The Washington times., 1920-11-28
, By VIII. ROGERS.

"RcSoircd: Tbat cOwboys haze con-
tributcd more 10 "iUiltcdtioR man
prcnchcrS."
This tcds the subject Of q dcbdic hcM
recently before the idrCfiSihG CiPb Of
Los Angeles. bctUccn WH Ho0Crs Gold
TDn screen star. and nationally famous
cotrboy 1cit. aud the H,r James WHIT
comb BrouGhCr. Los angeles Crdnn"hSt
and hunlorist. Each speaker WGS dhOr-
cd ten minutes on the subject and fire
rtinutcs for rcbuttdL RodGJ's took IN"
affirmative, and this IS ,chdt he said,
~ part:
II will sign no agreement as u
these rules won't stick by rules
# any kind; didn't know there was a
timc limit. becaus" no man living
,nuld say what he thought of Il
preacher in ten minutes.
II want to apologize to all. cSpe-
cially the ladies present, for my ap-
pearance here today: with may long.
shaggy hair and unkcmpt appearance"
but | am right in tn" middle Of 4
picture and in these pictures try to
keep in tho character uf whatever
am cast And the reason | look this
way in the picture is, | am doing an
up-to-date minister
Now | don't want to come here to-
aay and debate against this gentle
man because a. Won all know, he is
q very learned man: has read a lot.
studied a lot, and has got all thcS"
wonderful arguments in his favor ]
have no chance going up against him.
because | never crazcd education but
l;itle further than MacDuffy's Fourth
Reader.
But. on tho other hand ! took into
consideration the fact I was appear
ing before the Advertising club. and
/ thoucht any grammatical or histori-
cal IN. takes made would only BE-
noiiccI by my opponent.
An ADVANTAGE.
He has the advantage of nc. In
tio first place. "A very big advantage.
and that is that his profession Of
preaching and advertising are very
closely allied.
"T;ut want to say. gentlemen.
trat. ] .apI not to. meet AN ordinary
,l,mhcr OF rhc profcs sion. but | am
..niur M against tho very top notch.
rhiS preacher here | claim is th"
Smartcst preacher in tho whole busi-
ness: he is their top man. And the
reason ! know hc is the top man is
.hat he l. the only one who knows
enough not TO preach in a church. but
60 preach in moving picture the
ator.
"rut to get dotn to the subject.
folks Tho honOrcd and eminent pro-
r,SSion of cowboys needs no word Of
praisc from m". | can't culoEiZe on
ANYTHING tho cowboys have done. You
MI know this is the first time in the
history of tn" world cowboy has
cvcr been asked in any community TO
defend his profession.
1T is the first and what makes il
terribly humillatinE is, tho first time
7 am called on to- defend it is against
q preacher
No COMPARISON.
"Tr II had bCcn against landlord
~ hootlcgEer or anything else.
would have had to go out and dig up
arguments to bring to YOU
"ThorC - no more comparison. be.
tween preacher and a cowboy than
there is i'm n comparison between
either of the candidates. Cox or Har-
ding, aud the great American states
man. william Jennings Bryan,
well. preachers on the other hand.
save done nothing for years hut de-
batc and ofrcr excuses for their cx-
istenCc.
amy profession that has got to ofTor
Nvcuscs nothing in Il, ours was
necessary creation ours was taking
rarc OF Hooks aud herds TO cat. The
irst thing that drove tho preacher
INTO his was lazincss; tho ncSt thing.
the idea Of on Sunday going to some
nr the brCthrcn's place to get fried
chicken.
"Thc CowbOys went across ,hc
,lains in tho early davs and you know
fought every foot OF land. every inch
rr tho way killed Indians and fought
,aunalo aud opened this beautiful
country OF California up.
who closed IT, The preachers wCr"
what closed IT,"
In rcuuttal MIR Rogers said
II tax. back anything that ! saj'