The Washington herald., 1918-02-24
BOOZE COUNTS
SOLOMON OUT.
SAYS SUNDAY
Ancient Chicken" Helped
Some, According to the
Noted Evangelist.
By ARTHUR JOYCE.


ond degree sport. He had Brigham
Young looking like a piker when II
came to wives. He could throw
dust in the eyes OF Barney Oldneld.
when 1t came to going some" out
on the race track. The bleacher
fans" were nuts about the old
King and the grand stand jumped
to its feet and made more noise than
a bunch of rooters at a world series
game when his nibs sported some
around the track in his golden
chariot, set with diamond wheels.
That's the way Billy Sunday
sized UP "the wisest man in the
world" in his Tabernacle sermon
last night. He used the old king
as history's greatest exponent of
the truth that it doesn't pay to live
only for the things of this world,
with no thought of the beyond"
1t was a corking sermon, replete
with humor and chuck-full OF sta
tistics telling of the georgeousness
Of Solomon's temple and of the
stunts the wise man used TO pull
off trying to find something new
under the sun. It was q forceful
talk, too. since there was running
through it the truth Of Solomon's
exclamation that "alI IL vanity"
And 1t served as the medium to
bring up front" close on to 500
trail hitters," one of the largest
penitential delegations that has
come forward in a long time. There
were about 10000 persons in the
audience-an evidence Of the evan
gelist's strong pulling powers" 1t
was one OF the biggest Saturday
nights Of the campaign.
Billy sure had it doped out In great
shape when it came to a showdown
an to how the old king was cutting
capers back in the old days. Where
the evangelist got his figures cover
ing construction Of Solomon's Temple.
the number Of apartments in the
building and the number Of workers
1t took to build the palace, Is a mys-
terry. But he had 1t figured down to
the hast stone and marble pillar.
When Solomon went in for horse
racing and chariot contests, he went
the limit, so far as equipment was
concerned. Billy told Just how many
men and horses the old king had and
how much food It took to keep them
going each day. There were 1900
horses and 1000 horsemen and they
ate every day 2S1 bushels of flour. So6
bushels OF meal, 20 oxen end 100 sheep.
THE old fellow could never have
got by Hoover with that layout" >"
commented Billy.
Billy told how Solomon took to init
ting the booze and he spoke Of the
e, 30 gallons Of booze the king had
stored in his wine cellars. Then Billy
emphasized. Solomon struck out" He
got mixed up with strange women. :"
Poor old boob" commented Billy.
they soon had him tanning for air
and hanging over the ropes"
The evangelist spoke of Solomon
tiring OF all his worldly pleasures and
coming out Unto the open" for Christ.
Life isn't worth the gaff," said
Billy, 'ff there's no hope beyond the
grave"
Billy threw the harpoon into booze
In great shape. He declared the
whisky business to be "as rotten as
hell" His anti-booze remarks were
influenced apparently by the pres
ence in the audience Of a large dele
cation representing the District Of Co
| Iumbia w. c. 7. u. which presented
ma q 0ONfNSN
flowers.
IF 1 could have my way" declared
Billy, every drop Of whisky would
be in hell before midnight. I'll be
ready for heaven when I see the nag
Of this country flying over a saloon
less nation. I'd Just like to stay long
enough on this earth to see America
lick the tar out of the Kaiser and to
see the devil bank his fires and hang
the for rent sign on the gates Of
hell"
Billy boosted Washington in great
shape and declared he had never spent
a more pleasant eight weeks any
where in the country. He commend
ed washingtonians for their atten-
dance at Tabernacle meetings and
said he'd be sorry to have to leave
| next week
Billy complimented also the Hagers-
town Judge who paroled 14-year-old
boy on a granddaughter charge and
declared II he was on the bench he'd
never send a boy or girl to Jail for a
first offense.
The Department OF Commerce and
Labor had a big delegation in the au-
dience. 1t sprung a new song on Bill
ly. The refrain sounded like this:
Commerce, commerce. rah, rah, ran!
Tabernacle, Tabernacle, Billy Sun
day!
America, America, red, white and
blue.
Commerce, commerce, Redfeld,
too"
There were delegations also repre-
senting the Government Printing Of
fee, telephone exchanges, S. kann
Sons & Co., and Daughters Of the
| American Revolution.