Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-21 | Page 3 | Religion Declared True Comforter

RELIGION DECLARED tRUE COMFORTER Doctor Decries Communism as Spiritual Substitute CLEVELAND Oct Ocl 21 P Char WI-Char- Char Char- religion as 33 the universal comforter in times of physical or spiritual distress Dr William J. J Mayor layor says let us not delude ourselves ourselves our- our selves elves into believing that communism or r the state can take the place of some form orm of spiritual belief Dr Mayo told the closing se session ion of f the Interstate Postgraduate Med ical cal association of which he is retIre ing ng president that the emotions of man play an important part in the practice of medicine and went on to toay say ay that religion deals with the emotions emo emo- ions which are the most primitive oh of f mans man's natural reactions To the mass of or people religion has hashe the he same potency that it has had for 2 OO years he said a I b