The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-28
By DOLLY DALR YMPLE

is. and it is merely a proJectlon ol thought which is not governed ey the law of friction or the law or sraVita- tion, either" ,,.
 q recall that when we lived Tn lnula my mother became very much alarmed one day about my brother Who was four days overdue in coming home." Alexander said, T saw marks of blood, cuts; l knew something ha1 happened; my mother became ilhpueu with the same idea suddenly we dls- covered we were right, and no" uIu We anticipate the ease? Merely pc cause my brother, nurt and bruised was concentrating his thoughts upon us back home-wondering how Weo feel when we heard the news ot ms accident and how worried we Woulu be. and thus we received the thought
 And then many Xplanations-wh which I'm so stupid l can never understaha-- came, about ''Vihrations' thought waves" positive thoughts and all sorts of things like that which never can see through; in fact I'm so stupid I've never even caught on to the rabbits never even caught on to the rabbits coming out of silk hat trick-but any way-Alexander talked so wonder fully-so marvelously, that there say glued to the chair-Hstening- irg-admirirE,
 Ut is odd how men Of aI1alfs- bankers-financiers others - en-
 joy delving intoN things like l work
 with" Alexander said 'For instance,
 regarding the positive thought can
 tell you a story which illus trates what
 this means exactly. Carroll Gates CT
 California. the great banker -tinancter
 is a warm personal friend of mine; he
 has invited me several times to go to
 Europe with him and we have enjoyed
 our trips immensely as he is greatly
 interested in Concentrations We went
 on one occasion to the Bank or com
 merce in Chicago-the second largest
 bank in America and of which Arthur
 Reynolds has just been made president.
 and his brother, George Reynolds, as
 YOU know is slated for Secretary of the Treasury in Mr. Harding's cabinet.
 Here is the proof of positive thought these two Reynolds boys went from a
 small town in Iowa to Chicago, not
 asking; shall we make success of
 our lives and own the biggest bank in
 the world but being positive personaH-
 ties they said: We will make our lives
 successful and own the biggest bank
 in the world and the result is they have done it."
 "The positive mind gets whatever 1t goes after" Alexander declared. Tt never gives itself away by admitting doubt; that transforms the positive into the negative. We sometimes call people lucky who succeed and we call their success by the wrong name; IL isn't luck; we are not governed by destiny or fate; we rake of our lives | what we will; those men who can visualize what's going to happen are the successful men. For certain sec tion of a city is going to be the center of 1t and man buys property in that section and gets rich. Is that luck,
 ask you? Certainly not; it is being able to visualize"
 Anything supernatural about any
 of this?' Alexander reiterated. Moth ing at all: the word supernatural Is bastard word; it is in the right sort
 of dictionary. Tn re is a word super normal; but there is such thing as superuatural."
 "The Hndoos supposed to be the most superstitious people in the world Alexander i'd, the East In dians-but they are not circum- | stance to us when it comes to super 1 stitions. The ruins of the Temple of | Isis and osiris which Etands today In | Bernaires-the remnants of Budhism- | for there is no longer any Budhism in | the far east-reveals as nothing else ] can the superstitions of which the l Hindoos were guilty. Today those who | have studied the question know that all their clairyoyance-the fortune telling which is abominable--was q
 mere fake and that concentration and 1 positive thought are the governing | powers.p
 Asked why he uses the Crystal" or : Gazing Ball" Alexander replied; ! Anything else would do as we'll; | it is merely an object on which | can
 concentrate my thoughts; amalgamate
 my ideas; the crystal l use, by the way l belonged to the late Ella Wheeler Will { COX, who was neighbor of mine; il
 was given to her by SheilS-l- Hamid and
 she decreed in her 'wlP that it should | belong to me. 1 prize it ofNcourse very | highly"