anaheim-gazette 1931-10-01

Anaheim, Calif., October 1, 1931. SIGHT UNSEEN by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART COPYRIGHT 1931 by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART —FIRST INSTALLMENT— The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record. But it seems to me, as an active participant in the investigations, that they should be given to the public; not so much for what they will add to the existing data on psychical research, for from that angle they were not unusual, but as yet another exploration into that still uncharted territory, the human mind. The psycho-analysts have taught us something about the individual mind. They have their own pattern, of complexes and primal instincts, of the unconscious, which is a sort of bonded warehouse from which we clandestinely withdraw our stored thoughts and impressions. They lay to this unconscious mind of our all phenomena that cannot otherwise be labeled, and ascribe such demonstrations of power as cannot thus be explained to trickery, to black silk threads and folding rods, to slats with false sides and a medium with chalk on his finger nail. In other words, they give us subjective mind but never objective mind. They take the mind and its reactions about objective mind. Does it make on itself and on the body? But what is its only outward manifestations through speech and action? Can we ignore the effect of mind on mind, when there are present none of the ordinary media of communication? I think not. In making the following statement pictures to modern dress. She led us even further, as you will see. On consulting my note-book, I find that the first evening which directly concerns the Arthur Wells case was Monday, November the second, of last year. It was a curious day, to begin with. There come days, now and then, that bring with them a strange sort of mental excitement. I have never analyzed them. With me on this occasion it took the form of nervous irritability, and something of apprehension. My wife, I remember, complained of headache, and one of the stenographers had a fainting attack. I have often wondered for how much of what happened to Arthur Wells the day was responsible. There are days when the world is a place for love and play and laughter. And then there are sinister days, when the earth is a hideous place, when even the thought of immortality is unbearable, and life itself a burden; when all that is riotous and unlawful comes forth and bares itself to the light. This was such a day. I am fond of my friends, but I found no pleasure in the thought of meeting them that evening. I remembered the odious squeak in the wheels of Mrs. Dane's chair. I resented the way own, released during transub-conscious mind. “If not,” he said true they are really spirits, who tell us what is going on vague place where they happy, but here and now, house? I don’t ask for p for some evidence of their Who are going to be the dates for president? Is Hor gay dog some of us suspect. As I am the Horace in must explain that Herbert being facetious. “Physical phenomena!” cynic. “I've seen it all—long without visible hands, currents of cold air, voice trumpet—I know the w mass, and I've got a book how to do all the tricks along some night.” “As a matter of fact, H Dane said, “we intend to skepticism to the test tour Sperry has found a medical nonprofessional and a pa and she has kindly conse us a sitting. She is a total all of us except the doctor newcomer in town.” The butter wheeled out chair, and led us to the d In other words, they give us subjective mind but never objective mind. They take the mind and its reactions about objective mind. Does it make on itself and on the body? But what is its only outward manifestations through speech and action? Can we ignore the effect of mind on mind, when there are present none of the ordinary media of communication? I think not. In making the following statement concerning our part in the strange case of Arthur Wells, a certain allowance must be made for our ignorance of so-called psychic phenomena, and also for the fact that since that time, just before the war, great advances have been made in scientific methods of investigation. For instance, we did not place Miss Jeremy's chair on a scale, to measure for any loss of weight. Also the theory of rods of invisible matter emanating from the medium's body, to move bodies at a distance from her, had only been evolved; and none of the methods for calculation of leverages and strains had been formulated, so far as I know. To be frank, I am quite convinced that, even had we known of these so-called explanations, which in reality explain nothing we would have ignored them as we became involved in the dramatic movement of the revelations and the personal experiences which grew out of them. I confess that following the night after the first seance any observations of mine would have been of no scientific value whatever, and I believe I can speak for the others also. Of the medium herself I can only say that we have never questioned her integrity. The physical phenomena occurred before she went into trance, and during that time her forearms were rigid. During the deep trance, with which this unusual record deals, she spoke in her own voice, but in a querulous tone, and Sperry's examination of her pulse showed that it went from eighty normal to a hundred and twenty and very feeble. With this preface I come to the death of Arthur Wells, our acquaintance and neighbor and the investigation into that death by a group of six earnest people who call themselves the Neighborhood Club. The Neighborhood Club was organized in my house. It was too small really to be called a club, but women have a way these days of conferring a titular dignity on their activities, and it is not so bad, after all. The Neighborhood Club it really was, composed of our neighbors, my wife, and myself. We had drifted into the habit of dining together on Monday evenings at the different houses. There were Herbert Robinson and his sister Alice—not a young woman, but clever, alert, and very alive; Sperry, the well-doors. There Sperry thrived and we saw that the room completely metamorphosed. The room had been disopened before us, walls a piece bare, rugs gone from even curtains taken from it. To emphasize the change, stood a common pine table by seven plain chairs. All were out save one, a corner which was screened with a shade. Mrs. Dane watched us satisfaction. "Such a time it!" she said. "The servant think I have gone mad." Clara. I told her. She's a man. As the purely physical obtained proved relative cant, it is necessary to go tall of the room. As I said at the beginning not a ghost story. Parts understand, other parts wore For the physical phenomenon no adequate explanation curred. We saw and I For the other part of the have come to a conclusory to ourselves, a con reached, however, until so gone through some dangers, and had been contact with things hit the orderly progression of. But at no time, although things happened, did any glimpse that strange world seemed so often as our range of vision. (TO BE CONTINUED) The Neighborhood Club was organized in my house. It was too small really to be called a club, but women have a way these days of conferring a titular dignity on their activities, and it is not so bad, after all. The Neighborhood Club it really was, composed of our neighbors, my wife, and myself. We had drifted into the habit of dining together on Monday evenings at the different houses. There were Herbert Robinson and his sister Alice—not a young woman, but clever, alert, and very alive; Sperry, the well-known heart specialist, a bachelor still in spite of much feminine activity; and there was old Mrs. Dane, hopelessly crippled as to the knees with rheumatism, but one of those glowing and kindly souls that have a way of being a neighborhood nucleus. It was around her that we first gathered, with an idea of forming for her certain contact with the active life from which she was otherwise cut off. But she gave us, I am sure, more than we brought her, and, as will be seen later, her shrewdness was an important element in solving our mystery. In addition to these four there were my wife and myself. It had been our policy to take up different subjects for these neighborhood dinners. Sperry was a reformer in his way, and on his nights we generally took up civic questions. He was particularly interested in the responsibility of the state to the sick poor. My wife and I had "political" evenings. Not really politics, except in their relation to life. I am a lawyer by profession, and dabble a bit in city government. The Robinsons had literature. Don't misunderstand me. We had no papers, no set programs. On the Robinson evenings we discussed editorials and current periodicals, as well as the new books and plays. We were frequently acrimonious, I fear, but our small wrangles ended with the evening. Robinson was the literary editor of a paper, and his sister read for a large publishing house. Mrs. Dane was a free-lance. "Give me that privilege," she begged. "At least, until you find my evenings dull. It gives me, during all the week before you come, a sort of thrilling feeling that the world is mine to choose from." The result was never dull. She led us all the way from moving-bringing her domestic difficulties to me when I reach home in the evening, a habit which sometimes renders me unjustly indignant. Most unjustly, for she has borne with me for thirty years and is known throughout the entire neighborhood as a perfect housekeeper. I can close my eyes and find any desired article in my bedroom at any time. We passed the Wellsse's house on our way to Mrs. Dane's that night, and my wife commented on the dark condition of the lower floor. "Even if they are going out," she said, "it would add to the appearance of the street to leave a light or two burning. But some people have no public feeling." I made no comment. I believe. The Wellsse were a young couple, with children, and had been known to observe that they considered the neighborhood "stoodgy." And we had retaliated. I regret to say, in kind, but not with any real unkindness, by regarding them as interlopers. They drove too many cars, and drove them too fast; they kept a governess and didn't see enough of their children; and their English butter made our neat malds look commonplace. We went on to Mrs. Dane's We were early, as my wife is a punctual person, and soon after our arrival Sperry came. Mrs. Dane was in her chair as usual, with her companion in attendance, and when she heard Sperry's voice outside she excused herself and was wheeled out to him, and together we heard them go into the drawing-room. When the Robinsons arrived she and Sperry appeared, and we waited for her customary announcement of the evening's program. When none came, even during the meal, I confess that my curiosity was almost painful. I think, looking back, that it was Sperry who turned the talk to the supernatural, and that, to the accompaniment of considerable gliding by the men he told a ghost story that set the women to looking back over their shoulders into the dark corners beyond the zone of candle-light. All of us, I remember, except Sperry and Mrs. Dane, were skeptical as to the supernatural, and Herbert Robinson believed that while there were socalled sensitives who actually went into trance the controls which took possession of them were buried personalities of their It was at Troas, famous images of Homer, that the ary was clearly indicated; the word "we" used, when that Dr. Luke, the author of the Paul party, Sean determine just where Lystra a handy man ww Timothy and he became substitute for John Mark. It may be that Luke great need for ministry I was in a vision that Paul messenger who pleaded into Macedonia and helped the numerous visions that both for direction and e ANAHEIM GAZETTE own, released during trance from the pub-conscious mind. "If not," he said truculently, "if they are really spirits, why can't they tell us what is going on, not in someague place where they are always happy, but here and now, in the next house? I don't ask for prophecy, but for some evidence of their knowledge. Who are going to be the next candidates for president? Is Horace here the day dog some of us suspect? As I am the Horace in question, I must explain that Herbert was merely being facetious. "Physical phenomena!" scoffed the synic. "I've seen it all—objects moving without visible hands, unexplained currents of cold air, voice through a trumpet—I know the whole rottenness, and I've got a book which tells how to do all the tricks. I'll bring it long some night." "As a matter of fact, Herbert," Mrs. Dane said, "we intend to put your skepticism to the test tonight. Doctor Perry has found a medium for us, a nonprofessional and a patient of his, and she has kindly consented to give us a sitting. She is a total stranger to all of us except the doctor and is a newcomer in town." The butler wheeled out Mrs. Dane's hair, and led us to the drawing room Obediently—the-four workers set out for the first Christian impact on the continent of Europe as they came to Phillipi. The journey meant much to all of us in the western world. Since there were too few Jews there to have a synagogue, a place of prayer was sought out at the riverside and gospelizing began in earnest. Lydia was the first convert and made her confession of faith in the rite of baptism. Christian Science Lesson-Sermon "Unreality" is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon Sunday, in all branches of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. One of the Scriptural citations recounts Jesus' healing of the woman who had "a spirit of infirmity eighteen years," and tells of the indignation of the ruler of the synagogue because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day. It continues: "The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?" A correlative passage presents Mary Baker Eddy's statement from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "If sickness is true or the idea of Truth, you cannot destroy sickness, and it would be absured to try. Then classify sickness and error as our Master did, when he spoke of the sick, whom Satan hath bound," and find a sovereign antidote for error in the life-giving power of Truth acting on human belief, a power which opens the prison doors to such as are bound, and sets the captive free physically and morally." W. Stuart Booth, member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, will deliver a lecture by radio over KFOX tomorrow evening at 8, from the church in Long Beach. Saivaging Treasure Ship Wreckers of the Artiglio are getting nearer each day to the $5,000,000 gold that sunk with the Egypt. be the active co-operation of every Legionnaire in the state in finding unemployed veterans work. In this Hogan has been promised the cooperation of the Department of Labor. The plans to be developed will take care of California veterans, and their families, who are unable to obtain employment. "We are facing the third year of depression and conditions are critical," said Hogan. "The Legion has a moral obligation in caring for the needy veterans and we must meet the emergency. My entire time for the present will be utilized in developing means and methods to cope with this situation the coming winter. There must not be a veteran begging alms in the business sections or one ringing residential door bells. We must make every endeavor to find them employment. They must have food." Sperry threw them open, and we saw that the room had been completely metamorphosed. The room had been dismantled. It opened before us, walls and chimney-like bare, rugs gone from the floor, even curtains taken from the windows. To emphasize the change, in the center stood a common pine table, surrounded by seven plain chairs. All the lights were out save one, a corner bracket, which was screened with a red paper shade. Mrs. Dane watched us with keen satisfaction. "Such a time I had doing!!" she said. "The servants, of course, think I have gone mad. All exceptlara. I told her. She's a sensible girl." As the purely physical phenomena obtained proved relatively insignificant, it is necessary to go into the detail of the room. As I said at the beginning, this is not a ghost story. Parts of it we now understand, other parts we do not. For the physical phenomena we have no adequate explanation. They occurred. We saw and heard them. For the other part of the seance we have come to a conclusion satisfactory to ourselves, a conclusion not reached, however, until some of us had done through some dangerous experiences, and had been brought into contact with things hitherto outside the orderly progression of our lives. But at no time, although incredible things happened, did any one of us illpse that strange world of the spirit that seemed so often almost within our range of vision. W. Stuart Booth, member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston will deliver a lecture by radio over KFOX, tomorrow evening at 8, from the church in Long Beach. Vigilante Corps Seeks Fire Fiends (Correspondence to The Gazette) Sacramento — Vigilante committees organized in every northern and central California county, are soon to be used in a campaign to stop the activities of forest fire incendiaries. Sponsored and organized by the California state chamber of commerce, these county incendiary corps will unlike the Vigilantes in the days of '49, receive the full support of federal, state and local peace officers. The idea of forming a Vigilante committee originated in Placer county recently, and has succeeded in virtually ending all firebug activities there. At the last meeting of the state board of forestry it was recommended that the Vigilante organization be made state-wide. This was done when the state chamber of commerce offered to sponsor the movement. "County incendiary corps will work with the local county fire emergency committees," explained State Forester M. B. Pratt, executive secretary of the California fire emergency committee. "A statewide chief will be appointed. He, in turn, will name county chiefs from the ranks of the local fire emergency committee, with the approval of the state forest supervisor and the state chamber of commerce. Counties having no fire emergency committees will have their Vigilante chiefs named by the state chamber. Names of county vigilante committee members will be kept secret. They will work in conjunction with the sheriff, district attorney, justices, judges, members of the county board of supervisors, and state and federal forest officers. These "secret service" men will be clothed with full authority to make private investigations of every case of fire known or suspected of being caused by an incendiarary. They will be instructed in methods of gathering evidence and empowered to do everything necessary to bring about an arrest and conviction. Meanwhile, a statewide educational program will be carried on by the state chamber to develop public opinion against the firebug. 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Soon the urge for further work field caused Paul to lay plans for what we know as the second missionary journey. Barnabas was ready but insisted that John Mark, who left them at Perga, be taken along. Paul refused. These fellow-servants of the Master showed common sense in agreeing to disagree, but each went forward with the work of the Kingdom. Barnabas took Mark and went to Cyprus. Paul effected a working agreement with Silas and proceeded into Asia Minor. At Lystra a handy man was found in Timothy and he became an efficient substitute for John Mark. It was at Troas, famous in the writings of Homer, that the future litterary was clearly indicated. Here we find the word "we" used, which indicates that Dr. Luke, the author of Acts, joined the Paul party. Search out and determine just where Luke was with Paul during the rest of his ministry. It may be that Luke told of the great need for ministry in Philippi. 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