Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-08
SUNDAYS TABERNACLE
RINGS WITH HEARTY
CHEERS OF STUDENTS
Young Audience of 1000 Makes
"Glory Barn" at Trenton
Look Like Football
Field
LAZINESS IS DECRIED

TRENTON. N. j., Jan. S.-"Billy"
Sundays tabernacle was staged like n
football field last night The service was
specially arranged for students, and
the 1000 seats reserved for their ac-
commodation were filled with a flag
waving. cheering. jubilant lot of young
men, who usurped the functions of the
choir and had the opening part of the
entertainment all to themselves.
BILLY" and "Rodey" entered into the
spirit of the occasion and school after
school was given opportunity to un-
loose its yells. sing its favorlte songs
and make all the noise of which IL was
capable. 1t was an off night for the
choir, but the novelty appealed to the
big audience. which again jammed the
tabernacle to capacity.
The climax was reached when Eric
Mackey, n senior of the Trenton High
School, who went around the world
with the American Boys Achievement
Band, leaped to the platform and led
his comrades In n series of cheers pre-
pared for the occasion.
This sally was greeted by counter cheers
from the State Model and Normal Schools,
who had turned out in full force, led by
Principal James NJ. Green. The State
schools had fetching yell which
enumerated all the days of the week and
then repeated Sunday half dozen times.
Princeton had not been represented in
any of the cheering sections, but Hughie
Golden, the dminutive B-year-old mascot
of the University. was trotted out on the
platform and introduced to the crowd,
bowling and shaking hands with Sunday.
In announcing the collection Billy said
he liked to speak to the young because It
was like talking to the future through a
long distance telephone. If they did not
have any more than he did as a boy. he
said. they could not give much Then to
the ushers, he said: go ahead. get all
they've got anyway
OF all the audiences "Billy" has had
since coming to Trenton, none was more
interested or more intense than that com
posed tonight largely of boys and girls
from the schools of Trenton and neigh
boring communities in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. The sermon on "The
Forces That Win" was an especial appeal
to young people, and BILLY" used less
of the slang characteristic OF other dis
courses.
Decrying laziness. "BIlly" asked how
many opportunities are lost by young men
and women too indolent to do more than
make themselves one of the crowd. The
boy who goes to school he described as
bigger than the "young lobster who loafs
In the streets, smokes cigarettes, goes
into the back doors of grog shops and
tries to drink the whole bunch under the
table.
THE newspaper today Is better col
lege than Abraham Lincoln had-just the
newspaper alone"-declared Sunday in
commenting upon the educational ad-
vantages of the time. Books were never
cheaper, They are like the leaves on the
trees. The telegraph runs to the four
corners OF the world. Newspapers hand
you the news OF the world every morning
and evening in the week for a few
cents"
BILLY raised laugh by saying It is
sad day for a young fellow who gets so
conceited that an overcoat of ex-Presi-
dent Taft would not make him a vest.
There is more hope for the fool than
for the fellow who thinks he knows 1t all.
The conceited man is like cheap-skate
restaurant, where everything is In the
air."