The Washington herald., 1918-02-23
TRAIL HIT By
SCORESF FROM
CENTRAL HIGH
Students, in Gaudy Uni
forms, Wade Through
Sawdust.

Boys Of the Central High School
were determined last night not to sit
in the Tabernacle and let Billy SUM-
day get away with 1t when he spoke
of the lack of courage in a man or
woman who held back, through fear.
at the trail hitting Invitation.
They'd listened attentiyely while
the evangelist told about the moral
/ four-flush. false alarm. excess bag
gage, NUT and cipher who doesn't
size up. morally. physically or mem
tally. to present-day requirements be-
cause of his failure to embrace Chris
tianity. But when Billy up and
shouted that 1.-The fellow who will sit
in the benches and hold back at the
invitation because he's afraid he may
become the target for sneers, is a
coward" the students apparently de-
cided they'd had about enough. For
they came down the sawdust aisles in
body and every one OF them sat in
the '.penitential benches" while ush-
ers got busy recording their names,
addresses and church preferences.
Few strngelers In student Charge.
The students, in their new mill
tary uniforms. didn't even wait for
Billy to end his invitation plea. As
soon as he got that coward" refer
ence across, they were on their
feet and starting down the aisles
cheered by the 10000 persons in the
audience.
The students represented several
of the classes in the Central High
School. whom Billy and Rody were
refused permission to address in
their classrooms by the Board of
Education. They've dubbed them
selves war babies" because of their
military uniforms and the training
they've getting along military
lines. Several hundred of them
were at the meeting. They brought
along their yells and they made
frequent use of them.
Billy spoke on Show Thyself A
Man" He took a rap at the wild
oats" theory and declared "the
best time for boy to sew his first
crop of wild oats is between the
ages OF rs and So" BY that time,
Billy added, his eyesight viii
have failed him to the. extent that
he can't see the corner pocket Of
a pool table,
Because IL was washincton's
birthday anniversary. BiIly got into
patriotic strain. He declared
Christmas, July 4 and February %,
to be the greatest days in the
American calendar. He urged emula-
ton of Washington's life and char
acter and slammed the "Pots-damn
gang over in Germany that's en-
tered the international prize ring"
Billy declared that Uncle Sam will
bring home the bacon in the great
war game"
Almighty Has Deserted Kaiser.
IT read" said Billy, that Germany
Is massing its forces for a big attack;
that it has three great guns to one
of the allies. don't care IL it's got
fifty to one. we've got God on our
side and that's worth all of the aero
planes Krupp guns, poison gas, bar
rage and ammunition that dirty bunch
lean get together" . -s..
FeThere were tslegations at the meet
ing from Anacestia Methodist Church,
Philathea, Class OF the Hyattsviile
hodists Church, Berean Bible Class
of. the Waugh Methodist Church.
Steel Ordnance Company. Shepherd
College, of Sheperdtown, W. Va, and
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Rev. J. Franklin Bryan offered the
opening prayer and the Sunday
"quincette" did some singing.