Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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' ' ? . s.n new country. He and I were the only members of the Class that could be found, having lost sight of the other members for several years. White, being of an adventurous spirit, suggested that he and I undertake the trip by ourselves in his torpedo. After a little persuasion I consented to go, although I knew that Dana had never ventured very far with this machine. We set out on our long and perilous trip, which was very excitable. We were much more excited when we reached Mars, not knowing what might befall us in this new land. To our surprise we found a country and its in- habitants very much like the ones we had left behind. Our first object was to see the country. The first place we came to was the Capital, a city of several hundred thousand people. As it was Sunday morning we decided to go to the first Methodist Church. To our surprise Rev. S. M. Baker was the pastor. After hearing an excellent sermon we went home with our friend and classmate, and he told us that he was still running his candy and book store. And that he was having just as much trouble with it as he had at Birmingham-Southern College, and would very often have to show the invoice. We asked about the sort of government they had and, he told us that it was similar to the government in the United States. But that he was beginning to fear that it would become like the government of Russia, as Harry Denman had been elected president of the Republic. It being almost night we had to find a lodging place. Baker directed us to a hotel owned and in charge of Slim Neese and Mother Duncan. On the way down to die hotel we passed by a park. A great crowd was gathered here an d we could not imagine what was going on until a symphony composed of one hundred instruments began to play. We were standing there listening to the wonderful music when we spied Miss Annie Lee Warren play- ing a trombone. After the concert was over we went up to see our classmate, and she told us that she had not married yet, but that she was tooting her own horn to the tune of ten thousand dollars a year. After talking for awhile we made our way to the hotel, where we found Slim and Mother busy with their duties, but not too busy to stop and talk to old time friends. Slim told us that he was coaching the football team at the National University which was located in that city. Mother was running a barber shop in one corner of his hotel. While we were talking about the good old times we had had at old Bir- mingham-Southern College, W. P. Snuggs and J. Fred Sparks came in to put up for the night. Snuggs, through the aid of science, had been able to manu- facture a food very small in content, but containing a very high degree of food value. In demonstrating this food to us he said that a person going off on a long trip could carry enough in his vest pocket to do him for a week. We did not doubt Weyman ' s veracity, for we remembered how truthful he was in his college days. Sparks had just finished a political campaign for Mrs. Armstrong, who was in the race for mayor. He seemed to have no doubt but that she would be elected, as she had made a great impression upon the people in her city. In our conversation the name of S. L. Morgan was mentioned. Slim told us that Stunt ' s experience in Haiti had caused him to develop into the most renowned physician of that day. Having mentioned the different members of our class, it was now getting late, so we asked Slim to show us to our rooms, where we spent a peaceful night in a new land. [22]

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SR PROPHECY OF CLASS OF 1921 LISTEN. O ve men and women, youths and maidens, and little childr eMl Listen, all ye people, to the words of wisdom from the lips of your prophet, who now speaketh unto you what hath been revealed unto him, even as it hath been decreed by the powers that be. For it has come to pass that the veil of the future hath been rent in twain, even as it was so rent in the days of the wise prophets of old, and the Spirit of Prophecy hath descended from the spheres to envelop my soul with her mystic power. Aye, I say unto you, men and women, youths and maidens, and little children of Birmingham, it hath been given unto me as the chosen one of this great and good people, the Class of 1921, to dream strange dreams, and to see strange visions of the glories of the years yet to be. Now it so happened when it was decreed that the future of the Class of 1921 was to be given into the hands of this, your prophet, to do with even as he listed, that he cried out in a loud voice of lamentation, saying: Whom am 1 that the future of this great and glorious class should depend upon me? What am I that the fate of these sterling young ladies and these gallant young men should rest upon the decision of one so humble of intellect, and so infirm (pf purpose? But behold! Even as the cry of weakness did ascend from the long- suffering soul of your prophet, a voice from the heavens spake unto him, even in the words of old, saying: Hear now my words. If there be a prophet among you, I will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream, and straightway, from the clouds of the centuries gone, and from the shadows already cast before by the coming events of the proverb, there appeared unto him the fair and lovely Spirit of Prophecy, the angel of Things to Come, and lo! she did with her mystic touch roll back the curtain of the dim Beyond from my prophetic vision, and did permit me to gaze at will down the long vista of things yet to be, that I might behold all things that now are, transformed into all things that they shall yet become even as it was so granted to the wise men of the past. And lo! as she drew back the curtain she pointed with a long, transparent finger down the avenues of a strange land, and opened her lips and spake unto me saying: Look! Listen! Prophesy unto the young men and young women of Birmingham-Southern College even these things which you herein behold. For as I looked into the land of the future I could see mighty changes that had taken place since our college days together. Great strides had been made along scientific lines, especially in the way of travel. I remembered what talent D. D. White showed along inventive lines, but had never dreamed that he would be able to perfect a torpedo that could carry several persons from Earth to Mars. Several of these torpedoes had been manufactured, but the news had not reached us that anyone had ever under- taken the trip. This country being overcrowded with inliahilaiils the ( overnmeni lliought :t best for some of the people to move to a planet that was le s inliaiiiled. Of course, it wanted to send some of the country ' s most noted people. And re- membering the Class of 1921 of Birmingham-Southern College a message was sent to White asking him to see if the Class would consider a move to this [21]

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sn nrf JUNIOR CLASS Officers P. D. ScRiVNER President W. W. Locke ... . Vice-President Catherine Williams Secretary Gladys Green Treasurer W. D. Webb Prophet A. E. Middlebrooks Historian Helen Haggard Poet R. B. Bacly A. B. Davidson Gerwin Myer Frank Hammett Howard Yeilding P. D. Scrivner W. W. Locke H. G. MOSLEY Roll N. M. Yeilding J. W. deYampert Gladys Green Catherine Williams A. E. Middlebrooks C. D. Mathews Helen Haggard C. S. Reynolds lucile colvin Janie Grace Herston Cooper J. E. Holmes Charlie Maxwell R. J. Rowe W. D. Webb T. H. Robertson [2. ' il