Evening star., 1922-11-08
- ONTINUING his discussion

yesterday. Sir Arthur saio.
Mr.. Marconi was In New.
York with his yacht, the Elec-
ira. He tells how, in the Mediterranean
last year, he intercepted wireless waves
of a length of 10000 meters, when Is
far above any power in this world. he
was ready, in a half-serious way u
discuss their origin as from MARS.
yentured to write to him ana TO point
out that as we had ample evidence of
disembodicd life, and as II seemeu "
exist in the ether, which is the OASIS
of wireless, il would surely be mucn
more likely that these messages were
experimental attempts from our own
agencies who have passed over 'h"h
that they are from another planet. l.
have hope that the near future may
prove whether 1 am not right.
Our last days in New York were
clouded by the news of the death oi
an old friend, fellow cricketer anu
brother author, Hesketh fricnalu, a..
fine a specimen of British inahhoou
our island could show. HIS oVerwo,n
in the war and the illness VIM
contracted at the front brought apout
his premature end. Hex, as all ms
friends called him. was the most en-
tie and iovable of giants. out ms
great hobby had been the use oi t'
rifle which had caused nm 10 en-
bark upon many heavy game eAc"I
sions At the beginning of the trencii
warfare we were quite ofercro"u',ui
by the German SniperS. who were d,
trained shots, furnished with specia,
rifles and telescope sights. PEiciaEu
found an opening for ms specIAi
knowledge and, going to France, ne
Instituted the first snipins school,
which grew into 4 large orgahizatioIi
with many offshoots. He nad mos
elaborate methods and dodGes. anu IN
the early days if any German shipe,
was reported as very formldaoie any
invulnerable he would go OF ana osil
with him himself The result OF MS
lahors was that we finally completely
beat the German snipers and estao-
lished supremacy along the Hhe.
When he was given the ID. ;. o. II was
said of him that he had probably done
the enemy more damage than any
other EnElishman in the neiu. SA
schoolboy and the courage OIL q non
:; grand bowler. a fine writer. great
patriot, it was L loss to England "neh
he passed away.
Psychic Art.
have been TO several exhibitions
of psychic drawings since nave oeen
in this country. the latest oelns d
series of pencil sketches oy WIS
Field of Chicago. l have atso IN sna, nS
incs through the hands OF various
mediums, most of whom aver that uh-
der normal conditions they are un-
able to draw Il line. surrey 1His
phenomenon must arrest ths atteh
tion of the most conservative ana
preiudiced of our opponents Here; IN
The case of Mrs Field, is middie-
class woman with no particular
claims to erudition or culture She
finds that at certain times she mas an
Irresistible impulse to draw suanse
pictures which are clearly OF Gesp
symbolic meaning. and which inciude
ga stern dresses, Egyptian symDois,
the sacred fish. the etherlc pooy anu
all sorts of things which never come
within the range OF net orolhar!
knowledge. How stupid II - 10
more such patent phenomena as
those. One may well argue that tney
are subconscious that they are the
work of a secondary personality, or. IN
any other wa canouflage. our lgno-
rance-but even so they are objective
things and therefore Of more value
than all the fine-drawn theories or
the psychologists. The only argument
that ! know for their spirit origin IL
that the drawings are not fnrreQuent-
ly accompanied py AUTOMATIC "AiIihs
which makes this claim. In a recent
case a Brooklyn man. seized suddenly
with the picture-drawing power.
asked whence it proceeded. The writ
ten answer was, II am Joseph Sas-
semy"-I may be inaccurate In the
name. on referring to books he found
that the man was really Viennese
artist of distinction who died gen
Grafton or so back. There have been
many such cases, and the evidence is
really very strong, as would be at
once recognized if this subject were
not surrounded by so many prejudieeS
and prejudgments.
Glorious Experience.
We were due to leave America by
the Adriatic on June "a and our time
was drawing to a close. 1t has been
a glorious experience and wonder
full privilege that ] should be chosen
to bring back a fuller recognition of
this great revelation to the very land
which God had chosen for its original
reception. 1t may seem that / have
exaggerated the success of my ef-
forts, and there are always opponents
who are ready to decry our results.
SO I beg that the reader will not set
it down as -glorification if l in
clude the following letter:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ambassador