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Is SPIRITUALISM A DELUSION?
A
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CCORDING to Mr. panions, "Behold," we rend in the Prophet Samuel, "there is a Frank Hawken, woman that hath a familiar secretary of. the spirit at En-dor." Spiritualist Central Council, And do we not also read, "He there are 3,000 spiritualist descended into Hell?"
As a scarcher after the ulti- TYRE EXPENSE SAVED Churches in Great Britain.
He protests that it is "very mate verity I am not sufficiently
presumptuous to venture unfair" of the B.B.C. not to opinion as to whether this iden allow any of their services is the whole truth or merely a to be broadcast.
mystical way of translating the
of conscienco My personal feelings, in this infinity case, are entirely on the side of necessarily finite minds.
Many men have told me: the B.B.C.
"Without my sure bellef in an Even granting that the very after-life I should find it too plinth of our constitution is re- difficult to follow the dictates of ligious tolerance, I fall to ace what good purpose could be my conscience in this one."
Others, equally frank, have achieved by such broadcasts. admitted: "I am not entirely Some form of survival after convinced that my own per- death is a tenet of every credal sonality will survive my body's But actual com, death. But I should feel liko a religion. munication between the dead lost soul without the teachings and the living-even if this be of my credal religion." possible is contrary to the Stubbs Rd. tenets and forbidden by the
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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938.
Many Consoled
My friend
Such men I can both admire and-as one still searching for i that solace which absolute faith brings to a true believer-envy. The mystic's way, my whole ex- perience of this life teaches me, is a happy way.
the late Arthur Conan Doyle
But the way of the spiritualist tried his hardest to convert me to his own fervent belief in at least, as I understand it- spiritualism. Others have made is not the mystic's. It is the similar attempts. I can there- scientist's. He or she demands fore realise exactly how much proof-the dead shall not only the "spirit world"
to speak but become materialised.
means
those who can convince them- selves of its reality.
And that there are both honest mediums and honest investiga- tors of psychic phenomena, I ad-
mit.
The "Proofs" TABLES must
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"and there will be an extra charge of 73 cents for lettuce for the rabbits."
Poland Goes Down
To
The
Sea At
GDYNIA
By
There must be photo-G. WARD PRICE
graphs, taps, writings with pens
T
streamlining
I saw 50 ships up to 14,000 tons
displacement lying alongside
quays of a total area of 1,500 acres, with a depth of 36ft, be-
tween their water-line and the
bottom.
EDUCATION FOR THE ARMY
Gdynia has her own Transat- Hongkong is shortly to have a
or pencils, and that cozy, palpa- | +++++
lantic passenger line running to North and South America. large and expensive military
ble, terrestrial substance known Let us further agree that as "ectoplasm" for finlte mani-
Gdynia, Poland.
Forty thousand passengers move cantonment in Kowloon Tong communications-whether real festations of the truth.
HE world possesses in and out of her maritime sta It is necessary in view of the or illusory-from their dead Honest and presumably un-
two many who biased investigators of psychic
spick-and-span tion in the course of a year.
It has cost £12,000,000 to pro- increasing importance of this loved ones console
cannot find consolation in ortho- phenomena have assured us, over
new seaports where, Far East base and the very dox religions.
and over again, that such finite instead of rust, confusion vide Poland with her artificial port. The natural harbour for considerable increase in garrison
At the same time, neverthe- manifestations do occur. Conan and squalor, all is chromium this part of Europe is the splen-- troops which is promised. But less, even the most obstinate Doyle, in one of his books, goes plate,
and did old Hanseatic city of Danzig, at the mouth of the Vistula, 20 the most interesting feature of spiritualist must be with me even further. He relates a per-
away. The mediaeval They are in different con- miles the military programme is the when I state that fraudulent sonal meeting, in a hut on the modernity.
mediums are legion, especially west coast of America, between modern school which the can-in our industrial north.
himself and a long-dead relatinents, a thousand miles apart. black-and-white warehouses and Both lie on closed seas instead of the huge brick towers of the an- tive! tonment will boast, which be- You have only to meet the au-
I myself, recently writing an the open ocean. Though palms cient "Crane Gate" in Danzig sides offering accommodation to thor of that remarkable revela article about my own mother, wave over one and pines over are testimony to the great mari- the children of the British tion of an industrial worker's who passed over in 1916, received the other, both rise from desert time traditions of the historic
life, I, James Whittaker," to
a letter from a living friend of sand, and--oddest resemblance port. But Danzig is a German forecs during their station here, realise how many poor people hers, which said, "I talked with of all-in both of them is Polish city, and as such was put under a special League of Nations re- class-rooms are mulcted of shillings they can
freely spoken. ill afford by the descendants of your mother only last night."
The writer of that letter was
These ports are Gdynia on the gime when resuscitated Poland exposed medium, who says:
truth. Thousands of other men Levant, and their similarity of Now, don't, sir! Don't expose mel and women, some of very much tongue is accounted for by the
will provide modern
for the instruction of yous Mr. Sludge, the poet Browning's convinced that she wrote the Baltic and Tel-Aviv in the was given her "corridor" to the
men of the Army as well. This is just one small part of the im- menso Government programme for the better instruction of troops and is an indication of the recognition of the fact that it is not the automaton which
in
Just this once!
coast.
Now the Poles say that the
removed them. troubles which
This was the Arst and only time, ' more than the average intelli- fact that Poland contains 3,500 from the map of Europe for 130
swear.
Then it's so cruel casy! Oh, thoat
tricka
gence, share her convictions.
All these say, in effect, "There are no dead. Slowly but surely Clearly no common conjurer's.... we are bridging the gap be- Dishonesty and fraud apart. tween this world and the next however, can spiritualism help one. Join our ranks. Be en- the average workaday man and lightened. Be happy." woman in this average workaday world?
Old as Mankind
other
Truly enlightened? Or just deluded by natural phenomena which the scientist of the years
years were primarily due to the fact that they had always "turn- ed their backs on the sea." That was a mistake they were deter- mined to make no longer—so : they set themselves to build on the open, shoal-infested, Baltic ghore a brand-new port of their own, which to-day shifts 10,000,- 000 tons of merchandise a year.
Universal rearmament is help- ing to build up the prosperity of Gdynia. I found its quaya piled high with the rusty scrap iron which has become by far its largest import.
Most of it is of United States
out-of-date industrial plant are pouring into Gydnia at the rate of nearly 3,000 tons a day.
Herring Imports
MUCH of this raw ma-
terial is "in transit."
000 Jews-one-sixth of all the professing members of that race in the whole world and a great many of them have found their way to Tel-Aviv in Palestine.
Fifteen years ago Gdynia was makes the best soldier. There
a village of 200 fishermen and LUCKY DOG !
Was a time, to be sure, when
their families, whose thatched HEALTHY DESPITE THE TROPI-
cottages were strung alone the CAL HEAT. ALWAYS FULL OF Bergeant instructors used to
sandy shore between the tree ENERGY AND COOD SPIRITS bawl: "You ain't supposed to
to come will explain as easily covered dunes and the shallow with it." THRIVES UNDER ALL CONDI think. Just get on
THE idea that our per- as he now explains the workings Baltic. TIONS WHAT'S THE SECRET And the same thing was said of
sonalities survive our of that cathode ray which is the OF HIS FITNESS? JUST SENSIBLE
in perhaps corporal bodies is as old as man-. heart of the television camera? Poverty To Riches FEEDING. A REGULAR DIET OF the British army SPRATT'S THE BISCUITS THAT more elegant terms when the kind. Odysscus, in the Homeric
Kipling's Belief
NOW most of those legend, visits the realms of Dis
fishermen are million- ARE LIKED BEST BY ALL DOGS poet wrote: "Theirs not to rea- and talks with his dead com-
TRULY happy? Or mere-aires-in Polish zlotys, which, THAT MEAN HEALTH AND LONG
son why
But the modern
ly led up the garden being on a gold basis, are worth origin: old radiators from Ame- LIFE TO YOUR PET.
path of dreams by human sor-six times as much as French rican apartment-houses, bits of SPRATT'S HAVE A FEED FOR soldier, although he naturally EVERY NEED OF EVERY BREED, obeys orders without question, bly offers the best example of row, by human imagination, by francs and go as far as shillings Transatlantic motor-cars, and
is taught something more than this newly-created opportunity the desire-inherent in all of us do in England.
to turn our wishes into reali-
Their fishing days forgotten, for the young professional ties? his duty. He is an efficient cog
they drive over from their fine Far be it from me to judge villas round the casino at Zoppot, a vast machine; a machine soldier to climb out of the rut;
but there are chances in, the this transcendental issue. I the Baltic Monte Carlo, to in- which, incidentally, depends
branches of the service, can only give my own view my spect the tall apartment-houses. more and more upon petrol-too, as there always were, but own judgment as dictated to me and rows of shops that now power and, for that reason, on on a larger scale. One might by my own conscience.
occupy the formerly worthless Even granting that there be ground belonging to them, where like cases of 20 large aeroplanes, I saw, lying on a dock, the hut- mechanical efficiency. In the venture the guess that the last
personal survivial, and not-as so recently they used to dry their which wore labelled as consign- war taught the British many of the world's beat brains nets. army, as in every other modern great
ed from Czecho-Slovakia to Staff what sort of stuff comes have held-a merging of all hu- organisation which attempts
One square yard of that Estonia, though their ultimate out of the ranks. The British man souls into one Infinite Be-mingled scrub and sand to-day destination may be farther on. efficiency, officers and men are
Navy has long been aware of ing, I cannot bring myself to be-fetches £8. The site for a villa
Germany, Danmark, and required to specialise more and the value of the officer who love that mere human beings costs £1,000.
Sweden all considerably surpass more. If by means of educa-comes up from the lower deck. should attempt to bridge the
A Polish naval officer, still in Great Britain in the tonnage of put Granted he is generally a stern gulf between this life and the the early thirties, told me that their vessels using the port of tion a young soldier can
next,
are one of when he was a midshipman the Gdynia. Herrings himself in the way of promotion disciplinarian and is not always
I believe with Rudyard Kip destroyer in which he served the main British exports to Po it is an obvious advantage from as popular with the "troops" as ling:
used to lie three miles out from land, and a leading firm of Lon- the personal point of view. It an officer who has always worn
Oh, the road to En-dor is the oldest Gdynia, unable to come closer den herring merchants is build- a "fore-and-after" rig. But ho
road And the craziest road of all! Inshore because there was no ing a large store there. la no less important from the
is highly efficient and quite
Straight it runs to the Witch's depth of water. standpoint of the General Staff, rightly highly respected. The
abode,
Everything Modern would
think, For
1,500 Acres Of Quays if days of prejudice against com-
THE chilling-sheds for Private Wilks can do the job of missions for Tommy Atkins, And nothing has changed of the sor-
CRUISING now in the
foodstuffs will take Sergeant Weeks, and Sergeant too, aro passing, if they have For such as go down on the road to
yacht bolonging to the 1,200 wagon-loads at once; the Weeks can do the job of some not already gone forever. The
There is so much to be done director-general of the port, 'M.wheat granaries have a capacity body else good deal higher in lato general Sir Arthur Currie before the world can be made Stanisinus Lengowski, around of 10,000 tons; coal, which is the unit, there is less danger of was a Canadian "volunteer," and anything like a paradise for the the 700 acres of the harbour Gdynia's largest export is not even a professional soldier average man and woman. Let basins, protected by break handled by a most modern outnu error in emergenc
and better until 1914. Maybe Hongkong us hold our own earthly gatos waters 21% miles long,, and fit of balt-conveyors and when prospects for the individual in will help produce a Hamilton or before we rashly attempt ted with automatic radio-bea- tips, while the shipping of tim
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