanical inventions do not necessarily improve conditions for hu- manity. They make peace more pleas- ant and war more woeful. i Despite the self-confidence of Mus- tapha Kemal, there is no widespr: reliance in his abil in a dicker with Lenin and Trotsky. i Chicago bandits no longer use the salutation, “Your money or your life!” They desire neither. They demand glands. Unsolved Crimes. Despite a speeding up of the inquiry For Friendship’'s mood is more sub- . J., into the|- mysterious double murder that has led | When Grief her shadow flings. to conflicts of authority, and been | e can’t be smiling all the time—"" at New Brunswick, marked by much blundering in in- quiry, no actual progress is evident toward a solution. New witnesses are developed and old witnesses are re- examined, and cryptic hints are given of arrests to be made or action soon to be taken, Yet the case remains at a standstill, and it.begins to look as though it would drift into the limbo of the unsolved. These unpenetrated mysteries crime occur everywhere, are but a small percentage of the homicides recorded. Washington has of dirigible has been destroyed in flames, | one—that is to say, Washington in the third thus to be lost. First was the ZR-2, an immense airship built in | case of Barney McBride, Whose body | one fact that makes this old world partnership with Maryland—in the England and wrecked with heavy loss | was found near the boundary line of life in course of a trial trip in that | nearly two and a half months ago. At this time no dependable clue has been | The foolish folks all want to tall of the Roma, built in Italy, dismantled, | found to the circumstances of the shipped to this country, reassembled | murder, and no one is under direct and burned with many fatalities while | suspicion. The crime remains at this country. Then came the destruction flying in a trial near Norfolk. the C- “blimp,” has been wrecked by fire ‘while emerging from a hangar at San Antonio on its return -trip across the Now | time one of the mysteries. In June, , the Army’s largest and best | 1920, the body of a well known char- acter was found in his home in New York, Elwell, the whist expert and sportsman. Several people were ar- continent and back. Fortunately no|rested, but no one was finally held, and to this day the’killing of Elwell | hear about,” said Uncle Eben, “allus lives were lost, though several of the * erew were hurt by jumping. The blimp | is unsolved. .was hit by sudden gusts of wind on 3 i Yet, aventually, these crimes ere|dan whut dey tast 7 z - ead And pleasures must take wings. lity to come out best So when I meet a worried friend though they | i gerision and the modern comic tic City cabarets. —_————— A mob attacked the mayor in Cof- be more careful of its fame. ——————————— Discussion of the three-mile limit SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Friend in Need. “You can’t be smiling all the time,” Said Hezekiah Bings. & “Joy can't be always In its prime I do not turn away, And seek companions who may lend Themselves to moods more gay. “I shall not chide the passing frown That shows a troubled heart, Nor shun the tears that strive to drown A sorrow’s cruel smart. lime Sald Hezekiah Bings. Considering Health. “You insist on shaking hands with as many of your constituents as pos- sible?"” + “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Campaigning interrupts my golf and I need the physical exercise.” Jud Tunkins says the old-fashioned sentimental songs made people laugh songs are enough to make you weep with shame. Loquacities. balk And not progress is this 'un, ‘While wise folks try to listen. The Only Sure Way. “Why not go to the races?” “What for?” “To pick up a little change.” “I'm nét a pickpocket.” “Folks it we don't know, but jes' seems a heap better or & heap wus Biiapit il s e EVENING S8 BY “THE OMETIMES now and then in that thing we call the business world there comes to the front an individual who thinks not alone of himself—a person who takes time enough from his ordinary battle of life to think of the little fellow who has just started out to win his spurs. This fact was brought most forcefully to my attention the other day by the statement of a mother whose son is employed by a well known brokerage firm in this city. She said: “You like to know about the good things people are doing, the things that are really worth while, and I want to tell you what the em- ployers of my boy are doing, not only for him, but for many others, because an effort of this kind is one that should be glven publidity. This lad of mine has a minor position with the firm at a salary quite in keeping with the services that he renders, but, in addition to that, they have voluntarily paid his tuition through one of our local institu- tions. He comes home to dinner, rests an hour or so and then goes to this night school. The only things that he has to buy are the books he uses, the other expenses the firm pays. I think it is really one of the most constructive things that I have heard of for some time.” * K ok ok E cannot help being amused at times to listen to_the comments to be heard at the movie The | other night 1 happened to be watch- ing that excellent production. “The Count of Monte Cristo,” when I d a woman in front of me say: ou know, this is a true film and it concerns the early life of one of | the ancestors of Count . and | here she named the one-time husband of an American heir * % ok * HE other night while walking up 14th street 1 happened to be at- tracted by a beautiful window dis- | TAR, WASHINGTON, D, C, Here and There in Washingt |them that they VEDNESDAY, MAJOR” conceived the ldea not only had the soul of an artist, but also possessed the theory of successful salesman- ship. * ok k % T is undoubtedly the desire of hun- dreds of us to make suggestions whenever possible for the better- ment of the present-day school sys- tem, and David Pike, who for years has been paying much attention to this matter, has suggested that a half hour be set aside In the schools for fhe perusal of daily newspapers, for, as he says, it would famillarize the intermediate groups, as well as those who have reached the higher grades, with events that are trans- piring every day In all parts of the world, and it would also do much to correct the silly saying that you hear now and then when a person picks up a newspaper and, after perusing its columns for a half hour, remarks: “There’s nothing in that paper, there's nothing In it at all.” It the average reader will stop and think of the effort, time and money that ls consumed in preparing for them what might rightfully be termed a digest of the world’s happenings, they would not utter such foolish assertions. Day by day, rain or shine, Mot or cold, newspapers are striving to give their readers the news of the world. It is perhaps only because they have not read something that directly concerns make these state- ments. * X * % OVERS of the beautiful in nature should take a stroll or a ride through Rock Creek Park and down the speedway to Halns Point. In both places the hand of autumn has touched the trees with gentle, caress- ing fingers. There are greens of many shades, thistle, nile, deep dark, olive and bottle. On some of the trees the leaves have turned to tints 755 lot ecru, while others show tints of |reddish brown; others are tans or | darker hues merging gradually into | the lighter shades, and it is, indeed, lan inspiring sight to watch from play, which consisted merely of three products that were displayed by a {certain firm. Save these and a hand- some wooden centerpiece there was 'nothg else in the window, but from the edges above there was cast an | attractive soft light. The man who Way Must Be Found to Stop Pis- tol “Toting.” The efforts of the United States Revolver Assoclation to have the | states enact a law along lines similar to the Capper bill, dezling with the open sale and possession of firearms, | generally meet approval throughout | the country. Editors point out that the various crime waves and similar } occurrences are aided and abetted by the promiscuous sale of deadly weapons, which goes on unchecked almost everywhere. Federal legisla- tion, it is agreed, cannot reach the subject and so long as “anybody can get a gun” the peril must continue. “There will be no debate,” the Bos- ton Herald says, “over the merit of the general statement of the object sought—'to make it possible for the {law-abiding citizen to possess a pisiol or revolver for the protection of life and property, and at the same time provide penalties sufficiently se- vere to deter criminals from using such weapons.’” Action by the fed- eral government along the lines of the Capper bill will be excellent, the St Louis Globe-Demoerat believes, but that in itself cannot effect the objects hoped for without “sensibl effective and uniform legislation” the various states, because, as Joseph News-Press points out, thing ought to be done to minimize the gun-toting habit. Any remedy is worth _trying,” while the Wilkes- Barre Record suggests that “weapons i for home safety and for other pur- poses should be of a size that makes it impossible to conceal them upon the person. The fact that 90 per cent of homicides in this country are committed with easily purchased re- volvers suggests the need of federal regulation If the states and the federal govern. ment enact a uniform law, then the { problem of shutting off the supply of i cheap weapons at the source would be | solved, the Manitowoe Herald-News i is convinced, because “such legislation {is needed,” while the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, indorsing this view- point, believes that “there would be no crime waves if the gunmen could not get guns. The traffic in pistols and cartridges could be controlled and the criminal population be prac- tically disarmed in a year if the matter were taken up with the se- riousness it deserves.” The Saginaw | News-Courier, on its part, points out that “it IS not the orderly and law- abiding who make a practice of ] gun toting, and even more interest- | Ing than the well known facts them- selves s that no effective move Is ! made to disarm the lawless; nor even as much as serious obstacles created to their obtaining firearm weapons.” “The notion that one is perfectly free to kill any one who crosses his whims has got to be dealt with in the only way such people can un- derstand,” further explains the Lowell Courler-Citizen, “and that is by making the punishment follow as swiftly on crime as possible. We prohibit, or say we prohibit, liquor selling as a matter of public policy. Meanwhile, we make the purchase of deadly weapons as easy as the pur- chase of a paper of pins. Is there any wonder that the death penalty {s coming to be inflicted by private hands, while it ceases to be generally inflicted by the judiclal processes?” Still there is danger that the anti- alien clause, proposed in the Capp: legislation, may be unconstitutional,” the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot fears, “for it seems to come Into conflict with the constitutional inhibition against the impairment of the peo- ple's right to bear arms. To be effec- tive a law of this nature must be enacted uniformly by all states.” Even 8o, “the limitation of arma- ments, like charity, should begin at home,” the Fremont Tribune insists, as_“the promiscuous sale of the re- volver is costing, in this country alone, millions of dollars annually and thousands of lives. ' The small arm is the father of crime. It is the mainstay of the criminal, his back- bone, bis confidence. Without it he is a coward, ineffective, harmless to society; with his finger twined around the trigger of a revolver he is a men- ace to the world, a destroyer of life and a defler of all recognized law.” “The nation is certainly and surely coming to the point,” says the Illi- nois State Journal, “when the manu- facture and sale of revolvers must be made a special and exclusive func- tion of the federal government. Mur- der is frequent. becauss .one or both parties to an argument CarTy guns. The revolver is the devil’'s own in- strument for making crime and criminajs.” In this connection the Ann Arbor Times News adds that “many persons are convinced that the need for firearms has passed, with the exception of police officers, per- sons handling large sums of money, or members of the Army and Navy. Making such a law legal through changing the Constitution would less- en the number of crimes committed according to those favoring the law. That our civilization has progressed so far that the carrying of firearms for protection ought not to be neces- sary goes without saying. If such a law could make murders more diffi- i | day to day, or from week to week, the changes that Dame Nature makes. EDITORIAL DIGEST constitutionality objection points out that in the Capper bill, which is to furnish the model for the states. “an been effort evidently has made bridge this constitutio n o obtain firearms ng himself, the tion being fur- while the mitting the cit by merely ident record of identific nished the local police Meridian Star adds that “the Capper measure offers a modicum of relief at least. Perhaps it would be well if states throughout the Union were to adopt it or a similar measure.’ Perfection. The Turks tell a story of a vener- able tomcat w!ich had been official rat catcher for a caliph for many vears. As old age came upon Tom and he felt his muscles stiffening, he determined to make the sacred pil- grimage to Mecca before it was too late and the gates of the cat para- dise were closed to him. So he called his only son, a hand- some young cat, to him and, outlining the dut of the office, placed him in charge and departed on his pilgrim- age to the sacred city. Time passed and the aged cat re- turned. In the street near his mas- ter's house he was amazed to en- counter an emaciated cat, skin cling- ing to its ribs, fur gone in spots, and other evidences of extreme feline poverty, beneath which guise he de- tected the lineaments of his once sleek son. After embracing the youth the venerable tomcat questioned him By what favor of Allah ha you come to this misery. my son “I am wholly at loss to account for it, father,” moaned the vouth. “As soon as you departed 1 set about the business of destroying rats in the noble caliph’s house and by the end of the first week there was not a rat living. To my surprise, shortly after this the servants drove me from the house, calling me a useless beast, though 1 had ridden the house of al its pests. Since then I have starved. The old tomcat shook his head. “Alas, my son, you have made the error of yout By all means, you should have killed the rats, but not all the rats. There is such a thing in this life as too much service. Re- member the words of the prophet that perfection is for the hereafter only.” This ancient legend, So the story goes, has been adopted as a rule and guide for public service from that day to this—Newark Star-Eagle. County Fairs. Time was when a “county fair” was chiefly a week of junketing, with hurdy-gurdies and blatant side- shows, thimble-riggers and a small army of small-bore crooks following after. Times have changed now. The county fairs, the parish fairs, are now genuine expositions of the best rural products, in grains and fruits and live stock. The keenest minds and the best intelligence of the countrysides assemble there. Prize cattle and hogs and poultry are matched. There are worth-while di cussions of methods and system Thero are points of interchange of good ideas, distributing centers for the Influence of progress. Federal demonstration agents, state univer- sity extension workaers, experts in all forms of using the soil and in han- dling stocks, put their services at the disposal of the farmers, planters, or- chardiste and dairymen. Progressive thought radlates _from them. The gospel of good roads, of domestic_sclence, of community hy- glene, of rural education, of more comfortable country homes, of rural community co-operation, is carried out from them. Townfolks are interested”in them because town well-being is builded on rural well-being, and because none of us, who goes about his business in cities, can do so in continued pro: perity unless his neighbors on farms, in flelds and orchards can live and work through the years with assur- ance of fair dealing and the profits their harvesta—New Orleans Item. ‘Where in the world does a ruble go_when if drops?—Colorado Springs Telegraph. Deflation is what happens to “Babe” Ruth in a world series.—Greenville Pledmont. The best way to study the Ameri~ can language 18 to drive past a trafic cap when the sign says stop.—Duluth Herald. Plans are being made to “have coal move faster.” Leave it to winter. It will move the coal fast enough.— Seattle Times. Two men and & woman are running for the Senate in Minnesota, a new version of the eternal triangle.— Muncie Star. A Colorado woman asks a divorce because she’s just plumb tired of matrimony. We knew that. sooner or later divorces would be demanded for perfeetly honest reasons.—Newark Star-Eagle. It we cah believe what they s about_ each other, the only genuine United States “destroyers” are eiher ‘democrats or republicans—Cingianat! uiren, due | OCTOBER 18, 1027 Holmes,” Who Vouches BY SIR ARTHUR Y photographic lecture followed immediately after my re- ligious one, and it set the ab- solute seal of success upon my enterprise, for it created such surprise and interest that I had to repeat it three, more times in New York befors I left. ‘Thus, if I include the Brooklyn lecture, 1 filled great halls on seven occasfons 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 vchement de- sire for information. The American public had never taken psychic photography seriously, having been “doped,” as they would them- selves 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 understood that the wholesale charge of fraud was quite untenable and unreasonable. The course of the contention has been this: Says the spiritualist, *“We can In the presence of certain people get im- pressions of the features of the dead. Says the skeptic, “Where are they? “‘Here by the hundred,” says the spirit- ualist, and produces them. *“But those are fukes.” ¥How then are they pro- duced?’ “Oh, by substitution 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 ex- isting photographs.” Absolutely Final Proof. In many cases the relatives agree that they are more like than any taken in life. What then? ,And there the skeptic or talks falsely of “blurs” and “blotches.” We have then received an absolutely final proof of abnormal powers, 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 least occasional psychic powers which nothing can alter. The Americans soon saw the force of such an argume They understood | that 2 hundred negative results cannot | explain away a single positive one and | its implications. iowed them some the | guarantees of truth in each case. I also explained to them all that had been | done about ectoplasm, and showed some of the Crawford-Bisson-Notzing photo- graphs. It took me an hour and three- Guarters, but I think I ended with the mental acquiescence of all my audi- ence. They were especially impressed by ' the case of Dr. Cushman of Wash- | ington, who was actually in the au-! is silent, | T forty photographs and explained dience. He called upon Mrs. Deane at | {the Psychic College in London with- out any appointment or introduction and he got, beside 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 rea- sonable man will agree that this case, though only one of many, is in itself absolutely conclusive and proves for all time that Mrs. Deane is a true psychic photographer, though why her atmosphere should be more heipful than that of another {to et this result remains, of course, a most obscure problem. There has | been a succession of people, from the days of Mumler in 1861. who have claimed this power, and I do not my. self think that, with the possible ex- ception of Beignet the Frenchman and Fallis of Chicago, there is one of them who was not a perfectly gen- uine medium, though I know that there is many a pitfall there for the researcher. 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, landscapes and’ birds—taken with the greatest precautions against fraud. Many of the latter were strangely pathetic. | One ghost, plainly transparent, was | lleflled beside a printed page con- taining flve verses of St. Mark's Gospel _in . Cingalese, language unknown to the medium. Only Ignorant Doubters. The New York World said: “As on | former occasions, the immense audi- DARK, slender youngster, pro- fessional jockey of several years' standing, but still a mere boy, known on the race tracks of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and other western and southern states as “The Indian” in the early seven- ties of the last century was booked [to ride a number of races at Kansas City. He knew horses. He could ride an ‘“outlaw" when other jock- eys failed. Late in the even- ing a horseman turned up with Bob, known to be fast, but mean. The owner had watched “The In- dian” handle other horses. He made the youngster .an ofter to ride Bob SENATOR OURTIS. in a match race the following day. Inquiry about Bob revealed the fact that he ran Wwith his ears stralght up instead of lying back, @s in the case of other horses; that he hated the roar of the crowd and when he heard it had a trick of stopping short and throwing his jockey over his head. But first Bob laid his ears back. The jockey made his preparations. He bought long, sharp spurs and an unusually heavy whip. He knew the side from which the roar jof the crowd would come and knew which way Bob weuld flinch. The horses got away to & good start, with Bob Yunning strong. Just as the jockey had expected, however, when Bob heard the crowd begin to yell, back went his ears. Jabbing in the spurs and crashing down on Bob's side with the whip, “The Indian” straightened i i | { { | i i ¢ “Our American Adventure” Skeptico of Psychic Photography Scored by “Sherlock Dr. Cushman of Washington, D. C. Dpresents proof of at !’ | was working and | of the medium that for Living Likeness of CONAN DOYLE. ence listened to what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had to say with most profound respect. Nobody doubts all that he sald except a very ignorant person.” There was hardly a word of ad- verse criticlsm anywhere, and all the preposterous theories which bring |3 psychic research into contempt—the explanations of ectoplasm by chewed paper or wax or other absurdities 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 photographs taken of herself which showed ecto- plasmic masses, which in one case were forming themselves into a head protruding from her own, exactly lixe the heads formed by or near Eva. Another experimenter sent me several excellent photographs of ecto- plasmic rods, very much like those described by Crawford. Two of the rods have little claws or suckers, clearly visible at the end, which are used, according to Crawford. to grip distant objects, and so explain the movements of materizl things in the presence of an ectoplasmic medium. I may say that 1 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 ecto- plasm 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. It makes one’s heart sick to sce the villainy with which this heaven-sent truth is surrounded. 1 suppose it is s0 ordained that we may have the merit of using our own brains and not be deterred from good because evil obtrudes itself. We had one evening 3t New York with a ma- terializing and voice-producing pair of mediums. T had been warned against them, but the minister of the Spirit- ist Church, an excellent man, was of opinion that they had been mis- judged, and so we went. Fake Mediums Seized. Both my wife and I, together with two friends whom I took (one of them Mr. Stefansson, the famous arc- tic explorer), the proceedings were very suspicious nd we came away deeply dissatis- ed, for there were no test conditions of checking such mani- Some davs me- i and no way festations as we saw. afterward these two so-called diums were ecized by the New York police in open fraud. I do not think that any punishment could be too severe for rogues of this kind. The old saying that the unforgivable sin was the against the Holy Ghos! s to me to apply exactly. I trust t the American Spiritualists will not econdone or try to cover up such n scandals. The rotten twigs come off. When the man was doing the voice I put my hand on his larynx and could say with confidence that it that beyond | doubt the voice was coming from T am so distrustful of direct vofce phenomena, and convinced that the natural voice can be pro- jected without apparent movement. that I should never be impressed by the mere voice alone. but only by the information which it conveyed. This on many occasions within my experi- ence has been absolutely final in its proof. It is only when several voices are speaking simultaneously—a phe- himself. =0 nomenon which I have observed with | Mrs. Wriedt, Evan Poweil, Mrs. Rob- lert Johnson and others—that one can | safely say that the sounds alone. apart from the messages, are surely supernormal. What I say of the direct v plies equally to automatic ap- There also it is the message delivered and not the mere fact of writing which is of conseauence. 1 cannot sce how one can avoid all the £ of subconscious action and the pos- sible dramatization of latent person- alities, which would actount for the ing itself. It is only by the in- formation conveved, its accuracy and its remoteness from the normal mind ve can gain as- surance. But there is no form of mediumship which is more tricky. and even when we have established we still have to guard against p sible deception from the spirit control ' —=a very real source of error. | (To be continued in tomorrow’s Star.) (Coprright. 1822 by Rir Arthur Conan Dosle for the Tnited States and Canada.) Whipped Horses as a Jockey; Now He ‘Whips’ G.O.P.Senators him out and won the race handily. This performance led to the hiring of “The Indian” to ride Headlight, at ! that time one of the fastest horses in that part of the country. Headlight hated the turns, bolted at them and into the fence, smearing his rider it he could. The jockey tried the same tactics with Headlight on the turns as he had tried with Bob. On the first turn it worked to perfection and Headlight stralghtened out well in the lead of the fleld. But the second turn brought a near tragic close to Headlight and his jockey. The horse took the bit in his teeth and tore into an elght-foot fence. Both Head- light and the jockey rolled over and down an embankment. “The Indian” was picked up for dead. He bears the scars of thé fall today on his hands and arms awa heatd. And today he is Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, fittingly republican “Whip” of the Senate. He rode as a jockey for some time after his race on Headlight. In fact, he was under contract to ride for a big horse owner in 1876 at the cen- tennial celebration in Philadelphia. At that time he was sixteen years old. He had been riding horses for eight years, and racing most of the time, starting with his grandfather’s horses, and, after his death, riding for other owners. His grandmother toM him in '76, however, that if he ever intended to make anything of him- self he must quit the track and go to schcol. The youngster went to the man with whom he had contracted to ride at Philadelphia and told him what his grandmother had said. “That’s’ the best advice you ‘ever got,” was the reply. The contract was canceled. Charles Curtis started to school and five years later was ad- mitted to the ban h were of opinion that! ect writing. { FOR WOMEN ‘Women visitors to the Capitol are delighted with this new horel ex. clusively at their service. Restau- rant open to pul Stop here and enjoy its many innovations, its unexcelled appointments, its “No tipping.” 376 Rooms, $1.50 0 $4.00 a day. Send for illus- erated booklet., National Board ¥. W. C. A. GRACE DODG, HOTEL x Union Station Pl 'WASHINGel'”OIGfa'DS. 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