South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-03-20
MIGHTY TASK IS
ITING SUNDAY
Baseball Evangelist Will Find
Satanic Forces Well In
trenChed at New York.
BY David w. Church.

NEW 1Oftks MdFcn IA TASK
more imposing than that which con-
fronted Hercules when he cleaned
the Augean stables faces Billy"
Sunday when he throws down the
gage Of battle on April TO "the
devil and Broadway"
Marshalling his cohorts for the
spring drive on Sin" Sunday will
find his satanic majesty has an al
most impregnable fortress IN this
great city. Lined up with Mephisto
ia New York are his aides, or what
are popularity believed in Sunday
school classes to be aides, ''Bac-
chus," ''Terpsichore," "Thespis,"
"Mammon" and Siren Vice" These
aides flourish i'm New York as they
do in no other city. II they are al
lies of sin then Billy Sunday is go
ing TO find his job harder here than
in Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit or
any Of the other cities where he has
met with success.
Bacchus Favored TOD.
Statistics of the board of excise
commissioners show that Bacchus is
"a favored God in New York. There
are 1855 places in this city that
cater TO Bacchus by the sale of
liquors OF these 1852 are hotels,
or places having hotel licenses. This
means there are at least / 500 places
where dancing and cabarets attend
the sale of liquor.
The revenue from liquor licenses
in greater New York last year was
$1,736,918.43 Dealers figure that
their license fees must never exceed
10 percent OF their total receipts,
which means that more than 90
600. 900 dollars are spent each year
in New York for liquor.
There are 12O theaters in New
York. These are the theaters pro-
ducing legitimate drama and COM
edy, burlesque and vaudeville. The
number of motion picture houses
and combined motion picture and
vaudeville houses, penny museums
and other amusements held within
doors is a great deal larger.
To restrain vice the city of New
York employs more than 1900 pO-
licemen There are 1864 officers
who do nothing but patrol duty.
the detective bureau, who are kept
busily following the trail of crime.
The number of arrests in New York
each year is well over 100000. In
1916 there were 211.829 arrests
made, an average of more than 500
a day.
Vice is Now Rampant.
Vice which is undiscovered and
Undecided in New York is rampant,
and a most strenuous enemy of
Billy Sunday. There is no way TO
estimate the extent Of gambling
which goes on daily and nightly.
The drug traffic is also incalculable.
And the army of women "of lost
souls"-there are thousand of them
AS is attested by the fact that at
least so of them are arraigned
nightly in the women's court.
Although New York has popula-
ton of six million Billy" Sundays
tabernacle. located near the far
end of Manhattan Island, will be
within access of hardly more than
two millions. And of this popula-
ton approximately a million and a
half are foreigners OF another relig-
ious faith than that which Sunday
breaches.
To get a good start on the flying
drive the Sunday preliminary cam
paign has been under way for
weeks More than 10000 persons
have already attended more than
10000 prayer meetings. Rallies,
house to- house canvasses and mass
meetings are going on in every part
Of the city.
It's a mans job that faces Billy
Sunday.