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Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...Harmon, N. Y. where New York Central trains change from electric to steam engines, not far from Briarcliff, stands ready a retreat called Meherashram (Home of Compassion) where the pious of any & all sects may soon meet with a long-haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write...
...seer of visions," a "blood brother to the great idealists of this generation-Roosevelt and Wilson" were some of the things Editor William Allen White last week called his great and good friend President Hoover in the first issue of a new Republican campaign tabloid weekly.*;In the same issue Will Irwin began an interview with the Secretary of the Interior thus: "Ray Lyman Wilbur looked up at me across the tracks of a baby dinosaur. . . ." C. Last week President Hoover contemplated the New York stockmarket (see below), moved against unemployment...
Negative: The late, great Count Leo Tolstoy, novelist and seer...
There is little doubt that such a vigorous policy, if conscientiously adhered to, will remove the breath--at least of contagion, from Boston and its environs, and be a convincing proof of purity to the Tercentenniary sight-seer--provided he doesn't stay too long...