The Washington times., 1917-05-21
BILLY'SHAPPYNO NOW,
FOR INA"
Evangeist's Wife Out Of
Danger After Operation.
SUNDAY CHASES RUM SERPENT
About $4,000 Attend Three Ser.
vices at Big Tabernacle.

NEW YORK, May 21.-Billy Sunday
was very tired but very happy last
night. ma" Is almost completely out
OF danger and doing splendidly. So
BiIIy's contagious smile IL back In Its
old place and three times, yesterday
he chased the devil from one end Of
the green platform to the other with
out giving his satanic majesty any
breathing spell.
Some $4,000 people who attended
the three meetings at the big tab
ernacle took special pains to show
Billy that they were pulling strong
for MAS" swift recovery, and last
night when Rodey announced that she
was out OF danger following her op-
GRAFTON, that her temperature was al
most normal and she was resting
easy, the $4,000 present applauded en-
Enthusiastically. Then they sang For
You / Am Praying while Billy tried
TO keep the tears from showing.
In the morning services 5000 ap-
plauded when DR.. Howard Kelly. OF
Johns Hopkins, who had performed
the operation, said Mrs. Sunday would
soon be well again, and then followed
by assuring New York that the good
accomplished by Billy Is not temper
airy thing. He spoke not only OF his
home city of Baltimore. but OF other
places where the evangelist has 'heIo
revivals.
Wears lee Cream Suit.
Yesterday afternoon Billy introduced
his silk shirt and ice cream suit to New
Workers. After Rodey had tuned up the
1900 men and talked the coats on Of
fully half Of them Billy stripped for
action. and when he started on The
Trail Of the Serpent" all the ministerial
garb that you could see was lay
down" collar. green bow tie. white silk
shirt, ice cream pants. and the famous
black patent feathers. But long before
Bally had his forked stick over the
head Of e1e whisky serpent he was per
spring like a laboring man and the
silk shirt was plastered to his why
shoulders.
Although the evangelist seems to be-
lieve that this second ant-liquor ser
mon Is even more deadly than his world
famous one on Booze. or Get on the
Water Wagon" that he preached the
previous Sunday. many who heard both
seemed TO feel that yesterdays wordy
battle was less vitriolic and spectacular.
None tainted yesterday. while week
ago four were carried out. which was
taken as a possible indication OF the
gentler nature OF this last address
No COmpromIse with Saloon.
Many suggestions for a compromise
with the LIQUOR interests have been
made to him, the hard hitting rum
fighter said. Me compromise !" he
snarled. 'T feel like Rufus Choate. an
ancestor Of the late Joseph II. Choate'
who, by the way, was one OF the great
est men America has ever produced,
when he replied to a proposal TO take
the Bible out OF the public schools:
What? Take the Bible out OF the
schools? Not as long as there's bit Of
old Plymouth Rock large enough tc
make a gun flint will I compromise on
any such proposition?
iMe compromise with that dirty
foul gang? They can go to hell be.
! fore I'll compromise. Compromise
Not as long as there's a hungry child
or crying wife or drunken boy. TIC
hell with the whole whisky busi'
ness~
EVERY barroom is a recruiting Of
fee for the penitentiary, asylum, anc
heIl!" Billy cried. Some say 'Be
fairr" he shouted. "If a rattlesnakt
was about to bite your children who'd
YOU be fair to-the rattlesnake ol
your children? Listen-if you old
birds want to NIL your hides full oi
rotten booze that'd make a jackrabbit
spit in the face OF a bulldog &c. ahead
but I'm not going to let that God
| forsaken gang get our boys and girls
The trouble Is that too many Of yoJ
are making money in one way or an
other out OF the saloon-rent, poll
tics, stock--oh, there's a thousand
ways. And another thing-the mar
who votes for the saloon deserves L
have his son become a drunkard."
Scores the Moral Leper.
There is no power on earth, Bill!
asserted. can stop the sntI-lIquoi
movement, but the apathy and indif
ference Of many good people Il
harder to tight than the open opposi
tion Of the liquor interests.
aIt's the same with Uncle Sam
the United States Government doesn'
fear Germany or her submarines. bu
she does fear the indifference Of th'
American people" he went on. "We'v,
got to help. and the least thing we car
do is to dig down and buy few o
those good old Liberty Loan bonds
I'm going to buy some myself; say
let's all do It right now. Great God