The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-24
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

There was a genial faced, agreeable Davison Red Cross party. by the name of Ivey Lee.
 Now his is a pleasant sounding name, just as he was g pleasant fellow. It's an old saying that you can take a coun- tryman out of the country, but you can never take the country out of a country man. This in face of the fact that the great majority of city people are only country folks moved to town.
 
 l say this much to say that you may take 8 southerner and move him up north and let him live among the Yan- l<ees and bring him back home and his speech betrayeth him, for he is a south erner still So I found it to be with Ivey Lee
 I had only a little while in which to talk to him, but long enough to learn that he had spent much time in Atlanta and knew a lot of my friends over there. I also learned that he is the son of Dr. James w. Lee, the author, lecturer, and preacher who has made such a name for himself not only among Southern Meth odists, but with all of the evangelical churches.
 We are hearing a great deal just at present about church unity, and 1t is q consun1mation devoutedly to be wished fay ;t e.. l, l,;z age of many sects and denominations It's too big a question to settle in a para graph, so I will still leave it open and pass on.
 But this l know, that the campaigns recently conducted here for the army Young Mems Christian association, and for the Red Cross have brought men of all creeds closer together, that Jew and Gentle, Catholic and Protestant, Greek and barbarian, have learned that there is common ground of service upon which they may all unite for the community's good.
 But for a religious mix-up, commend me to the status of the Lee household as set forth by Ivey Lee who told me that his father was a Methodist preach CT. That one brother had married a Catholic. That one sister had welded Baptist. That another was yoked with an unbeliever. That he himself was a Presbyterian and taught in a Presby terian Sunday school. Not much religi- ous unity in the Lee tribe but I dare say that for the sake of peace religious topics are tabooed when there is family re- union.
 MT. Lee is the best type of young men who go in for service in a big way. He is man of unusual parts or Henry F. Davison would not be leaning on him. He is not of the dominant race like Davison, he has the smoothness of the south. This does not mean that he is not every inch a man. Davison struck me as man who would get what Ii. wanted by fighting for it, while Lee would get it through diplomacy. We need diplomats just as much as We do fighters. They are good foils for one another.
 Lee has the ability of most southerners. to get along well with women He is past master in holding conferences with the Red Cros workers and enthusing them to lay themselves out in getting ready for service and in doing their part to make the soldier boys more comfortable by the work of their hands
 I was sorry he did not get chance to speak to the Womans Missionary union at the Southside Baptist church. The programme was such that he had to leave before he got chance, in order to keep his engagement at the Tutwiler. feel sure that the women would have greatly enjoyed his practical as well as inspiring talk. He has much of his fathers gifts as q pleasing speaker.
 His speech at the lunch at the Tut wiier was informing in a high degree. He gave dignity to the work that lifted it out of the level of mere knitting socks and other articles for soldiers, worthy as such loving rlinistrations are. I could not but notice the large number who piled their needles between courses. actualy saw a young woman walking one of the principal streets, knitting as com pacently as though she was all alone in her sewing room. It's common sight to see them at it in the street cars, on the trains and in their autos.
 I do not in any way wish to discredit their knitting propensities. Let them stick to it. but let them as they knit think of their sisters who are under the tire of shot and shell and who have to have brave hearts, cool heads and trained hands when our boys go against the Huns. God bless and keep the nurses from harm is my prayer as l sit here alone and write these lines
 Those telcgrams that MT. Lee read at the lunch fresh from the front brought tale of the fatheriess and motherless chil- dren touched every heart It seemed to me, however, that the story of the mothers who let their children go under the care of the Red Cross rather than see them starve gripped me more than the recital of the orphaned ones. My blood boiled within my veins as he read one in which children had been torn from mothers who refused to be deported to work in Germany
 do not see how any one after hearing him talk and listening to the messages