Fairy Members of Parliament

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 11

Fairy Members of Parliament

VVFTER all is said— and quite a Jot ig said, but not done— it really is quaint how people develop warps m their reasoning woofs. When Sir Arthur Oonan Doyle departed for South Africa, he spoke bitterly to an audience of fellow spiritualists on thepersecution which black materialism was directing";; towards spiritualists and their media. 'But he pointed out that there still was the combative weapon of politics with which to quell the persecutors. Sir Oonan said he was sure there were ten of his faith to every one Communist— a modest -estimate of the Spiritualist vote would be 200,000 — and although it had to be admitted that the Home Secretary transmitted a discouraging reply to certain representations made m the direction of legalizing the practices of mediums, one could only say that if the Conservatives would ,not help tihem, they would go to the Liberals and the Labor Party. The scheme certainly has its possibilities. One might •imagine this sort of thing: "Gerald Onceupontime, member for Spook Crescent, will talk to-night on the potholes he encountered while crossing the Styx." , Do you wonder that we moderns are blase — that so many of us cease to ponder M What next?" —From "N.Z. Truth's" London Representative.

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