Voices at Lily Dale

The Lily Dale Assembly, in New York, is the "Largest Spiritualist Camp in the World." There each summer spiritualism bursts into full bloom. Last week its 61st annual session drew believers and skeptics alike for contact with the spirit world. In parlor seances in many a medium's cottage along Lily Dale's wooded roads, the ether was crowded with voices. Reported Editor Juliette Ewing Pressing of The Psychic Observer: "The heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary of the Navy, who for 30 years before his death last July had dogged away at naval preparedness. "Mr. Swanson and I seem to vibrate on the same plane and he speaks to me often," said Mrs. Pressing. "One point, upon which he lays much stress, is the importance of our Coast Guard. His plea is, 'Protect our shores!' " Two famed victims of World War I, Aviator Quentin Roosevelt and Nurse Edith Cavell, have also advised the Spiritualists about World War II, in somewhat fainter terms. Said Pilot Roosevelt: "All will be well for those who keep their mental and spiritual balance." Nurse Cavell materialized in a seance at Fredonia, N. Y., "held up her hands and asked the blessing of God upon each one in the room and asked that we might keep in peace."

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