Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-09

get into unused garments; weeds ] grow in vacant lots, disease gets into
 unused muscles. This sin of card ! playing gets into idle souls. The | idle brain is the deyirs wOrkshC9. 1 I was born in Indiana and l ain | as proud of my state do you are of ! yours and have reason - be. But ! in my State of Indiana, one night mother came in with cream pitcher which she had won at a card fight ! because that's what they are-caru
 fights. The pitcher was Haviland
 china and worth about len dollars
 Just as she had come In the front
 door, her son came lh the back door
 He reached back into his pocket and
 pulled out ten dollar bill There,
 mother he said That's what you've
 got and this is what I got She
 stammered and said, Why, son!' There's no use acting fool. mother.
 used the same kind Of implements
 as you. I played the same time and the only difference is that you got
 2 diniiy pitcher on the Boulevard ond l got $t0G0 in the back end of
 a saloon. Mother. I've got you skin ned at your own game If you want
 to stop gambling, the way for you
 mothers to do is to cut out your
 gambling in your fine homes. tap
 plause)
 }, I must go on. Now I come to the
 next proposition and sCme Of you
 will not be quite so willing to ap- l [ ol- 1i. take if I did not mention it. Lis
 ten to me! The printing press is
 one of the most potent factors of our civilization. It is the instrument of power both good and evil. It stands
 Tn the midst Of our Modern Egypt
 IS the Tree of Knowledge, both good and evil From the press comes to streams of literature; on either bank stands this tree of our daily life, and ! the leaves of the tree are for the
 healing or the cursing of the na- tions. Perhaps no service we re- ceive is quite as cheap as the pub , lie press No one can calculate the benefit of the true, pure, paper; nor estimate the harm Of the saffron press. Some papers could well be f called "The World. the Flesh, and z the Devil Their motto is False , news is better than no news. One t plague of Egypt was flies. Cut off ; the f and you have lies, and there r you have the Yellow Journal [ To give you an idea of the Ameri- I can journals the Annals of the Am erican Academy classify 147 dailies , Of the great cities of the United r States as follows: 47 yellow or cor , rupt 45 conservative, and 51 uncer-
 tain.
 ' As to legitimate news, here is an , analysis by Dr McCash of a paper containing 124 items in one issue. Murders, accidents, police items ana , other sensations, 45; sporting and , personal gossip. 24; business, 9; la- |, hor. '; religion l; short foreign dis patches, 20; jokes and general items, IS
 The yellow journal issues false
 hoods instead of good; sends forth , poison for attractive perfume; gives Gods children stones if they ask for
 bread and if asking for fish, issues
 for them a serpent
 . Listen to me, This age ought to , furnish the cleanest press to the best people on the face of the earth. Am 1, erica ought to understand that relig- , ious news is news, and believe me. , if I was back of the public press I , woul6 treat the people of God the same as others and give them a square deal (applause)
 The next will take lip is thc |, Dance. Girls. there are three tests
 for amusements; first. does it meet
 Gods approval; second. is it for per r sonal good: third. will it help others? ?
 He who sins for profit, will not profit by his sins What principle is involved; what associations sur
 round it; and what effect is produced
 upon participants?
 Dr. McCauley tells of a missionary
 who found Hindu woman worship
 ping the Ganges River. He took a , microscope and a glass of water and To use an illustration, in Africa . some years ago when the English army went in they found they were | npdllUR d SNOiu. ltuiiOA SltiN bAAiNAi-i . a slave down hand and foot, and talk.
 ing the redhot sword, and. to give Ii the right temper, were thrusting it u thru the leg of the black man. Eng
 land said that even tho the sword
 was the most valuable, it was obtain
 ed at too great price. It cost too II much. and they stopped it. Were
 they right? Answer yes or no, CThe crowd applauded tremendously and
 answered YesD
 Look at me! (Here the Evangc' '. list picked up d chair) This is = chair, and nothing but chair a '. wooden chair That chair has wood en legs. But if I would hug up ,, against that chair. and with sugges 7. tive movements, wind my legs around l.T 1I