Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-17
THAT'S ANARCHY CRY
CHILDREN AS SUNDAY
WAVES RED BANNER
"That's I. w. w., " "That's
Emma" Riddles Shout in
Reply to "Billy's"' Ques-
tion on Crimson Flag.

| PATTERSON. n. j., April U.--"Kiddies''
| from all over North Jersey packed
Billy Sundays tabernacle this after
noon, and watched him smash to pieces
10 China dolls which, he said, stood for
the Ten Commandments. He waved the
nags OF all the nations on earth, includ-
Ing flags like yellow and black and
white and red flags. which belong to
mono of the nations on earth.
Tho red flag did Il. Paterson's kiddies
Know what the red flag means. So, when
BILLY" stood up at his pulpit and flaunt-
ed his red flag and asked the children,
WHAT'S that?' the klddies cried That $
enarehy'' Some of them, knowing Emma
Goldman would be in town tonight,
yelped. That's Emma" And a few of
them who had evidently heard of the l..
w. W., shouted, That's I. W. w"
1t was really very funny. "Billy"
thought 1t was, for he just held his sides
and laughed.
Before he started his children's sermon.
and taught the kiddes, just as he did in
Philadelphia, more geography than an
honest-to goodness school teacher could
In year, he was told that the anarch-
lists had accelerated their plans in oppo-
sition to Sunday and that Emma Gold
man. accompanied by Dr. Benjamin Reit-
man, who would be here at 1880 o clock
tonight and would go to the tabernacle
to hear him.
We'll" said Billy" I'm glad to hear
1t. The more the merrier. A little social
gathering. Everybody welcome. We're
not putting any armorplate on the taber-
nacle because the lady Is coming. She
is as welcome as the tulips in April"
If BILLY" hasn't vet won the adult
population of Paterson, he certainly has
got very close to the hearts of the city's
children. He had them raising just about
the merriest sort of din for more than
an hour this afternoon.
They liked him first rate as he broke
his dolls and said that was the way that
little boys that went fishing or played
marbles on Sunday when they were sent
to Sunday school and then got into fights
and had their clothes all messed and
told mother hbs about it, broke COM
mandants and grieved Jesus.
Paterson'S ministers and tabernacle at
taches aren't in the most pleasant frame
of mind imaginable today, for. though
BILLY" has won $50 convertsc in three
calls to the traill and the total collection
for the IL days of his campaign to regene-
rate North Jersey amounts to nearly $11.-
500, he's not satisfied, and last night he
sailed into the aforementioned ministers
and tabernacle workers in characteristic
fashion.
He hit them so hard they WINGED and
all but wept. He corraled them In one
corner of tho tabernacle after the night
meeting and gave them what he termed
"a regular bawlng out" He did much
the same thing in Philadelphia, but never
so vehemently, He threatened. unless
something happened, to say, Paterson.
I'm through" He said he was tired of
working with dead ones" Live ones"
in every big city of America to say moth
ing of ENGLAND, with the possible excep-
tion of New York, were calling him to
for God. He gave-the clergy
men the very dickens. telling them to get
down and mIngle with the tabernacle
crowds and ask people to hit the trail.