The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-31
II we think evil and destructive
thoughts we send out-and receive-evh
and destructive thought messages.


thoughts we send out-and receive-evn
and destructive thought messages.
Or $500
Some may send out messages for help
and assistance. just as Jack Binns, the
wireless hero who sent his &c. Q p" calls
from the sinking ship over the Atlantic.
And believe me, there are receiving In
struments so delicate they receive such
appeals.
Each operator adjusts his instrument
to take only what he wants to hear, just
as the wireless machine is adjusted to
receive only one kind Of aerograms.
Some of us. have failed properly to at
tune our thought machines, and they send
out and receive all sorts Of Jumbled and
discordant messages.
Mind you
If your thought transmitter sends out a
smile message, a message of smiles comes
back a frown message brings back
frowns; a hateful message hate, and SO
on
You say this is faEciful?
II is not. In so far as mental tele-
pathy has been investigated II IL the same
sort as the wireless telegraphy. 1t all
depends upon the attuning Of the instru-
ments to the waves.
operator aboard the ship sends the dots
and dashes out on the waves Of the air
to the station on the land, do your
But they go!
So you do not understand how your
thought messages go out over the waves
of mental transmission to the sensitizsd
brain station Of another but
They go!
How necessary that we should attune
the delicate machinery OF thought teleg-
raphy SO that only the good and true and
brave "thinkograms' shall come and 20.
sacrilegfous Youths
The Memorial Day parade was passing
by.
The Sons of Veterans, acting as es-
cort of honor, were In advance Of the
old soldiers, some Of whom were
marching, and some, too feeble to
march. were being conveyed in auto
mobiles.
Suddenly, out from cross street.
came an auto with It's monk, honk,
honk.' 1t was occupied by two gig
Cling girls and two callow boys
The machine plunged into the parade
just behind the band. the silly girls
gigglng and the silly boys making
noises after their kind.
And thus the machine remained so
far as the present writer could see.
An old lady who stood on the side
walk-she was the widow OF veteran
exclaimed as the tears rolled down
her cheeks:
"Oh, what sacrilege!"
1t was sacrilege indeed. OF course
the flippant youngsters did not so re-
gard It. They were out for a holiday
lark and were unconscious Of any special
irreverence.
That is the pity Of 1t.
The incident Is typical. A disregard
of sacred things Is common to GER
tain class of youths.
To these pert young people day set
apart for patriotic uses makes no ap-
peal. The flag Is only a bit Of bunting
without significance. And patriotism
Why, that is fit only for old men who
wear bronze buttons.
! Is 1t not SO?
| And this uncaring. Indifferent disposi-
ton is often found to exist alongside
seeming contempt for parental author
ity, disregard for the aged and a gen
eral recklessness for the rights of others
Perhaps Il am an old foggy, but do you
know what / wanted to 40 wiln t..s
sausy quartet OF the auto?
I wanted to take them. male and Re.
male, one by one, across my knee and