The Washington herald., 1918-01-26
URGES BETTER
LIVING ROOMS
FOR WORKERS
Sunday Makes Plea for the
New Employees of
Uncle Sam.
by ARTHUR JOYCE.

The lonesome" government clerk
has won Billy Sundays sympathy and
last night he pleaded with an audi
ence of about 1900 persons to "be
kind to the men and women war
workers who have come to Washing
ton by the thousands to carry through
Uncle Sans work in the world war
for, humanity.
Lonesomeness breeds immortality
and sin, in the opinion of the evan
geffst, and nowhere, he emphasized,
are the temptations that beset young
men and young women $50 easy of
acquaintance" as in the Nations Cap
ital, with it's thousands of clerks and
workers gathered from all sections
of the country.
Effect of LonesOmeness.
''These young men and women have
left their homes in all parts of Amer
ica," said Billy, ito come here and
engage in war work. They are forced
to live in boarding houses. Many Of
them. understand, have had to sleep
in the railroad depots, SO scarce are
rooms. These workers get homesick
and lonesome and many of them, tired
and disgusted with conditions quit
their Jobs and go back to their homes
and the government is the loser.
1t was Students night" at the
Tabernacle and the big auditorium re-
sounded with the cheers and yells of
high schools and colleges and semi
naries in and near Washington. There
were delegations present from Tech
High, George Washington University,
Western, Eastern, Central and Busi-
ness High, Wilson Normal, American
University, National Park Seminary,
Harvard Alumni and the Bliss Elec-
trio, Arlington and Fairmount
schools.
Tech High boys led the trail hit
ting" procession that mustered close
on to 500 "penitents."
The sermon was on Samson" Billy
was in good trim and he went through
all sorts of gymnastic stunts in urg-
ing particularly the school boys and
girls to get right with God and stay
right" The evangelist was strong in
his denunciation of booze" and he
declared dramatically that If "the
ohNAhASC VI my OOuy NOulu lIet Amer
lea from the tentacles of the liquor
traffic, I'd go to the altar tomorrow. {"
Booze and business won't mix, he
emphasized.
The gateway to hell is covered
with stained glass windows, the
evangelist declared. And he added
that the saloons with the brightest
lights and the most attractive dis
plays are more deadly than the
back-alley joints"
Billy shouted hurrah for the
woman worker and declared she is
fast supplanting her male competi-
tors because she doesn't booze.
smoke and is more honest and a
harder worker"
As usual, Billy raped Germany.
But he urged his hearers to "sit
tight, don't rock the boat or spil
the beans, because we are going to
put 1t over in great shape" He
mentioned the names of some of
Germany's war leaders and then
apologtzed for using the name of
any person or thing that's Ger
man."
Congressman Reed, of West yir-
g1nla' made a plea for larger Of
ferings from the audience. DR.,
Wifrey, of the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church. offered the pray
er. Rody and Mrs. Asher sang and
Brewster and Bob" Matthews did
the piano stunt.
Billy Sunday and Ma" were
guests at tea yesterday afternoon
at the home of Representative and
Mrs. Nicholas Longsworth. Billy
and Col Roosevelt had a long chat.
1T was only a personal talk"
said Billy. Teddy and myself are
old friends"