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The Washington times., 1918-01-13

silent partner in his business. and the
mother who undertakes 10 train up her
children In the name OF the Lord will
have more anxiety about their souls
than she has about her own position in
society.
Have you ever seen a surgeon at
work? IL you have You will remember
now particular he was to have all In
struments steriIized. and all danger
Gus germs Kept away from Wounds.
That Is because the surgeon had
! learned that God Is very particular
about essential things
BE just as sure that your motives
are right as the Tishbite was about
that important foundation. VIII they
stand the piercing rays OF Gods
searchlight7 Are you unselfish in your
seeking and in your praying2 Is II
more than Ne and my wife. and my
son, John. and his wife with you?
IF the real truth about the beIlish-
ness OF the whiskey BUSINESS were
known everywhere today the damn,
able traffic couldn't last six months.
IL you want TO know the devil Is in
a thing. pour light on it,. and IL he
Is you viii hear a noise that you know
could only come out OF hell.
RstheF Go FIshIaE.
There are men who will go fish
ing and stand in the water above
their knees for hours without a bite.
who fidget around in comfortable
pews like boy with a hornet under
his clothes II the meeting isn't dis
missed on the stroke Of the clock.
Don't be in too big a hurry with
God Bear in mind that 81 takes a
month to hatch a turkey egg. and
don't expect a. sweeping revival to
begin and end in a week or two.
Z -IH their PRAYING that day the
prophets OF Baaf1wetes IS earnest as
anybody you ever saw. Hear this and
judge for yourself:
-And they called on the name Of
Baal from morning even until noon.
saying. o. BsaL hear US. but there
was no voice nor any that answered.
And they leaped upon the altar which
was made. and II came to pass at noon
that Elijah Knocked them, and said.
Cry aloud: either he Is talking or
he Is pursuing, or he is in a journey,
or peradventure he sleepeth. and must
be awakened And they cried aloud.
and cut themselves after their manner
with knives and lancets till the blood
gushed out upon them" e. Kings.
xviii, $3.50.
Pray to Right God.
NO more earnest praying could be
done than Is here pictured. It Is
always a waste Of time to PR 10 the
wrong God But when it was time for
Elijah to pray there was no jumping
nor shouting. nor screaming His God
was not asleep nor on journey. and
he didn't have to make a great effort
to get his attention. He simply drew
near his altar and prayed in a confident.
easy tone. that was all the more iHapres-
sive by being 50 different from the noisy
screams that had been beard all day
from the despairinE prophets OF BSaL
This prayer was short-only sixty-three
II was vi ut to the point and
backed up by a faith that brought a
quick answer.
do you want Gods fire to fan on
your own religious life and repeat what
was done that day on Mt. Carmel? Then
build up the broken down altar as care
fully as the great prophet did, and when
you have done this you will ind II easy
to make a prayer that God will answer"
The Washington times., 1918-01-13
PREACHLIKE YOU
SEEZE, NATURALLY
SAYS BILLY SUNDAY
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more strenuous than on any week
d6v.
Up at $50, the evangelist went
d6wnstairs, looked huTriedly over his
niSrning mail, and took his favorite
ru6rning paper into the breakfast
room. After breakfast, instead OF
..Hisiting" around with his personal
sfam as he usually does, he bounded
UPSTAIRS with the agility CT a young
s6r.
Poses Fer Picture.
AT 10 o'clock he left the. Wisconsin
zSsnue home for the Calvary Baptist
Church and posed for a picture with
the Bible class OF the church. A few
uiSments later he was in his Automo-
bhe driving swiftly toward the taeer-
nkcle.
SGet of the mourner's bench, put a
sHsiIe on your face, and go about re-
joicing."
This was Billy Sundays advice to
TIA church today. There's too much
fIheral and too little birth in the
chirch," he shouted.
%And another thing" Billy said.
s'xfhen God calls a man to preach. he
dent expect him to go around putting
on a lot OF ministerial airs about T.
God expects him to do II as naturally
az he sneezes or coughs!"
The evangelist was preachinB
'anant "Broken-down Affairs, and he
roSk the church to task for many of
lie sins Of the neutrality-suspicious.
isSbetter than a cure in every case.
Billy believes that Individual evange1-
ic1l work would rejuvenate the world
and claim 1t for Christianity in ten
years at the most
ReTn Would De Beaaen.
fThe oattle would be over" Billy
s9id. I'VE would have driven tie
dsFf out Of the world, and once out,
1tsmight not bsso hard to keep him
Odt-"
The Washington times., 1918-01-13
BILLYISMS

E. Lee, it didn't make Grant, Schley,
have stopped trying TO please
eveFybody-Jesus couldn't do 1t, and
I know we'll enough 1 can't.
am trying to make II easier for
you to go 20 heaven and harder for
you to go to hell.
When the knocker walks down the
street, decent people turn their heads
and angels take refuge behind their
hearts.
Any fool can knock--it requires
neither brains nor heart.
some people are just Mutually
eontrary.- muIish-they take the op-
posite side OF everything.
Where Is the joy that once you
knew? Right where you left II ana
started out to villify your neighbor.
Right where you started to keep
somebody on the side and profess
to be decent.
Some people will wear out ten pairs
OF holdbacks to one pair OF tugs when
working for God.
II Baptist is a bigot he will say,
Here's the water-you take the sub
marine route or you will stay-out."
God wants dignitaries that dig and
stewards that stew-not make a mess
out of the stew.
The only use. they have for gold
in Heaven is to pave the streets
with.
The most priceless thing on earth
in the sight OF God is a penitential
tear.
If all the tombstones on the face
OF the earth told the truth there
wouldn't be anybody in hell.
Say. Jesus, I've been in Washing
ton a week, and God bless every
tree and every man, woman, and
child in II. ! thank Thee for the
week that has now become history.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13
Here's Who You'll See At
Blly'S Tabernacle

The old man with the snow white beard. He looks
like patriarch.
''You see that mani" asked Mr. William Cooper, of
they M c. A. "He attends all religious services in
Washington He's like sponge. He absorbs them all -
The "high brow mutt preacher who says amen
when Billy shakes his fist in his face from the height of
his rostrum and tells him he talks foolishness
The soldier land his sweetheart who gets the thrill
of his life when Billy praises the in uniform before
cher,
Young glad rags and his sweetheart chewing gum
and feeling like circus.
The who wants to fight until Billy invites him
on the platform.
The little girl who thinks Billy uses bad words.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

Here are some sparks from Billy's
hammer which were dying thick and
fast last night. II old Mephistepheles
had been there he would have been
blinded by the verbal showers aimed
in his direction. go to 1t, Billy"
urged the audience.
Enthusiasm for Jesus Christ is like
measles or smallpox-it's catching.
There is no place for loafer be-
meath the stars and Stripes in these
days-for every man on the firing line
il takes ten at home to keep him
there.
Germany's international piracy isn't
new-old Bismarck started II.
OF the $4,000. Oo0. 900 tons CT iron and
steel required annually by the German
war machine 1000. 900 600 tons OF IL
come from Alsace-LorTaine That is
the reason khe stole those provinces.
The Kaiser and the German militarists
lie so much they make old Ananiss look
like a Sunday school superintendent.
The principles OF democracy are in d.
rect antagonism to the principles OF
Prussian aristocracy which has the
audacity to lie TO God and say that they
are in the divine partnership.
over 5000 members OF one religious
denomination who have neglected their
church duties during the past year have
been reIegated 10 the ecclesiastical
scrap heap.
Announce a show or a dance, and you
can crowd a room or a hall, but you
can't scare UP a handful when you an
no1nce a prayer meeting.
This war wasn't originated up there
as the Kaiser would have his poor be-
nighted subjects believe-it crawled out
OF the pit OF eternal damnation.
There are three kinds of people:
The "I Wills" who accomplish every
thing: the 81 won'ts." who oppose
everything. and the IL can'ts," who
make a hzzle out of everything they
try.
The war didn't make Admiral De-
cstur, the war didn't make Robert
The Washington times., 1918-01-13
ASK EXEMPTION.

The release OF nineteen members OF
the international Bible Students Asso-
citation from military camps and prisons,
on the grounds OF religious objection 10
war. has been asked OF President VIII
son by the association.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

put muscle enough behind his throw to
crack his head and drop him
III science and discovery can take
the Bible from ms. the sooner II does
1t the better. II the Bible comes from
God II can no more be hurt by any
thing man can do than the waves Of
the ocean can be stopped by blowing
against them with q tin whistle, and
II IL 10 not from God, the sooner its
bogus characteE Is discovered and ex-
posed the better.
IF the preacher has no faith. how
soon ID becomes apparent when every
thing IL going wrong.
How anxious he Is when the jani-
tor goes oyer to the enemy by hrst
making. the house too hot and then
too cold. and poisons the air with poor
ventilation.
'TBlit contrast that state OF mind
with that Of the nan in the sheepskin
mantle, who in spite Of all that was
against him could stir up &he opposi-
tion to do its worst by saying. Cry
louder to your God; peradyenture he
sleepeth, and must be awakened
Notice that the prophet addressed
himself directly to the conscience,
and urged Immediate decision accord
ing to honest conviction, by saying.
II the Lord be God, follow Him, and
he gave the people to understand that
his God would that day manifest
Himself in a Godlike manner"
Throwing his voice Up against the
futed souuding-board. hands cupped
at his mouth. Mr.. Sunday shouted:
Faith says Amen to everything that
God ssysr''
Holy Spirit BeIIttIeJ.
''Tn these days we are too prone to
bslittle the work OF the Holy Spirit.
We depend too little upon God and
teo much upon the kitchen in the
basement and other things upon.
which we should put Independence
at all Miraculous works Of grace
should be expected and prayed for.
God has spiritual laws that are
as positive in their working and as
subject to conditions as are those OF
the natural world, and when the con-
ditiens are fully met power to bring
about great things Is the sure result.
There are laws Of prayer and faith
as certainly as there are laws OF
steam and electricity; laws that per-
tain to spiritual growth and fruitage
as surely as there are laws relating
to the production OF a corn crop.
The altar signifies worship. and Gods
warriors must first be his worshipers.
1t there Is anything that binders COM
munion with God we are not in the at
titude OF worship and cannot be until
the thing that insulates US from God
Is removed. The broken-down altar must
hrst be rebuilt before God will pay any
attention to a call for FIRE.
1T YOU have wronEed some one, make
restitution to the fullest extent possible.
Are you In a backslidden condition from
any cause? Unless you are determined
to die as you are living, take a step
toward God at once. No matter what
has broken down your altar go right at
Il and build it up. and do it in the nama
Of the Lord. as the prophet did. for
nothing so undertaken can ever be q
failure. Paul said: I can do all things
through Jesus Church. which strength
eneth me- and II you are fully de-
termined 10 let God have his way with
YOU, you can say the same thing and go
forward to overcome all difficulties that
lie in your way.
Devil For Partner.
The man who Undertakes in the name
Of the Lord will not have the devil for
The Washington times., 1918-01-13
Kaiser Makes AnaniaS Look Like Sunday School
Simple Confessions AS Confessed
By Billy

& know no more about theology than jack rabbit.
prayed according to set of formulas my prayers
Swouldnt get any higher than the gas jet. .,
If you ever knew how far came before was here,
you would wonder how came to preach as well as do
u used to live in the woods, skin cap, say
+tdone IT. and drink coffee out of a
You get out of life just what you look for The un
dertaker is happiest when he hangs the crepe the
-door l look for the devil
used to fire for railroad out West.
: l don preach my own theories.
NV child wore blue dress to Sunday school until
1T looked like a battle flag
The Washington times., 1918-01-13
1000 Expert TypIsts.

Rather than force the dependents
OF enlisted men TO wait for their al
lotment from the Government and
from sons or husbands in the field.
the bureau recruited a force of nearly
1000 expert typists and card indexsrs.
and by hanu-power has probably
established a new record in handling
Government business.
Checks are being signed at the
rate OF 10000 daily by three experts in
that line, who sign $4,000 each daily.
Today the bureau has certified and
indeXed the allotment cards Of $4,000 en-
listed men in various arms of the serv-
ice. II is 4 coincidence that suspended
from the ceiling in the National Museum
amid these card index files is the origi-
nal model OF the Langley flying ma
chine. now an important factor in the
war
Hundreds Of persons are receiving
checks from the bureau who did not
look FOR this service from Uncle Sam.
In designating a relative who Is to re-
csive the Governments aid. the enlisted
man in a great number OF cases has
failed to notify the beneficiary and the
first notification they have is the check
from Uncle Sam.
In some few isolated cases the checks
have been returned. This. 1t Is eXplainr
ed, is due 10 the failure of the enlisted
man TO state the correct address. In
some cases the beneficiary has changed
his or her address in recent months. A
big force OF workers today is buSily en-
gagged in verifying all names and adj
dresses to avoid delays.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

law in the hands OF every command
ing officer in the service OF the Gov
eminent, to place a registration card
in the hand o. every enlisted man and
woman in all branches OF the service
and to handle the return cards with
out the aid OF mechanical time-saving
devices was the problem that faced
the bureau.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

representing a sum cqdal to about
$500 900.
All enlisted mon, under the law,
must contribute not less than so per
cent OF their pay toward the support
OF their immediate families. On appli-
cation the Government adds to this
allotment an allowance OF its own of
from SIS to $50 Il month, according to
the size OF the family, but the man
must contribute an equal amount.
The minimum paid by the Govern
ment, i'm addition to the allotment
from the enlisted man Is SIS for a
wife and $25 IL there is one child. A
wife and two children receive $3.50
and 50 per child is paid for additional
children. Parents receive, in add.
ton to the allotment OF the enlisted
man, SO each from the Government.
:sL,5O3 Checks Drawn.
Up TO the night of January ., the
bureau reports 264 ,5O3 checks were
written. They are being mailed as
rapidly as $500 persons employed as
clerks can sem them out.
The soldiers and sailors division of
the bureau is one OF Uncle Sans in.
FAINT prodigies. Created on October Z,
last, it was incumbent on the Treas
ury Department to find quarters to in.
stall necessary machinery and equip
mept, and to train a large clerical
force to handle this very vital branch
OF the Government. Every enlisted
man in the service of the United
States is affected by it.
With the city filled with wan. blu.
reaus and boards, with all available
buildings and offices already com
Wandered, the departmnt was hard
put to il to find quarters-but they
found them.
The ground floor OF the National
Museum houses the main offices OF
the bureau. and the old dance hall
over Center Market has been fitted
out for the second section.
To handle 13.OOO.OOO pieces or print
ed matter, TO place copies OF the new
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

II all the tombstones on the face
OF the earth told the truth there
wouldn't be anybody in hell.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

The war didn't make Admiral De-
catur, the war didn't make Robert
The Washington times., 1918-01-13
Devil For Partner.

The man who Undertakes in the name
Of the Lord will not have the devil for
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

Say. Jesus, I've been in Washing
ton week, and God bless every
tree and every man, woman, and
child in II. ] thank Thee for the
week that has now become history.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

The most priceless thing on earth
In the sight OF God is a penitential
tear.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

There are three kinds OF people:
The 81 Wills" who accomplish every
thing: the 81 won'ts." who oppose
everything. and the 81 can'ts," who
make a hZzIe out of everything they
try.
The Washington times., 1918-01-13

2 The old man with the snow white beard. HI
like patriarch.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-03-28
DOG WOULD
STARyE ON
ARMY REFUSE
ARMY GARBAGE CANS SHRINK
66 PER CENT SINCE NEW REG
ULATIONS OF ARMY WENT IN
TO EFFECT-NOW ALL BONES
ARE SOLD.
Rules and Regulations for Soldiers
Ask Soldiers Not to Help Comrade
TO Food That He Does Not Ask For
and Ask Each Man to Eat All He
Takes on His Plate.
(By Associated Press)

San Antonio, Tex, March 28.-The
army garbage can formerly had big
NAV, but now a dog would starve if
he depended on the bones thrown from
the army kitchen. The plain fact is
that bones don't get into the garbage
can; they are sold.
According to reports gathered from
army posts and stations in the South
ern Department by Colonel Daniel E.
Mccarthy, department quartermaster,
one can holds the garbage which for
merly filled three. Six gallons is
the waste from the average army
kitchen, and a goodly portion of this
is potato peeling, with mighty little
of the potato on the peeling.
Mess sergeants at all cantonments
have been cautioned about the waste
of food and their diligence has, to a
great extent, brought about the elm
ination of much of this waste. The
mess sergeants at one Texas camp
adopted new set of "Ten Command
ments," all dealing with food conser-
walton. They were printed in red ink
on heavy cards and posted in every
mess shack. They read:
/. Don't allow a man to throw away
or waste any edible food.
2. Don't make the first helping
heavy.
3. Warn kitchen police to serve
food sparingly.
A. Don't help a man to any food he
does not ask for.
5. Don't give a man more than two
slices of bread at helping.
6. Make each man eat all that he
puts on his plate.
7. Watch your men while eating and
see that no food is left on the table
8. Watch each man as he empties
his mess kit at garbage can.
9. Allow no man to take any food
out of mess hall.
10. Impress upon the men the i'm
portance of food conservation.
1t is estimated that it costs an
average of So to al cents a day to
feed each soldier in the department
The Quartermaster Department puts
the figure at $12 month for each
man. This is for the food unpre-
Imperial Valley press., 1918-03-28
OF.TATL0CK To
SPEAK FRIDAY EVE,
Stanford University Professor Comes
Here to Urge All to Do Their Ut.
most for the War-COuncil of De.
fense Is Inviting All Bodies to Par.
ticipate.

When the Council of Defense an
nounces that a real war message is
to be delivered to those who attend
the patriotic rally at Ell Centre High
School auditorium next Friday night,
It does so with the full knowledge sent
from Washington that Professor ]. P
S. Tatlock Of Stanford University, the
speaker at this meeting, is we'll pre-
pared to make good.
Professor Tatlock has been engaged
in research work for the committe.
on public information and facts that
he has unearthed regarding the wa,
aims of Germany and the reason the
United States is fighting at this time
are officially declared to be truly
startling.
This is to be strictly a war meet
ing. Representatives of every organ.
ization in the. Valley engaged in fur.
thering the war work will participate
including the Red Cross, food admin,
istrators, Liberty Loan and War Saw.
ings Stamp chairmen and fraterna
societies.
Chairman Galen Nichols of the De-
fense Council extends this invitation
to all such organizations to send dele.
cations to this meeting. Seats viii
be reserved for them on the stage.
It is intended to start the meeting
with patriotic music promptly at
p. M, and it will last not longer thar
100 minutes, according to the Coun
cil's plans.
Chairman Nichols will have charge
of the meeting, introducing the speak
err.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-03-28
Left Many Descendants.
(By Associated Dress)

Liverpool, Feb. II (By maiD The
list of mourners at the funeral of
Mrs. Janet Jarvis, who recently died
here, shows that she left over 800
descendants. She was 80 years old
at the time of her death, and had10
children, IA grandchildren, 1877 great
grandchildren and 81 great-great-
grandchildren.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-03-28

pared. 1t is estimated that one
twelfth of a cord of wood is require,
for each kitchen range each day, 9th
erwlse there is no overhead" expense
On 40 cents a day, officers say
"if the soldiers belt line doesn't swell
it is the fault of the mess man."
Colonel Mccarthy, in discussing tn,
soldiers food, ssid:
ITS remarkable to observe thu
change in the recruit, the transfer
nation of the undeveloped boy intt
the round soldier. The county box
changes expression quickly when hi
gets on army diet, and the CITY bo,
fattens, too. Then after thew have
left their belts out several hotches
they get sassy and complain abou,
the army Chow"
The average soldiers breathing an.
paratus is almost perfect, according
to Colonel Mccarthy, and balanced di.
ct and we'll prepared food "makes men
out of them"
He attributes to two causes the ef-
fectlveness Of army food:
First, the soldier has more time
for eating, and takes his meal more
lelsurely than does the civilian.
Second, the food is cooked on a
more scientific standard, and the ra-
ton is more evenly balanced, while
the civilian seldom has trained
cook.
When the officers reserve training
school was opened at Camp Stanley,
near here, the government allowed Is
cents a day for each mans food. This
was later reduced to 60 cents a day.
This 90 cents not only feeds the stu
dent officers, but provides them with
walters. 1t is estimated that 40 Gems
tgoes for food and 20 cents for help.
the prospective officers preferring to
use some of the appropriation for
walters rather than pass the mess
around" Their bill lof fare is said
to be equal to that of first class ho
tells, with plenty of extras on Sundays.
Food surveys have been made at
practically all of the Southern camps
and special attention given to the bal
ancing of the diet and to cleanliness.
lMess officers and non-coms have
been instructed as to the food val
ues, nutritional percentages and the
caloric units of different foods, the
proper kind of food to give men do
ing certain kind of work, the right
kind of food to serve in hot weather.
and the proper way of preparing it
so as to make for variety and reduce
waste.