The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1921-03-31
SUNDAY FLAYS
ERRINC BOYS
Those Who Drift From
Mothers Apron
Strings Are
Scored.

Cincinnati, o..--Billy Sunday was
at his best in a sermon on Home"
What that little word means to the
far-of prospector in the Klondike.
the Esquimaux. and others was driv.
en- home by the evangelist. Boys
who stray from their mothers apron
strings were dragged over the Goals
by the speaker.
when a boy begins to hang his
hat over one ear and hit the cigar
cites and the booze, and calls his
father "the old man." and puts in
good share Of the night chasing
some chicken down the Great White
Way, and trying to win a jackpot
on a pair Of fours. and lays up
against a quart Of red-eye in some
suds parlor, and crawls into the hay
from the last dance with a three-step
headache, it's dollars to doughnuts
that some cheap skate Of a sport has
called upon him to assert his indie
pendence Of that string dangling
from his mothers waist line. known
as the apron string" Sunday said:
But, say" he continued. "the
fellow who allows himself to be
laughed into a cheap imitation Of
three-carat sport is a weak sister.
take It from me. The indifference
Of some fool parents helps the game
along.
The Fathers Chances.
"The father who crawls under the
blankets at : o'clock and allows his
son to give the cops merry chase
until the cocks crow will need a
four-section fire ladder TO get look
into hell.
"But I've noticed this-tha. the
boy who is tied to his mothers apron
strings. who can't tell four aces from
load Of alfalfa-that when there
are forty applicants for the job he
goes home with the blue ribbon
and tagged "No. l." and the sporty
guy with the green vest and the
spats, silk lid. puffy eyelids-well,
he looks as good to a hard-headed
business man as a counterfeit dol
lar.
II would rather be a hundred
times over land would rather have
my boy, and ] know you would
yours tied to my mothers apron
strings than hooked up to an appe-
tite for 6O-eent booze and consum-
ing desire to steal the next jackpot
on a pair Of fours."
Sunday swatted in the direction
of the "little sissies" who rebel
when their mothers tell them TO do
"what these girls need is a good
brisk message with a white oak
shingle," he declared. amid a roar
Of laughter
Advice for Parents.
Sunday urged parents to make
themselves the companions Of their
he pictured. deceit that
the fathers and mothers continually
are placing before their children"
and then wondering where their
learned to lie-illustrating
the point with a familiar example
of women calling on each other with
a strikingly humorous representa-
ton Of the woman's kiss "smack.
smack. smack that is receptive in
tself"
Sunday spoke at length on the
relations and duties Of a father and
a mother, and was outspoken in a
plea for higher salaries for school
teachers and preachers.
I'VE let the moral training 40 TO
,ur school teachers and our Sunday
ichool teachers" he asserted. II
ave never aspired TO hold but one
'tfice, and that is to be a member of
! school board. and the first thing
would do would be TO raise the sala-
les of the teachers and pay them
welve months in year.
1T is disgrace and an insult.
he salaries we pay our preachers
md the public school teachers in
america, the two most indispensable
'eople on earth"