Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE AUGUST' 5 1934 SUNDAY MORNING naly zing the Recent Mystics Believe This Portends the Passing of the “Piscean Age Gaming ofNeu) — Powerful World Leaders and-the- - yj i ‘'V Tb Vktk World Homed lh Sudden Death el Mma Marl SUedotnkl Curia Dlaoovercr With ll Untband af Radium ana World-Renown- el Bee THE Scientist Above i One Laat Photo B y ALAN BYND Grim Reaper la waving with consistency among the m the world In France on July 4 Mme Marie ' Bklodowska Curie discoverer of radium and scientist passed In the United States away suddenly William H Woodlpformer Secretary of the United States Treasury and 'one of the country's foremost business wen died And now John D Rockefeller the -World’s richest man is reported veryilh- Considering these things experts In - the field of occult science are pointing ut the shuddering truth that during the three years the world at large and 8ast United States In particular have " suffered heavily More prominent per sonages In various walks of life have passed away during that time than in ny period of similar length in all known lstory Indeed it seems extremely doubtful that any period of even one hundred pears anywhere in the past has taken a toll of the famous approaching the number called to the Great Beyond since world-renown- 1931 ' Death Called Nicholas Lohfworth Speak—Consider if you will some of the great er ef the Bouse of Representatives at a Who were halo and hearty and at the Time When Bo Was at the Height of Bis flower of their genius at tha dawn of Polities! Power la the Same Year Many 1931 hut who art now less than dust Other Famous Men Died Thomas Alva Edison greatest inventor of modern times was mowed When the year of 1932 dawned Evandown by the Great Scythe in October n Adame perhaps the most 1931 On tha bright afternoon of- March geline in the world— the astrologer 11 of tho aamo year an airplane flying wotflan who had been consulted by kings over the rolling wheatlands of Kansas —warned that many mora figures of suddenly crashed to earth killing everyImportance would soon leave the world body aboard In the charred wreckage scene- Thee tars were emlnous Miss was tha body of the men who came from Adams avowed for the leaders in many Norway to Notre Dame to lift the fields of endeavor Her own horoscope of to Jiad football it glory nsvcj sheneted te her dismay foretold at least pastime World-Wid- e widely-know- - iwy — On e Bright Sunny Day Tragedy Rode the Side for Knute Rockne Regarded a the Moat Famous Football Coach of Them All Who Made Notre Dame University Famous ilia Body Waa Among Those Found in the Ruina of an Airplane That Craahed In Kansas Field iMnfPvv - known before— K nuts Rockne On April 9 Death called Nicholas Longworth Speaker of the House an ffici second in national political power only to the President During a radio broadcast of tho world's series baseball game played October 6 millions of people grouped about loudspeakers to d throughout hear an announcement that interrupted the description of Jhe game It waa the announcement that Dwight W Morrow the little man who might bave been President had been found in bed The game oibaseball itself bad been struck earlier that same year —March S3— when Bancroft Johnson president of American League and one ef the grass organiser of the national pastime died after a lingering illness J® Vs field of the drama a kindly old man the recognized master of stagecraft breathed his last In a New York hotel loom not far from the atreet where hie name twinkled in lights for a generation The men wae David Belasco Tha day was May 14 drama where In the field ef real-lif- e Flandere wes the backdrop for the greatest tragedy that the world has aver known one of the managers of the grim died January 8 ' He was onr bended “Papa Jonre one of France Bust brilliant field marshals tho-lan- - spine-chilli- were-shocke- play-by-pl- r? serious illness She died suddenly November 11 1932 The most widely-know- n writer of mystery etpries at the time was Edgar Wallace He was turning out books almost aa fast ns tha public could read them there was no doubt that he wae the king of the domain He died suddenly in California when 1932 waa only six weeks old Five days after" Wallace’ death on February 15 down in Sarasota Florida aamallish man with a ruddy face end d sparkling blue eyes closed his eyes ever Those eye had seen much for they were the eyes of perhaps one of the greatest detectives that the United coun States ever produced the real-lif- e terpart of an Edgar Wallace hero The man waa William J Burns Chicago waa tha home of two famed personages whd died in 1932 One was Julius Rosenwald merchant prince and philanthropist The other wae Edith Rockefeller McCormick daughter of John D Rockefeller and considered by many the dictator of American society Georg Eastman the photography king was a victim of Death’s march among the famed in 1932 And on July 23 the world’s master of musical comedy fabulous man tha like of whom New York will not know for many a long day— left tha glorification of the Araer- - ‘ for-dee- world-White-hair- i- sauerr -- wY j by many te be America's leading humorist— Ring W Lrdnet--pas-ed on September 8 The woman whose name was syfionomoui with gay night lift after dark tha' woman who made the phrase "Hello sucker 1" a household expression died on November 5 lier s name wi Texas Guinan Then the day before Christmas when the country was going to slaka Itf holiday thirst on legal liquor for the first time in more than a deeadeh perhaps the most wMly known of ell liquor manufacturers died when' Henry L Mouquin breathed his last The sports world was saddened when William Muldoon the The Smiling William Howard Taft Lata grand old man of boxing passed away fn the preient year —and those in the Chief J untie ef the Supreme Court and fields of occult science warn that it ia Former President ef the United State Wkoae Death Shocked the Nation Ue not over yeti— Death’ grim march conWe On of the bloat Beloved of Preai- - tinues In France the President Paul Doumer passed from the world seen The Emperor of Japan the Prince Consort of the Netherlands and Albert King of the Belgiani died- fold was-deaIn this country Otto H Kahn Inter- The man considered d Twenty-fiv- e daye later John Galsworthy one of the greatest of contemporary writers died in England Then on March 7 Anton Cerm&k the Mayor of Chicago expired from the bullet of a madman who almost took the life of Franklin D‘ Roosevelt 6 CwirisM 1114 XlBf H Also celled the eternal McGrow the little Na- Woodin rest was John J poleon of baseball end the most colorful figure that the diamond has ever known You might say that all of these world leaders died becaltse they were well along in years The amazing truth of ruhitw SwuUaU la the matter Is that very few of them were old Ring Lardner Knute Rockne end Texae Guinan were in their forties-Edga- r Wallace and King Albert were in their fifties Cermak Coolidge Zieg-fel- d Longworth and Mr McCormick had not long passed the sixty mark Dwight W Morrow Galsworthy Kahn and Woodin had yet to reach the biblical span of three score and ten Those who believe in the occult sciences aay that age has nothing to do with it They point out that the universe is passing out of what was known as the Piscean Age Which lasted twenty-on- e hundred years and coming into the Aquarian Age They insist that these men end women who helped to bring the Piscean Age to its flowering are going with it and that new leaders will tern forward to ’supplant these whs- have gone Astrologists explain that their science harrerealed it aecttricythroaghout tha Sges Therefore they take the death wave among celebrities lerlouajy Astrology Is an ancient art indeed of divining the fate and future of human beings from indications given by the position of the stare and other heavenly bodies It goee back even to Babylonia from which it spread to Greece about the middle of the fourth century BC and then to Rome just before the beginning of the 'Christian era theory of divine It is based on government of the world It start with the contention that man’s life and happiness nr largely dependent updn phenomena in the heavens that the fertility of the soil is dependent upon the sun ehlning and upon the rain falling With th moon and sun cults thui furnished by the popular faith it waa a natural step for the priests to perfect a thepry of a complete accord between phenomena observed in the heavens and occurrences -- on earth Writing about this Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington noted English scientist says: "If moon and sun whose regular movements produced the conception of the reign of law and order In the universe me against the more popular notion of chance and caprice were divine powers tha aam held good of the The Greet Director David Belaaeo Bowed to e Greater Director Ilia Death Wai a Blow to the Theatrical World t Which He Bad Contributed Se Much which five were recognized— Slaneta ofVenus Saturn Mercury and Mare These five planets were identified with the great gods of the pantheon "The priest of Babylonia accordingly applied themselves to the task of perfecting a system of interpretation of th phenomena to be observed in the heavens end it was natural that the system was extended from the moon sun and five planets to the more prominent and recognizable' fixed stars - "That system involved not merely th movements of the moon sun and planets -but the observation of their relative position to one another and to all kinds of peculiarities holed at any point in th course of their movements 4To all these phenomena some significance £vas attached and this significance 'was naturally intensified in the case of such a striking phenomenon as an eclipse of the moon "By th same method of careful observation of the sun and planets and later of some of the constellations and of many of tha fixed stars tha body of as--' observations and interpretation signed to the nearly endless variation in the phenomena thus observed grew to enormous proportions” r Out of all this have sprung many scientists of the occult and they are almost unanimous in their feeling about the passing of the Aquarian Age and the coming of a new age Many of these men and women who embrace the occult foretold year ago that Death would strike apwn world leaders in appalling numbers at about this time They say that th world haa never known anything like it before and is not likely to again for twenty-o- n hundred years when tha Aquarian Age will come to an end Meanwhile in view of the alarming possibility of the deaths of the famous continuing the question naturally arises: Who will be next? |