The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-05-13
GETTING
DUE PUBLICITY
Interviewer Finds That Billy Sun
days Trades Have Effect
In Neither Abode.
FEATURING GENERAL SHERMAN

| regard him with the utmost admira
tion and gratitude You cannot put
1t too strongly ] consider him with
out exception the man of the hour.
The lnteryirvrr stared Your sub
terranean majesty he nid "Mr
sunday has been saying all sorts Of
harsh things about YOU.
The Other Our laughed
My dear fellow YOU must not judge
by appearances lln, the best friend
have. At first sight you might think
he's not quite The gentleman
You've seen him.
Night befurr last at Patterson,
said the Other ones first impres
sion Is Of a muu lacking IN certain ele
mcuts Of rcposr The temperature IN
the Tabernacle wl, rather high, Ow-
Ing to defective ventilation | pre-
sume, and Mr sunday took off his
coat and collar mI used his handkcr
chef more Frequently than | am a..
customed to. Bul what are first i'm
prcssions? The man IS sincere and
he is human NoJ at all priE Ike
that Italian poet who visited us some
time ago. Yes. Dante Very stand
offish sort Of prr,ou aud he walked
through like Cooks tourist In the
Louvre. You smoke, Of course
Don't you
Fitness His First Care.
Never Like Mr. sunday / find II
prevents my keeping fiJ Business be
ing what It is. / consider It necessary
10 hold myself up to the highest pitch
of efficiency And even then It has
been pretty hard going TIL recently '
You believe prosperity Is coming
buck2"
Il am convinced " 1t, said the
Other That is whit meant by
gratitude to Nj sunday As news
paper man l need not eEpHtlute tO you
uu the value Of publicity
But the kind Of publicity! vent.
| ured the interviewer
What difference does that make?
] am ike the average book publisher
don't give Il hang whether YOU slate
my book or puff II What | cannot
/ tolerate is Indifference. When you
/ ask II am angry at Mr. Sunday,
you pardon my frnukness, yOu-yOu
amuse me lie Is the only man IN Il
generation who ha, given me my due.
"Once upon time had all the pub
| llcity | wanted The churches and the
hymn writer's gave me columns OF It.
I have tons uf press notices stored
away In asbpstO, scrap books. But
they are all pretty old. Forty yean
| should say That fellow Darwin did
for me. Before his time | got full
credit for pretty nearly everything
that went wrong and good deal that
/ was not responsible for. Then came
| Darwin. evolution, humHultarianlsm,
sociology aud business went to
He snatrhrd up lump Of brlmstOue,
crushed lr between his fingers and
threw 1t imratlently from him.
Reputation Gone TO Smash.
Il speak with feeling he went on.
Can you blame mel Al II blow | saw
the reputation built up during several
| thousand years go TO smash. used
" be- factor IN everyday cOnyersa
| uOu was the center Of interest In
sermons uud poetry All at once |
became taboo | was relegated to the
comic Journals and the vaudeville
| stage, where / was usually mentioned
/ when somebody sat down ON Il hat.
/ The spruu. people wouldn't recognize
me They we're tSO busy talking about
| hrredily Nud II II wasn't heredity II
| was environment once upon time
| II q man Killed his rival or robbed his
/ uciEhhur everybody knew whom to
/ humr Me- II was II heavy burden
Of responsibility but ] accepted It as
being u 100 the days work Nova.
| days when man shoots you In the
back the only difference Of opinion Is
whether the act was due 10 II congen
ital usumuu,m of the right eye In
! his mothers family or tO u defective
water supply My historic position
has been rapidly undermined by the
/ scientists Hrtween heredity and en
/ yirunmput there's been the devil IL
pay
Your dark majesty" began In
teryicwrr but the Other WAS IN the
/ full swing of his grievance.
Nowadays Cut Out the TOnsils,
Take the question Of children he
snid Whenever anything went wrong
NJ the breakfast table or when com
pany was u the house people used
10 ask what had gotten into the child
They knew NJ course II was l. the
Principle OF Eyil. Nowadays they cut
out the childs tonsils. Once upon o
time they took me seriously. They
exercised me- They prayed against
me They swung incense. Nowadays
they sleep with open windows winter
and summer aud take a cool shower
was Force " Nature and they re
duced me lo symptom OF indigestion
They stopped using incense against
me- and INSTITUTED bicarbOnate OF
soda The, vent further than that
Whenever nr, did mention mo they
even insisted on being nice, and
wasn't as hmyk NJ | used to be- paint
rd and lml sort NJ rot Some Of
the poet, the dpcadent ones, went III,
limit rud Iglrl 10 make me out a spirit
NJ good luuunately for me most OF
them rudrI u the insane asylum
BauiruIur Rlmnaud, Neralne. Arthur
SymUu.
Is There " In thHti' said tn,
interviewer hrsitating with pencil
poised
War Helped Not NJ All.
No. said the other, stlll absorb
ed in his own grief You'd magln,
thing, couldn't be- much worse
wouldn't Nonf hut along came IN,
war n Europe. Such fragments oi
a reputation ~ still clung to me dis
appeared
II was hMukcd, east In the shade
ruined lndpr the best of clrcum
] stances 4 .I,tId haVa had IA urpttN