The Washington herald., 1918-01-11
FLAYS U. S. PAYROLL
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out in the spring looking like a bunch
Of lilies. They are wasting their lives
trying to put some sense into that
for $1-e0 day! I'm strong for many
things this country does. It's a won
derful place. But the salaries paid
school teachers-Good Night"
Billy insisted that the great restrain
ing influences OF the child are the pub
lie schools and the Sunday schools.
You want the teachers and the
preachers to do the work you fail to
do at home" he said. "Yet you won't
pay them enough to live on decently.
It's reflection on America
Here the evangelist told his au-
diences what he thought about bring
ing up children. He Insisted the right
to lick a kid at school ought never
to have been taken away from the
teachers"
They don't get II at nome" he said,
"and they sure need It these days. We
got il when I was a kid and I re-
member used to wear three pairs of
pants to school. The adage about
spare the rod and spoil the child is
right Sometimes a-good hickory stick
will put it over on a kid better than
prayer.
I'm strong for having every home
possessing a stout hickory stick and
I'd hang II on the kitchen wall with
this motto over IL: 7 Need Thee Every
Hour"
strong for Suffrage.
Billy came out strong for suffrage.
declaring that he hoped from the
depths Of my soul that the House will
give women Of America a chance to
vote" The greatest debt the world
owes to any one, in Billy's opinion. is
owed to its women.
When the nation refuses to arise
and respond TO the requests Of mother
hood." said Billy. then It viii dash to
oblivion"
According to Sunday. the Washing
ton Monument isn't so much a monu-
ment to George Washington 'as 1t l.,
to his mother, who reared him for his
country" II she had been a '.hooli-
gan" commented Billy, "the Father
Of HIS Country would have also been
q hooligan."
Billy Sunday paid a remarkable
tribute 70 the womanhood of the
world. and pointed out some examples
OF great mothers-the mother of
Moses. OF Wesley. Of Benjamin West.
OF Washington and many others. He
said he'd rather have been "the
mother of John Wesley than rule of
any nation on God Almighty's dirt"
In Billy's opinion. the downfall OF
most men may be attributed to the
influence Of their home life. The ma
tional life, he insisted, never rises
higher than the home life. And when
the home life of America shall be
ideal, ''all OF the nations problems
will have been solved" Billy slammed
the idle mother and the uninterested
father who don't care rap how
they bring up their children" And
he insisted that such mothers and
fathers are directly responsible for
giving their boys and girls the first
start on their road to hell" He
raped booze In the home" and de-
ciared that the normal way to get rid
OF drunkenness ls to get rid OF what
makes Il" Billy pleaded with every
person IN the audience who has
LIQUOR slowed away In your homes"
TO go back tonight and smash the
bottles and pour the stinking, vile
stun into the sewers"
likes -Apren strias- Boys
The evangelist had a good word
70 say Tor the apron string boy"
and insisted he'd rather have MS
boy TIED TO the apron strings Of
ms Godly mother than have him de-
velop an appetite for iixty-cent
oooze and \ consuming desire 10
steal the next jackpot on a pair Of
fours.r Billy insisted that the ma
,ionA sovernment Is spending mill
farmers how TO raise better bors
And against this he declared ..thers
Is only one American college in the
rnited States that has Department
for The education Of the American
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