The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

1t in my presence and pulled out a crisp American five-dollar bill.
 He then handed me the envelope, which came from Bolton, England, and 1t had been opened and passed by the censor. The red sealing wax with the government seal made it quite an interesting docu- ment. It seems that his English broth CT for years has had Mh he happy habit of sending him a brand new American flyer as Christmas card.
 
 I have known pr. Hall for years He is a high type of English manhood. He came to this country little more than a score of years ago. He was typist in counsellor's office at Manchester when the wanderlust struck him, and like many another English lad, his heart yearned toward America. He landed here and made his way to Nashville, where he worked for awhile as steno- grapher to a famous land promoter.
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 He then got into a railroad job at Montgomery and was for several years in the main office of the Nashville, Chat tanooga and St. Louis at Nashville as seer etary to one of the managers. He saved up enough to go to Richmond college at Richmond, Va, where he en- tered with the expectation of being minister. After studying for awhile he gave up the idea after consultation with Dr. Harris, the professor in Creek. Now comes the strange part Dr. Har- ris told him as he was leaving that he would some day take up his theological studies, for he was called to be preach CT and could not escape it. They parted fast friends, only to meet few years later at the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville, where Dr. Har- fessors. They met in the class room with out having known of one another's move- ments.
 Upon graduation at Louisville, Dr. Hall entered into the pastorate, and has served several important churches here in Alabama, but for several years has been one of the professors at the Jud- son, making psychology and sociology his specialties. He has always been lover of books and is widely read in litera- ture. Howard college conferred the hon. orsry degree of D. D. on him. have set out this much about him to lead up to what is to follow. It is need less to say that he is intensely inter- ested in the war, as he has a brother, a physician, who is in charge of a hospi- tai train, very responsible place with quite large staff under him, in the English army. His train meets the wounded brought over from France, who arc landed at Dover and then trans ported to the various hospitals through- out England.
 hospital ships which piled between France and England. At first the Eng fish ships carried at night great fam ing red cross SO that 1t would not be fired upon. but he wrote his brother that in a short while the Germans sank six hospital ships, and that now they go as dark as any old tramp steamer He is very bitter against the Huns for not honoring the red cross
 
 I was interested in his account of his sisters feelings toward the wounded German soldiers. She met the hospital train, and pr. Hall, the physician in go through and see some of the boches. At first she thought she would. but when she got to the door she refused to go in. saying she felt so unkindly to them that she was afraid she would show 1t too plainly" She contented herself by merely looking in through the glass door. This is in strange contrast to some of the stories which come back from Ger many as to how the women have gloated over the wounded English soldiers who were being transported to base hospi- tals.
 The thing, however, which interested me most were letters from pr. Halls brother, who is certified accountant in Manchester, but who lives out at Bol- ton, a cotton manufacturing town near by. He felt so safe from the Zeppelins. but one night he and his wife heard the dreaded noise in the skies and saw the lights and heard the dropping of the bombs earthward and the terrific explo- sions in which innocent lives were snuffed out and much useless property damage was done.
 pr. Richard Hall of Marion is Chris tian gentleman, yet. as he told me or what his brother had written him, could see that he was stirred at the thought that nation calling itself civ ilized would adopt such ruthless fnea- sures to frighten noncombatants If 1t stirred his blood thousands of miles away to know that bombs had been dropped out of the heavens in the quiet street on which his old English home was situated, what must be the feelings of those who witness such things and see the dead and the dying?
 It's mighty easy for us who live on this side of the sea to wish that Eng land will not resort to reprisals. and yet she has had great provocation. It took the Zeppeins to thoroughly arouse her, and 1t may be that German ingenuity will find a way to get them to shower