Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1925 — Page 16

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Thousands of Pictures of Spirits Are Sold at Camp One Can Have Photo Taken With 'Ghost’ Friends at Chesterfield, Reporter Discovers.

NOTE: Tkip is the tenth article in the series by Virginia Swain, reporter for NEA Service and The lndianapons • Times, relating he- experiences while spending five weeks investigating practices at the national spiritualist camp. Cl esterfleid. Ind : By Virginia Swain SEA Service Writer HESTERFIELD, lnd.. Sept 4. —For $2.35 one may have a picture taken of himself with all his "spirit friends" at Chesterfield. For this modest sum. ghosts of dead grandparents, infant daughters, Indian guides and sometimes a celebrity like Abraham Lincoln or Jenny Lind will obligingly cluster mound so that the photographer may snap them. A. Norman and his wife, of Cassadaga, Fla., are the proprietors of the Chesterfield "Psychic Studio," which is one of the most profitable concessions at the camp. They photograph not only the individuals who apply to them but also many scenes about the camp, on which an occasional spirit will thrust his face, for good measure. In fact, one cannot buy a picture post card without finding some evidences on It of the spirit presences which throng the camp. One of the most unique of these cards has the faint outlines of a spirit cat and. a spirit dog, overlaid upon the background of one of the cottages. Indians are plentiful, for they are quite the fad in spiritualistic circles. It is a poor spiritualist who has not at least one mighty chief to guide him. Few' Believers Resist Norman maintains a large exhibit lof spirit photographs outside his 1 studio. ( The misty groups of bearded old men, angelic children and beautiful ladies with stars on their brows are a temptation that few believers can ' resist. , . One of the pictures has a negro . woman as its subject, and all the ' ghosts surrounding her are of Afri“can physiognomy. , In taking pictures Norman, a man whose ample proportions and red face, scarcely suggests affinity with . the world of spirit, dramatically advances to the camera, raises his hand and lifts his eyes heavenward -as if listening to celestial voices. , Then at the critical moment he ■ waves his hand with a fine gesture ;and snaps the picture. "You have fine vibrations,’’ he remarks to his patron. “I am sure

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there will be a wonderful group cf spirits in your picture.” All Identified Ten days later, the picture appears, and one is expected to recognize the faces of his dead greatgrandfather, his guides and other nondescript spirits whose head* glimmer faintly about his own on the picture. In my entire experience at Chesterfield, during which I met literally hundreds of persons who had been photographed by Norman, I met not one who said that he could definitely identify a single face on his picture except his own. Occasionally. Norman makes n failure and announces that the vibrations were not right and no faces have appeared on the plate He then refunds the money, with many remarks as to his' regret, an*’ a suggestion that if he were not sr honest, of course these failures would not occur. "If I could fake it once,” he said to me, "I could fake it all the time." Failures Are Periodic Mrs. Minnie Reichart, materializing medium, and the Hedrick sisters, trumpet mediums, periodically stag* a failure, with the same triumphant air of having proved their genuineness by it. It is a significant fact that nobody is ever allowed to enter the cottage proper of the Normans. Its inner recesses are a mystery even to the mediums on the grounds. When a patron betrays to Norman an interest in some historic character that character is fairly certain to appear on his portrait. If no such person is specified the type pictures are used. Here again the tendency of visitors to chatter is useful to the tricksters. Few persons get away from the Norman studio without having told the photographer which relative they expect to find on their portraits. Photographer Insulted He then selects the type from his files, makes a duplicate double exposure and trusts to the faintness of the pictures and the credulity of the patron to make him accept the spirits as his own. That this is true I can have no doubt, since I stood behind a man at the studio and heard him request the privilege of bringing his own plate and of inspecting the dark room of

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the studio, as an intelligent test of Norman's powers. The photographer registered injured innocence at once. He drew himself up to his not inconsiderable height and replied, “Your request is an .insult. It suggests a doybt of m f v honesty. I can not allow my spirit guides to be so affronted. "The board of directors of this camp has examined me and licensed me to operate my studio here. I will not submit to any further tests." NEXT-—Old maids' paradise. CROSSWORD Cl RK LONDON, Aug. 00.—A patient at Braoebridge (Lincoln* mental hospital has recovered almost normal health through solving crossword puzzles.

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CHRIST COMING | SOON, LEADER OF CULT SAYS I Literal Reincarnation to Occur in Few Years, Theosophist Declares. Bv Time* Special CHICAGO. Sept, t —"Not to a Heaven with gatl.s of pearl and golden pavements goes the soul after it departs from the earthly body, but to inner places of the spiritual realm measured by the fourth dimension, there to digest its earthly experiences.” This picture of the hereafter was presented by L. W. Rogers, president of the American Theosophical Society, as he told of the beliefs of the organization which is planning anew $300,000 headquarters near Chicago. Members of the cult, coming from all parts of the United States, are gathered here In their thirty-ninth annual convention. One of the first acts of the gathering was the planning of the new national headquarters at, Wheaton. Ilb, in the picturesque Fox River valley. There; Theosophtsts will gather for contemplation of the mysteries of the human soul. "We believe that the soul takes a higher body form each time it is incarnated.” Rogers says. “You and I. for instance, probably lived in ancient Egypt. Babylon or Rome. When the science of evolution becomes perfected it will be possible for us to know what individual bodies our souls have lived in. "Furthermore, we believe that the literal reincarnation of Christ will occur in a very few years, and that He will return as a world teacher. The world is in great need of his coming, that all men may be spiritually united. We base our beliefs in the second coming, because of its inherent reasonableness as a method of human evolution." Rogers declares that because of prejudice against theosophtsts and theosophy, many followers of the cult study its precepts In secret, refusing to announce their allegiance to the philosophy. BIRD UNTIES SELF MANCHESTER. Eng.—Oliver G. Pike, reports seeing a bird untie itself from a noose trap. The noose was around the bird's leg. and after seeing that the harder it tried to get loose the tighter became the noose, the bird, a merlin, stopped, and de‘tberately untied the string, liberating itself.

Jump Saves Life of Local Boy Among the survivors of the crew of the Shenan- <;■ doah, wrecked iUJmM* miles east of Cowtre 1 .ttmbus, Ohio, was M Charles Solar. 28 V s *' . . s machinist's mate. 1 . dfe 1 a former Indian- ■ apolis hoy. M Solar's brother, R V. ,T. Solar, lives at 2951 Ruckle St. t r< lie was in the part C of, the airship "'Me! l broke off. and jumped when - Wjj ,lie blimp was mmhmmh .. >.S close to the ground. He was Charles Solar slightly hurt when ___ he jumped.

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