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Lincoln Held Seances In The White House
By RUTH CONSTAD
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was a spiritualist who
held scances in the White House to deter- mine the future course of American history, a Lincoln student said recently.
Lesley Kuhn, editor and authority on the occult, and the mystical side of Lincoln has been little known although it probably influenced the course of the civil war and affairs of state."
Lincoln, he said, first became a believer in the possibility of communication with the spirit world after the death of his son. His wife, Ann Todd, was a mystic and persuaded, the President to hold the first seance In the White House in the winter of 1862.
From then until his death, Lincoln stayed in steady contact with mediums and held scances in the Presidential mansion ns often as once a week, Kuhn said.
"One cannot be sure whether Lincoln would have abandoned emancipation of the slaves, if the spiritualists had directed that course, he said. "But it is known from letters recently found that he consulted spiritualists frequently about the opposition to emancipation, and they always encouraged him to follow it through."
In one letter, Kuhn said, there is mention of a White House sennce in then which Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War, participated. The medium told Lincoln that the war was being badly directed on some fronts and it was this, Lincoln wrote, that prompted his visit to the Poto mac front.
MAN ON THE EDGE OF A
GREAT NEW CONQUEST
frst sound.
by SQUADRON LEADER W. SIMPSON, D.F.C.
YOUNG American test, Already it is known that the the death of Geoffrey de Havilland
a V2 in a test nearly two years ago. pilot, Captain Charles rate of acceleration of Yeager, has become the rocket does not in itself prevent man to fly faster then the safe carringe of
senger.
a pus-
But there are still tremendous The spect of sound is about problems to be solved-includ 760 miles per hour at sen level, ing the important one of how to and decreases as the aircraft bring rocket passengers anfely rises. Yenger's speed is said back to earth. unofficially to have been "about 1,000 miles per hour,”
This development poses two
questions. Where do
we go
from here and what will be the
effect on air travel?
To both these questions scien-
So much for the long-term vision of inter-planetary air travel and the future prospects of aerial warfare. What of the
immediate future for winged
· passenger-carrying aircraft 7
OF
THE SECRET
THE ROCKET AIRCRAFT FLOWN 19
BY ITS
CAPTAIN TEAGER ABILITY ΤΟ BURST QUICKLY THROUGH THE AIR BARRIER INTO THE RELATIVELY SMOOTHER AIR BEYOND.
A British rircraft of similar design
might have done this a year or two
ngo.
But an official decision, was taken not to risk British pilots in rocket aircraft, and the Miles M.52 design were scrapped.
125-ton
Tako the cas of the Brabazon, now being completed at Bristol, and due to fly for the first time this year. It needs runways at least two miles long.
IF THIS LINE OF PROGRESS IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE WE SHALL UNCHECKED HAVE RUNWAYS STRETCH- ING ACROSS TWO COUNTIES. Onc WBY of overcoming the take-off problem has already been tried. Large American jet bomb- bers have already taken off with the assistance of "booster" ruckets. up And It is proposed to slow
forward landings with
pointing rockets in much the same way.
HELICOPTERS
In other correspondance with an Illinois friend who had doubts about whether he should marry, Lincoln told him that the "animal fluids flow- ing in his body would change their course with the new moon" and then he would feel like his eld zelf and decide to marry.
Another thiné he reportedly, had the medium contact the spirit of Stephen Douglas, who had opposed him for
the Presidency, to inquire of him what the outcome of the civil war would be.
Spiritualism, Kulin cald, was one of the few things on which Lincoln and his wife agreed, and it helped to make their marriage more cóm→ pauloumble,
It was she who told the President that a medium had augured "some- thing bad" and suggested they hold a scance to consult their guiding spirit.
That seance was held two days The before Lincoln's assassination. medium tald Lincoln then that she Faw
of him "emerging in a pool blood."
Kuhn is about to publish his book, "Abraham Lincoln and the Spirituali
fats and discusses in it the psycho- col to spiritualism. analytical reasons that turned Lin-
The helicopter principle of rising and descending vertically and slow ly has so far, only been used for
Among these, he said, is the "high- Emall aircraft. It cannot yet bely sensitive, poetic and extremely adapted for lifting and lowering the lonely nature the man, which
natural force for confirmation of his and efficient is needed.
destiny."-United Press.
tists and aircraft designers rive jet engine inventor Air Commo- should be carrying 100 passengers glants, but something equally easy forced him to turn to some super-
answers ranging from mild opti- mism to mild realism
100 MILES UP
we stand Let us see where today, starting with the Cer- man V2
rocket the greatest
Within the near future the first fying-wing aircraft, with det engines and passenger compartments hous- First there is the prophecy of ed within the thickness of the wing.
dore Frank Whittle, made two or more between London and New years ago, that airliners would York in about five hours. reach speeds of 500-600 miles per hour in ten years' time- that is in 1956. The present speed is up to 300 miles per hour.
of
Ever since the arrival "leap forward in aviation science practical-rocket-and-gas-tur---
since Orville Wright's first bine jet engines,
light.
out in
enormous
They will fly at a height of around of the level fect, above 40.000
will clothing
and dinary storms, and passengers wearing or- breathe normally, although outside the air would not permit life.
move
"LONG“RUNS
rench
There speed advances in aircraft have
nir liners nay A captured German V2 tried been held up only by the limita- fantastic sizes, but it is more than tions of the human body, and likely that they will remain round America has reached the difficulty of designing con- the 100-200-ton mark because of the speeds of over 3,500 miles an trol surfaces-wings and tail need to restrict the thickness and hour and risen to heights of that will stay put in spite of the length of concrete runways, within more than 100 miles above the strains and stresses. carth.
sound severe
which con
reasonable limits.
At present we are at the stage As you get near the speed of where aircraft are getting larger and
build faster all shock waves
the time. This means Norwegian airline pilots have up into an air burrier
that they need stronger and longer get them into runways, in order seen rockets, apparently launch break up the best aircraft ns we
the air. ed. from Peenemunde, Baltic know it today-as was proved by
const birthplace of the V2, and NOW under Russian control, streaking over the Baltic at speeds estimated to miles per hour.
be 6,760
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT 8,000 MILES PER HOUR COULD BE REACH- ED WITH ROCKETS OF THIS SORT. THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO CROSS THE 3.000-MILE- WIDE ATLANTIC WITH EASE,
The American rocket "Nep- tune" has been planned to reach a height of 235 miles above the earth's surface.
'MARS' MEN
Perhaps the most logical step would be to abandon the use of wings altogether-and then the era of the rocket propelled by atamıle entergy or energy from cosmic rays would be at hand.
This era would see the virtual and time, with conquest of space any-spot on the globe within as
a week-end, easy reach
Travel problems would then have disappeared, with speeds measured in thousands instead of hundreds of
an hour, miles minutea and seconds instead of days.
in and journeys
Passenger rockets might Boar hundreds of miles out into space, there to wall for the rotation of the earth before coming down again at their destinations.
But before all this could happen enormous problems have yet to be solved.
Which Are The Brighter
RE girls getting brighter A than boys? This appalling
by CHARLES WINTOUR
more
JESTS AND JEERS
An economist claims that money is the greatest force in the world. For most of us it is a spent force.
Hollywood is now peaceful again” No pre secs red any more.
Solomon was perhaps wiser than he knew, living in Palestine then,
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Boys or Girls?
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the quad. Later, the boys started to play cricket and ping-pong in the same spot, but no girls watched them.
every
question has been raised by the
King, Later grey-haired Cyril results
some of
intelligence more Industrious and conscientious
the Second Master, who
first
Before I
whether left I asked than boys.
than 20
the decline in the threatened tosts which show that girls are
will taught at Bedales Set an examination. they
ruund the
intelligence national
had made thun boys, and write year ago, showed me now beating boys, although be write more
buildings Ankl They are likely to school
Spacious
itself fell at Bedales. Jacks's ex- fore the war the same tests it mora nently,
the.
other way. revealed no bias in favour of put down nit the facts that they can roads, which include a swimuning perience points
On first sight, their cool, cricket grounds, tennis courts, Despite fees well up to the average remember.
allotinent gardens and a tari.. for public schools, Bedales has a either sex.
'work seems better than the boys'.
Pupils used to milk the cows, but long waiting list and can pick and I went to Bedales, Britain's But on
its, intake. This closer scrutiny the boys thai has stopped as it interfered too choos
Is done win for substance and much with the school time-table. with great care. pioneer co-educational school, usually
belter at fram- quality. Boys are near Petersfield, in Hampshire. ing general ideas and forming
Candidates for vacancies spend to find out the answer. I chose original opinions; they are
HILE the 00 boys and 90 girls two days at the school while they thinking generally. W interested in
education together are thoroughly. tested and share their Bedales for two reasons. First, For instance, the boys
at Betalen
whole it was founded more
on polities than girls. at Bedales, they are not thrust into piece of relevant information about than 50 are keener
each other's company during their them. Is
assembled. The
like the Stoke spare time. And it is a remarkable process is rather so that the school Boys are also more inventive, und
test for fact that they generally keep apart. D'Abernon country house tive.
Mixed tennis is allowed, for instance, the Civil Service, although on a far less competitive scale. Health, In- but not often played
telligence quotient, and many other After two years, pupils are given factors are taken into consideration como choice between playing or- and finally assembled on a large
doing outdoor chart which le considered by and games or work on the farm. King told me inceting of the staff, acting that more girls than boys preferred selection committee. Partly organised Remes, although the boys result of this careful weeding-out muster a cricket teain which takes the intellectual level at Bedales, I
schools and occn- am told, is all rising. on local grammar sionally even battles with the third eleven from Charterhouse.
years agɔ,
0
03 a 43 A
The Americans have kept a has had time to shed any initial independent; they show more inittu- V2 in the air for 11 minutes, crankiness and eccentricity. probably using upward-thrust-
One Bedules mistress told me, for ~ing rockets to delay the descent, Secondly, Bedaler. uses Intelli- example, that if she was arranging gence tests as part of the com an entertainment and asked a group and have succeeded in using prehensive examination which every of boys to fix up some scenery they electronics to control rocketwirl und boy must vars before they would go ahead, and, having done are admitted to the school. And the job, leave to carry on with their flights.
further tests are given at annual work or play. But girls might hang around and wait for her 10 tell And American development intervals up to the age of 10. them what to do. plans are said to include rockets able to carry an atom bomb-TN his panelled study looking out Are there any differences between
I drove away from the school, present weight about four tons over the lovely if somewhat the exes in their aptitude for
encouraged about the futuro -halfway across the world. damp Hampshire countryside
Ilain drove us back into the school level of Britain's intelligence and 1 special subjects? Jacks thought that found 43-year-old Hector Jacks, the girls are quicker to learn foreign buildings. Twenty girls, clad in imbued with fresh confidence in particularly enjoy gym tunics (let down a few inches to my own masculine qualities of in- When optimists talk of plans lean, tanned ex-hockey Blue who uguages and
as keep pace with the New Look) were ventiveness, Independence and for escaping the gravity pull of came to Bedales at headmaster two studying Arta subjects, such
English and history. Boye tend to playing a local game called Quad initiative. the earth-needing a speed of
and science more interesting. But, tounders in the indoor quadrangle the central point of about 24,000 miles per hour I put the question of him: "Are as Jacks and other members of the which forms
the school. About a dozen boys and moving on through space girls getting brighter than boyo?" staff kept remluding me, "There are
Its answer was, in effect, "No, but always exceptions. A Bedates were watching and applauding o to Mars and the moon, they are they sonellines seein brighter." no longer treated as cranks. Girls, he told inc, are generally for instance, recently won a cach girl batted a tennis ball with downstairs will do it for me.
успеа одо.
relence scholarship at Oxfordų.
ber bare hand and scampered round
It was just too bad that I couldn't fix the leaky tap when 1 got home. But perhaps the man in
went to Bedalos,
the flat
Ho
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