Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-11
SUNDAY SAYS HE'S
STRONG FOR SWITCH
Famous Evangelist At Cincinnati
Talks About "Home" To a
Crowded House

Billy Sunday turned 'em away
again at his night service in Gin
cinnat Thursday. =
Mr.. Sunday eallogized the
mother for the part she has taker
in the upbuilding of mankind il
his sermon. With "Home" fol
his subject, he painted a glowing
contrast between the. home with
good mother and the home ir
which the mother and the father
display neglect, and he painted
the scenes with some of the most
effective phrases he has used thus
far in the meetings.
Sunday plainly had no faith in
a woman who, he says. talks OF
heaven and makes hell out of her
home"
"When boy begins t. hang
his hat over one ear and hit the
cigarettes and booze. and calls his
father the old man and puts in a
good share Of the night in chas-
ing 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 in
dependence of that string dang
ing from his mothers waist line
known as the apron string" Sun
day. said.
But, say he continued, "tht
f"'low who allows himself to b'
laughed into a cheap imitation O.
a thrccCarat sport is a weak sis
ter. take if from me. The indif
ference Of some fool parent.
helps the game along.
"The father who crawls unde
the blankets at eight O'Clock an:
allows his son to give the cops
merry chase until the cocks GRO,
will need a four-section fire lac
der to get a look into hell.
But I've noticed this-that tn
boy who is tied to his mother:
apron strings. who can't tell fou
aces from Il load of alfalfa-tha
when there are forty applicant
fer he sob he goes home with tn
blue ribbon and tagged No. l.
and the sporty guy with tho
green vest and the spats, sill!
lid. puffy eyelids-well, he look
as good to Il ba1dheadcd busincs,
man as a counterfeit dollar.
Il would rather be hundre'
time over (and | would rathe
have my boy, and | know yo'
would yours). tied to my moth
er's apron strings than hooked III
to an appetite for sixty cen
booze and Il consuming desire tt
steal the next jackpot on a pai'
of fours.' -
Sunday swatted in the direc
ton Of the little sissies" who re
bel when their mothers tell then
70 do something.
What these girls need is
good, brisk massage with white
oak shingle." he declared, amid .
roar of laughter.
Sunday urged parents to max"
themselves the companions OF
their children he pictured the dc
ccit that the fathers and mothers
continually are placing befor e
their children and then wonder
ing where the children learned IT,
Notwithstanding the point with a
familiar example of women call
ing on each other with a striking
ly humorous representation of
the woman's kiss-a smack.
smack, smack that is deceptive
in itself.
Sunday spoke at length on the
home relations and duties of d
father and mother, and was out
spoken III plea tor higher Salar-
les for school teachers and preach
ers.
"We let the moral training go
to our school teachers and our
Sunday school teachers" he as
serted. Il have never aspired to
hold but one office, and that is to
be a member of the school board.
and the first thing | would do
would be to raise the salaries Of
the teachers and pay them IL
months in year.
1T is a disgrace and an insult,
the salaries we pay our preachers
and the public school teachers in
the two most indispen-
sable people on earth"
Sunday also believes in the lib
eral use of the hickory switch in
the education of the child, advo-
Rat mo IFS ice at several nOipfc in