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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
The EvangeIist's Sleeping Room While in New York

makes a spectacle of himself. Unitari-
anism, to him. is simply vile slur upon
the Virgin. Darwinism is one upon
William, a charge that his own fore
fathers included some orang-outangs.
When you find him in the tabernacle,
ready to officiate, prepare for dull
hour. He won't let you go to sleep.
It is the Reverend side of Sunday, l
think, which makes Bill as matter of
conscience deal out hell and damnation
bv the wagonload. For when left to
Billy's natural devices Bill is kindly, en-
gaging, and on the whole beneticent.
His verbal riots are much more appall-
ing to read than to hear; it Is trlte but
true that they Sound different when
you hear 'em"-just as some men can
cuss the air ultramarine without dis
turbing you, while the simple damns OF
others are blood congealing. His plat
form antics are not offensive either; ne
enjoys them so keenly that you like
them out of sympathy. And ne has for
gotten more about holding crowds than
our best political spellbinder will ever
know.
In the beginning Bill and Billy were
undoubtedly Identical Years of prac-
tice and the need of conserving strength
before multitudes, have given Billy a
consummate technic for assuming and
sustaining the role of Bill. He has him
thought out and tested down to the last
detail of business" He can reproduce
any effect before no audience but cam
era. The one flaw in his method is his
voice. He has never learned to use it,
and he abuses it so numerically that If
there is miracle about him it is the
fact that any voice is left.
His performance is violent, sudoritic
exercise, but being studied, like Bern
hardts frenzies, it takes less out OF him
than appears. Once in long while he
really cuts loose; as rule he makes the
effect Of cutting loose. Hence the rub
Dish to the pathos Tin which he Jolns)
of his shortening his life by service"
The surest way to shorten his life would
be to retire him.
Observers panied by his hell threats
will be comforted by this: it matters
less what Clean Bill says than what peo-
ple think he is. DR.. Stryker, of Ham,
ilton College, made a double-barrelled
paradox, "You see him with your ears,
and hear him with your eyes," The hit
my-trail-or- be-damned stage is the wind
up of his campaigns, and by that time
he might be talking intensive agricul-
ture and the trails would still be crowd
ed Perhaps effects differ with cities;
where watched l do not believe one
convert in fifty was driven forward by
fear; example, far more than precept,
seemed to move them. This was none
of Bills fault. Bill did his grisly best
TO scare them like the Wrath Of God,
and at times the glare of his eyes over
came a few women down in front. But
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01

WHETHER or not Manhattan
w wanted or needed Billy Sun
day. Manhattan has got him
booked, and debate is closed. The inter-
esting question now is: What are we
going to do with him, and he with us?
ANY one discussing him ought clearly
TO understand that the "Whirlwlnd
Baseball Evangelist" is less one person
atty than three. Even four, with his
eye-to-business side and his organizing
faculty figured in; but most of this
fourth is Ma"
Of the others. one Sunday is Billy
himself, good citizen, good neighbor'
general good scout" the man the old
ball players talk of. A high-strung, boy
ish creature, painfully shy, rarely
shown to the multitude during cam
paigns.
A second is the Rev. William A. Sum
day, D. D., self-cultivated clergyman
and amateur theologian, narrow and in
tolerant as kmife-edge, crude sort OF
hell-fre Presbyterian, with all the
fanaticism and little Of the circum-
stance and dignity. This coat-tailed
gentleman opens campaigns, breaches
Lords-Day mornings to the regular
church attendants, alternates or collab-
crates with Billy Himself in preparing
sermons for
The third and most important Sun
day: Bill. Plain, shrewd, CHEEKY, hon
est, homely, clean (clean especially Bill
as he would say, the Guy who does
the Job.
But this guy Bill is now less man
than a mechanism; platform puppet,
a creation almost as truly as Warfield's
Barwig (no aspersion intended either
way), made in the image of Billy Him
self, and by all odds his noblest work.
Very few commentators, well or ill
disposed, have recognized these distinc-
tons. Consequently the comment you
read is turgid, thick, as rule. 1t does
not cover the subject. Writers deal
with the Reverend Williams theology,
and suppose it to be the key to Bills
results. Or they deal with Billy Him
self, a most unseemly person from the
average writer's viewpoint, and suppose
lis technical irreverence and fishwifely
Yulgarity to account for Bills results.
Or they deal with the results, and in
Weigh against revivalism. That is all
right, if you dislike revivalism, but you
should not confuse it with such of Bills
esivayncrasles as have happened to get
on your nerves.
Or they dissect for motives. 1t
seems pointless, especially on Manhat-
tan at the present time. What we want
TO see is what he does and how he does
it; judging why he does it may be de-
ferred. If good is done, on the whole, it
will not matter much whether the doer
was a "gold-digger" If harm, it will
matter still less whether he honestly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01
rHE REV Mr. SUNDAY WILL NOW ADDRESS Us

Lkewise, His Campaigns Haze Three
Stages; the First Is Designedly a One.
Man Vaudeville Show-StorieS, Acro|
battles, Slams-HN L0img Up to Billyi|
Reputation; the Second Stage Is Homeb|
Ethics and Includes the Booze Ser.
mon; the Third Is Theology and He'll
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01

Three Personalities in One, He Is %
Billy Himself, Good CihSen, GOOD
Neiehbor, General "Good Scout .; 0)
the Req. William 4. Sunday, DID,, Self
Cultivated Clergyman and Amateur
TAeolosiam; 60 Bill; Plain, Shre1e'd,
CHEEKY, Clean, (Clean Especially Bill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-01

WHETHER or not Manhattan
w wanted or needed Billy Sun
day, Manhattan has got him
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
GARDEN CONTEST
ATTRACTS MANY
Numerous Other Residents OF
City Will Compete for The
Times Prizes.

The ersee<-Spirtt is shown in let
ter received todsy .srom one Of the
army % Washington farmers who
wrote to The Times to have her name
enrolled among the contestants for
the 500 in gold prizes to be offered
to the best gardeners in the city.
The writer says she wants to join
the garden contest because 1t will
stimulate her interest in her garden;
This letter reads:
Garden Editor: have just learned
of the garden contest which your pa.
per is conducting and wish hereby
to enter my garden, believing II will
help stimulate my interest in the un.
dertaking, The lot OF which my gar.
den is a part Is located at Eleventh
and Lamont streets northwest. About
one-half OF 1t already Is planted, but
1 should appreciate receiving any sug,
gestions or help which you may be
able to extend me, especially as to the
half to be planted, later seeding, ro-
tation OF crops, fertilizing and 80
forth.
JULIA H. THoRwARTH.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
GARDEN CAMPAIGN
AT KENGAR TONIGHT
Kensington and Garret Park
Citizens to Gather in
Methodist Church.

Citizens OF Kensington and Garret
Park will meet in the Methodist
Church at Kengar, D. c., at o'clock
tonight to apouse interest in home
gardening. The meeting will be un-
der the auspices of the Kengar Home
and School Association, assisted by
the Montgomery County Federation
OF Women's Clubs, headed by Mrs.
William o. Waters. Funds will be
raised to furnish seed and cultivating
equipment for the colored residents
OF the neighborhood who intend rails
ing gardens.
The meeting will be addressed by
Fred J. Van Hoesen, Agricultural De-
partment agent for Montgomery
county. Philip Jackson, president OF
the Home and School Association, will
preside.
The citizens associations dele
gates to the Central Garden Commit.
tee will meet at o'clock tonight in
the offices of the committee, 3o4 Star
building. The meeting will be pre-
sided over by John Dolph, president
OF the central committee.
Charles Hemlock, 1913 E street
southwest, has been appointed dele
gate from the South Washington
Citizens Association.
Demonstration Agent Conolly, of
the Agricultural Department, is in
structing gardeners In the neighbor-
hood OF Chevy Chase today.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

were less ambitious. Only one OF
them, Lieutenant Sniffen, Of Com
pany X, ayailed himself OF his priv
ilege.
All the examinations, however, are
In the nature Of CANDLES % the fu-
ture. Just at present It doesn't mat
ter whether the young officers pass
or not. There aren't any vacancies.
Tive Details Sent Out.
Two new quart details were sent
out from camp today, to guard the
two armories at Fifth and L streets
and First and B streets northwest.
There are four men to each detail.
They Will work q twenty-four
hour shift.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
MISS RANKIN TO ASK VOTE.

Miss Jeanette Rankin, the lady
from Montana" will be the principal
speaker tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock before the Senate Suffrage
Committee at the hearing accorded
the National Woman's Party. Her
subject will be The Industrial wom-
an In War Time"
Miss Rankin will be preceded by
several speakers. among them being
Miss Alice Carpenter, Prof. Charles
Beard, OF Columbia University; Mrs
Rheta Child Door, Miss Madeline Doty
and Mrs Mary Beard. Mrs. Richard
wainwright, Of the District, also will
speak.
The delegation from the National
Woman's Party will be under charge
OF Miss Anne Martin, who for the
past month has supervised picketinR
at the White House and Capitol.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
JOY IN D. G. CAMP,
GUARDS CAN BATTLE
Every Company Has Showers
and Walk to Fort Is
Thing Of the Past.

There is joy among the District
guardsmen at Fort Myer today.
They can take bath.
Heretofore, when the men wished
to clean up, they had to walk nearly
q mile, over to the bath house OF one
Of the batteries of the regular army.
Walking that mile after a hard day
OF drill caused some grumbling.
But it's all different now.
Today every company has a big
bath house, equipped with . dozen
showers. The pipes were laid and
connected, and the uprights erected
yesterday. The sides were put on
this morning. The first OF the bath
houses hadn't been completed five
minutes before 1t was in use.
Onieers Take Exams.
There was a general hiatus OF Of
fieers from the camp today. Carry
ing freshly sharpened lead pencils
and anxious faces they trekked out
of camp before o'clock, en- route for
the Third d. c. Infantry Armory, at
Fifth and L streets, northwest, to be
examined as to their fitness for pro-
motion.
The examination, held under the
supervision of Lieut.. Col Anton
Stephan began at o o'clock, and was
for all officers under the grade Of
captain. Every second lieutenant in
the regiment except two took It.
The exceptions were Lieut.. w. B.
White, OF Company L, and Lieut..
Chester N. Reich, OF Company G.
The first lleutenants, seemingly,
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

attested by the numerous testimonials
OF well known local people who have
regained their health by the use Of
this famous preparation.
For instance, Mr.. Carey s. Mills, Of
No. 800 II" street n. W., a well-known
resident OF Washington, who has
many friends and acQuaintances, re-
Gently stated:
"For over a year I have suffered
stomach was in such q weak condi-
tion that l could not digest my food:
II fermented in my stomach and gas
formed; ! could not sleep at night
and got in a very weak condition; l
had headaches, and my liver was af-
fected, was constipated, and took
everything I knew OF in the shape OF
benent until started to take your
Plant Juice. certainly never saw
any medicine work on ones system
as Plant Juice did on mine: ! am now
able to eat my meals and enjoy them.
/ sleep at night and have no more
trouble Of any kind. / feel like my
old SELF again and am certainly glad
TO give this public indorsemept for
Plant Juice as It has restored me to
health"
Such words as these and those Of
many others which have been print
ed, have wide Influence, for they
come from men of standing ana In
tegrity, who have given Plant Juice q
fair trial and have been greatly bene-
fited thereby.
The Plant Juice Man IL at The Peo-
Pies Drug Store, corner of 7th and
'E' Streets, where he Is daily meeting
the local public, and introducing and
explaining the merits OF this remedy.
-Advt.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
ASKS FOR GARDEN TRACTS
Salvation Army Willing to Prepar,
Ground for TlIIlna.

Ground for TlllIna.
Has anybody a five or ten acre
tract he is willing to have the Saliva
ton Army plant q garden on this
summer
Or has anyone several pieces Of
property he would like to turn over
to the poor, to be worked?
The Salvation Army, through The
Times, today made an appeal for q
tract OF land large enough for It to
"do its bit"
AdJutant w. H. Heift, who would
be In charge of the work, said he
desires to get several garden plots
to be turned over TO poor people as
soon as the ground is in condition to
till
"The Salvation Army industrial de-
partment Is prepared to cultivate
from five to ten acres of land for the
purpose OF producing vegetables for
the institution and also to cultivate,
fertilize, and plant land for small
gardens to be given over to people
who will be responsible for their
later care" says Heift's letter.
1--WE are ready to assist in any
way that will make the food problem
easier for the worthy poor"
The army has men and horses to
plow and plant. It has stables
from which manure can be obtained.
All II asks is that some one furnish
the seed and II will do the work.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
SAVE POTATO PARlNGS
Society Women to Hoard Eyes
From Kitchens for Seed.

from NitCnehb TOT Seeo.
Rigid economy is to be practiced
in at least one detail this summer 10
the fashionable homes OF Washing.
ton.
The wives OF five Cabinet Officers
and many other members OF the Cap
itars exclusive set who attended the
last meeting OF the Capital Garden
Club are going to save the eyes from
potato parings to eke out the potato
seed crop.
Experts Of the Department OF Agri
culture have suggested that all home
keepers save the eyes from the pota-
toes they feed to their families. II
the eyes are cut out of potstoes with
only q quarter of an inch of pairing
attached to them and are kept alive
and moist they will grow excellent
potatoes.
When the meeting adjourned enthu-
siastio volunteers readily came for
ward-several dozen OF them.
Among the wives of the Cabinet Of
ficers who were present were Mrs
Lansing, Mrs. Houston, Mrs. Gregory
Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Daniels, and II
was understood they were heartily
in accord with the plan.
Every day the eyes from potato
parinRs in the kitchens Of at least
fifty fashionable homes will be
boarded, IL the women live up to their
promises, and packages of potato eyeS
will go by parcel post to Mr.. Conolly
at the Department OF Agriculture.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
CARE IN CHOICE OF
FERTILIZER URGED
Street Sweepings Containing
Oil or Tar Should Not Be
Used for Garden.

Those who use street sweepings to
fertilize gardens should avoid fertil'
izer that contains oil or tar. Either
of these substances Is harmful to
plants, specialists in the United States
Department of Agriculture warn
Sweepings from tarred pavements or
oiled roads, they say, are likely TO
contain them. OIL droppings from mo-
tor cars often mix with such waste.
II sweepings are collected with some
care and before rain or water from
street sprinklers have reached them
and washed out the elements OF fer
tiIixing value, they can be used ad'
vantageously.
In connection with the spread of the
city gardening movement, now popu'
lar throughout the country, the De
partment of Agriculture believes q
warning in regard to oil and tar dam
age should be given.
A specialist in the Bureau OF Chem
Istry cites an instance of damage done
to q garden near Silver Spring, Nd.
on which unsorted street sweepfngs
from the District were used. This
garden, according to the specialist
was ruined by the tar products in the
fertilizer, and 1t was necessary to re
move the top soil and resurface the
entire plot with new soil. II Is sug.
gested by this official that with some
attention to detail 1t might be pos
sible to collect sweepings from streets
that are not tarred, and perhaps from
other public places.
OIL or tar sn the street sweepings
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
W0oDMEN'S JUBILEE OPENS
Johnny J. Jones Shows Spread the
Bio Top.

The woodmen's jubilee, featuring
the Johnny J. Jones shows, viii open
tonight at Fifteenth and II streets
northeast, where the event II schsd-
uled to run for ten days. Proceeds OF
the show will be used to send Com
pany A. Uniform Rank. the drill team
Of Oak Camp. W. o. w.. to the Ma
tional woodmen's eonveAtion at At
lanta in June.
Thirty cars loaded with wild ami
mails, elaborate paraphernalia, fanny
monkeys. and the inevitable clown,
pulled into New Jersey avenue yards
early this morning. and soon after
noon the entire Jones shows were
placed on the exhibition grounds, with
every indication that all of the
twenty attractions viii be ready for
tonight's opening.
For Thursday night the woodmen
have arranged q mammoth turnout Of
fraternal bodies, who will march In q
parade forming at Twelfth and H
streets northeast at z D. m. and ter.
minating at the show grounds. Every
man in the uniform or regalia Of his
lodge will be admitted to the shows
free Thursday night
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
ARREST DRUNKEN SOLDIER
Commissioners 6rownIow and New
man Find Staggering Private.

Commissioners Newman and Brown
low were strolling home from the
Pan-American reception to the Bal
four party at midnight when, at F'if-
teenth and G streets northwest, q
eolored member OF the District Ma
ttonal Guard walked toward them,
swaying from starboard to port.
The Commissioners, believing the
soldier was carrying more than his
army equipment, stopped. Then Mr..
Newman reminded Mr.. Brownlow
that, as supervisor of the Police De
partment, he should do his duty.
The two city fathers walked the
soldier up the street a short distance,
where they met Bicycle Policeman
Dierkoph. Dierkoph took him to the
First precinct, where he said he was
George Dent, twenty-eight, of the
First Separate Battalion, D. c. N. G.
Early this morning he was turned
over to Captain Patterson, OF the bat.
TALON
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
EXPLAINS LABOR POSITION.

LAbors pledge of loyalty and the
Council of National Defense state
ment, saying that the workingmen
OF the country would not seek a
change in present standards during
the war, did not mean that the wage
rate that would be fair to maintain
existing standards could not be
sought, according to a supplemental
statement just issued by the council.
The original statement referred to
working conditions and standards of
hours Of labor and sanitation fixed by
laws, either State. municipal, or ma
tionaL Changing of wage scales, the
council believes. should be referred to
Government mediation agencies.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
WAR BREAD MAY
Be OUR PORTION
Government Asks MiIIers to
Abandon Making Highly
Refined Flour.

America may soon be put on the
war bread" diet of her European al
lies,
The Department of Agriculture to-
day began a nationwide move to in.
duce -four mills to abandon the manu-.
facture OF highly refined white flour
during the war. to make whole-wheat
nour, from which the warning coun-
tries are now making their war
bread"
Sixty million bushels OF wheat, the
Department stated, will be saved an.
nually II the change is made.
According to the Government ex-
perts, whole-wheat -four is far more
nutritious than white flour.
The first response to the appeal
came today from the American Flour
and Cereal Mills Company OF Mime
apolis, which offered to turn out co.,
900 bushels of whole" -four a day
from now on
Increasing concern as to the possibil-
ity Of the United States placing an en-
barge on foodstuffs to countries adjoin-
ing the Teutonic powers was manifested
today when the Swiss minister, DR.. Paul
Ritter, applied to the State Department
for q conference with President Wilson
on the matter.
The threatened embargo, seriously
considered by this Government, is caus-
ing tremendous worry here, and infor-
nation has been received that repre-
sentatives Of different neutrals are con-
templating sending representatives to
this country personally to discuss the
subject.
In this connection some significance
is attached 70 press reports that Ger
many has recalled envoys from neu-
trails adjoining her borders and those
OF her allies, presumably to discuss the
U-boat warfare and the general effect
1t Is having on neutrals still at peace
with GERMANY
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

can be readily noticed, and care
should be taken to avoid such sweep
ings, If this fertilizer Is to be used at
ALL II Is growing late in the season
and specialists OF the department be-
lieve these sweepings should not be
used unless. they are going to have q
little time to mix with the ground be-
fore planting begins.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
A WASHINGTON MAN
7 IS LIKE. OLD SELF.
H Street Resident Relates
How Plant Juice Has Re-
stored Him to Health.

II is needed quickly, but IL must be q
remedy that leaves no bad effects;
that builds up, not tears down. This
is the logical effect of Plant Juice,
the new herbal stomach remedy, as is
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
Three Enter Contest,

Garden Editor: My two brothers and
have decided that we will aid in
the movement for more food. We have
decided to plant a vegetable garden,
with quite a number of different va
rieties. The interest In The Times
prizes has aroused our enthusiasm,
and we would like to have further
particulars concerning the contest.
ERICH FISCHER,
WILLIAM FISCHER,
HELMAN FISCHER.
Polk and oliver SITS, Kenilworth, DC.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
$4,000 In.Gold
For the Best
Gardens

The Times for the purpose
of encouraging the growing
of vegetables in back yards
and vacant lots offers 500
in gold for the best gardens
in the District, as follows:
For the best garden. $50
Fer the second best. .$25
For the third best. SIS
For the fourth best. $40
Those who wish to contest
for these prizes should write
to the Garden Editor, Wash
ington Times, giving name of
contestant and location of
prospective garden. The
board of judges will be chos-
en- from well-known agricul-
tural authorities.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

All inquiries concerning the proper
treatment of gardens should be ad-
dressed to the Central Garden Com
mittee. room 304, Star building.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25
Tines, Route Boy Enter..

Other letters received read:
Garden Editor: Please enter me as
contestant in your garden contest
am fourteen years old and my gar.
den is in the rear OF my house, 2136
street northwest am a Times
route boy. EDGAR FORD.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

Garden Editor: 1 Z should like to
contest for a prize for a back yard
garden of vegetables. The garden
will be on the vacant lot q. 500 B
street southwest.
Mrs. ASEYEH ALLEN.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

OW ON SALE AT ALL NEWSSTANDS) BEGINS THE PUBLICATI
EXTRAORDINARILY INTERESTING CONTRIBUTION
ENTITLED TINE STORY OF THE SUN" !,
The New SUM
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

As unod period Mr.
hand of Charles A.
The Washington times., 1917-04-25

~HE Story of The Sun" shows
VI Ben Day expanding from the
boy printer he was little
more than boy when he founded
The Sun-to the keen journalist with
whetted native wit and broadened
vision. 1t tells Of the struggles and
final triumphs in journalism of three
contemporaries of. Ben Day who
were destined to leave their footprints
big on the sands of time. They were
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the
founder of the New York Herald; A.
S. Abel, the founder of the Baltimore
Sun, and Horace Greeley, the founder
of the New York Tribune.