Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 108, 6 May 1922 — Page 10

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CHURCHES SUNDAY "About th hardest Job In the world is that of a pastor serving Borne churches," declared Billy Sunday at his Friday afternoon sermon to an audience of 700 In the .tabernacle. "I know that he can't say some things to some of those birds, so that's why I land on them." Then after rapping the members of the churches that would not get up enthusiasm for his church work, Sun-r day suddenly stopped, and beamed at his audience. "I can tell from some of your faces that I am hitting you." he paid, and the audience applauded and laughed. Good Natured Audience The afternoon audience followed Mr. Sunday's humor with readiness, and took his scolding for looking about when some one left the- tabernacle, In good spirit. "Why can't you get over that fool habit of rubbering at everything that goes on?" he demanded. "If some of you were ever speaking from the platform and saw how disconcerting it was to the speaker you wouldn't ever turn your face again." "It's a fool habit." insisted Mr. Sunday as a broad smile spread over his face, and the audience followed with another laugh. Wants Church Members Hitting at the members of the churches that have not been to any of the tabernacle meetings, Mr. Sunday declared that if Jesus were here He would not let him preach for three weeks without lending support. "They claim to be disciples of Christ," he said, "and yet they have never darkened the doors of this tabernacle. If thf y were true disciples they would assist. Th$y don't because they are of the devil." Joo Overmeyer, of Indianapolis, formerly a member of the Mettre Quartet, was in Richmond on Friday and on request of Mr. Rodeheaver sang a solo at the afternoon sermon. The opening prayer was given by Rev. H. J. Jewett, chairman of the temporary committee that is perfecting the organization of the "Dayton Sunday Revival Campaign." 134 STUDENTS (Continued from preceding page) "Don't buy the things that you can't afford, but be neat." Telling of the funds that President Taft had used to pay ministers and priests for service in the Panama Canal zone while the canal was being built. Sunday demanded in startling tones of the students in front of him, "If the great United States government with all its wealth could not find the men to build the Panama Canal without putting religion in it, what chance do you think that you can have in the world without religion." Opens the Door Summing up sermon, Rev. Sunday declared: "The world is as good as It is, because the young men of other j Kenerations decided to make it better. If you now decide that you will do your part we can make the old world just that much beter for the next generations. "Now how many of you will come down and take my hand and say that you will try to make the world better, and that you will try to lead better lives?" Throwing open the trap door to the pit where he shakes hands, without waiting for a closing prayer, Sunday dropped down to shake the hand of the first boy that came forward. The boy made his break all alone, but behind him came three girls, and then after them the greater part of the high school students. Smiling and happy they took their places on the "trail hitters' " benches and filled out their cards. Wants Them to Continue "Now if they will only keep it, that's ft fine start," said one of the ministers. Rev. H. S. James of the United Brethren church offered the opening prayer, while Pastor Charles Woodman of the West Richmond Friends gave the closing prayer as the "trail hitters" were gathered at the front. Mr. Lloyd Harter gave the collection talk. Telling the story of two young ladles who had gone out to Iowa for a vacation he said they wanted "to go buggy riding with a horse." The high school seats rocked with glee, and almost drowned out the rest of his ftory. Mr. Joe Evermeyer of Indianapolis sang a solo, while Mr. Rodeheaver and Miss Asher sang the "Old Rugged Cross" at the request of the high rchool students. A delegation of 35 from Greensburg requested that "Oh Love of God" be rung as their favorite song. WORLD WILL (Continued from preceding page) things and I think one of the lowest down institutions this side of hell 13 a lodge with a bar in it. Oh, they co in there under the guise of a lodge and puke out the back door. drunken sots. Road To Hell Is Nicely Paved. And so if all these Institutions to lure them away from God and the truth, and if sin didn't look as though it Just walked out of Paradise, the road to hell wouldn't be as crowded as it is. and if they didn't do anv more handshaking and smiling in the paloons than they do in some churches they wouldn't be any more crowded than some churches are. Say, fclks look at the grist that is coming out before you Jump In the hopper. Take a good look. You take a good look at the fellow who staggered out the rear door, bleareyed, bloated-faced and ragged, before you walk In the front door and line up In front of the mahogany bar. You take a good look at the guy who cat down on the railroad track and went to sleep, before you follow in his footsteps. You take a good look at him. Now. the gateway to hell Is filled with stained glass and with fair rose of promise. The devil hides the warn ings of God, and with an angel'! robe of heaven, the devil hides hi: cloven hoofs. Oh, yes, that is whu he 13 doing. - And if there was no card-playin! done in the homes, there wouldn't b many a church pillar Is nothing but

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the devil's stool pigeon can't see( any harm. The more a man waits for the devil, the harder the devil will try to down him and the more anxious he is to have him play on his side. You let a ragged, blear-eyed, bloated-faced bum dare go around to a genteel saloon and Bee how quick they will kick him out They don't want the young bucks In there to see where they are going to. That's what's the matter with them. That's why they wont allow a bum around a saloon that is patronized by the guys that wear Tuxedos and silk lids. They didn't want that poor young boy to see that he is headed right for that fellow's position. And the thing that says, "No harm," that is something to fight shy of. The mouse-trap says to the mouse, "No harm." The fish-hook says to the fish, "No harm." That is the devil's attempt at self-defense "No harm." Remember, please, boys and girls, the devil is the best debater on earth, and what chance have you got with" a fellow whr . can make black look white? None whatever; no, sir! And never were vice and wickedness so antagonistic to prosperity and success as today. Morals have become an economic question. The merchant doesn't want an immoral man. They don't want an immoral girl. They don't want a drinking young man in any factory, office, shop or store, nor railroad nor anywhere on God's earth, and there never has been a time in the history of America when vice and wickedness were bo antagonistic to prosperity and success. I say morals have become an economic question, and every young man who forsakes a high moral standard, he becomes less and less a part of national greatness, every time. Just think of that. I am not preaching that you as an individual might benefit from religion, but I preach that the communities and the people you associate with and in Richmond, and America, might, be better because you.are decent. That is why. 1 My whoie conflict against the devil is because he undermines and makes us unfit for husbands, sons, mothers, daughters and citizens: and so I am preaching for higher ideals of woman hood and of manhood for our country. But I thank God I am not one of those who believes that all the young men of America are devoid of virtue and of goodness. Oh, there are millions of them! They are poor in purse, but they are pure in heart, and they are the salt of the earth. When your Uncle Sam called them they shut their books in the institutions of learning from the Atlantic to the Pacific and rushed to the colors to bare their breasts to the bullets people of all walks of life willing to do anything and pour out their blood and their money in the hours of distress and of need. Now, somebody has said that this is an age of competition and women are the most formidable rivals of young men today. Women, as a rule, make a more thorough preparation for their chosen pursuit, it Is alleged, and women are more subordinate and less selfish and less meddlesome and apply themselves more closely to their tasks, and are more accurate and rapid and industrious. Women Are of Great Power. They neither smoke nor drink nor gamble nor loaf around billiard halls, and they are always on duty and thev rarely prove dishonest. Two-thirds of the money taken in by the great department stores of America is tak en in by women; and two-thirds of the letters written by the great institutions of this country, the government and states as well, are written by women, and unless the young men today reform and stir themselves to redeem their captured domains, they will find themselves out-distanced by the girls of our day. l want you to win. I want you to win I am trying to be your friend, if you will let me. Have a fixed purpose in life. You will never win if your life is regulated by imoulse, never, and if you haven't made up your mind to say, "Get thee behind me. Satan," you will take a long walk with the devil every time you meet him. A stray dog will follow anybody, but a trained one, his master. And it is the young man who will not say "I will never' taste liquor," who is in danger of being damned by drink; and just as surely as a young man knows how to play cards, that will open the door to a certain class of temptations that he never would know anything about if he didn't know how never would know. Do Not Listen To Devil's Overture. So. the more you listen to the devil and do, the more doors of temptation are opened for you to go into. The way to protect yourself from the gamble robber is to be able to say, "I don't know how to play." And the moment a young man makes a bet, the devid has got a rope around his neck. He is gone. He Is gone. No matter if you win or lose if you win, then you are fired with a desire to win more. If you lose, you are fired with an ambition to regain what you lost. Death is the penalty for being on spraking terms with vice. The wages or Bin is death, death to your man-i hood," death to your ambition, death to your character and death to, your immortal soui. Yes, sir! The first mile toward the nit Is always traveled In easy stages. The tracks made by the cloven hoofs of the devil are covered up with the fair flowers of promise that turn to cactus- later on. And the young man ,who doesn't decide important matters for himself, lets the devil decide them for him. The way to keep your character out of bondage is to keep your soul free from the power of the devil. Deeds Follow From Thoughts If vile thoughts fill your mind, then you will become an easy prey to wrong desires. A look toward the devil is as dangerous as a kap. "Vice is a monster of such frightful mien That to be hated needs but to be seen. But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity. then embrace. John B. Gough saw years and years if his wayward, drunken, vile life iass in panorama before him as he fell upon the platform, with his body surging with the power of God and bathed in perspiration his dying words were, "Young man, keep your record clean; Men are rolling into the pit like bugs under the street lamps because they fail to decide, "I am going to

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stand for Jesus Christ and on Jke side of God and the church." , A drunkard never expected to dio : in the gutter. He 13 a sot today, ; not because saloons are many, but because he never decided that he would be a sober man. That is why sir. Dishonest men are behind prison bars simply because they never decided tnat they would be hones and settle that whole thing in the world, and heaven has no help for tne renow wfco leaves everything to ' be settled by the opinion of the street mob on the corner. Not to make a start for heaven Js to more than half decide that you will go to hell. I hope you will not lose out. Dog Showed Good Sense. A dog was coming along the banks of the Nile and he grew thirs-

ty, and fearing to drink lest he would to steal, he has first got to convince be seized by the monsters that in-! you that you need what you are gohabited the river, he would not stop, jlng to steal, and the best plan the but lapped as he ran, and a huge.devU ever hit upon is to get people crocodile thrust his head up out of' In debt.. I believe the devil will work the sluggish water and said, "Why 'harder to get a young man in debt in such a hurry? I have long desired! than he will to persuade an old man

to mate your acquaintance. Stop and j let's talk the matter over." And the dog replied, "It is to avoid such companions as you that I am in such a hurry." So Iook out. We want you to win. And young men, I think, are often tempted because of the loneliness of boarding house life. The room is small. They rarely ever go there except to sleep or change their clothes. In the winter It Is cold and in the summer it is hot, and they have been on a strain all day and they feel they must have a little recreation. So he takes a walk; thinks he will come back pretty soon and write a

ieuer nome 10 motner aear old much. Dress as well as you can. but mother, how he would like to see her take it from me, have the nerve to face- wear patches rather than to wear togs He meets congenial companions j owned by the tailor. Patches are more and they overcome his conscientious : honorable than pawn tickets. A handscruples. He goes to a billiard hall, me-down, if it is paid for, is better to a gambling room, to a saloon. He ! than a tailor-made with a collector

will go down to the house ' of her whose door swings into hell. Oh, he is with the crowd and he has got to keep up with the crowd he is with. Hamlin Garland, in his "Life of Gen. Grant" tells that Gen. Grant, when he was a young lieutenant out on the Pacific coast, was going the pace that kills, and one day General Grant sat down and had a good heart-to-heart talk with himself. He said, "So long as this habit commands me, I am not fit to command men," and right then and there he signed his declaration of independence. He fought his revolutionary war and celebrated his victory. Bad Companions Lead To Ruin. Oh, if he had not, then, sir, Robert E. Lee would never have given him his word at Appomattox. If he had not, he wouldn't be sleeping yonder,

on the banks of the Hudson. If hewear a BUjt that looks as though it had not, he never would have gone to -had been cut out by a cross-eyed the White House as president of the ! nian with a cross-cut saw and shot out United States. j of a howitzer. And the man, I say, who continues If the truth were only known, a to go with bad company without re-'good share of the professional gambgard to consequences, sooner or later. lers got into the game by first bewill find himself losing out. Be sure j ginning an extravagant life, and if the semaphore show3 a clear track j you will find out, a good many of the before you rush into the block ahead j downfalls of virtue were caused by the of you. A sound apple in a barrel fact that they wanted to wear better of rotten ones will soon be fit for the clothes than they could buy on their slop like the rest of them. You go wages. with a bad crowd and it won't be It is a safe guide, my friend, against long until you will be as good for' a thousand unknowndangers. Let me nothing a3 the crowd you are with. warn you as afriend to keep out of So I appeal to the high ideal of: debt. No matter how small your inyoung men and young women to j come, you have made a start towards stand for God. affluence If you spend less than you

I think, folks there are very few epithets so 6ttqnatizinq and heart rendering to me as to say of a young fellow, "Oh, he has gone like all young men go," which means that he has gone to the devil, so far as that i applies to him. For anybody to live so as to gain such a reputation as that, I think that is tragedy. Each young man and woman was made for something good. Each generation of young peo- i pie, they are pioneers of a new age. As go the young men of America, so I goes America, and so, no one this side of heaven can tell where your personal influence will lead to. Each Has To Face Judgment Bar. You are standing at the head of a procession reaching from hero to the judgment. I will stand here. I will influence this man. I will die. He will influence that man and he will die and that man will influence another man; and sir, I have started a chain of influence that will reach from where I am to the Judgment, whether It be good or whether it be evil. You are standing at the head of a procession, every one of you, and I want you to be ready for the' right thing and be ready for the emergency. "I didn't think" is an expression unworthy of a wise young man. That was only intended for fools. It is said that when France declared war against Germany in the Franco-Prussian war, they rushed to the home of von Moltke, who was then head of the Prussian army, and they rapped on his door and said, 'General, France has declared war". He said, 'You go to my office, in the upper right-hand corner in tho pigeonhole, and you -will find des patches and orders, written and signed. Send them and call me in the morning at seven o'clock." And von Moltke lay down and went to sleep, and in the morning at seven o'clock, two hundred thousand seasoned German troops had started for the French frontier. No wonder the French were not able to compete with them. Be Ready To Face Every Emergency. Be ready for the emergency. A boar was seen one time whetting his tusks against a tree. A fox came up and said, "Pray, what do you mean by that?" "Why, to be ready in case I am attacked by an enemy," answered the boar. "I see no occasion for it," said the fox. there is no enemy near." "Well, I see occasion for it," replied the boar, "for when I am once set upon, it will be too late to whet when I ought to be fighting." And so be ready and be preparing, and when the time comes and when the temptation comes, you will have the strength to help you win out. A discreet man or woman should have a reserve of everything that is necessary. We all hope to live to a good old age. Then lay up in store, for the time when you will need it most is the time when you will be least able to earn it and least able to get it. Do you know that ninety-four people out of a hundred that are sixtyseven years of age or over, are either being suported by their friends or the

county? Nintey-four people outof a hundred that are sixty-seven years of : age or over are being supported either ,

b ytheir friends or the county. Now, when they need it most, is the time they are least able to earn It. So lay up something. Get a good Christian character in you, then when you need it to stand against temptation vnn will h fortified to win n. victory. Don't wait to have it decided by the street mob and the crowd. That I is too late, my friends. You will lose out. Angels Weep when Young Man Falls I believe that the angels weep ' the day that a young fellow starts out and Bpends more than he earns, and one of the first covenants to make if you want to win is that you will never run in debt. Before the devil can persuade you to rob a bank. There are gamblers' graves that wouldn't be there tonight if they hadn't gone in debt, for then they became gamblers to get the money to get out of debt. There are men in prison who wouldn't have been there if they had never got in debt, for once getting in debt, they went and stole money to get out of debt, and they were put behind prison bars. Let's be sensible and see what God wants us to do, and all that is going to help us. I It is gratifying to be well dressed oh, my: but when your clothes are bought on credit they cost you too after you. Yes sir. I tell you, Delmonico's, the St. Regis, Sherry's, the Plaza, the Savoy, the Netherland, the Astor, or the Vanderbilt that is all right if you can afford the price, but there is more satisfaction in a bowl of bean soup and a sinker if it is in keeping with your pile. Don't try to work the Percy and Ferd gag on them. Be Thrifty But Not Stingy ' Some people think the more they can look like a scarecrow, the more pious they are; like an old farmer out in Iowa I heard of. He went to a barber shop to get a haircut and his whiskers trimmed, and they found a scYthe stone hanging behind his ear that he had lost last summer. So wear the best clothes you can, and pay for them, that is all. Don't earn There is just five cents' difference between a capitalist and a spendthrift. If a man earns a dollar a dav and spends a dollar a day. he is a spendthrift. If he earns a dollar a! day and he spends ninety-five, he is a capitalist Thrift Habit Leads to Riches That habit made Gould, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, George Perkins, Judge Gary, Armour, Swift, Cudahv. Marshall Field men that have succeeded and started out and they had some principles to go by in order to win out in this life. Oh, it is a long step toward heaven, I will tell you, when the devil hasn't got his clutches on you. I know young people. I have helped you. I have been through the game and I know all about it. I am trying to talk to you to-night, to warn you, for I want you to win out and I want you to succeed. And I want to say, above all things, young people, you must be a Christian. Of all subjects that you will ever be called upon to consider, religion is first; and young men and women the biggest asset that you will have when you go out into the world to earn your bread will be a Christian character, the biggest asset that any young man ever had. There never was a time in the history of America when men and women I put a greater value upon religion than tney do today, never in the world, and the young man or the young woman who doesn't build his or her life on religion you are lost, you are lost; and if you have gone wrong, you will i never had a better chance to go right. I Incentives for God Are Here You never had more incentives and more encouragements. You have never had it easier in your life, and had more inducements to stand for God, and never has there been a time in your life and in the history of. this country when your influence for God will count more. Never was there such a time when we ought to get ready to live and to die as there is today in our land. We don't realize the peril of the position in which we are standing as individuals as a nation. God has no words of chiding. God has no condemnation for your pastGod stands ready to forgive. When they were digging the Panama Canal and Mr. Taft was Presi dent, they took out of the funds they had fifty-odd thousand dollars to hire New York Y. M. C. A. workers and Christian workers to go down there, and Mr. Taft said. "We may be charged with having filched that money from the public treasury. I think we could defend the charge upon legal grounds if we were called upon to do so. Without religion we would never dig the Panama Canal. There would be such a saturnalia of vice and immorality that we never could complete the Panama canal without religion." And if they couldn't dig the Panama canal without putting Christian men there to work to help them, don't you think you are ever going to go out and succeed in this world without religion. Never has there been a time when we realize its value and need it more than we do right now, in our day.

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DAYTON WANTS SUNDAY Dayton wants Mr. Sunday to call on them on May 15, the day that the i temporary committee which is in charge of the coming bunday revival turns over -the work to a permanent committee The temporary commit tee, which came to Richmond Friday to hear him preach and to give him the invitation, consister of Rev. H. J. Jewett, Methodist minister, chairman of the committee; Dr. E. W. Clippinger, of the Westminster Presbyterian church; Dr. J. B. Slocum, Rev. Charles W. Brashares, pastor of the Grace M. E. church, Mr. E. C. Harley, president of E. . C. Harley and company, and Rev. Irvin E. Deer, secretary of the council of churches. The Sunday campaign will be held in Dayton in November and December of this year. . GREENVILLE HEARS SUNDAY PREACH ON SATURDAY MORNING GREENVILLE, O., May 6. Green ville welcomed Billy Sunday here this morning at his sermon in Memorial hall, 1,600 strong. "I came to make this visit to Green ville because of the splendid showing the town made the other night at the tabernacle in Richmond, and I want to thank you for it." In introducing Mr. Sunday, Mr. Gaskill, chairman of the welcoming committee, called him the "world's greatest evangelist." "When a fellow gets the swelled head, God has no further use for him," Mr. Sunday answered; "you can forget that about my being famous, for I am as common as dirt." No Hard Times "Last year we spent a billion dollars for the movies," Mr. Sunday said "all that for amusement, and then when the cause of God comes around, the people all begin to talk about hard times. "But, does it satisfy? No! The world is going crazy looking fox the rest of souls." "Why, I'd rather make a talk right here to you in Greenville," Sunday declared, "and tell you of God and His peace than sit on a throne and sway the world, with the blood of war upon me." "The Bible," he Insisted, "was written not to teach science no more than a tooothpick was made as a crowbar. "It was written that you might believe. Then use it for that purpose." Begins Early The meeting had been called for 10 a. m., but as all of the available space had been taken by 9:45, the program was started at that time. Rev. Rasey, of the U. B. church, opened the meeting with prayer. While Mr. Sunday said that he came to Greenville without charge, the com mittee desired to present him with something, so a collection was taken for the Bible school and Chautauqua at Winona Lake, the only one, Mr. Sunday said, which is open free on Sundays. Not having any other place to leave the money, the collection on the platform was dumped into Fred Rapp's pocket, uncounted. Mr. . Sunday wa3 accompanied to Greenville by Fred Rapp, his business manager, and motored back to Richmond immediately after the sermon. BIG DELEGATIONS TO ARRIVE ON SUNDAY Richmond will be host to all the surrounding towns Sunday, and to delegations from Indiana and Ohio cities, besides the delegation from Charleston. Three hundred will come from the West Virginia city, at least 100 have been reported from Columbus, nearly a thousand are expected on a special train on the Pennsylvania that will pick up delegations between Logansport and Richmond. Cincinnati, who had planned to be out in force earlier in the campaign will be here on special trains, and all kinds of delegations are expected from the nearby cities. Receives Message. The following telegram was received by Will Romey from Mayor Grant P. Hall of Charleston. "We thank you for your kind words of welcome. We leave Charleston with a delegation of 300 Saturday night. Reach Richmond at 7 o'clock a. m. Sunday. Will remain in Richmond until 10 o'clock Sunday night." Plans for placarding the roads leading to the city have been perfected, and by Sunday morning it should be ! impossible for any traveller coming to the city to lose his way to the taber nacle. IN SCHOOL HERE TO

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Misses Rosa and Violet Liang, daughters of Liang Shih Yl, the new Premier of Chiua. who are attending a school for girls at Norton. Mass.

MINISTERS ATTEND Rev. C B. Kershner, of Mooreland. and Rev. A. W. Connor were Friday visitors at the tabernacle. LAST REHEARSAL The last rehearsal for the May festival is to be held in the tabernacle on Monday evening. All the members of the present Sunday chorus are invited to be there, according to the announcement made Friday night.

SERMON ON DANCE In the midst of a blasting of the dance, Mr. Sunday suddenly stopped. "By the way, I will preach a sermon on the dance next Saturday night," he announced. The announcement was greeted with applause. SING FOR WOMAN Thursday night after the sermon, Mrs. Asher and Mr. Rodeheaver had a small audience all their own. They went to North Sixteenth street, where Mrs. Reid was ill and sang for her. RAPP IS BACK Fred Rapp is back in Richmond again. This time it is for the rest of the campaign. From-now on he will spend his time in the men's work, the part that he does with the Sunday party when they are all together. MANY COMING Sunday will be welcome day for Richmond. Special delegations from Dayton, Charleston, Columbus and Cincinnati are already booked, and more are expected. TO MEET CHARLESTON DELEGATION AT 7 A.M. Mayor Lawrence A. Handley, chairman of the reception committee which is to meet delegations coming to the Tabernacle meetings Sunday, announces that the time of meeting has been changed from 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning to 7 a, m., as the special train from Charleston. W. Va,, will arrive at 7 o'clock. All persons are asked to go directly to the C. and O. depot and to be there with their machines by 7 o'clock Sunday morning. The reception committee is composed of: O. P. Nusbaum, J. F. Hornaday, Frank Stjayer, Walter Doan, Charles Bond, Julian Smith, Will W. Reller. Ray Robinson, John Johnson. L. C. Niewoehner, Ed Voss, Clem McConaha. Will Jenkins, Robert Wiechman. Rev. James, Walter Reid, John Hasemeier, Frank Haner, Pres. Edwards (Earlham), William Romey, Charles Jordan, George Brehm, Paul Jones. Clarence Foreman, Clyde Gardner, Will Ferguson, Robert Heun, Forrest Gartside. William Friede, A. D. Gayle, Omer wneian, George Hamilton, George tiooge k. e. Holland,, Roland Nusbaum, Ben Bartel, Fred Bethard. Herb Keck, Ray Weisbrod, Karl Wolfe, Roy Taylor. Leo Tracy, Pat Tracy, Ourt Wickett, Harry Coleman, Ed Wilson, Elmer Eggemeyer. HAZARDS OF MINING SMALL, SAY FIGURES (Floyd W. Parson In the Review of Reviews.) The union leaders lay great stress on the hazards of mining and the unhealthfulness of the work. I spent a large part of three years In the un derground galleries of coal mines, and while mining Is far safer today than it was then, I would like to disagree with any one who pictures the coal miner's work as a pleasant occupation. There should be a substantial wage differential In favor of the! miner, not so much because of the dangers of his job as because of the dreariness of a life in the darkness and dirt of an underground coal seam. But when it comes to the matter of safety, it is Just twice as dangerous to be a doctor as it is to be a coal miner here in the United States. According to the United States census figures, the miner, with a mortality percentage of 0.62, ranks twenty-sixth in a list of thirty-five occupations. He is rar below the sailor, who heads the list with a mortality percentage of 2.zt. The stone mason is fifth, at 1.17; the merchant tenth, at 1.06, while the clerk is twentieth, at 0.77. The fact is that the miner occupies an astonishingly safe position between the stock raiser and the bookkeeper, and each day the dangers surrounding him are growing less. The truth is that in mining the hazards really are great, and where the hazards are great everyone is forewarned and fore armed; in such a case, the precautions are great. LEARN AMERICAN WAYS. 'A Bfcy.w.v.,, n a- ill fiWafc ,,.,11,; ViMjijyi'yy..i Photo By Underwood A Dnderwood.

GIGANTIC PARADE OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF COUNTY HELD HERE?

.Floats, automobiles and children galore filled Main street from the court house to the tabernacle in one solid parade Saturday afternoon when the Wayne County Sunday School asso-' elation met in Richmond for Its annual conference. ieaa Dy a file of policemen, Richmond's finest, and the American Legion band, the column of floats and cars took nearly half an hour to pass Eighth and Main. First in line after the cars containing the county association officials came Abington township, with a truck on which was a small model of a country church, with the children in front of it. then came Boston township in automobiles, and Clay with a float representing the past and present, in which two groups of students were being taught by the old and new methods of Sunday school practice, followed by 14 cars. Centerville's Part. Centerville. the Whitewater churches with a bower of flowers on their truck, filled with children, singing "The Old Rugged Cross," Harrison, Wayne and Middleboro, followed next, with Fountain City Friends with nine cars of children, and ending the county section. jue hi esi oi me ciiy ouuuay buuuois was Whitewater Friends, preceded by an American flag with a color guard of eight boys. South Eighth Street Friends followed with a float depicting an old Quaker Sunday school with a Quaker-bonnetted lady teaching the class. "Buds of Promise" was the label on the big white float of the First Methodist church. In the center of the float a huge white cross stood, with the children groups on Beats at the ends. As they passed, the childrfc?" sang "Brighten the Corner Where You" ! Are." St Paul's Church St. Paul's Lutheran church had 93 scholars on foot and Bix cars following, while the Union Mission furnished the most spectacular float in the parade, a huge white cross, marked "Rock of Ages," carried on a trailer behind the Sunday school group. East Main Street Friends were represented by a float carrying scholars and followed by automobiles bearing West Richmond Friends also had a members of the T. Y. F. class. The truck load of school children and one car carrying the banner of the Esperanza class, beside six cars of children. Telling Feature A soldier receiving doughnuts at the front line, a poor woman receiving aid from a Salvation Army lassie, and a derelict man being prayed over by a i member of the Salvation Army did not need any sign to designate its origin. It was followed by about 40 children on foot, representing their Sunday school work. A huge banner marked "Richmond for Christ" preceded the five cars of the Baptist Sunday school, while the United Brethren occupied 12 cars, preceded by a small truck loaded wirh children. . . Grace M. E. A broad float, carrying representation of all branches of the Sundayschool work, and with girls representing Home and Foreign Missions perched on the corners, carried the colors of the Grace M. E. church, and was followed by 11 cars labeled with the name of the church. More than a hundred cars, and a.v most a thousand children took part iV) the parade. The parade ended at the taBernacle, where the program for the afternoon was opened immediately. Homer Rodeheaver of the Sunday party demonstrated magic tricks, and C. W. Brubaker, of Ohio, made the principle address. LOAF OF BREAD MORE THAN 600 YEARS OLD A loaf of bread more than 600 years old, it is said, is to be found at Ambaston, in Derbyshire, England. It was Included in a grant of land from the crown in the reign of King, John, and has remained" in the Soar family ever since. Almost as great a curiosity as this Is a house 1,100 years of age, and yet fit for habitation. This old dwelling, the oldest inhabited house in England, was built in the time of King Offa of Mercia. It is octagonal in shape, the walls of its lower story being of great thickness. The upper part is of oak. At one time the house was forfeited and known by the name of SL' German's Gate. It stands close to the River Ver, and only a few yards from St. Albans Abbey. A marriage proposal 3,400 years of age, is in existence in the British Museum. It 13 the oldest marriage proposal of which there is any defi nite record. It consists of about 9? lines of very fine cuneiform writing and is on a small clay tablet made of Nile mud. It is a marriage proposal of a Pharoah for the hand of the daughter of the King of Babylon. It was written about the year 1530 B. C. BRITISH KING STILL DRAWN BY HORSES W. K. Kelsey in the Detroit News. When the king goes from Buckingham palace to Westminister to open parliament, he i3 drawn by horses. The question is raised whether th? journey could not be made more comfortably and expeditiously in a motorcar, such as that in which his majesty customarily gets about on his lawful and personal occasions. The answer comes that it wouldn't do, for two reasons the king has always ridden in a coach to open parliament, and if he drove in a motor car, even at low. speed, people wouldn't be able to see him and raise a cheer. The suggestion therefore has been made that a motor car of a special type for state occasions be designed. The chauffeur would have an elevated -seat behind, while the coach would be almost entirely of glass. But many Englishmen consider the scheme revolutionary. After all, it Is onlv

about twenty years that the motor?" car has been in general use, while '

there have been kings In England for many centuries.