Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-03-26
Who Is He?

the following clippings this week
under the impression that we may
be interested, at least in the iden-
titv of the writer, who claims to
have been horn in Crabbottom.
The article itself is as dark as a
Chinese puzzle. The aim of the
writer is as completely obscured by
his style as his identity is by his
nom de plume. Is it irony, jest.
sense or nonsense? Does he mean
to be serious or rediculol S? These
are points we cannot settle. If he
means to ridicule the Comstock
propagandism, it is too weak; if be
means to espouse that doctrine, it
is weaker still.
1t is up to Crabbottom to spot
the man, and as to the rest, it
makes but little difference.
SHOCKING MORAL CONDITIONS IN
SINFUL BALTIMORE
To The Editor Of The Evening Sun:
Sir-As a person'who has come from
the country and has lived in your
city only a short time, | would like
to protest against certain evils,
which l did not come in contact
with in my pure, simple native
town.
For instance, the automobile; we
never had such things at home.
I have tried to look upon them
with favor, but | cannot get it out
of my head that the devil has some
thing to do with these gasoline wag.
ons. They keep people away from
church on Sunday and they lead
people into worldly paths.
Then, again, lam shocked at the
open Sundays you have in Balti-
more. Soda water, cigars and
other things are sold openly at the
stores of your druggists. We have
drug store in our town, but it IS
closed on Sunday. | notice that
your street cars 60 up and down
Just the same as on any other day.
I believe that these cars should
be discontinued on Sunday in order
TO give the motormen and conduc-
tors chance to attend divine SER
vice. I have heard some people
say that Sunday street cars are a
necessity in order to carry people
to church. But | can't see why
people don't walk like the early
Apostles, and certainly a person
who wants to 60 to church should
be willing to walk. | would not
soil my conscience by riding in a
street car on Sunday. and | really
believe that the great fire was Wis
tied upon Baltimore on account of
it's dissertation of the Sabbath by
running street cars.
Another thing I don't like about
Baltimore is the display ofimmoral
electric signs on Lexington. street
I do dot know why they are i'm
moral, but something tells me that
they are. People are apt to be-
come engrossed in material things
while looking at these fashy signs
and forget about spiritual matters.
I consider it to be my public
duty to bring to the attention OF
the authorities a disgraceful con
dition which exists in Druid Hill
Park. Around the band stand are
several pieces of statuary very
loosely clad. Thousands of young
men who gazed upon these figures
last summer have become victims
of immortality, and some of them
have since died. If Mr.. Cornell
could get out there in time to
drape these figures before the band
concert starts, he would save thous-
ands of Young men from going to
perdition, in addition to preparing
them for Billy Sundays sawdust
trial, which opens up next January.
Since coming to Baltimore | haye
studied the vice conditions and
have made some startling discov-
cries. The sins of the working
girl are due for the most part to
vanity, and vanity is often caused
by gazing upon vain and sinful
flowers in the public squares. One
of the worst features about the ap
preaching spring seasons is the
planting of tulips. Poor girls come
along and gaze at these tulips. The
tulips create a desire for vain
things and decoration, and the girl,
in order to crafty her desires, sells
herself into immortality. Many a
young girl in the city today is liv-
ing life of shame due to vanity
which was first cad azing
at giddy tulip,