Evening star., 1922-10-29

Y q had sitting at Detroit
NM with an amateur medium,
" Mrs, Economus, an Aus
trian lady married to a
Greek. The results were msrred by
tho fact that several people were
present. A clairvoyant reading
should. 1 think. always be solitary.
as the matter is quite complex and
obscure enough without mixing q
number of impressions. The medium
was a tall. handsome woman with
commanding features. and when the
spirit influence came upon her and
she stood fixing you with glaring
eyes, and talking in a deep male
voice. one seemed to see Pythian
priestess at the shrine of Apollo. She
spoke with tremendous force and
emphasis. but nothing which could
really be called evidential came
through. The control purported to be
Buddhist influence. and he prophe-
sled a revolution in India unless the
government made concessions. 1t
needed no voice from beyond. how
ever, to point out the danger of that.
Many kind things came across as to
my own work, and 1t was prophesied
that in ten years these views would
generally prevail. We were both I'M
pressed by the sincerity of the me-
dium. though positive proofs were
lacking. An enormous meeting con-
cluded our day. when in spite OF
pouring rain 1000 people assembled
in most difficult hall. However. my
one great qualification for my job is
audibility. and I think I got every
no
three quarters that l was on my feet.
Like all American audiences. it was
very courteous and sympathetic. We
heard of people who had come from
Dayton and other places 200 miles
away for the meeting.
Visits Toledo.
At Toledo. a very rising and beau
pressionist reporter. who certainly
kept my head in its due proportions.
His description was: THE visitor
was dressed in an ill-ftting gray
suit which was in bad need of press
ing. and he wore frayed white col
lar. His hair was gray and his head
partially bald" 1 think I have had
enough to make it so with reporters
of that sort catching me after a
train journey. However. it was all
in good humor. and the town treated
us royalty. and filled a hall to over
flowing in the evening. kindly
resident Mrs. Bentley. put her motor
at our disposal and enabled us to ap-
preciate the wonderful suburbs with
their miles of luxurious villas. built
with the most extraordinary mixture
of architectural styles. There was
less sign of wealth than In Detroit.
but none the less ii was very i'm
rressive. We stopped the car and
delighted the children. and ourselves,
by watching the process of loading a
lake steamer with coal. 1t was GER
tainly fascinating business. The
steamer lay passive like a beast be-
ing fed. and the trucks were run up
an inclined plane and then tipped
over into the hold. But the wonder
of it was the means by which the
laden truck got up the inclined plane.
II came along the line with a slow
momentum. and was just pausfnG at
the bottom of the hill when out of
the ground between the tracks there
darted a horrid little deformed mon
ster of iron which pursued the truck.
acting on its own without a driver,
put its head at the back of it and
butted it up the incline.
Ingenuity and Efficiency.
When the truck had been seized by
the discharged gear the squat iron
monster came slowly down the slope
and vanished into the ground once
more. only to dart out when another
Gus example of ingenuity and eff
cheney. but it clearly does hundred
men out of their daily bread. 1t
seems to me that the economic end
of the human race will be that half
of them will be making contrivances
TO do the other half out of their jobs.
Then perhaps the other half will rise
up in protest, and that may be the
political end.
From many quarters I learned the
effect of my visit to Toledo. One
level headed journalist wrote: There
is no doubt of the good your coming
has done. Many were thoroughly
convinced. Thousands of others who
heard you at the Colosseum or through
the press are ready to give sane and
intelligent consideration to the sub
iect. ] feel certain that the super
structure you reared on the founda-
tions laid by Miss Besinnets work
will be lasting and the beginning of
bigger things spiritual Another
who represented 4 large New York
paper. and who had no disposition in
our favor, said: You have had such
an effect all over the country that the
papers dare no longer ridicule this
thing, for the public would not stand
it," Surely. then, that prophecy which
came before we left England has been
richly fulfilled. An editor wrote:
Most pleased I was to see your lis
teners. Faces fixed and thinking, l