COUEISM SIDELIGHTS

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 12

COUEISM SIDELIGHTS

Xl,\v YORK EXFERIKNCES. 1 i From Our Own Correspondent.) SAN" FRANCISCO, January 29. ! A doctor and h minister, representa- ! live- nf t'ni' two professions raost, seep- ' ■ it-ill «f Kmile Cone's theory of self- ' heiiliii" by auto-suggestion, attended the I'ittie French chemist's second clinic at ■ I he MucUowell Club in New York, and i t here was complete silence through the i . i-nwded i-linii- when their turn came to speak. First arose the physician, a stranger. jwhu had travelled to New York from : a considerable distance to make a firstI hand study of folic and his methods. I "I endorse' Cone's methods." he said, I "anil my reason for »o doing is that it !'as helped mc and helped my patiente. • We physiciane have been sceptical of ! him. 1 had to overcome that feeling myself. We physicians have learned to I do things in an involved way, and wo are inclined to scoff at the simplicity of auto-suggestion. I ■Some doctors use excusable bunkum I lo encourage their patients, like sugar ! pills. yc\ they pooh-pooh when a man J like Cone accomplishes the same reeult j by the same auto-suggestion, but with-] out Ininktini. 1 think the time will come I when the medical profession will adopt 1 n more friendly attitude." Thru the minister spoke and said: j ■('one's teachings have limitless possij bilities. He has helped mc in my ills and in my work, and 1 hope it can be arranged so that he may acquaint all member* of the ministry with hie theory and the hope it brings." (one was plainly pleased at the two testimonials. But he did not let them interfere with his work. Nearly a hundred patients passed through hie hands during the morning, and he had words for each, though many told him thejwere no longer ill, for they had been cured of physical and mental ills. COUE BEFORE CAMERA. Kmile ('oue. tried to "sell" his theory of healing by auto-suggeetion to two "hard-boiled'" newspaper cameramen.

Judging from the comment that passed from one to the other he si eedeil after the little Frenchman had concluded a lengthy and tirihg session in the Now [ Rochelie xtudio of Motion Pictue Arts. ; where "The. Message of Emilc Cove" I was being filmed in New York. "No kidding," said both cameramen. "I wish we had actors who could put the stuff over like that little guy.'' who: usually converses in gutter jargon. Possibly they thought Cove was acting. but they did not realise that he was ' simply delivering his lecture. Whenever he talked auto-suggestion standing in front of a thousand people in a town hall or in front of a camera and a ' handful of studio workers, it made no j difference to the pharmacist from | Nancy. He had someone to listen to his beloved theory, and that was enough. I Only twice did he have a say in the ! proceedings. Once he was asked to j stare into the camera with his eyes i wide. That was out, aR far as he was concerned, for "I never do that." Not . long after, during a brief rest period. one of the shivering bystanders handed him a coat with the remark that it was a bhamu to stand in the Arctic weather j and freeze. j "No, thank you,"' said Coup, ""it is not i cold. I am quite comfortable." 1 The proceeds of the film, which is to^ 1 be released simultaneously throughout j the country within a month by Educational Film Exchanges (Inc.l, are to go | toward the construction of an institute i on Cove's property at Nancy, France, i Cove is being converted to American ; cigarettes, after many years of rolling i his own. j