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'IS IT OVER? I HAVEN'T FELT A THING?

*NO? WELL, I WOULDN'T ADVISE YOU TO SNEEZE FOR A WHILE.“

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CURED

but is

this proof?

D

URING this inquiry two facts about falth healers have im- pressed me above the rest. The first is the marked reluctance among reputable practitioners to be anything but vague about specific instances of healing.

There appears to exist a kind of ethic of silence about the persons treated. It is in marked contrast to the eagerness I have found in some quarters to pro- pagate belief in faith healing.

KAY.

CROWLESMITH *t aik for evidence,"

by HUGH CLELAND

felt very ill for some me and had lost a lot of weight.

weight. But i am

sure the surgeon was right in his diag- Hosis-my sister had looked just as I had done, and she bad died from the same complaint."

Now Miss Christy is well, she

says,

Exploitable

doubt I do not

that Miss Christy is sincere in this ac- count. But it is a long way from evidence certainly evidence of the sort that would convince a sceptic. Evidence of that kind may

exist; but if it does I have not found any faith heater, or ex-patient elther. who is prepared to provide it.

This put

to

a leading the Rev. Methodist minister,

Cam- John Crowlesmith, of bridge. He (together with the

Lesile Rev.

Weatherhead) re-, presents the Me

Methodists on the Churches Council of Healing.

The Church of England suffered from nausea and sick- The doctor was called. endorses faith healing. So does ness.

and said he approve the Baptist Union, the Church He examined me of Ireland, the Episcopal Church would have

Let me quote Mr Crowlesmith:

"There are too many cases of spiritual healing for it to be dis- But moonshine. дл missed

the whole

do not 1 on

of healing services. to exclude the They are so easily exploitable."

I pressed Mr Crowlesmith of Scotland, the Congregational possibility of my te told me about the evidence for cures by Union, the Methodist Church, a gastric ulcer.

faith healers. -He said very the Presbyterian Church of must see a surgeon.

frankly: "What beats me is "The

examined that there is so often a lack of surgeon England and the Society of

and said there was something Friends.

to absolute medical diagnosis. Yet unpleasant which would have to be taken away. He asked me if I am quite sure the power of I would leave it to him to do God is there, can operate, does and does heal. You what w

He told my operate was best.

ing.

He i

dismiss the over-

All of them are represented on the Churches Council of Heal-

Yet, in spite of this multi- sister that I had an inoperable cannot just plicity of religious bodies which cancer in the stomach, and that whelming number of cases there I am always in trouble accept faith healing as a fact, there was very little he at all are. it is singularly difficult to obtain that much could be done for me. because I ask for evidence." authenticated cases of patients He said they would open me up treated and cured which can be and look to see if anything investigated at first hand.

'I lost weight'

Time and again, in the course of this inquiry, I have encoun- tered either vagueness or a flat refusal to give me detailed cases that I could scrutinise for my- self. The answer frequently is. that a faith heater is

analogous

to a doctor, who does not discuss

his patients.

could

An operation

.

Doctors, too

spiritual

on the

Sitting Fence.... by

Nathaniel Gubbins

An American writer has sug“, Kosted that, after the Bon moon young husband

actually make his bride food- conscious by bringing the subs Ject Into The conversation

every opportunity,

at

-N our own home at last. Don't you like the dark oak panelling in the dining-room, even if it isn't oak?

Perfect. It remindi me of

stewed or fall,

walls

drawing-room,

surs of though

Really? How peculiar, at course, I'm not quite about the off-white

the they do

the goldy- Bot off brown carpet, rather well.

brandy or rum, 'for adults only, was ectured after epppankan by , many clergymen, Including the

who Rev. Thompson,

Fald there was a danger that young people might get a taste for it.

(After the old song)

When we stopped at tho British Museum I offered the Dig a ten-shiling note. As ha had no change ho gave me # piece of toffee instead.

While I was eating the toffee, the pig said: "What is the time of your wedding?" I said: "11,45

said:

That B.m." The day?" I said "I don't know, at the She's been waiting church three weeks as it is."

Then the pig' took the 'ring from his nose and said: "As you won't be able to afford a'.

we only a humble home wedding-ring after the Budget, they had in an old world you had better put this on her village street.

finger. I hope it won't be too Each slick, and stone in that big."

humble home was ever so clean and neut,

I raid: "I will probably be

For love it reigned in that too small; as I em marrying humble home, though it's The Fat Lady from the circus, now but a beautiful dreams, who has hands as big as hling." Since the man

The pig said: "It's not polite.

with the

Ice-

cream barrow 'called

sold our boy ice-cream.

and to mention hams in my

sence." I said: "I beg

pre- your

ed as soon as asked."

Then the pig said: "It marry this fat lady she either amother you or you will

you

whi

When I look at the walls Don't give no ice-cream to our Pardon," The pig said: "Grant- and the carpet together 1 think of sole

mussels When

Jolinny. cooked with It makes him so strange and

19, wild.

bonny,

I look at the

walls alone they remind me We remember the time he was of tripe and onions.

Is this the romantic dreamer

A normal and dutiful child.

Lessons

I married? I suppose the sun- We reinember him saying his shine-yellow wallpaper in our bedroom reminds you omelettest

get three years for bigamy. Which do you prefer?".

I said I would rather

And praying for Daddy and some more toffee. of

Muni,

1

.ų Sometimes omelettes. More' Till they sold him an ico-cream often sweet com with fried cornet chicken.

Full of apricot brandy

and

of food in our bedroom we've only been

I think it's revolting to think

when

rum:

month.

As midnight strikes morrled #

have

*

The pig then drove me from in that London to Manchester, via Car- humble home his anxious lisic and Dublin. parents walt

I can't help it. Even the bathroom sponge reminds me For a boy at an ice-cream par of golden pudding.

Do you remember when my eyes reminded you of dark pools in the starlight?

although he is

lour bar only eight. They weep as they look at the things he loved, the smash- Yes. I remember.

ed and the broken toys.

when What do they remind you of And remember the day

and Ice-cream was cream, now? Mushrooms on toast?

No. Thick brown gravu.

blue-eyed boys were boys. And the pale porcelain checks

Stuffed veal, you loved? suppose?

I

Not stuged, darling. Bolled--leg of pork with mashed turnips, maybe?

No turnips, dear

а Just

plain boiled leg of turnips? Perk without That's me, is it?

even

Well, darling.... Go on. Say it, you pig.

With your pale skin, dark eyes, and golden fringe, I was going to say you remind- ed me more of roast pork with brown

and praty crackling.

Problem child

An application for a Moence to make alcoholic ice-cream con-

part in eight taining one

of Drambule. Benedictine,, apricot

Don't give no ice-cream to our

sonny,

When we arrived ot Minsk, Stalin called out: "Hullo, Gub- bins. How would you like to work for me?"

1 sald: "What at?" Stalin rald: "A dally column for Pray da." I suld: "What about?" Stalin sald: "You only have to keep on saying I'm wonderful." i sald: "My terms are a ten- contract at 50,000,000 special roubles a year, with a

nists."

Don't give no ice-cream to year

our dear,

For after "Ice-cream he goes fax-free Budget for column-

His language is shocking

hear

funny,

to

Then, Stalin said: "Done." looking at the pig, he said: The night he insulted his father, "Who's your friend?" I said: The night he assaulted his "One of our visiting membera

Mum

of Parlament."

was after a lick at an ice-cream

brick

Full of apricot

KULT.

brandy and

Dream encounter

PIG was driving the taxt 10 which was taking me the House of Commons to bear the Budget speech.

90. Stalin said: "I thought

the Why don't you slaughter lot and Increase your bacon - tion?"

As they led the pig away, Stalin said: "This is the first spy we've cought that we can eat, too."

-{London Express Service)

The pale Princess

in the Palace

TTOW has life been for Princess Margaret, since grief and mourning settled upon the Palace? Let her answer that herself:

"Lite

seemed to stand still

to a friend.

his On the evening before death sho played the

plano and sang to him, while he worked out a jigsaw puzzle.

Once she left the piano, moved That, was Berca to help him.

did almost the last thing they

by... ROBERT

GLENTON

Then she goes back to her suite to write or dictate replies to the letters that pour in upon hér.

The Queen Mother is very she of duty With the drill

straightening her affairs, first time in busy dropped for the

her but Margaret is always coaxing a low; graceful curtsy to elder sister when she met her her to walk with her out into

the fresh air, Ds Queen,

be done.

Sho likes to walk round the could

The Methodists set up a com“. not get a hospital

Margaret wept a great deal Palace gardens, exercising the bed for a fortnight. One day mittee in 1937 to Inquies Into the

her father died. For Queen Mother's two Corgies that was meant after Papa died," she wrote after during that time, my vicar, the question of all

many nights she had to take healing. Dr

and her own Sealyham Johnnie, Rev. Dan Pilkington (vicar of by

Her father's sudden death sedatives in order to sleep. St Barnabas, Bexhill), came to Weatherhead was the chairman. Since 1939, Mr Crowlesmith has

unexpected Was a heavy and see me,

been its secretary. The com- blow her, mittce includes ministers, doctors. Out of it psychiatrists, "He talked for half an hour, has grown the Methodist Society

Medical and then said a prayer and gave me for Medic

Pastoral the laying on of hands. As he Psychology. "Our crowd," said

Mr

"are strongly Crowlesmith, However, I have been put went out, he stopped by the door into touch with one woman who and said: 'I don't think you convinced that though there is was prepared to say that she need have that operation now reality in spiritual healing, we

herself been cured

doctors, by

must work with Christy Misa

decided she had

There with

And that is as reasonable a better go through spiritual means.

"At the hospital," view as I can get. After sifting them. Miss Christy (as I shall call operation.

the slender evidence available said, "they did operate. is in her early she this woman)

own view-for what it is middle age. She is a qualified They found inflammation in my my nurse and midwife. This is the stomach which appeared to have worth on the efficacy of faith

healing is: Not Proven. started to heal spontaneously. atory she told me:

"In six months." Miss Christy (World Copyright Reserved--

had bullt up my London Express Serulce), went on, "I

had

"Two years ago Fd bad a frightfully heavy winter. I had

The

together. the

the

RESPECT TO THRONE

was a deep bond of Her sister always hated love and understanding between being

Elizabeth was

King'a pride, but Margaret wAY his hod in her that joy. She galety and easy joy which ho had sought so much in his own youth, and could never attain,

A MURDER'S O.K.-BUT NOT A SLAP!

Now York Goldwyn, Holly. wood's private atom

AM

bomb, was up in front of a battery

From RODNEY CAMPBELL

|

At Royal Lodge, Windsor, they wander round the garden talking about the flowers they hope to plant this year.

Princess called "Liz.”

In the evenings, the Princess her

friends Margaret teased

some sometimes, has, a few times by using the name, in her sitting room. At other She will probably never do it times she and her mother while again, for she hos profound senso of the respect due to the Throne.

Now, when they meet for the first time every day, Princess

the away the hours together, Princess at the piano and the Queen Mother playing Failonce,

The family has never gone

Margaret's brown hair fplls to bed early and the habit has

forward an she curtsles to tho sister who has moved over the not changed, other aldo of an Intangible. barrier.

A

big

the

TALKED TO THE DUKE

When the Duke of Windsor Was over "Princess' Margaret -zow. him several times. She has eater and an affection for him: She-ro-

1

an

The Princess ist

studylog

Margaret Lockwood had to conscious North the Negro wear

For some a higher neck gown for communities banned "Birth of

days after of a versions

which the American

showed Nation,"

death the Princess off Wicked Lady." coloured people to the harmless

dis King's

showed more sign of distress wrong advantage, This is one

of the most Yet there is nothing

than any other member of her Sald Goldwyn: “Our" fear of family, of microphones, narrow-minded pallanes in the with the sweater girl, because

what the censors will do stops playing his favourite role. world. In general the radio, that garment fits to the neck!

Sadistis banned. Conto- 113

Nover from portraying life as it film and television censors re- "We have the right to bo

extremes of this quently Richard Widmark was really is. We wind up with a always fussy about her food, members those days when the tree," he shouted at the Con- fleet

of empty lttlē... airy sho

Blmost stopped eating vention 'of American Theatre parrow-mindedness, with hazy not allowed to alap the face of lot

the girl who betrayed him tales. that op-

altogether. Only her break Prince of Wales he used to Owners, "from the interferenco lapoes of memory

The only comfort Hollywood fact remained unchanged: coffee play with her and her sister. of petty, amall-minded, sings-parently permit the low neck one picture. He therefore kill-.

has, as far as its crazy censors and orange juice. tracked dist-snifters who fect lines of Miss Faye Emerson, ed her instead, in orthodox, un.

daughter-in-lawet sadistic fashion,

arg concerned, is that there are their one-time they have to justify

a lot crazier and nastier-in Until about r week ago she French, for "she Hopes to go official existence by using their President Roosevelt, on TV.

the lands beyond the sen The triumph of wrong over

steadily 'lost' weight, Her for a holiday to the Continent Ecirrors instead of their heads."

of make-up, has General Franco banned, then face, free

when mouming is over. And America's crazy right is banned under America's They are

In this land of many races

the altered, "Gentleman's Agree looked very · palo, almost censors, who have created such national code. "The Bandit,

Now she is get she is making plans for o new a maze of do's and don'ts, on Italian film, was condemned greatest emphasis is placed on meat because it rated the Jew

homo in Clarence, House, which vary from State to State,, because it glorified criminals

The Communists banned from city to city, that American Ministers of the Church any "protection" of minority groups, the equal of a Christian, producers have to cut through Church-must never be villains, here for months, then mitered,

"Oliver Twist" was banned- neatly

a score of Hollywood When she appears in publicShe has long telephone talks or fools.

people again she will certainly. scem

with friends, Among those a maze of prejudice and con- or

"would not be doped on more solemn anid grown-up fusion before they can sell their Cardinal Richelleu ran into because Jewish groups thought Production so their

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wad, The Catholles thought it ineligious Indonesians – banned he

and -- set up picket linsen of West Alm in which the tradi- cruzy censor mid he was You probably have the idea cardinal, and should be respect chanting ex-Servicemen out- tional cowboys beat up the

side the cinemas, :'

traditicami, India, de that. Americans are free and as such, easy when it comes to matiors Bad langungo is out ("Lost Boundaries film "American imperialism," they

Each day sho has her break bellove that I will grow old that invite ceneurship. The member the fuss the coors about a Negro family in sald vast majority of the Americans, made over the awear words in trouble, was banned in several Hollywood is gull walling to fast alone in her suite on the without ever seeing Papa

exactly

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