The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-13
.DR. HAYNES LEAVES
 ID TAKE UP DUTIES
 IN FOREIGN FIELDS
Will Write Articles for Age Herald as Opportunity Offers-LOves His Bir-
 mingham Friends

pr. Thornwell Haynes, who for the past year has been president of Bir- mingham college, left yesterday for Washington, where he will take posi- tion in the department of state.
 He had been out of the diplomatic service only two years when the govern ment summoned him to report for service during the war.
 Dr. Haynes had become a potent force among educational circles. He has ad- dressed teachers and schools in all parts of the state and has everywhere been recognized as great educator
 It is hoped that Dr.. Haynes can re- turn to Birmingham at the close of the war. He has not resigned his position as the head of Birmingham college but has been given an indefinite leave of ab- sence by Gie trustees. pr. k. L. Cole. beck will be in charge while Dr. Haynes Is absent.
 pr. Haynes expressed great regret at leaving his friends and work in Bir- mingham.
 AS president of Birmingham college you are resgning position of prestige to go abroad. DO you regret leaving!!33 asked a reporter.
 es, there are many reasons why l regret leaving Alabama" pr. Haynes replied. First in my heart has been Birmingham college, the college of char acter ons Owenton hill, and now after less than 8 year Tn this city and state, which I have come to love so ardently, I go suddenly away because of not only an international, and not only a national, but because of a tragically individual crisis for every true American as well.
 Understand, I do not speak personally. although hundreds and thousands, all the way from Lord Kitchener to the common stoker. have gone down to the silent bottom of the sea; not even per sonally in regard to my wife and little 17-year-old daughter. We may arrive safely at our destination, or we may not.
 After all, it is not so much matter of where ones body is, for since our souls possess our bodies, instead of our bodies possessing our souls, all that truly and really matters in Gods gerat uni verse of worlds Is where the soul is And, you know, that oftimes can be in heaven when the body Is on the earth or in the sea.
 f'No, not personally, and yet. in a sense, yes. I mean the friends I have made. How I do hate to leave them In my journeys about the earth I have found some of the strongest and finest and sweetest characters I have ever known right here in this beloved and blessed state of old Alabama
 You say this is an interview Then say to my friends and to any others who may care to read, that my prayers are for Gods blessings upon them. May He bless every human they love, every dollar they make, and every prayer they offer"
 What about your destination and fu- ture plans?" Dr. Haynes was asked
 'I do not know. I ann going
 shall keep fin touch with all my
 friends and should you ask me
 how. I will tell you I have made
 arrangements with the best news-
 paper in the south to carry oc-
 casiOnalIy feature articles of mine
 articles which may often be
 dated s'somewhere in France,- or
 sssome port in the world"
 "What paper Is thiss"
 "Say, young man, don't you
 know the best paper in the southf
 Why, you are working for 1t. It
 is The Birmingham Age-HeraId.
 used to be told that 26 years ngo.
 That was when was g small boy,
 you know. These articles may be
 about war or, preferably, peace. or
 about what people do and say, hut
 anyhow. there will be much nbolt
 God and what He does in them"