The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-09
By DOLLY
DALRYMPLE

NdNiOudl tNeIOff0 association.
Have you ever thought how happy
Sam Jones would have been to have
lived and been here when the eight
zenith amendment was ratified?" I
suggested.
Sam Small knitted his brow. He
has way of thinking-of thinking
so hard and so loud that you almost
hear" him; and then turning with
a wonderful smile lighting up his
face he said:
HE knows! I know that he knows"
Just what do you mean by that
asked.
Just what I said" Sam Small de-
clared. Il know that up in heaven
where Sam Jones is today that he
knows that his dream of world
made safe from whisky is realized
nowt"
Does that mean that you believe
in psychic phenomena-the things
that Sir oliver Lodge, Sir Conan Doyle
and others believe in?" 1 asked.
Not at ALL" SAID Sam Small That
is -spiritism. People who have suf-
feredu the loss of their loved ones
during the last perilous war have
turned to anything Tor consolation.
talked to Sir oliver Lodge IL years
ago, right here in Birmingham, about
| that very thing. He tried to eX-
plain it to me-. I couldn't see 1t, be-
cause, If such a thing were true
communicating with our loved ones
who have entered into that 'undiscov-
| cred country'--it would be against all
| the plans and specifications that God
Almighty has made for running this
universe. No; l don't believe in it.
1 know that the spirit lives-but I
| do not believe that mortal man has
yet communicated with those who
have fallen asleep to sleep the last
long Sleep
! And Sir Oliver-what had he to
say about your opinion in this mat
teri" inquired.
| His explanation was that 1t is a
personal thing" Sam Small told me.
THAT person had to get himself
into state of mind so that COM
munication with the dead might be
effected No; l don't believe In such
things-but I do believe that our
loved ones up yonder can see and
know what is going on in this world
they have leftf'
Yes. the world is growing better"
| Sam Small said reverting to his OPP
| timistic views concerning humanity.
| "Amerea-the richest country on the
face of the Lords green earth-has
within her hands the power of being
either a Christian or a Papan nation.
| There are threatening clouds ahead,
! of course These the National Re
/ form association wants to avoid, and
Hit can be done. One word spells the
platform which we stand for;
BROTHERHOOD
There are reputed to be 1000, 900
of men out of work today in America
clamoring for Jobs" said Sam Small.
| THAT means three men out of every
hundred. II these three men want
work 1t looks like the other 81 could
| find ii for them, doesn't it2 Howl
BY our government cooperating with
/ the states-not by autocracy, you I'M
derstand-but by cooperation, and
with the vast resources America is
blessed with, and the tremendous
wealth of the nation-the Christian
spirit would be to provide the job
less with Jobs.
II do not preach religion alone-I
preach brotherhood-man's humanity
to man-loving your neighbor as
yourself" said Sam Small in the
high pitched, earnest. ringing voice
that I've often heard him employ be-
fore a tent full of people-ten thou
sand, If there was one--hanginG on
his words; the words of a man whose
message is the gospel, and whose
slogan is brotherhood. 1T is all so
simple-Christianity rather than pa
ganism. Germany. Austria, France
desecrated and sinful-are examples
of pagan nations. and look what they
are today America must avoid this
chasm before it is too late. And II
is all so simple. as / said before,
for What doth the Lord require of
them but to live by the Golden Rule:
DO unto others as you would have
others do unto your