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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-20
Some mighty smart fall weight suits at
 $ 10
They're the .S. s. w." Brand

Made up with every degree of ac- curacy of tailoring that is put into the suits Dad wears-they're real. ly wonderful values they're ar early purchase that wholly pro tects you from the present-day prices. All sizes to IS years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-20

!. That all merchandise returned or ex- changed lwithin the above time limit) shall be returned at the expense of the customer. i. That the following articles, for legal, sanitary and other reasons, cannot be accepted for return:
 Beddings and mattresses.
 Garments that have been altered for purchaser.
 Shoes which have been altered. Combs, hair brushes, tooth brushes. Hair goods, hair ornaments, veils. Rubber goods, sundries.
 Women's hats and shoes which have been made especially to the custom CTS order or which have been worn. All goods cut from the piece at cus- toner's request.
 All merchandise which has been made to order or specially ordered and which is not regularly carried in stock. f
 No article will be accepted for return or exchange unless it is in it's original condition.
 No merchandise of any kind which has been used will be accepted for re- turn or exchange.
 The salescheck should accompany all returnable merchandise. That whenever customer or pro- prietor refuses to abide by these rules and regulations or deviates there from, the name of the customer or proprietor so refusing or deviating therefrom and detailed report of circumstances shall be promptly sent to the State Council of Defense for their action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-20

Suburban deliveries leave stores go- ing east on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, covering Avondale, Wood lawn, East Lake, Roebuck, Gate City, Boyles, East Birmingham, Inglenook and North Birmingham
 West on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, covering Ensley, Pratt City, Vivian, Owenton, Enon Ridge, Powderly, Cleveland, West End** and Graymont.*@
 *North Birmingham and Graymont may be included in regular daily northside delivery when such inclusion will conserve time and expense. @*West End may be included in regu- lar daily southside delivery when such inclusion will conserve time and ex- pense.
 ?. That merchants conduct no special deliveries except to hospitals, hotels, railroad stations, downtown business houses and in emergency cases of sickness.
 co An extra Saturday night deliv- cry may be made, leaving stores not later than 7 80 D. m.
 lD) Exception may also be made in the case where wOrkmen take out goods with them to install, such as curtains, draperies and awnings.
 (E) Dealers in trunks, carpet and rugs will conform to whatever deliv- cry. plan is adopted by trunk factories and carpet stores. Bags and suit cases and accessories, however, will be delivered according to above schedule.
 That no merchandise shall be re- turned or exchanged after three days from date of delivery, except mail or der goods. which shall be returned within 10 days from delivery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-20
<34}e'''||'''' 2 , Shouting tue New Eppo
 Silk
 PetticOuts
 $5.95

Just unpacked. No silk petticoats quite like the Eppo. They are made of finest quality taffetas and messaline, so m e with jersey tops. They fit smoothly over the hips and are bound with braid to prevent ripping and is reinforced with canvas. The Eppo is a petticoat of service and handsome appearance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-20
Patronize our Thrift Stamp booth
 Main Floor
The "American
 BOY STORE"

Oftimes we are termed "The American Boy Store" because boys who buy their suits here are given a free subscription to the American Boy" Magazine.
 And, too, probably because we take such-a a decided interest in fit ting out YOUNG AMERICAN after fashion that inspires him with a manly feeling of import ance-and it's well to have him chock full of pride-and every thing.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01

Once in awhile I find it neces-
sSry to sorter drop back into my
old "Fool-Killer style'' Of writ
u ag--for instance, as in handling
.1 cle Eternal Torment question IN
'nls issue. You can t reason with
so3e people about such things,
M qua argument takes no effect on
..sn, SO the only chance is to
Aaleule it out Of 'em.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01
ISRAEL.

A song, O Israel, for thee,
Thou wonder of the ages,
whose fadeless blood all men may see
On history's red pages.
rhy destiny was written large
In Gods first dream Of nations,
And there He gave His angels charge
Concerning all thy stations.
From being led of God secure
Through all the unknown dangers,
We listened to ambitions lure,
And served the gods of strangers.
And then upon thy truant eyes
There fell an awful blindness,
So that ye failed to recognize
Gods greatest deed of Kindness.
Because of Judah'5 slaughtered Lamb
Thy highest hopes were shattered,
And thou, the seed Of Abraham,
Through all creation scattered.
Oh, sadder than all tragic tales
That touch our hearts to pity,
Arose thy never-ending walls
For thy lost Holy City.
For every land hath been to thee
Gethsemene's sad garden,
And many red Golgotha tree
Hath pleaded for thy pardon.
But now, forgetting all the past,
It's age-long tragic story,
Thou shalt be gathered home at last
In all thy former glory.
For Judah's sun is in the east,
And Isreal's dawn in breaking;
The night Of wandering has ceased,
And lions hope is waking.
When broke is the oppressor's rod,
And all thy wrongs adjusted,
Thou wilt not doubt the Living God
In whom thy fathers trusted.
Thou who hast borne the exile's brand
Through ages of oppression,
Behold to-day thy Promised Land
Thy dearly-bought possession.
New let thy hand reach out and take
Thy harp from off the willow;
No more the thorn thy bed shall make
No more the stone thy pillow.
But pleasant paths in valleys sweet,
By Zion's living waters,
Shall bless at last the bleeding feet
OF 1srael's wandering daughters.
Bay not thy hopes are burned away
To silent dying embers;
Llft up thy smiling face and say:
God lives, and still remembers!"
James Larkin Pearson
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01
THIS BROTHER WANTS HIM
SOME HE'LL.

Mr.. James Larkin Pearson Editor
Good News
Boomer, N. c.
My Dear Friend
Will you be kind enough to find
space in the next issue of the Good
News to print this answer to your
assertion to the future punishment,
somehow feel as though you owe
this to your readers, now, understand
my dear friend I am not after any
controversy nor do I wish to carry on
any argument through the columns of
your paper, but in justice to man
kind Isthink you owe the readers of
your paper this chance to see the
other side of your arugment.
Out of justice to your readers I ask
that you retrace your steps and see if
your mind can't be convinced that you
are little wrong, now I am not try
ing to critlcise your writing but I so
much differ with you that wish for
you to consider my answer to your
writing.
In your paper of Dec. 1917 you make
some very startling statements. You
seem to have found out things that
the learn men of all ages sought after.
| Ia the translation of the bible, I am
told they sought the best learned men
of the day. Yes, they had the Greek,
the Hebrew and the Latin Scholars
and upon them fell almost the great
est responsibility that ever rested
upon man and I for one believe they
were guided by an All Wise Hand
and now comes the news fresh from
your pen that all these men were mis-
taken which would infer that all the
English speaking people have been
mislead and you seem to have been
mislead first by that Blessed Old
Church, the Baptist. What pity.
Now, Mr.. Good News, lest get down
to business, you make the statement
that there is no future punishment
and no hell for the wicked hereafter
and the bible says there is. Who
shall I'VE believe? You or the
Bible. Come let us reason together.
We will read a few verses from the
Old Testament and from the New. No
doubt you have read them from your
boyhood up
1. "And then will I profess unto
them, never knew you. Depart from
me, ye that work iniquity. Matthew
1923.
| 2. "And these shall go away ever
lasting punishment, but the righteous
into life eternal. Matthew 25:46.
3. 1.-THE same shall drink Of the wine
tof the wrath of God, which is poured
out without into the cup Of his indig'
nation: and he shall be tormente6
!. with fire and birthstone in the pres
ence of the holy angels, and in The
presence Of the Lamb. Rev. 14:10.
Il 4. 'And in hell he lifted up his eyes
: being in torments, and seeth Abraham
, afar off. and Lazarus in his bosom.
! Luke 1923.
5. ''The Lord knoweth how to delivel
the Cody out of temptations, and tt
reserve the unjust unto the day o
Judgment to be punished. ."-2nd Pete
1879.
7 6. ''The wicked shall be turned int,
hell, and all the nations that forge
God. .'-Psalms 9:17.
Z. "For a fire is kindled in min
anger and shall burn unto the loves
l hell, and shall consume the earth Wit
!, her in crease and set on fire fh
/ foundations of the mountains. -
, Deut. 1928
REV. c. w. McHLROY,
College Park, G'
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01

The way the subs to the Week
" Good News are rolling IN, it
won't be long till II be ready
to start it up. We are going to
make Good News the greatest
paper in the world first thing you
know,
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01
NUMBER 2

mented, but says nothing about
how long the torment will last.
You must have been getting pref
ty scarce Of argument when you
put that verse in, for it certainly
don't help your cause nary bit.
4th. You fellers have used the
Rich Man and Lazarus to keep
your hell going till you have just
about wore 'em> out. That s your
old standby. IF everything else
fails, you will still cling to that.
Well, suppose we just give it up
and admit that the Rich Man died
and went straight on to hell. \Of
course he didn't wait for the
Judgment, but entered into his
torment right away as soon as he
died. And he looked up to
heaven and saw Lazarus up there
in Abraham bosom. Now
haven't you been preaching all
this time that heaven is away
way up yonder several million
milesP And haven't you also
preached that hell is down below
somewhere9 That puts hell and
heaven a mighty long distance
apart. Now please explain to me-
how a man in hell with his eyes
full Of birthstone smoke could
look up through all those count
less millions of miles and see as
small thing as man well
|enough to recognize himg Why,
4ithe@planet Japiter not hallway
Ito heaven, according to you folks.
But, although it is twelve hum
dred times as big as this earth, it
don't look much bigger than a
pound Of butter. How big
would man look at that dis
tance? Then again, what was
Lazarus doing in Abraham s
bosom? That's a mighty strange
, place for a grown man to be. Does
everybody that goes to heaven
crawl right into Abraham 8
, bosom. If so, Uncle Abe must
have pretty sizable bosom to
hold so many. Or was Lazarus
) a special case that Abraham was
> appointed to look aftera I'd just
: love to know. Hold on! There 's
, something else. The Rich Man
= and Abraham talked to each 9th.
D er, didn't theyY Ny! That beats
: the wireless telephone all tt
: pieces. And yet you would have
!, me believe that this is a litera1
e report Of an incident that actual
silly happened. Well, I just don 'tbe
e lieve it. Some day I will write
e an article and explain just wha'
t the parable Of the Rich Man ant
a Lazarus DOES mean The fact is
t it don't have any reference t.
: what you think it does.
81 5th. Hello here! In your 4tl
s reference (about the Rich MAJ
It and Lazarus-which | have JUS
d been discussing above) + though
alIyou had it all Settled that tn
i wicked dead went right on to hel
and began to be punished as soo1
| -
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01

All right, Mr.. McElory, there is
your answer in actual print. I
hope you are proud Of it. I could
have corrected your spelling and
punctatlon some, but I thought !:
maybe you wanted it to go just
like you wrote it. So there it is,
and you are perfectly welcome to
any satisfaction you can get out
of it.
And now I guess it s my turn
again. You say you don't want
to start any controversy, but you
have started one, whether you
wanted to Or not. So just have a
seat over there and pull your
whiskers while I say my little
piece.
| hate to accuse preacher Of
telling stories, but my dictionary
don t contain any nicer word that
II can use. In one paragraph of
your answer you accuse me Of
making the statement that there
is no future punishment and no
he'll for the wicked hereafter. I
beg your pardon, but I have
never made any such statement.
I only said, and I repeat it here,
that there is no ETERNAL TOR
MENT. Of course / believe in a
hotter hell than you do. / believe
in a hell so hot that it will KILL
itsgvictims and burn them up en-
tirely.
Nov let 5 look at the yerses-yon
quote to prove that eternal tor
ment is right. I have numbered
them from one to seven so as to
make them easier to refer to in
my reply.
! 1st. No eternal torment in that
verse. Not word said about it.
| End. Can't you distinguish be-
tween punishMENT and punish
ING? The punishment (which is
death) will be so thoroughly done
and so complete that the victim
will never get over it. Therefore
it will be eternal in it's results
It will be an everlasting job, be
cause it will never have to be
done over again. That is why ths
words everlasting and letter
nal" are used in connection will
the punishment. Notice CAREFUL,
: that it says the righteous shall g
into life eternal. The plain pur
, pose Of that is to show the con
trast between the two conditioc
and anybody with even half sens
! knows that the opposite Of life i
: death. IF the wicked are to hav
eternal life too, why in the nam
Of sense don't it say SO? Wha
: would be the use to make such
r statement about one and no
about the other? If I know any
. thing about what language means
t the assertion that the righteou
are to get eternal life leaves
: to be understood that the wicke
b will get the opposite Of eterns
. life, which is certainly eterns
: death.
3rd. No eternal torment there
. either. 1t says he shall be to1
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-01

When yoa
get hold Os
something
good, pass
it around.
Send i'm a
big club.
The evening leader., 1918-12-09
CHAPLAIN DIES OF WOUNDS
Fatally Injured While Going to Rescue
of Two Men Who Had Been
Gassed.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Rev. M. Wilson
Keith, chaplain of the One Hundred
and Eleventh infantry, died in France
of wounds received while he was res
cuing two of his "boys," according to
letters received here. The action in
which the clergyman received his
death wounds was after the repulse of
a German attack. According to his
custom Reverend Keith was in the
trench distributing chocolate and Gig
arettes. When the soldiers leaped out
to attack the Germans difficulty was
experienced in keeping the chaplain
from going along. Two of the boys
did not come back, after the Huns
had been repulsed. Gas had left them
helpless in "No Mans Land" When
volunteers went out for them the chap
lain went along. 1t was while engaged
in this work that he was wounded.
The evening leader., 1918-12-09
AFRAID or ICE CREAM
French Children Taste New Dish
and Cry, 1T Is Hot"
But Young France Soon Learns to Like
1t and Hangs About American
Camps.

Paris.-Ice cream is a new dish
to the inhabitants of France.
Some of the big city dwellers may
have had passing acquaintance with
it, but the rural folk and those in the
villages saw their first ice cream made
in the American army camps.
Many of the permanent American
camps in the service of supplies have
made ice cream a regular feature, the
regimental canteens turning out the
frozen delicacy for several hundred
men.
The introduction of ice cream to
the French peasant children has been
productive of much amusement to the'I
American troops. The youngsters think
it is hot.
One of the men of an engineer regi.
ment took a mess kit full of ice cream
to a French farmhouse. One of the
small boys took big teaspoonful. A
look of panied amazement came over
his face, and, emptying his mouth of
the frozen cream, he ran screaming
to the protection of his mothers
skirts crying: "Chaud! Chaud"
(Hot! HotD
The other children who had watched
rather horror-stricken the fate of the
| first became convinced that the ice
cream was some sort of a white fire
and they would have nothing to do
with it. The mother had to eat virtu-
ally all of the cream in order to in
| duce them that it was cold rather
than hot and that when not taken too
fast was good to eat. Eventually, the
| children ate the last of the dish. But
they partook of it gingerly, evidently
greatly mystified that anything which
first seemed hot then cold could be
good to eat.
But in time the kids got to liking
ice cream and they became as great a
nuisance around the camps asking for
ice cream as they had been before
in seeking chewing gum.
The evening leader., 1918-12-09
FEAR ENEMY POISON PLOT
Booklets "Made in Germany" Cause
War Scare in Public School at
Oyster Bay.

Oyster Bay, L. 1.-The discovery
that they were made in Germany"
caused B. E. Whitaker, principal of
the public school, to order pupils to
throw away booklets which had been
given to them by stranger. Samples
are to be analyzed, as it is believed
the booklets may secrete germs of dis.
ease.
Several days ago a stranger came
here and gave the booklets to many
school boys and girls. He said the
booklets had pictures of prominent
men which would appear by rubbing
the scrapings of pencil on a page
with the finger.
Mr.. Whitaker got one of them, and
discovered on the last page the words,
"Made in Germany" He collected as
many of the books as he could and in
structed pupils to throw the others
away.
II have sent these books to New
York for analysis" said Mr.. Whitaker.
'"The children to get the pictures of
President Wilson and Mr.. Roosevelt
had to rub their fingers over the page
of the book. Naturally, the children
afterwards put their fingers in their
mouths, and as there is much illness
among pupils here I decided to send
the booklets for examination"
The evening leader., 1918-12-09
YANK IS 'HlGH-BROW"
Censor Says Letters Home Show
Intelligence of Soldier.
Missives to Mothers Make Light Of
Wounds, and Say They're All
Going to Berlin.

Paris.-"To get a good idea of the
ican soldier, one should have a job Of
censoring letters" said an American
officer who had just been released
from a front hospital where both pri-
Yates and officers were cared for.
"While recovering from my wound"
he continued, 81 used to pass away
the time acting as temporary censor
for the wounded, and also for part of
the hospital personnel.
"And the letters that those chaps
wrote were wonderful. Especially the
letters to their mothers. They were
diplomatic, that's all. Most of the
letters the wounded wrote would
start off with some commonplace
comment on the weather or the
war and then the writer would cas-
ually mention that he had been
wounded. But the next sentence in
variably would be something like this:
"Don't worry bit, mother, about
me. I'm getting along fine; it's only
a slight wound and I'm getting fat on
hospital food. Everyone treats me
great, the nurses and the doctors are
fine, and TIL be out in a jiffy.'
Another thing that struck me
about those letters was that almost
all of them were correct grammati-
cally. Several times the writer's would
speak of books they were reading. I'll
confess I have never read such deep
matters as they were taking up.
"And patriotism had it's part in every
letter, always a line about the war end
ing with the Americans on top. They
were all going to Berlin, and going
as conquerors, too-those chaps"
The evening leader., 1918-12-09
HOW TO MAKE WET TOWN DRY
Kansas Calls on McAdoo for Help
Against Missouri and
Gets 1t.

Pittsburg, Kan.-When in doubt
about how to close booze town in a
wet state, next to dry town, call
upon the railroad administration.
This is the advice of country Off
cials here.
Just across the Missouri line for
years the Missouri Pacific has had a
station at Minden, at which beer and
booze, in carload lots, have been un-
loaded and which later found it's way
into the mining camps on the Kansas
side. All efforts to stop the practice
failed.
Recently County Attorney Fl. w.
Timmonds of Barton county, Missouri,
asked Director General McAdoo's
help. An order was issued closing the
Missouri Pacific station in Minden and
all freight is sent via the Frisco, which
has to switch from this side.
Result, booze in the mining camps
is becoming scarce.
The evening leader., 1918-12-09
MEETS HIS SON IN TRENCH
Ohio Father Enlists to Be Near His
Soldier Boy and Joins Him
Overseas.

Toledo, O.-News of the reunion of
father and son in a front-line trench
in northern France reached Mrs. Oscar
Smith this week.
Lonnie Smith, seventeen years of
age, enlisted more than six months
ago and was sent overseas. His IA
ther, Oscar Smith, thirty-eight, who
is veteran of the Spanish-American
war, worried over the absence of. his
son and enlisted in the hope that he
could be near him.
He asked to be put in the same di-
vision with his son. Lonnie Smith had
no knowledge of his fathers enlist
ment until they met in front-line
trenches.
Mrs. Smith is engaged in Red Cross
work in the Toledo chapter and is
keeping her remaining three children
in school until her husband and son
return.
The evening leader., 1918-12-09
BOAT TO SAIL ON ITS SIDE
Steamer Through Welland Canal
Is Proposed.

Detroit, Mich.-Marine engineers in
local ship yards are watching with con-
siderable interest an experiment be-
ing made to carry through the Welland
canal without cutting it in half, the
10,000-ton. steamer Charles r. Van
Hise.
1t is proposed to float the vessel
through the canal on it's side. The
Van Hise, which has beam of so .eet,
is too wide to pass through the canal,
but 1t is held that its depth of 331S
feet would permit free passage if it
can be tipped over on it's side.
The project involves some very deli
cate problems in engineering.